Buying the littleun an ereader for Christmas and
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The successor to this thing was the PRS-700, my spouse has gone through three of them because they put a touchscreen on it and consequently put way less effort into the page-turn buttons, and she wore them out within a year each
They're not easily repaired either, IIRC it's not like one button per input or even a matrix, it's each button has a different value resistor attached and they all share the same wire like crap car stereo steering wheel controls
Anyway just like when I'm trying to fix a whole arcade, each one now has a bit of blue painter's tape giving it a number and note about what it needs. Each one got charged on the wall for five minutes and a boot attempted (except for the two with obviously-broken screens and the one that was all swollen up).
Most didn't get through the whole boot sequence and all they need are new batteries, a couple can be used straight-up as-is.
I figure I'll approach this the same way I fix a whole arcade, make the worst ones the best ones until they're all pretty good
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Anyway just like when I'm trying to fix a whole arcade, each one now has a bit of blue painter's tape giving it a number and note about what it needs. Each one got charged on the wall for five minutes and a boot attempted (except for the two with obviously-broken screens and the one that was all swollen up).
Most didn't get through the whole boot sequence and all they need are new batteries, a couple can be used straight-up as-is.
I figure I'll approach this the same way I fix a whole arcade, make the worst ones the best ones until they're all pretty good
Alright, number 11's the worst that I have parts to fix right now, let's do a Dan Fixes eReaders thread.
Start by taking out the four screws on the back of the ereader. They're smaller than you'll find in a laptop, very tiny, like watch screws. Take out the first one, then go downstairs for your glasses and then take out the second.
At this point you'll realise you need more light, so go ahead and log into Home Assistant and...
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Alright, number 11's the worst that I have parts to fix right now, let's do a Dan Fixes eReaders thread.
Start by taking out the four screws on the back of the ereader. They're smaller than you'll find in a laptop, very tiny, like watch screws. Take out the first one, then go downstairs for your glasses and then take out the second.
At this point you'll realise you need more light, so go ahead and log into Home Assistant and...
Once you've got four screws out there's a hidden Fifth Screw in the butt
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Once you've got four screws out there's a hidden Fifth Screw in the butt
Once all the screws are out, use a spudger to pry the butt off the ereader, getting ready to catch the volume rocker as it falls out.
Except it doesn't fall out! Sony put a captive volume rocker in this thing! Neat!
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Once all the screws are out, use a spudger to pry the butt off the ereader, getting ready to catch the volume rocker as it falls out.
Except it doesn't fall out! Sony put a captive volume rocker in this thing! Neat!
Hot tip: never use a flathead screwdriver to pry stuff, always use a plastic spudger or you'll chew up the plastic or paint no matter how careful you are and it'll look a bloody mess.
With the butt meat removed, the holes are exposed. There are three more tiny Philips screws inside, these ones are longer with a coarser thread, put them somewhere separate to the others.
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Hot tip: never use a flathead screwdriver to pry stuff, always use a plastic spudger or you'll chew up the plastic or paint no matter how careful you are and it'll look a bloody mess.
With the butt meat removed, the holes are exposed. There are three more tiny Philips screws inside, these ones are longer with a coarser thread, put them somewhere separate to the others.
With those three screws out, the case is free to flex.
Oh my GOD how swollen-up is this lithium battery
am i about to die
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With those three screws out, the case is free to flex.
Oh my GOD how swollen-up is this lithium battery
am i about to die
The cat appears, pet her until she goes away
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The cat appears, pet her until she goes away
With the cat satisfied, we can begin removing the top of the ereader, same thing, spudge it with your spudger until it spudges off
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With the cat satisfied, we can begin removing the top of the ereader, same thing, spudge it with your spudger until it spudges off
The slidey power switch also fails to fall out.
Normally when you take apart a thing that has button on the outside, all the buttons fall off. Not so with this, because in 2007 these were Rich People's Toys and the design and build quality is *chef's kiss*
Lesson: better to buy something that was Excellent secondhand than to spend the same money on something shit from Now
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The slidey power switch also fails to fall out.
Normally when you take apart a thing that has button on the outside, all the buttons fall off. Not so with this, because in 2007 these were Rich People's Toys and the design and build quality is *chef's kiss*
Lesson: better to buy something that was Excellent secondhand than to spend the same money on something shit from Now
These two clippydoodads gotta come out, they're held in weakly with an adhesive and will come out fairly easily
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These two clippydoodads gotta come out, they're held in weakly with an adhesive and will come out fairly easily
Here's what they look like Out
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Here's what they look like Out
So here comes the interesting part.
The case of these things is All One Piece. It's a just-thick-enough-to-feel-expensive aluminium sleeve that doesn't get in the way and is fairly unremarkable until one day you look all around for the seam where this was bending-brake'd out of sheet metal and THERE ISN'T ONE and you go "What the... how the hell was this made?"
And then you put that question out of your mind because you're distracted by your swollen battery.
See, I should be able to just reach in and pull the whole innards out of this aluminium sleeve in one go like a magician or an overenthusiastic butcher, but that battery's all Big and it's gonna make things complicated, so we've gotta cross our fingers and do the careful wiggleypush
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So here comes the interesting part.
The case of these things is All One Piece. It's a just-thick-enough-to-feel-expensive aluminium sleeve that doesn't get in the way and is fairly unremarkable until one day you look all around for the seam where this was bending-brake'd out of sheet metal and THERE ISN'T ONE and you go "What the... how the hell was this made?"
And then you put that question out of your mind because you're distracted by your swollen battery.
See, I should be able to just reach in and pull the whole innards out of this aluminium sleeve in one go like a magician or an overenthusiastic butcher, but that battery's all Big and it's gonna make things complicated, so we've gotta cross our fingers and do the careful wiggleypush
A five-second flourish becomes a fifteen-minute session of sweating and cursing and hoping that the screen and various fragile electronic parts can withstand being mushed up HARD between an aluminium case and a VERY ANGRY BATTERY
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A five-second flourish becomes a fifteen-minute session of sweating and cursing and hoping that the screen and various fragile electronic parts can withstand being mushed up HARD between an aluminium case and a VERY ANGRY BATTERY
Wiggle so gently and carefully
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Wiggle so gently and carefully
Don't you pop you bastard don't you pop
At this point, when you're about to expose the battery against a harsh aluminium transition, start thinking "Maybe I should be doing this outside"
but it's cold
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Don't you pop you bastard don't you pop
At this point, when you're about to expose the battery against a harsh aluminium transition, start thinking "Maybe I should be doing this outside"
but it's cold
Gotta lift up this connector flap to release the ribbon cable that connects to the case's buttons WHICH STILL HAVEN'T FALLEN OUT
Sony helpfully glued a massive transparent plastic chunk to the lifty-uppy part of the connector here
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Gotta lift up this connector flap to release the ribbon cable that connects to the case's buttons WHICH STILL HAVEN'T FALLEN OUT
Sony helpfully glued a massive transparent plastic chunk to the lifty-uppy part of the connector here
With the ribbon cable detached we're free to continue bringing out the ereader's innards. Any minute now we'll expose the battery
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With the ribbon cable detached we're free to continue bringing out the ereader's innards. Any minute now we'll expose the battery
holy SHIT
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holy SHIT
LOOK AT THIS ANGRY BOY
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LOOK AT THIS ANGRY BOY
It's hard to tell what's going on in this picture but this is taken from the top of the ereader looking down, once the battery's free of the aluminium.
The whole rest of the ereader just made the sound your uncle makes after he loosens his belt after thanksgiving. It's going aaaauuuuuhhhhhhhhh that's better
you can't put out a lithium fire by the way, just reminding y'all of that
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confesso che l'ho apprezzato per un lungo periodo, ma negli ultimi anni i suoi silenzi sono stati inascoltabili. Sarà l'età , bo.
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@misantropo70 l'avrei scritta anche in inglese, ma ammetto di non aver trovato un'espressione che rendesse bene l'idea allo stesso modo.
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@RainbowRemedy I chose an instance that matches one of my major interests, is hosted in Europe, and provides additional features such as Markdown support and long posts.
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@francina1909
ahahahahah
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@francina1909 mi immagino il tizio danese che traduce la tua risposta 🤣🤣🤣
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@aeva *desperately looking for a silver lining* .oO( at least pathological still contains the word "logical")
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La nostra bella Presidente adora il profumo del napalm al mattino.
Spese militari, l'Italia accelera: una mini-manovra da 3,5 miliardi per l'acquisto di armi | LA NOTIZIA
> La maggioranza accelera sulle spese militari, con una mini-manovra consistente in quattro decreti da 3,5 miliardi complessivi.
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Anno 1962
Durata media di queste lavatrici : 30 anni.
#vintage #photography
