Thanks so much, agree that any repair attempt would be one and done

I’m pretty I bought it only a year ago, but I’m not 100% sure where and can’t find the receipt

Thanks. It seems wasteful to throw it away but I’m working on my loss aversion 😉 and technically the blanket is still a blanket, just less warm

Thanks, you’re my own personal Big Clive

I’ll take care, I definitely don’t want to burn the house down

They do!

https://www.digikey.com.au/

https://au.mouser.com/

Thanks

Thanks!

Awesome thanks for that. I think it’s worth doing once, it it breaks again I’ll take the hint, and I’ll also make sure I plug it in outside on an extension

Thanks, as a learning exercise I am willing to have one good go before I turn the electronics into waste, but if they blow again that may be the end of it

I’ve been given an opportunity to ask ‘genuineparts’ where I should buy parts 😉 (I’m in Australia)

Thanks, if that is the pad below the resistor I assume that component is also damaged and would likely replace it as well. I’ll do some searching and reading on the capacitor, is a U1 chip something generic or will it have markings to indicate specs?

Thanks. Can you help identify what the components are? It would be interesting to at least have an idea what the failure mode was. It appears burnt but there was no smoke and no apparent smell until I opened the case days later

We didn’t have a video player, but our friends had a Looney Tunes VHS that included rabbit season / duck season, the Bugs Bunny opera, left turn at Albuquerque, and Duck Dodgers

We must have watched it over 100 times

The headline is not only bait but also wrong

At best, they could claim that AI-generated images are fueled by societal associations of negative attributes with obesity

And surely the use of the word phobia in an academic context should be more rigorous

The reason I would call reddit social media is that I don’t agree with any of those rules

The closest I would agree with is 2, and not based on lack of anonymity but instead on persistence of identity, and that being core to the experience

I was part of subreddits where users knew each other as distinct personalities, and could converse across different threads across time, and occasionally IRL from various meetups

When a website doesn’t have a lively and persistent ‘local’ community (maybe geographic, maybe subject etc) it can’t really be social

I look forward to the crossover moth/bean/saddam memes

For some reason I don’t count youtube as social media - If I went to reddit and read comments without voting that would count, but youtube is just a video delivery platform (and I don’t read the comments). Not sure if that’s a real distinction I can make

Hackernews is a link-based message board, Ars is a article-based website

Both used to be just tech, but have started being a bit more general or tech-adjacent

Ars has specialist professional journalists, Hackernews links heavily favour tech industry professionals and deep dives

Another moth post?

Lemmy + Hackernews + Arstechnica

What more is there to know?

As a technology article this is interesting

Not sure why they feel qualified to make statements like this:

“When ineffective policy results in a large chunk of the populace generationally living in yurts on the outskirts of urban areas, it’s clear that there is failure.”