The "What made you happy today" thread!
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Okay, that raven is awesome.
Maybe Mars can be convinced to remake the famous M&M's Santa commercial someday, which was still airing every December last I checked and still looks pretty cheap on an HDTV.
Having phase two of 86 Devestator, in other words, the next part that forms the torso, thus I am 2/3 of the way to completion with a arm and a leg out standing, techinally it arrived the other day but as I didn't have a notice to say it been delivered, it was hiding in the storage box in the garden and spent over 24 hours there! My impressions so far, the robot modes are good, Devestator, not so good, stupidy big back pack, the chest plate doesn't stay on very well, there's a hole for Hook's head to appear and really looks out of place in Devestator form and the wing parts of the chest plate, don't cover up that hole and its rather glaring to look at as your eyes are drawn straight to it, Scrapper is to far to one side, I really think whoever was in charge of this project, should of sent the bots that make up the torso back to the drawing board as there is other ways to lock the two parts together, thou I'll grant that I might be nitpicking here, but the race for who completes first is on, will be Devestator, or will it be Superion?
Some of you might remember me posting about getting a bunch of uselessly-obsolete old iPads from a school that was tossing them. Well, they also had a fairly new one that was getting tossed because someone shattered the screen. Well, due to one thing and another, I only this summer got around to buying the replacement screen and repair kit from iFixit, and today my dad and I (because he's an electrical engineer whose hobby is messing with broken electronics, and because I knew it was a two person job no matter how you slice it) finally got around to using it.
...Even for a savings of over $100 over what the repair shop wanted to charge for the job, I do not recommend going to the effort. For starters, iFixit prides itself on their easy-to-follow disassembly guides, but do you know what? They don't have one for actually installing the replacement screen they sell! I had to figure it out myself, and I still don't know why they included an extra home button bracket and gasket. Also I'm just now realizing that the strips of adhesive they included might have also been spares, in case you screw up and have to scrub it off the glass, because this thing is no longer flush with the edges like it used to be. Definitely gonna have some back and forth with support on that when I feel up to it.
But the thing works and has a smooth, unbroken screen now and it's nicer than my old iPad and that's what matters. After feeling like we were doing every step wrong, it's a miracle. I don't know how those Chinese kids do this day in and day out.
...Even for a savings of over $100 over what the repair shop wanted to charge for the job, I do not recommend going to the effort. For starters, iFixit prides itself on their easy-to-follow disassembly guides, but do you know what? They don't have one for actually installing the replacement screen they sell! I had to figure it out myself, and I still don't know why they included an extra home button bracket and gasket. Also I'm just now realizing that the strips of adhesive they included might have also been spares, in case you screw up and have to scrub it off the glass, because this thing is no longer flush with the edges like it used to be. Definitely gonna have some back and forth with support on that when I feel up to it.
But the thing works and has a smooth, unbroken screen now and it's nicer than my old iPad and that's what matters. After feeling like we were doing every step wrong, it's a miracle. I don't know how those Chinese kids do this day in and day out.