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Hi all.
I am apologising to anyone I offended or upset in the chatroom(s).
As you know I have a tendency to go off at the deep end with politics, etc. This is a common problem with people with Aspergers, but in my case I also have other issues that are too complex to list here.
Part of the problem is that I also tend to overcomplicate things, to the extent that a relatively simple issue (such as the battery virus problem) is an excuse for me to go OMGWTF and assume that the end of the world will result.
Obviously people far smarter than me have made damn sure that this cannot happen, no matter how much it may resemble another similar issue such as the battery recalls due to cell contamination which IS a cause for minor concern.
If I have driven anyone away from the chatroom or elsewhere with my rantings, that was never my intention.
I also tend to go completely bats**t crazy when things don't work and blame cheap parts made elsewhere for my own inefficiencies. This may be that my approach is "kludge it using second hand parts" even though buying the right part would have saved weeks of wasted time.
Maybe this is because I am a cheapskate. Had I considered that the parts could merely be bought for £5 and GUARANTEED to work, those "cheap" used components with unknown history would rapidly head for the bin. Inflicting them on someone else is just plain unkind, unless they happen to need a specific part and don't care that it is 20 years old and covered in rust and sawdust etc.
I also tend to go on about personal problems which do not belong on the chatroom. This has been mentioned to me but it has taken me a while to realise this. Again I apologise to anyone I offended or upset.
Thanks to Bjorn, DaveB and others for helping me to realise that there are other more important things than whinging just for the sake of it. Building projects is far more important and sometimes you have to spend some money to make it work although you CAN be strategic and select only one major project to concentrate on at a time to reduce expenses.
Recycling dead/broken electronics is all very well as a means to itself, but when that "cheap" equipment blows its top and takes the expensive drive with it then it doesen't seem such good value any more.
Having had this happen more than once, I can see that scrapping a potentially repairable PC because it is temperamental is a far wiser choice than wasting days or weeks limping it along hoping it will fix itself. It won't.
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