There’s an episode of Northern Exposure where a young woman says to Ed “give me your words” in a very sexual way. It’s outrageously funny, and simultaneously insightful.

If you’ve never watched it, the writers are all about studying people, warts and all. Very thought-provoking.

Offline?

Sorry to say, but you’re gonna need to be online to send anything.

DIY what, exactly?

To get your…battery replaced, and they want to charge you for a new engine.

Lol, yea, that’s what I was thinking, 80’s and 90’s.

If it were me, I’d fix it the lazy man’s way - clean out the slot and the glass very well. I’d then dry it out with rubbing alcohol and paper towels.

Then I’d squirt some Goop adhesive in there, and push it back in place (also consider clear silicone). I like Goop because it sticks to almost everything, cures quickly, holds incredibly well, yet is easy to cleanup (or remove when you need to).

You want enough adhesive in there so just a little oozes out, to ensure it’s made good contact.

You buy as much space as you’ll need in the next few years and make a plan for proper duplication/backup, such as 3-2-1 Backups.

Right? It’s a frigging battery.

Surely we can get a group of battery techs and mechanical engineers together to come up with a solution.

Hell, I’ve been bastardizing the “wrong” batteries into devices since the mid-70’s, while today I’m usually replacing crappy built-in batteries with 18650’s. And I’m no EE, just have a little skill and vision.

Surely the battery spec on this is pretty clear, and it’s an off-the-shelf tech (not some odd chemistry devised by the company). Not that it really matters - a replacement merely needs to fit in the space, and match voltage and current requirements.

Love that German seems to have a word for everything. Neat.

They used to have a small truck, or is my memory that bad?

That’s a river?

Your family isn’t dumber than average.

Uu tech folks tend to forget/overlook that most people are clueless as to how mobile devices work. I have IT friends who know practically nothing about the Android file system, or how apps store (but don’t sync) data, for example. And these are people designing/implementing/supporting complex systems.

Most people can’t be bothered if there’s more than one or two steps. I can’t walk my “70 year old uncle” through configuring an app on his phone, over the phone. The stuff he says he sees make no sense at all. I’m like “no, that’s not what you should see, what did you click on”?.

Oh, access to everything will happen.

The owners will just charge us for every viewing of every episode.

Yep.

I rip them, then store the discs in a cool, dark, dry place.

Everything I rip is backed up. It’s pretty clear what’s happening.

And in 20 years they’ll start “selling” everything by the episode online.

Laser is your long term answer. Brother seems to be the brand today.

Lol, so true!

Also, don’t buy inkjet.

My first inkjet was an HP bubblejet, about 1994. My last was some garbage about 2000. Since then I’ve refused to own one.

My 1997 laserjet (that I bought used in 2008) just died. I bougt a color laser on Craigslist for $50. And my current BW laser is a 2014 HP, that just got it’s second cartridge.

You can’t give me an inkjet.

“mistake”

I call BS. The reviews I’ve gone through for trivial stuff would’ve exposed this.

This was intentional.

Christ, the hell I would’ve gotten, in the 90’s, if I’d done something like this.

Hahahaha, right, right.

Because dem states don’t try to implement every social experiment they can think of, regardless of what other states do.