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Weeds has a very strange character arc. Nancy certainly overcomes obstacles, but she doesn't become more heroic as a result. Each time she bares a bit more of herself, and it reveals a more complex fleshed out human, which is very believable, but not necessarily more likable. Clearly the show runners are aware of this, whether by design, or if it just became apparent along the way, and they decided to lean into it.

It doesn't make the show any worse. Depending how you look at things, it might even make it better. Kinda depends if you're an early seasons purist and you just like the goofy side of the show, or if you're in it for the story arc. The first time around, I stopped following around the time Esteban came in. I might've been to young to parse the behaviour; I don't know. That, or maybe I just wasn't into the tonal shift of the show during that season at the time.

Anyway, I'm glad I'm making it through it now. If anything, because Kevin Nealon somehow sticks around to the end, and that guy is fucking hilarious (though it turns out he's even funnier out of character; his appearances on Conna O'Brien Needs a Friend kill, especially in video form. If you don't know what I'm talking about, look up "Kevin O'Nealon straw bit" and "Kevin O'Nealon Conan tears").

I almost made a very dumb mistake initially. This power supply has a second 4-pin connector that latches onto the P4, I guess for motherboards/chipsets that require 8-pin power?? I don't actually know. I bought this for a build with an LGA1150, when 2011v3 was already the new hotness, so maybe some higher end chips on that platform required it?

Anyway, I swapped the polarity on one of them, but without even thinking, I initially plugged in the other non-swapped connector. Of course that also means that the wires I cut and soldered (removing the pins without the correct tool is do-able, but also a huge PiTA, so I decided for the P4 power to just snip the wires) are going into an incorrectly keyed connector 🙄. I could've just done the same thing again to the other, but it was nothing a sharp knife couldn't correct lol. I also know from experience that the keying is easily bypassed with muscle+stupidity (a much younger me once managed to plug a 4-pin molex into an IDE drive upside down), but that feels a little too barbarian for what was for a long time, my "beige whale" (however uncharacteristically un-beige for the time period it was).

Don't judge the soldering too harshly. I only have two hands, and no good helping hands or other work holding apparatus lol. The joints are good, but there was a lot of twisting to keep things together, so everything just looks like a massive glob of solder. Those 100V diodes have pretty massive terminals that are not nearly as flexible as the wires lol

Anyway, gonna go take a shower. So if I have made some obvious terrible mistake, hopefully somebody points it out before I get back and apply power.

Going to try anyway... I have a whole pile of 3.7v batteries from "disposable" vapes, so why the hell not?

I don't have the system drive that came with it anymore (well I do, but I repurposed it for something... I think it's currently living in my modded PS2), so I popped in a random IDE drive I had lying around, and I'm going to try booting into 9.2.2 via USB using the OS9 Boot Kit from Macintosh Repository. The last time this G4 ran, that's what I used, so assuming this does in fact work, and I haven't wired it incorrectly (I have confirmed that nothing is going anywhere that it's going to cause damage, so the worst case scenario is that a wire is missing, not something like +12V going into a +5V rail), then there's no reason I shouldn't be able to boot OS9 from USB again.

Was about to test the newly modified ATX PSU in my Quicksilver G4... before I realized it was missing the CMOS battery (I forgot what Apple calls this, but it's the 1/2 AA battery that lives on the mobo... whatever). Why I bought a new battery for it, then realized the PSU was going to need replacing before it would work, and then removed the brand new battery I bought is a mystery to me. Maybe I thought I'd be holding onto it long enough to worry about the battery leaking a corroding the board? (iirc it was a lithium battery though, so honestly no idea what was going thru my head... or where I stored it in the meantime lmao)

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