Other What's ruining your life right now?

Is the battery at least replaceable* ?

*preferably without the aid of a degree in quantum electrodynamics and a suite of bespoke tooling.

 

I would if I could.

 

I can get genuine Dell parts from Dell via my work if you'd like me to enquire? I'd just need the model and service tag

 

No probs but feel free to drop me a PM with the details if you decide to order one, I might be able to get it cheaper for you

 

It's 4am. I'm awake, and have been since 7am. Not even close to sleepy. And I have to be at work by 8am.
Can't really call in sick, as I've just had 19 days holiday.

 

You're an engineer. Insomnia is a natural part of life!

Just think about how well you're going to sleep when you get back home.

 

Annoys me that the bakery dept is the first in the supermarkets here in Aus

 

Twice already this week the little one (15mo) has decided that 11pm is the time to get up and refuse to go back to bed.

 

We have one of these but much older, currently at the stage where obstinacy and willful disobedience resulted in a prolonged shouting match last week at 0230 (which I think I lost, but I made sure the victory conditions were set to "scorched earth") followed by 2h sleep before going into work very, very late indeed...

...made worse by the fact above row was interrupting the selfish personal consumption of one pack of coconut and one pack of double-dipped Tim Tams, freshly hand-delivered from the colonies.

Definitely a job for the missus (or other willing volunteer if it's party season).

 

So that's where Apple and Intel got their inspiration from for their performance charts for new products. Graphs without any meaningful scaling on either axis. No units, either. They (Apple & Intel) just developed it further to also show a second line for "another product", again without any context or scale or units.

Can't wait to be frustrated again on December 14, meteor lake launch presentation time!

 

£200 a month rent increase.

 

Kitchen sink tap broke (or came loose inside) yesterday evening. Whoever installed the stupid kitchen didn't put a tap/valve on the water so I had to shut it off at the mains before taking the tap apart. Whole evening down the drain. HAH!

So I took revenge and decided to play some Switch, starting at midnight. Just 10 minutes. "Battery low." Oops.

 

The new ADHD medication I’m on (methylphenidate) is playing absolute havoc with my guts. That along with all the side effects I am definitely getting from it: stinking headaches, joint ache/pain, increased anxiety and “jittery-ness”, increased blood pressure…

I’ll run out before my follow up session on Tuesday, and I am not bothered about that in the slightest. I’ve given it a fair chance and after ~3 weeks it’s pretty clear it ain’t working for me. Lisdexamfetamine mesilate (Elvanse) was definitely more effective, but you can’t get that stuff for love nor money at the moment.

 

Silence might be golden, but duct tape is silver....

 

my phone has decided it no longer wants to charge

 

Can you sidestep it with a wireless charger?

 

Toothpick the lint out the port?