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Hallo!

Meine Vaillant atmoTEC classic hat einiges zu leiden, daher wollte ich die Experten hier ein wenig um Rat fragen.

1. (Bilder 1, 2) Der sich auf der Pumpe befindliche Schnellentlüfter scheint sehr verkalkt zu sein. Könnte das bedeuten, dass das Ventil defekt ist und immer wieder Wasser austritt? Ich fülle die Therme fast jeden Tag auf 1,9 bar nach, und der Druck fällt täglich ab. Kann das der Grund sein? Wenn ja - kennt jemand die genaue Modellnummer? Ist das etwas, das ich selbst austauschen kann, nachdem ich das Wasser entleert habe? Oder muss ich das Heizungswasser gar nicht entleeren? Kann ich den Entlüfter vielleicht auch einfach sauber machen und den Kalk entfernen, um mir den Kauf zu sparen?

2. (Bilder 3, 4) Unten am Düsenstock tropft ganz langsam etwas herab, was wie Paraffin oder Fett aussieht. Es fühlt sich fettig an und hinterlässt eine gelbe Spur auf dem Papier. Ist das so in Ordnung?

3. Hat die Therme ein separates Entlüftungsventil neben dem Schnellentlüfter? Meine Therme scheint aufgrund des häufigen Nachfüllens Luft im System zu haben, und ich möchte sie entlüften. Soll ich das einfach über den Schnellentlüfter machen?

Vielen Dank für die Tipps!

PS: Ich habe gar nicht vor, am Gas herumzudrehen - das sind Sachen für den Techniker. Zurzeit will ich die Therme nur entlüften. Der Strom ist zur Sicherheit am Sicherungskasten abgeschaltet.

LG

Hi all, I've been thinking of starting a business doing mods, repairs, refurbs, etc of the Steam Deck, controllers, and other consoles and electronics in general.

Is this a good business to be in? How would one start about finding customers? What are some important things to think about?

I'm really good at modding, refurbs, and electronics. I can do microsoldering, and while I'm not currently set up for reflow and reballing, I could see myself having that capability in short order, since I know how to do it.

I've been watching videos of content creators like Macho Nacho, The Retro Future, Adrian Black, RMC, etc and their refurb videos are always fun, and I'm pretty sure I can do a job that's just as good or better than them.

Shell swaps and screen upgrades are not a problem and I have original PTM7950 imported from Japan, so steam deck repastes and cooling mods are a thing I could be doing as well.

How would you guys start? What's the best way of doing this?

I've attached a couple photos of Steam Decks I modded, the first one has a DeckHD screen swap, a full shell swap, a cooling upgrade (PTM7950, better fan) and an SSD upgrade, and the other one has a cooling and ssd upgrade as well, and a CNC milled alu backplate (the fan barely spins up, even in demanding titles - and even then it's very quiet). It has the controversial fan grate, but actually the insides are cooled much better than in a stock deck because of the massive heat soak from the metal back plate right to the motherboard.

Any specks of dirt you see under the transparent case is due to the deck simply being in daily use since years.

I would appreciate any tips on how to go forward establishing a business like this.

PS I hope this doesn't go against rule 3 (self promotion) - I don't have a business, I'm just trying to figure out how to set one up, and I'm hoping to hear from people what they're looking for.

Thanks!

Hallo! Leider ist in meiner Heizung das Überdruckventil defekt. Es tropft jetzt und ich muss die Heizung jeden Tag mit Wasser nachfüllen.

Das Ventil will ich austauschen. Gibt es spezielle Vorkehrungen die ich treffen muss, ausser die Therme ausschalten? Kann ich die neue Verbindung einfach mit Teflontape dicht machen, oder brauche ich ein spezielles Mittel dafür?

PS Ich habe natürlicht nich vor, am Gas rumzudrehen.

The little sign right under the actor's face says something like "Driven Craig" or "Drivers Craig" - it's clearly been taped over by the film crew with some black gaffa tape. I was wondering if anyone had any idea what that was, I'm not from the US so I don't know the customs around trucking.

The screenshot is from The Mongoose, a recent Liam Neeson film, which should tell you everything about its artistic qualities, but it's actually not sooo bad :)

Thanks!

So not always but often enough when I get migraines it's due to tension. This usually results from bad posture, tension in my shoulders, that ends up messing with the adjustment of my neck and surrounding spine and shoulders, etc. The tension doesn't go away on its own, but I have found that using a cutting board to somewhat-firmly hit the muscles on your shoulders and around your neck helps to relax them a LOT. It's like a massage. Don't do it too hard, don't hurt yourself, but it's not hard to apply it just enough to help free up the muscles around the neck and shoulders.

I'm just using an old small cutting board, not the one in the picture, that's from the internet, but mine looks similar in shape - just not so dirty. The edges are quite rounded off. I use the edges to impact the muscle, not the flat area, I think that would hurt. This is very different from using "massage hooks". Massage hooks rely on your applied strength to exert pressure on a point where the ball touches. This uses momentum to exert pressure on a whole area, everywhere the edge touches.

I get 403 errors when trying to do yt-dlp --update-to nightly or yt-dlp -U. Is anyone else experiencing this?

This is the error I'm seeing:

> yt-dlp -U
ERROR: Unable to obtain version info (HTTP Error 403: Forbidden); Please try again later or visit  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest

EDIT:

It stops happening when I remove --impersonate=chrome-110:windows-10 from my yt-dlp config file. This could be a bug possibly? It wasn't happening before. The same bug happens if I remove it from the config file, but put it on the command line:

> yt-dlp -U  --impersonate=chrome-110:windows-10
ERROR: Unable to obtain version info (HTTP Error 403: Forbidden); Please try again later or visit  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest

EDIT 2:

turns out the committers are just idiots, that's all

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/17568

stolen from ig: richarddevine

For context, this is a comment on this video where a guy says you shouldn't be putting loudspeakers on foam pads, because when you do that, during transients the foam will give, and therefore the speaker will move, creating a distortion in the tone.

Given the gun is a Smith & Wesson Model 29, "the most powerful handgun in the world", how many bullets would you have to shoot to get a normal sized passenger train to its normal cruising speed?

This is straight from their promotional video:

https://imgur.com/bfyvW0n

How do they manage to upload this without thinking this would be questionable at best? In a _promotional video_ no less??

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-saJ0StBrA

I've recently come across this youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMGhP3s91iw

the guy says he gets these results without doing anything special.

Is this just what those welds end up looking like even for newbies, or is that guy a super experienced welder who's just trying to sell people on it?

I have to say those welds look super impressive, but I also don't know if they are actually good, since I have never done any laser alu welding myself.

Thanks!

I’ve been having a lot of fun with Radio Music lately, and wanted to see how it would do as a kind of sequencer (or maybe…voice to be sequenced).

I loaded it with individual bass notes from a CS-80 and some silent samples to create rests. The Turing Machine makes it jump around between notes, and I’m adjusting the voltage amount and which sample the Radio Music is originally set to.

Weirdly, the sample play times vary beyond what it’s clocked at, so I’m not sure what’s going on there, but I think it sounds promising so far…

Man, I got hooked on this game since I first tried it. Then for a while it was kinda middling because I didn't have the nice rings unlocked... then I really hit it crazy style. I had like dozens (maybe more than a 100) dice every time I rolled thanks to the combination of rings... my planet ring got to like 1.5k pips, that means I rolled 1.5k dice with face 1-3... that's kind of crazy. I just wish I had gotten a single vampire die, i'd have put it on the friendship ring (i ended up not using it for anything). with vampire this would be absolutely insane. I ended up having more than 200 dice so the multiplier and the extra die rolls really went hard. The only regret is the 2nd ring from the right, that doubles a single die's extra value. It's pretty much useless in this build, and also once you get a lot of dice it's just broken (UI doesn't work) ... I bet it's good for other runs, but useless here. I played on steam deck so I only used the controller UI and it glitched out.