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Just earlier, I had to handle a similarly expanded battery in a Nokia feature phone (something like a 3310, not sure). That battery was ten years old.

And one other is working but slightly expanded.

That's no fewer than three expanded Li-ion batteries in this apartment.

Journeyman Geek

.... 3310s are more than a decade old ;p

bwDraco

1:15 AM

And the Nokia BL-5C battery isn't even a Li-poly battery. It's a prismatic Li-ion battery.

Which explains why batteries of the sort used in compact cameras (like the EN-EL12 used in my Nikon Coolpix S9900) have enclosures that are slightly larger than the actual cell. The edges of the battery are slightly thicker than the cell in the center.

Journeyman Geek

you can still get BL-5Cs I think ;p

bwDraco

It's to account for possible expansion over time.

Journeyman Geek

hah lol

unicell has em listed

battery.com.sg/our-products/…

and holy cow that supports a lot of phones

Michael Frank

I had a Logitech keyboard that I'm pretty sure used a BL-5C

Journeyman Geek

heh, apparently someone set up a google custom search for open directories on the internet

(and totally posted it here so I can find it later)

bwDraco

1:20 AM

I think I talked about non-poly (prismatic, though not cylindrical) Li-ion batteries expanding before...

Michael Frank

Someone in the office had to get the battery in their work iPhone replaced over the weekend. Apparently it was literally flat... like empty. They're gonna bring it on Wednesday, I'll take pictures.

bwDraco

Start here:

Jul 18 '16 at 15:05, by bwDraco

Looked back at the transcript and noticed the talk about swollen batteries.

(and yes, the EN-EL12 is a prismatic battery, not a LiPo)

Journeyman Geek

heh

Michael Frank

imgur.com/a/043Wc

The battery out of my Razer Mamba after a couple of years of use...

bwDraco

Wat.

Michael Frank

1:34 AM

Yea lol

I felt it start to catch on my mouse mat one day and thought the battery cover was warped...

Turns out the battery was bloating and forcing the cover out.

Razer didn't seem to care about it when I contacted support, they just suggested that I buy a new one from them.

bwDraco

1:50 AM

rofl

Was the mouse still under warranty?

Michael Frank

Nah, it was well outside the warranty at that point.

I still use the mouse, sans battery of course.

bwDraco

Yeah. I'm not exactly surprised if it's out of warranty, but I would at least have expected a voucher for something like "$10 off a replacement battery".

Bob

@MichaelFrank someone let the magic smoke out!

Michael Frank

@Bob Yea, I'm genuinely interested in seeing it. I've never heard of a battery being physically flat before.

Journeyman Geek

hm.

I've noticed a lot of comments berating people about their ... lack of english proficiency over the last few days.

This does not make me a happy camper ._.

bwDraco

2:32 AM

On closer examination... the Lamy design is pure genius.

First, the ink bottle is narrower towards the bottom so you can efficiently use all the ink, and has an integrated spool of paper for cleaning the pen after filling.

Second, the proprietary converter has pins on the side which mate to slots in the nib/section assembly to prevent the converter from rotating while filling the pen.

bwDraco

2:59 AM

It's also hard to believe that the AL-star is constructed of aluminum. The pen is so lightweight that it feels like plastic.

Quite the design marvel.

If you're wondering... it was HK$400 with free engraving. Converter and ink were extra.

Journeyman Geek

4:51 AM

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A: How to read a user input using Read...Data statement in BASIC language?

Unfortunately, once you get sucked into a computer program, it’s difficult if not impossible for someone outside the program to help you escape. You’re probably going to have to overcome several trials to find the means of exiting the program. Pay special attention to I/O devices: one of them is ...

bwDraco

7:39 AM

tomshardware.com/picturestory/…

bwDraco

8:15 AM

!!/tumbleweed

ChatBot John Cavil

bwDraco

Well, it's 4:15 AM at home...

Journeyman Geek

8:40 AM

engadget.com/2018/03/19/chindogu-yo-sushi-chopsticks

(its silly enough to need to share)

Burgi

9:14 AM

morning

djsmiley2k

9:27 AM

Moaning

Burgi

10:19 AM

the new ~~minion~~ dev is stuck on a train

djsmiley2k

10:39 AM

lul

frozen rails?

Burgi

think so

he is doing better than the last guy, he has forwarded us proof from the national rail website

djsmiley2k

11:03 AM

:D

hmmm there's like a gale coming in through the catflap

that explains some of the breeze at least.

bertieb

11:19 AM

o/ It's sunny up here!

Cold tho

djsmiley2k

11:48 AM

hmmmdafaq

stupuid vpn client screwed up mah settings

djsmiley2k

11:58 AM

backup

user226528

12:38 PM

Hi

Journeyman Geek

12:49 PM

lol

@allquixotic I probably should drop you a little more context on that meta question ;p

So context meta.stackexchange.com/questions/304607/… and someone on twitter whose post I keep losing seem to feel SO's too toxic

While I disagree with the broad point they're trying to make, there's really stuff I used to do pre-mod that I don't do any more. I don't do the same sort of long (or even short) helpful comments, my edits seem to have tapered off...

So I figure I'm going to try to fix at least one post a day. And I see a post and I go... "dude, that's too harsh"

and I'm like "WHAT ARE WE DOING!"

and lol

What's that I like to say? I prefer sheep dogs to sanctuary.

Bob

o.O

Journeyman Geek

@Bob meta post for context

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek you see a post you made and it's too harsh? or?

Journeyman Geek

naw, someone elses

dude was getting ripped into cause his english was bad

and one of our more grumpy users was being a gem and going "you could just fix that"

and did!

allquixotic

1:04 PM

ok wtf, video won't play in FF all of the sudden

Riiiight.... (my BT driver appears to have bugchecked)

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Have you tried...

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek lol

'one of our grumpy users'

lol a few spring to mind

Bob

@allquixotic lol. brand? :P

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k I quite literally don't want to name and shame anyone ;p

Even the ones who did good!

djsmiley2k

hehe

Journeyman Geek

1:13 PM

And I am literally teed off at some of these folks, so clearly the correct way to deal with it is to camp on the moral high ground.

djsmiley2k

amen! :D

rahuldottech

> That's actually one of my biggest complaints too. They can't decide which fucking schema to use. Underscores like in display_errors()? Or camelCase as in resetServerList()? Or nothing at all like setoverprintmode()? Sometimes they use a "2" as replacement for "to" (hex2bin()), sometimes they don't (strtotime()). There are so many oddities with PHP when it comes to naming conventions.

But that's all old stuff. If you check newer functions, methods and classes, they all use camelCase. So they did get their shit together and it's gotten a lot better now.

allquixotic

@Bob USB\VID_8087&PID_0A2B\5&2A62B456&0&7

it's my Intel - I've never had issues with it before :/

oh snap, just updated the driver from 12/5/17 to 1/4/18 in Device Manager with a "search for online updates"

rahuldottech

@allquixotic links to driver here h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/…

allquixotic

odd that those updates don't come in through Windows Update

now I want to go to every device in device manager and try that

Journeyman Geek

1:22 PM

lol

Bob

@allquixotic that's new :P

@rahuldottech erm. protip: don't download whichever random driver happens to match your PID

Journeyman Geek

hah lol

cough

Bob

If it's an Intel card your best bet is to download the drivers from ... Intel. Or Microsoft, if you'd rather use Windows Update.

Journeyman Geek

yup

or your specific OEM

Bob

If you must have a laptop-specific driver, you look up your specific laptop model.

Not even some other model from the same manufacturer.

allquixotic

1:26 PM

yeah, not touching an HP driver with a 10-foot pole

not until they stop using links like h30434.www3.hp.com

like, seriously, who exposes their servers' internals to the public URL anymore?

rahuldottech

@allquixotic That page has a link to the Intel driver download page

djsmiley2k

urgh

everything on this systerm is fighting me

for some reason scp fails half way through the file with a weird error, yet sftp works

Burgi

HACK THE GIBSON

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/…

djsmiley2k

> s infecting poorly secured systems by guessing weak passwords protecting secure shell application administrators use to remotely control Unix-based computers.

lol

boring.

News just in, bad passwords are bad

Bob

> for Windows 7

This is why you go to the correct site and enter all details necessary.

Random links will take you to random places.

rahuldottech

1:38 PM

@Bob Okay, fair enough

djsmiley2k

lol

u have much to learn young padawab]

Wait a moment

it breaks at 2053Mb....

is this a file system problem?!

> local_18_Mar_2 65% 2053MB 11.2MB/s 01:37 ETAdebug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0
scp: Failed to open file /Management/y6▒▒▒▒ڳH֪▒▒▒▒▒▒▒43A▒▒▒*▒▒▒▒▒J▒-▒▒▒▒▒▒;▒▒ޖ▒▒>&▒>w~V▒▒|^▒F▒▒J▒▒n▒Vo▒▒:▒▒f▒▒(▒*▒O▒O%>▒▒▒4E|▒▒vVK▒▒▒D▒]M▒`▒k▒=3▒*▒▒%▒▒OQ/▒7,▒▒▒̷▒B▒▒▒.▒▒▒3▒▒t▒XY▒h▒5▒▒▒▒{ןOR▒▒Y▒.
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
debug1: fd 0 clearing O_NONBLOCK
debug1: fd 1 clearing O_NONBLOCK
debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 0 bytes in 184.7 seconds

allquixotic

I'm being FORCED to RETURN the Pizza Car and NEED YOUR HELP

►

Dominos Wants the Samcrac Car. Is it Trademark Infringement or Fair Use?

►

@djsmiley2k in /Management (on either the local or remote) can you actually see a file called

y6▒▒▒▒ڳH֪▒▒▒▒▒▒▒43A▒▒▒*▒▒▒▒▒J▒-▒▒▒▒▒▒;▒▒ޖ▒▒>&▒>w~V▒▒|^▒F▒▒J▒▒n▒Vo▒▒:▒▒f▒▒(▒*▒O▒‌O%>▒▒▒4E|▒▒vVK▒▒▒D▒]M▒

▒k▒=3▒*▒▒%▒▒OQ/▒7,▒▒▒̷▒B▒▒▒.▒▒▒3▒▒t▒XY▒h▒5▒▒▒▒{ןOR▒▒Y▒` ?

Burgi

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/… @bwDraco

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi pretty sure he linked it before ;p

or I did

Burgi

ah

odd returns policy

Journeyman Geek

1:49 PM

yup

my guess is they don't want people reselling the chips

djsmiley2k

@allquixotic nope

but just noticed the file has transfereed o_O

allquixotic

tomshardware.com/picturestory/…

> Since I ripped the prongs off while opening the adapter, I needed an alternate method to for powering it up. While I would not recommend having a mains-to-alligator-clips cable in a typical toolbox, this is one case where two wrongs can be used to make something right.

something makes me giggle (a lot) about the idea of a mains to alligator clips adapter

XKCD

If my country ever picks a new national flag, this is on my shortlist for designs to argue for, but I think in the end I'll go with the green puzzle piece or broken image thumbnail.

3

Burgi

heh

djsmiley2k

2:23 PM

^_^

Bob

2:51 PM

hi

jokerdino

hi

Burgi

3:28 PM

41

Q: I dreamed you did so and so. Why did you do that? - How to react?

I had the following situation a couple of times: I sleep together with my (long time) girlfriend and she wakes up after a bad dream. In her dream I did something bad, like having sex with another woman. She is angry at "me" about what "I" did. But I didn't do it. It happened only in her dream. ...