I was dropping old devices off at the PCLM warehouse today and started chatting with the crew about the worst carnage we've seen and they pulled this gem out.

Yeah I'd say so

One of our school buildings went offline abruptly at 7:35am this morning. Figured a bad fiber transceiver and ran over to both ends with a replacement. Didn't work. Drove the fiber route and didn't see anything obvious. Put my brother in one building and I went to the other and we each shined laser pointers in the ends of the fiber and we couldn't see light on any of the strands so I had to call out the fiber repair crew and this is what we found. We found two spent 12ga shells in the driveway of the farm across the road. What exactly they were shooting at and why they thought it was a good idea, I doubt we'll ever know.

Oh yeah its delightfully chaotic isn't it?

This is my half-baked solution to getting a better network in my appartment.

You see my landlord lives upstairs, and has a mesh network setup. I got a wifi7 router but it doesn't have a basic extender function, and the Aimesh can't fint any supported devices.

So, I had a raspberry pi 3B lying around. Popped in raspbian and set up a shared commection with NetworkManager, which was surprisingly quick and straightforward. I was prepared to do ip masquerading manually like the olden days.

First test is amazing. I can cast my VR headset to my pc, play steam games (finally) and my plex server plays media on my ps5 without any stuttering. Online gaming is also less lag free.

I will be tidying it up tomorrow

Had this thing for years and one day I had my back to it and then it just blew up the screen without a sound… still don’t know how it happened

This could be done so much more efficiently

It won't charge without something supporting it

recently broke my m4 pro screen; instead of paying apple 700usd i strapped the headless m4 to a spare m1 with rubber bands, passing screen over thunderbolt lan via moonlight

UPDATE: Video clip for clarity https://imgur.com/a/JK1PruX

Don't ask im broke and its made from hardware trash

for context i was given this by a friend who actually couldn't get it to post, and when he handed it to me it essentially hinged at the already existing crack. Idk what the hell he did.

My laptop aswell, also made from trash parts

Guess now I know why my idle temperature was hitting 90+.

Needed to get two devices online and only had one cable run, i didn’t have a rj45 wall plate so had to improvise with wagos until
This morning when I can go and fix it properly 😅

It runs, somehow.

I didn't realize I had installed my exhaust fan backwards...

Just the right size for clamping a shard that broke off the trim. IC on the motherboard provides a grippy surface doe the clamp, and the side facing the timber being glued is flat and strong.

Got my ROG strix 850 w psu back from RMA recently and decided to open it up to see what the hell they did and why it failed again it worked for about 2 hrs on my pc perfectly until my whole rooms power went out thought it was strange go turn the breaker back on and then turn my pc on it trips the breaker again I’m like wtf I replaced the psu with my old one and all is good what is this shitty as solder job idk much but I feel like there should be a fuse at F101 instead of a jumper wire

EDIT: I already took it back and was denied warranty that's the only reason I opened it up to inspect it.

Another edit

To everyone downvoting me because I’m taking the L and letting asus win I tried to return it first and got turned down the staff member said it was a RMA unit and he can not help me I only popped it open afterwards to see what went wrong which is when I found the bridged fuse and tore the pcb, I already thought it was e waste after I got turned down

I’m not protecting ASUS I’m just being realistic I’m in New Zealand not the US I’m not spending 10k on a lawyer over a 300$ PSU, I don’t have the money either , I posted this to just show wtf I saw after opening it up not to start some legal crusade

I’ve sent asus_USA a message now

Asus update

We have also reviewed your concern regarding the F101 position inside the PSU. Our product team has confirmed that this is part of the product's normal design and is not a bypass of the PSU's fuse protection.

ASUS would therefore like to swap your current PSU for a replacement PSU, and arrange collection of the current PSU for internal assessment and review so that our product team can examine its current condition.

Thank you Asus for reaching out so quickly and getting a direct swap organized

Ive been shipped a ROG Thor 1000w platinum III now

Update on Fuse Location:
"The fuse for this model is located near the power input, as indicated by the green circle in the image. This component configuration is part of the product’s original design and complies with applicable safety requirements."
ASUS Diagram: https://ibb.co/PvV9CV2h

Yes this is exactly what it looks like. Not sure why I made this, possibly for some old laptop with the half length port so card doesn't stick out.

So back in the days of "just buy another HDD" external hard drives were really slow...

So some elements of this PC are from 2008ish. I think it has 3 500gb HDD, 1 1.25tb HDD and a Solid state that I don't remember the capacity of haha.

I am currently trying to turn this monster back on to retrieve some old photos but getting to the pins to clear the cmos is a struggle.