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14d ago
inTook me 4 hours to figure out my phone charger was the problem, not the outlet, the cable, or the phone
Been there. I have a drawer full of mystery bricks from hotels, old Kindles, a airport kiosk from 2017, and I treat them all like they're interchangeable. My Kindle one is like 9 watts so my phone takes forever and I just sit there thinking the battery is dying. The worst is when you mix a fast cable with a slow brick and get trickle charging, feels like the phone is mocking you. Glad you didn't drop cash on a new phone at that mall.
26d ago
inThat one Tuesday in July where nothing went right
Bent level? At least it wasn't the brain, right?
29d ago
inTook me 3 weeks to fix a Lite-Brite that just needed one thing
Honestly could've just licked it and saved 3 weeks
1mo ago
inWarning: our GPS rovers kept dropping fix on a 40 acre site in Fresno and I need a better base setup
Is losing fix near one building really worth ripping out a whole working setup over? That metal shed is just multipath, any base or rover near it is gonna bounce signals off that thing, so blaming the radio part does not add up. The fact that the other crew's 900 MHz base worked a hundred feet away tells you your radio is probably fine and something else got moved or set wrong. Going NTRIP for $1,800 just trades one problem for another, because now you are betting on cell bars out in the middle of a field, and when that tower gets weak you lose fix across the whole site, not just by the shed. Honestly staking hubs is a pain but it never drops a fix when the sky goes gray or a tower hiccups. Fix the multipath first, move your base, check your antenna, and see if the problem even follows before you spend money on a new system.