Use MCUs that can be programmed over straight USB.

On a high level, you can get a cleaner like Deoxit D5 in a spray bottle. Most pots have a slit in them so you can spray into them, then turn the pot through its range a bunch of times. It’s worth a try as a start. Obviously do it while the unit is unplugged.

If you want to consider a more aggressive rebuild, like a capacitor replacement, maybe find a cheap old amplifier at the thrift shop to use as practice for desoldering/resoldering.

You might be able to connect the BT to one input on the amp, like the tape input, and the CD to another.

The Orville has a great take on it too.

There’s an episode where they bring in someone from a scarcity-era planet and she’s freaking out about how they have replicators and future medical tech, and the crew explains to her that if the technology were airdropped on her world, thry wouldn’t be socially ready for it and it would just become a means of further stratification.

I think this instance does something weird with images. It was a ~4MB JPEG on the device, but when I downloaded it again, I got a webp listed at ~750kb, but it absolutely crawls to download. I just uploaded a 2000x1500 JPEG (~230k on disc) to Imgur to fix the performance.

Yep. Been riffing on the PCB for a few years, so now I have seperate units for home and work wuth different cases.

Arataki Itto.

Yeah, the personality would be abrasive but he was basically the first hunk-coded character in the game.

This is actually my second one; a friend purloined my first one upon discovering the ergonomic charms of oni-boobs.

I see a Roadmaster wagon. To the used-games store!

Some mainboards have very few PCI-e slots.

I ended up with a similar adapter because the onboard SATA on my board was flaky with optical drives and I rip CDs.

We have an entire universe (from snaps up to univere-scale k8s setups) derived from “it works on my machine, so we’ll ship my machine”.

How much bad software isn’t being shook out because it’s kept alive in a container with just the right dependencies to prevent it from activating bugs and bad assertions?

Some of the old hardware forms, Gideontech and Pimprig/PCApex.

The problem is that stabilizers tend to be a huge commitment unless maybe you have a hot swap board.

The ones I have are terrible-- loose fit in the caps-- but I’d have to desolder 7 switches and risk PCB damage to change them.

A Greaseweazle mihht be another angle; you could image discs at lest.

So some domestic firm with a terrible, non competitive product fellated him. Did we see a pressboard trophy to go with Apple’s glass one?

The old UK £1 was similar in size but twice as thick. It’s now 12-sided but not sure how that impacts the odds.

I’m amused that it was also worth individually weiging and pricing them. Couldn’t possibly sell a 14p banana for 13, eh?

Sitcom style fun punishment?

“You did something stupid, but took the responsible approach when you realized. You’re going to have to spend all Saturday afternoon with your Dad, shopping for some nice sterile, hypoallergenic piercings.”

I want to see the camera that will stop white-collar crime.

I ended up with two hubs. One sits on top of the desk mostly for transient devices, and one is taped to the bottom of the desk for semi-permanent devices. Then there’s only two cables to the machine.

Genshin Impact.

Yes it’s a crappy casino for horny teenage boys, but damn if they didn’t put a surprisingly decent game on the ground floor of said casino.

And the tendency to provide numerous m.2 slots.

Give me an x4 slot and I can slide a m.2 adaptor in, but if it goes the other way, it’s only by way of a janky hacky mess.