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Le Sigh aka Shit Breaking Down (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First, my car pops the passenger side front tire. Thankfully, no one was hurt. I got it replaced but I need to have my paycheck hurry up and deposit so I can get the other side replaced to balance it out.

Next, after replacing the throttle on an e-scooter, I find that I need to replace the brake as that is electronically wired and keeping the scooter from going (I found frayed wires connecting to the controller board). More money to spend on a scooter I found at the dumpster.

Lastly, after Nobara was practically screaming at me to update it, I go to log in and KDE Plasma crashes after log on. Thankfully, a quick search turned up a solution that got my desktop environment back up and running.

This was just Friday. I dread to know what my weekend will be like, since I'm the on-call technician this weekend.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes I wonder if you can actually just throw more money at these things and they actually work and break less or if they still don't work and break as much but rich people just buy more stuff to compensate. I don't know which would be worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Shit breaking down is just physics. Entropy gets to things sooner or later. I just wish it didn't happen all at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You could solder those wires. Be much cheaper

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Funny" story incoming.

I was thinking of soldering, except I don't have solder. Or a soldering iron. So I tried to splice the wires together, like hot-wiring a car, then put aluminum foil and masking tape to cover the splices because I also don't have electrical tape. It turned out too janky to use. It made the wires too short, plus they are flimsy so the splices came apart easily, so I abandoned that idea. For the cost of the iron, the solder, and the tape, I can order the new part and just be done with it. That's if nothing else breaks on the e-scooter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

How much is the new part?

This is only 25 bucks https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-soldering-iron/

Or you could get some wire and these https://www.amazon.com/Kuject-Connectors-Waterproof-Electrical-Automotive/dp/B0D3QF6VC4

No need to replace something that can still be fixed. Also if you got a soldering iron you can use it for other things in the future

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The new part is $25. And I'm not gonna be using a soldering iron often. I get what you're saying but it's not the right move for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

There’ no such thing as a free e-scooter is there? =P