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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • I once asked Google’s AI “How to inflate a foldable phone”

    I had hoped that it would respond with something like ‘That is not possible, but here are a few related links to help you’

    Instead, it gave me what otherwise almost seemed like a half mix between legit instructions of how to inflate a car tire, except all instances of ‘car tire’ were merely replaced with ‘foldable phone’, yet also seemed like it understood where on most phones the charger plugs up… 🤦

    Granted this was in early Google AI beta testing, and apparently it has since learned better, but still that was enough for me to realize how truly dumb AI can be.

    I do not use AI anymore, unless I want a good dumb laugh…









  • Well what do they expect in a world where a new toaster or fridge has to connect to the internet to track everything you eat and more, only to fail in less than a year and not even be covered by warranty…

    When grandma’s toaster and fridge from 1978 still work fine, do exactly what they were designed to do and only what they were designed to do, and the only repairs they needed were when the toaster got hit by lightning in 1987 and needed a new fuse and the fridge needed new door seals back in 2003…

    /rant

    Seriously, what ever happened to designing simple products (that don’t spy on you no less) to last practically forever?





  • Damn, that’s hella corrosion!

    That wouldn’t stop me though, I already have half an arsenal of techniques stemming from salvaging flood damaged and house fire damaged boards. I’d probably try to tackle such boards something like this…

    • Ultrasonic cleaner with vinegar
    • Rinse thoroughly and empty the vinegar
    • Ultrasonic cleaner with baking soda and water
    • Rinse thoroughly and empty the soda water mix
    • Spray the boards thoroughly with WD-40
    • Pressure wash the boards
    • Air compressor to mostly dry
    • Heat the boards with a hair dryer to finish drying

    Then it’s obviously a matter of good luck, inspection, testing and tackling any particular issues that the above process didn’t quite clean up. I like dude’s use of phosphoric acid, but I’d rather keep away from the extra strong chemicals until the end stages as spot cleaning only.

    It would be cool to see if he ever manages to actually get all the boards running again. Obviously they’ll need new capacitors and some soldering touchups and whatnot, but still these are rare relics of the past…