for the duration of the training. Not being a NEET anymore is nice, as is generating some income for the first time in my life. Though the people I hang out with during the training are... not very high-class. The college crowd would not drink before 2PM, and they would do it at their homes or in some pub/club, and not in a back alley behind a shop, where bums meet to get almost black-out drunk.
A couple of things happened. I enrolled in training for laminate moulders organized by my local employment office. I should be getting a
What I'm trying to say is, I'm surrounded by rednecks whose only idea of a good time is drinking cheap wines from the moment they wake up, sometimes mixed with cigarettes and pills, whose names they don't even know, for flavor. Something tells me I don't want to end up like them.
Also, my graphics card began to malfunction, giving me graphical artifacts and whatnot. So I used my skills in techno-magic gained from studying the ancient tomes of /wiz/dom to bake it in the oven in order to fix it.
In theory it's a poor man's reflow oven.
Yup! The card looks somewhat burned (it's yellowish rather than green now) and unsavoury, and I could smell molten plastic/circuitry during the baking process, but it does work. Sadly, I haven't taken any pictures from before the operation because I got scared when I first saw the artifacts that keeping the computer on in that state would somehow do more damage to the graphics card.
Yeah, exactly. The artifacts are caused by the solder paste eroding over time due to rapid temperature changes, or something like that. My GF8800 is six years old now and I've never cleaned its insides of the dust before, so it was only a matter of time.
