I got this guy. Its actually real nice to take notes and I guess works well if one is in the kindle ecosystem for books. Before that I got the supernote based on android/linux, but they didn’t have any updates anymore on the old devices and kindle stopped working unfortunately.
So that laptop was terrible, which I realised on the penultimate day of the 15-day return period, so I had to rush to the store to return it, which I did and with three fifths of its price I purchased a refurbished ThinkPad T14 Gen 1.
I love it. It’s great. 14 inch, perfectly fine size. A great touchscreen. (From what I have determined it’s the best screen revision mounted in any T14 Gen 1s). USB-C charging. It feels premium and indestructible. It will probably outlive me. I am not going back to consumer-grade laptops, ever.
The only minor issue I have with it is the vertical Enter, because they didn’t have any with horizontal Enter at the refurbished store.
Also once the mouse buttons stopped working (but not the pointer for some reason), reboot fixed that and I am unable to replicate it.
Two more figures arrived today. It’s Marin Kitagawa from My Dress-up Darling again. This time as noodle stopper¹ and in swimwear.
¹ A noodle stopper is a type of figurine based on manga, anime, or even video game characters which is ostensibly meant to secure by gravity to the lid of ramen containers so that they do not boil over. Due to their ornate designs, they are often displayed as ordinary figurines. (Stopper is a misnomer, as they are not inserted into the container.) (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodle_stopper)
Yesterday I saw that the retailer where I bought most of the figures I own now was offering a figure I’d been looking for—with damaged packaging. So I quickly placed an order and paid for it. The figure arrived today.
Sure, the packaging is a little damaged, but the figure itself is fine and it looks really great. I’m glad I was able to get it at a really reasonable price.
(As far as I know, the figure isn’t exactly easy to find—and especially not at the price I paid, since scalpers are asking for significantly more.)
There is one downside, though V (the figure from the Cyberpunk 2077 Collector’s Edition) now has to make room after over 5 years and is going back into the box because, unfortunately, I can’t find anywhere else to put it where the cat can’t get to it.
ha ha now i know who bought all the stickers all the time 
the wrench tool is so cute! and looks like 150 years old but usable for the next 150 years .
Yall only made two?
joking there is endless supply of them.. but these looking nice with the transparent ring outside .. good to put on bike or car too i bet.
It’s not that old, I suggest this particular one may have been made within the 1940-50s.
The design seems to have it’s origin in the UK, roundabout the 1930-1940. At least I could easily find the " Joseph Lucas Girder No 91" adjustable spanner wrench. With the major difference that my wrench here doesn’t had any markings at all. Which might be hint that it has been made during wartime, eventually.
Also, the major drawback of that design is that the thread which allows the adjustment - is split in two by design. Which isn’t exactly a sturdy design. On the earlier pictures you can easily see that there is quite a bend in between the threaded parts. That’s definitely the weak spot where it may fail first. I only dared to slightly bend it back in shape as there has definitely been some corrosion.
Nowadays no one would machine such a design anymore. There is a long cut through the middle of the moving jaw that extents almost all the way to the top. Which they definitely added after cutting the threads. They did used a slotting saw, for sure. Tricky workholding, very long cut. My bet is that there must have been many bad parts by doing it that way.
I finally went for a GPU upgrade, been sitting on the fence after upgrading my monitor last year. Figured prices were as good as they were going to get. This is the first new GPU I’ve bought since at least 2019. It’s a noticeable improvement from my Zotac 3060, and I can ditch the futzy Nvidia driver implementation on Linux as a bonus 
Here it is, stuffed in my lil case. Cable management is… not my strong suit.
Looks much better with the top on!
this case looks a bit like Xbox 360 Phat from this angle
Spend more time than expected to revive my phone today. The battery started to bulge - and the adhesive of the screen assembly started to come loose. As a result - the touchscreens digitizer started to fail, the rightmost quarter of the screen didn’t accepted touch inputs anymore -along the whole screen edge. So a new battery as well as screen assembly was necessary.
Luckily the spare parts are available relatively cheaply nowadays, so it’s still economical. But an repair service on the other hand would have tripled the cost and wouldn’t make much sense economically.
I’m quite surprised, those spare parts manufacturers have learned their lessons from iFixits example and are packaging complete kits for the whole repair that are not totally junk.
So technically, this is the picture of the aftermath already, showing the removed parts. Phone works fine, nothing went wrong, all functions are intact and nothing broke in the process. Except the adhesion between the battery and the backside of the phone, as that adhesive had to be broken anyway. Which has been a quite messy processes with some isopropanol alcohol and cotton swaps to clean up the residues tediously.
It has been more than a decade that I repaired a 1st gen iPod touch the last time. And that has been less tedious back in the day as I recall it. And this is only an iPhone 11, not the latest one. But there is quite a difference in between the sophistication of the 1st gen iPod touch which has been released back in 2007. And the 12 years newer iPhone 11. That logic board is tiny…
