Mattytrogs "blog"

22 Feb 2019

So... Is this like a diary?

Lets see...

Got a bad knee, bad back, walk with a stick this week.

Worked on some switches this week.

Two BQ24193 repairs
3 M92T36 replacements
3 LCD connector replacements
2 emmc rebuilds
4 SAMD21 fitted for homebrew
1 software "release"

Got 2 switches outstanding... Tricky little buggers.
Broken my Hakko element, so I thought "I have a box full. I`ll replace it".

But OH no... Dropped the box. And I`m still picking up bits of ceramic now.

So ordered some ching chong ones to see me through.

Feel like I`m getting somewhere now de-rusting my C skills. I actually used to be rather good back in the day. But now I`m shit at it. Still, old head injuries tend to do that. I look back over my old old old source code from the 90s and I wonder... "How the f**k did I do that?"

A little piece of advice... If you can code, don`t ever stop. Or you will end up useless.

What else happened this week... Oh yeah...

There are now 7 people living in this house. We have acquired 4 kids (not going into the reasons on here). It feels like we have opened the UK`s newest borstal.

My views on Brexit?
Leave without a deal. The writing is on the wall.

That Begum girl/woman terrorist? My views?
Hang her. The left think we should be "more tolerant". It`s because of the left wing traitors the world is in the politically correct mess that it is. They all need euthanising on the left and hopefully evolution will allow people with a braincell to fill the void you have graciously created.

That is all.

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I miss my tricky little bugger or atleasy my son does.. XD I've setup Cemu with MK8 in the meantime so he'll be quiet for a while atleast. And about your programming problem: i'm a fulltime webdeveloper and it's insane how quick it evolves even when you're in the middle of it. 6 years ago i was still programming in OOP and mvc and everything has changed to component-oriented and building api's. If i don't do my homework after work i'll be rusty in no time.
 
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I know. It is rock-solid stable, charging, everything now working. But HDMI out is still very flakey. Replaced every passive around PI3USB. Replaced PI3USB. Even tried different M92T36 and passives.

It`s a "What am I doing wrong!" moment.

I think the next thing is stripping a dock, plugging board in and testing for signal losses on oscilloscope.

It is something REALLY small I am overlooking. Doing it semi-blind by not having a dock stripped. Thats whats coming next.
 
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If i have to compare this to a typical programming bug it'll probably end up being the equivalent of missing a semicolon somewhere.
 
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I am 2 years older than you according to your age on here (unsure if you're using your real age though), I too have bad knees and an incredibly bad back. I take OxyCodone for my back (well mostly for my back and partly for a pick me up lol).

I feel we share a lot in common being of the same age, the only real difference was that I was an Atari ST scener (member of some pretty large crews) as opposed to you in the Amiga scene. I was heavily involved in the PHreaking scene of the early 90's with pbx hacking (system 74, 75, 84, 85), blueboxing and of course at&t / MCI cards - those were the best of days !!

I share some of your thoughts on Brexit too, I voted out, not because I'm racist but because I am a patriot and liked how things were growing up and would like it back that way.

I certainly don't envy the child situation at your home, 1 is 1 too many for me right now haha

Look forward to seeing more entries over time on your blog

I'd like to take this opportunity to again thank you for everything you do for the Switch ModChip scene, without you it would be way more complex and no fun whatsoever, you're a pleasure to deal with and seem like a lovely guy... I wish you a fantastic 2020 Sir.
 

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