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  1. liratheal

    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    On the one hand, influencers can jump in a fire.

    On the other hand, if they learn how to conduct themselves in a way befitting of a business - Which is what they're making themselves into - Maybe they'll be less insufferable.

    Unlikely, but I can dream right?
     
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  2. Vault-Tec

    Vault-Tec Green Plastic Watering Can

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  3. stephen0205

    stephen0205 Minimodder

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    after days of playing around with my gifted n64, it looks to have given up the ghost, death by corrosion.

    Was finichy to get it to work. Cables in and out, blowing the carts and slots, wiggling, never sure which one worked, even when it did screen was really bright.
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    Bought a new av cable, and a hdmi adapter so I could use it on the tv. Same issues, to bright, and took ages to get it going.

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    So I opened it up to clean it out, wee brush here and there, some compressed air and came across all this corrosion.

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    Gonna grab a bottle of isopropic alcohol and give it a good scrub with a tooth brush but with the state of that power socket, I'm not sure its gonna do much. My soldering sucks these days and I cant imagine getting parts will be easy for this
     
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  4. Midlight

    Midlight Minimodder

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    Good luck with that. I've got some of the old consoles and the N64 is a definite favourite. The kids aren't too keen, well when they are losing on Goldeneye.
     
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  5. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    It's July, which means I owe the taxman my hefty payment-on-account at the end of the month. It's also the end of the financial quarter, so I *also* owe a VAT payment - which, yes, was technically never my money in the first place, but it was *very* comfortable resting in my account and doesn't really want to leave.

    Add in the missus' birthday in a week, and... yeah, July's an expensive month.
     
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  6. fix-the-spade

    fix-the-spade Multimodder

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    Datacolor Spyder X Colorimeter is a temperamental little ****, I've got two lovely calibrated work monitors now, but **** me that was hard work. Glad I got it at a huge discount.

    Yeah is the N64 is a bugger for rusting* up over time. Mined died when the connection between the cartridge slot and the board corroded.
     
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  7. yodasarmpit

    yodasarmpit Modder

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    Yep, can’t wait to pay the tax man at the end of the month - then before you know it it’ll be January.
     
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  8. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Don't remind me - I doubled my revenue last year, so you can imagine what my balancing payment looks like...
     
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  9. Gaming_freak_10

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    My vehicle blew the rad up somehow. I checked around and found the leak source. I already ordered the new rad 2 days ago. it's still not here. They said 1 to 2 more days. I'm like...
     
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  10. stephen0205

    stephen0205 Minimodder

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    Fingers crossed it goes well cleaning it
     
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  11. perplekks45

    perplekks45 LIKE AN ANIMAL!

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    I hope you didn't use their abysmal software? If you did, give DisplayCAL a go next time. So much better and it's free.
     
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  12. fix-the-spade

    fix-the-spade Multimodder

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    I certainly did use the base software, I'll look into DisplayCAL next time in a couple of months.
     
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  13. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    It's gonna take another week for CCL to send out the case & PSU I posted in "Latest Purchases".
    The Corsair Ampere power cable arrived by DHL in 48 hours flat, from Amsterdam!
     
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  14. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Yeah, DisplayCAL's the way to go - it's way quicker than the official software. Used it with my ColorMunkee thing, worked a treat. 'course, I didn't really have a choice, 'cos the official software isn't available for Commie Lunix...
     
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  15. Mister_Tad

    Mister_Tad Will work for nuts Super Moderator

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    Aww man, it really sucks you're making all that money :sigh:
     
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  16. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Making it is great (though tiring); it'd be nicer if I could keep it. I'm having to put aside pretty much exactly what I pulled in on top of the usual in order to cover the payment on account and balancing payment.

    Now next year, when there'll be no balancing payment, that'll be when it's nice. This year, though? Not so much: more tired, roughly equal in terms of spending money.
     
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  17. Mister_Tad

    Mister_Tad Will work for nuts Super Moderator

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    Oh I get it.

    I just didn't want to waste an opportunity to give you a hard time.
     
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  18. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Fair.
     
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  19. Arboreal

    Arboreal Keeper of the Electric Currants

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    I have an ancient iONE Display that has to be 15 years old, and the software is long gone.

    Do you think DisplayCAL would work with it?
     
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  20. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    DisplayCAL uses ArgyllCMS as its backend, and that suggests it'll do the Eye-One Display 1, 2, LT, and spin-offs.

    However, the hardware might be shot after so long. I picked up a dirt-cheap colourimeter from FleaBay before splashing out on the ColorMunki, and while it was picked up by the software and appeared to work it gave everything a horrible cast. Turns out the gels they use as colour filters go off after a few years, so it wasn't filtering green light properly.
     
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