It is DONE! I finally fix the ripple on the 5V rail with a reversible modification. All issues are solved and the computer comes back together in all its glory. #DAI#DAIPC@ComputerMuseumB@homecompmuseum https://youtu.be/EPO3AEg9eBI
Episode 5 of the #DAI PC restoration saga is out! Lots of troubleshooting of the main logic, and a failure mode I doubt you've encountered before! It's pretty surprising. https://youtu.be/mmN3NMUuU-0
I got completely fed up with the #DAI's PSU; couldn't get the ripple below 250mV, just ridiculous. So, yeah, ended up modifying it (non-destructive and reversible)... Now the ripple is under 20mV and everything works. The restoration is complete. Final videos soon.
Episode 4 of the DAI PC (a very rare Belgian 8-bit microcomputer from 1980, used by TV stations as an early digital graphics station) restoration saga is out! Lots of power supply troubleshooting in this rather long episode. @ComputerMuseumB#DAI#DAIPC https://youtu.be/FK9i3zmu8Jw
Today's acquisition is the heftiest piece of #Dai#folklore (and indeed any #Chinese folklore of any kind) in my rather sizable collection of folklore-related books. Weighing in at nearly 900 pages it is, again, a translation of Dai ballads into both vernacular Mandarin and English. As with all of the books from this #Wuhan#University Press it is a quality work filled to the brim with footnotes (both on the Chinese side and the English, different).
It's also likely going to be a work that takes me months to years to work through.
Such is the life of a time-limited #hobbyist of folklore.
For days I couldn't figure out why American podcasts I listen to suddenly feature Spanish ads. It just occurred to me that I became a victim of dynamic ad insertion (#DAI). A clever mechanism that injects audio ads to existing #podcast episodes based on various tracking information. A month ago I was in Spain for vacation and now I'm listening to episodes downloaded back then (I have a long backlog). What a sad time to be alive
Besides my personal crush on #Cullen, I must say that #DragonAgeInquisition is such a relief after #DragonAge2. Much smoother, much faster, it looks so much better, the story is more interesting... the only thing I miss is Alistair.
Let's just hope that the armor in DAI looks better than in DA2. DA2 really reminded me of a cheap version of SW:KOTOR. My mage had a very weird jedi robe for most of the game.
#DAI is a freaking FANTASTIC game. And it allows you to build your own armours (and sometimes to even give the ugliest armour to companions you may be angry with cough)