Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
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7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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Satisfying isn't it? I had a fancy mini-fridge that died after 5 years. We called a repair guy and he said it needed a new board but when he called the company, they said they don't make them and just suggested we buy a new fridge. Well no shit... I'm sure they WOULD like it if I bought another one of their crap fridges, but whatever - not gonna happen. So since I had a brick on my hands anyway, I pulled the board and Googled "most common reason for PCB failure" and the answer was "capacitors." A short Youtube video explaining how to find bad ones and voila: I found the culprit, a swollen and useless capacitor.
Thirty-seven cents later (well, $2.22, I had to buy half a dozen from an eBay vendor) and she started right up (I already had desolder/solder tools). Felt great.
Ah I did similar with a broken furnace logic board from 2004. Carrier still made the boards, but wanted $250 and none of the components used on the dang thing justified that besides them knowing most people have no choice in the moment.