Hi. New to Stoat. I have some problems! :(

Me and my friends have slowly started to move ourselves and our group chat over to Stoat in the event Discord gets banned in their country. Stoat is great for this! Open source, free customization and the like. But, at least on my end, i'm not able to upload a PFP or banner, or send images. Really, anything that isn't sending/receiving text messages or friend requests doesn't work, and it's quite upsetting, as i can't discover servers or communities either. Furthermore, the web client doesn't work on my phone (iOS 17, iPhone SE 2, gray screen), so i'm having to resort to old.stoat.chat to do so. The dedicated Apple Silicon desktop client doesn't work either.

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u/Galacticdeerboy — 4 days ago
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Help - My PS3 slim won’t fully turn on.

As the title states, my PS3 Slim (model CECH-2504B) won’t turn on fully anymore. This all happened after I inserted a copy of LBP I bought at a retro fair yesterday. It began to install the game contents onto the drive, at which moment the screen started glitching. Afraid that my RSX was failing, I panicked, and turned the PS3 off. I promptly tried turning it back on again, and ejected the disk. But the screen wouldn’t show the boot up screen after a while, though the PS3 itself kept running. I turned it off again, and changed the HDMI cable from Port 1 to Port 2 on my TV, and the same happened. The PS3 would turn on, with a green light, without it blinking, but nothing would happen off screen. I held the button for five seconds to reset the resolution, but nothing happened, so i turned it off again and tried unplugging the power cord, waiting 10 seconds, and plugging it in again. Again, nothing happened. The HDD light would light up and blink for a few seconds as if the PS3 was reading SOMETHING off the drive, but then it’d give up. I tried booting it up without a hard drive inserted, and nothing, and then I swapped my HDD for an SSD of the same size. Again, nothing, this time it didn’t even attempt to read the drive’s contents. So I switched HDMI cables. And nothing.

What can I do? Keep the shoulder guy images to a minimum im really scared 😭 I had HEN’d my PS3, and the fans were always at 40% so as to keep it under the 70°C mark. I periodically vacuumed the vents to keep dust out, as well. I like to think I took care of my PS3. Is it too late? Am I cooked? Please help.

u/Galacticdeerboy — 1 month ago

Lumia 635 (RM-975) - Broken Power Button. What now?

Hi! I’ve owned a Lumia 635 for about a year, and the power button has always been iffy, I resorted to having a tiny bit of paper between the back cover and the button itself so i could comfortably press it. However, the button itself has recently fully come lose, and im not able to turn on the phone without plugging it in. Are there any tweaks that allow me to double tap the screen to wake it, and apps that allow for me to turn off the screen, as a replacement to the power button? Iirc WP8.1 doesn’t have anything like apple’s AssistiveTouch to take care of this. Thanks!

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u/Galacticdeerboy — 1 month ago

(remade) my first Automation car! The '09 Valley V2 WRC! What can i STILL improve?

A few months ago, i made my first automation car, without an interior, with inaccurate specs for a rally car, and not really rally accurate parts. I'm very proud to announce i've re-made it! I like it WAY more now. Only thing about it is that it UNDERSTEERS. A LOT. IT REALLY LIKES TO UNDERSTEER, and i can't really solve that, for some reason. It's real fun to drive, despite that fact. Again, it's built to 2000s 2.0l WRC regulations. The Orange sticker on the rear fender is so annoying, i had to make a texture for it and it STILL likes to glitch out. Man i love this game XD. Specs sheet is a bit outdated (made it before i got the rally plates pack + european license plates pack). I. think i definitely surpassed my previous version :) I still want to improve upon it more. How can i make it so that, when exported to Beam.NG, the camera is properly positioned? How can i make the steering wheel move? *how can i fix the understeer?!* And, yk. What do you think?

u/Galacticdeerboy — 4 months ago

(Pics are from last year but I JUST discovered this sub, which I LOVE.)

Late 2009 iMac on OS X Snow Leopard (useable in 2026, btw), old Nokias, Sony camcorder, Game Boy Advance SP, PS3, iPod nano, and iPhone 4S!

u/Galacticdeerboy — 6 months ago

Hi! I've been lurking on here for a long while, but i finally decided to make a livery idea i've had for a LONG time. I used Pixelmator, and u/HorizonTitan's 2012 template for it! Meet my hypothetical fictional team's 2012 challenger, the Valley VFF12! Feel free to give me any advice, i feel that there's MUCH to improve here, but you know, i didn't have my drawing tablet with me right now, i couldn't do much more than this with a laptop, lol.

u/Galacticdeerboy — 6 months ago