Thoughts of a little Sinchen
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Really nothing more to say. Falcon Punch.
Wow. That was my shortest blog entry.
Today I revived an old hobby of mine: Playing around with old computers.
Just recently I got a big beast; an old tower computer. (If anybody wants a picture of that thing I can upload one tomorrow.)
I hooked the computer up on a monitor, connected a keyboard and after some unsatisfied beeping...
Got a new Wii U. And it came with a lot of stuff. Something was wrong with it. Can you see it? What is wrong with that picture? Look closely:
What does this useless thing have to do with a Wii U? Nothing of course. Except for where it was: …inside the optical drive. This time I knew before...
Repairing things is just awesome. I love it! So much better than always having the "latest and greatest". In my previous blog entry I ranted about Android, locked bootloaders and slowly taking all the legitimate owner's rights. I still dislike Android phones (and all devices not giving full...
Android phones are not trustworthy in my opinion and each time I have to deal with Android devices it gets worse. Considering this opinion you might ask me: “Why do you even bother trying it out – again?”
Having a strong opinion against something requires to actually know at least a bit about...
Today was that time again: Housework. Vacuum cleaning, wiping the floor, tidy up a bit…
My pretty new Raspberry Pi 4 was lying in it's case on the big loudspeaker to the right of the TV in my living room. I lifted it to vacuum there. So much dust. But then: Something was wrong. The µSD looked...
Those Yarn-Yoshis are so cute. The Wii U game Yoshi's Woolly World is a cuteness overload. I love it when a Yoshi pushes it's big woolly nose against a wall and… The whole game is indescribably nice.
Normally I'm not very susceptible for that kind of sweet colorful things. In this case I could...
Why did I start buying stuff described as more or less broken in order to fix it? Because fixing things is fun, gives a good feeling and is much better than buying new stuff.
But why did I not start with trying to fix broken stuff already in my possession? Good question. I don't know the...
Like with my last entry: Sometimes I despair of humanity. What I can't stand is any form of exceptional stupidity.
I did not even notice somebody was working there. Suddenly: No connection anymore. Nothing. I tried everything and the Fritz!Box router told me "DSL cable malfunction at...
There are times when I despair of humanity. I really don’t want to discuss the current one-and-only public topic. Opinions other than mainstream may not be expressed – if you don’t want to get tared and feathered. The problem is that this topic interferes with absolutely everything and is the...
This is probably the least interesting entry about the damaged devices I have bought in the last few weeks via eBay-Kleinanzeigen. Another Wii described as “with faulty drive”. This time it was a lot easier to have a look a the drive before inserting a disc: It is a Wii Mini with the top loading...
![Poor O2DS [photo about 260kb]](/data/attachments/200/200510-70b2f8b414e5b93726c63597564834a9.jpg)
Just like with the "damaged" Wii and the three bad DS-Lite I asked a friend to get me a very cheap O2DS via eBay-Kleinanzeigen. The description was discouraging: "Broken screen." The LCD unit for O2DS systems is pretty expensive compared to the value of the cheap device. Economically speaking...
I got three little DS-Lite in pretty bad condition. They were sold as defective so I didn't pay much and didn't expect much.
Sometimes people surprise me though (in a bad way). I would feel ashamed when sending someone three consoles that dirty. Yes, they were described as defective… but not as...
![I am an Idiiot – really [pictures 800kb]](/data/attachments/197/197085-3c69b9e7535bb0cfdb3e3b2023063d2d.jpg)
I, LittleSinchen, proclaim myself as a complete idiot.
If you ever buy a Wii with the description "faulty disc drive" don't be as dumb as I have been yesterday. My thoughts:
Faulty disc drive? Maybe the lens is dirty.
It is a black Wii → Most likely D3-2 drive which means it will ignore...
There are at least two topic left. I’ve covered most of what happened had been done to me in previous entries of this series (and in the comments to those entries). The first missing topic is about school and teachers. The second is about my general opinion on all this – my conclusions and my...
Sometimes there are threads that make me shake my head. I was thinking about creating one myself in the EOF – but I usually stay away from there. Because this is kind of sarcastic or a parody it does not belong into the regular forum (e.g. off-topic section). This is why it became a blog entry...
In the last few months I’ve had trouble getting all of my prescribed medication. Waiting for some days… trying at multiple pharmacy shops.
Today the pharmacist told me: “Venlafaxine has been unavailable for weeks now. No vendor has any left. Nothing I can do about it… unless you pay more...
For me it is the annual festival of abundance and waste. And a symbol of hypocrisy that has long lost it’s meaning.
Once more I’m facing the problem finding balance between a long “essay” (which sadly just gets tl;dr nowadays) and a too short text (which looks extremely polemic and does not...
![A BIOS/CMOS battery is a wear part! (rant) [pictures ≈ 300KB]](/data/attachments/189/189831-3033bb87fab0c5b8042fdd77d73bc876.jpg)
Dear manufacturers I have big news for you: Batteries don’t last forever. This is nobody’s fault. But it is a fact. Sooner or later any battery will be drained. This is also true for low-power devices like clocks and SRAM. A CR2032 will last some years. After this it has to be replaced.
Why do...
Argh! I don’t like yellow flowers. Whenever I see yellow flowers I get angry. Even if it is just on a picture. Yellow… who thought yellow was a fitting color for plants? Blue, red, violet or white. All nice to see. I even will accept orange, but:
I hope I will never see a single yellow flower...
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Caller -"Everytime I start a Pc game on my S24, playing on a external monitor, someone calls or texts me, n it kicks me out of the game." Customer Support - Click (hangs up)+1 -
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I found it funny cause many many years ago, had a roommate in college that did this same dumbass branding of the school logo, but it didn't look anything like it after it healed. Just looked like a birthmark.
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