u/Ambitious-Airline467

I honestly don’t know how to fix this one, but it’s only gotten worse with age. My mom genuinely doesn’t listen to me at least 50-60% of the time. She’ll hear 2 words out of 30. The worst is the random anger and irritability over the dumbest stuff.. any moment can lead to an explosion.

And if she does decide to listen, she’ll act like I’m deeply inconveniencing her even though all she’s doing is watching Fox News at max volume. I can’t disagree with her or she is likely to shut down completely depending on the topic.

if you ever met people like this, they make their own life more stressful than it needs to be.

I get down sometimes if I think about it too much, but I mean what can I do?

Need help repairing my original Xbox. I’m new to trying to repair consoles. Would appreciate if anyone can help me.

This Xbox is my first Xbox and probably hasn’t been powered on in over a decade. It’s a **1.6 model** and from what I’ve seen online it’s still recommended to replace the clock capacitor. I also plan to swap out the thermal paste under the cpu and gpu.

The problem is I have no tools (don’t know what I should buy) and I have no experience soldering.

**Main issue: There’s corrosion in the power port** where the two prongs are at. It’s hard to reach and tough to get off, I’ve tried isopropyl alcohol and only slightly cleaned it.

I don’t want to try to power it on until I can get that cleaned, what tools can make this easier? I can’t seem to reach it or apply enough pressure to remove the corrosion in that area.