There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Reygle , (edited )
@Reygle@lemmy.world avatar

NVME screw: phases outside of our dimension before even reaching the floor

Also I really want to know why this can’t be tapped for a standard case screw or even a chassis thumbscrew. Been pissing me off since msata and nvme even became a thing. Such great storage and it can’t be mounted with a standard @!#%^ing screw that everything else uses WHY?

uis ,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

It’s M2. Regular computer screw is M3. M3 is 1mm bigger than M2.

Reygle ,
@Reygle@lemmy.world avatar

Somebody somewhere should change this- sure leave the pathetic screw for laptops but in desktops there’s no reason for it.

LaSaucisseMasquee ,

Could we have fractions of inches instead please ?

Pyr_Pressure ,

Best I can do is decimals of inches

uis ,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

M2 for M.2

Blackmist ,

And why are there multiple sizes of NVME screw?

uis ,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

It seems most of screws have same size, but different thread pitch.

hungryphrog ,

Just use a magnet.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I keep them all in a little Tupperware so they don’t roll all over the place. And then I am real careful not to knock the Tupperware off the table.

GladiusB ,
@GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

I did this until I started fixing my kid’s Switch too. So I bought a silicone mat. Legit one of the best 10 dollars from Amazon I have spent for fixing electronics.

tias ,

How does a silicone mat help?

GladiusB ,
@GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

It’s got cut outs that hold smaller screws and parts. Plus it’s sticky against the table so it doesn’t roll away.

VelvetStorm ,

This is why I bought a magnetic bowl. Every time I have to use screws I set them in it no matter how big they are.

Vampiric_Luma ,
@Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca avatar

… I don’t know why I never thought to put my screws into my magnetic bowl. I’ve been throwing change into it like an M.

Thank you, I needed this.

johannesvanderwhales ,

First thing I do whenever working on an electronics project is set down a bowl. Screw comes out, goes into bowl. Just don’t knock it over.

Misconduct ,

The you find it in a spot you’ve looked over thoroughly multiple multiple times 😠

butt_mountain_69420 ,

Every.single.time.

variants ,

I’ve dropped a screw and spent a good amount of time looking for it only to find it in my pocket later, mostly because I work in a smock that has big front pockets so now it’s my first check when I drop a screw

Unforeseen ,

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F_nm0ZwIuHvO0%2FTBJxLLsCPxI%2FAAAAAAAADOw%2FVidSn-M_vD8%2Fs1600%2Fcalvin_hobbes_dont_knock_smock_1.jpg

variants ,

Oh wow now I need a patch that says don’t knock my smock haha

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I have OCD, whenever I take apart tiny screws from something, I watch where they are like a hawk.

Mr_Dr_Oink ,

I lost a wasp to my floor once… a wasp flew into my office room (im very scared of them, so i legged it). i got some wasp spray and waited at the doornway until i saw it again.

I (in a terrified flailing of an attempt) manage to get right up tinit and spray it for a few seconds and backed away to the door again.

I watched it crawl across my desk and go behind a little stack of books and didn’t see it come back out.

I cautiously and tentatively crept in to look for it and looked behind the books, and it wasn’t there. I looked behind the desk, which is fixed in place and rests on a set of drawa but has a gap at rhe back between it and the wall. I can’t see it down there. I got under the desk and checked everywhere. i couldn’t get the angle with my head, so i stuck my phone back there and took pictures of the space behind the drawers. It wasn’t there. I even found one of these hard drive screws.

I have never found it, and im almost willing to accept. i made it up because i go mental with boredom when im working from home.

Rootiest ,
@Rootiest@lemmy.world avatar

You should not use that stuff indoors

Emerald ,

Or not at all. If you are outside, the wasp should fly away on their own. If you engage the wasp you could easily end up stung. If a wasp has a nest or something, then you are probably beyond just spraying it at that point, it’s a much bigger problem.

Rootiest ,
@Rootiest@lemmy.world avatar

Great point

justabigemptyhole ,
@justabigemptyhole@lemmy.world avatar

In a final act of defiance, the wasp robbed you of what you wanted most: the certain knowledge of its demise and the peace that comes with it When I am dying, I too will crawl away to my presumable death, never to be seen again. My enemies will spend the rest of their pitiful lives will be spent glancing over their shoulders and checking corners. Waiting for what will never come. They will never know a moment of true peace. The wasp can teach us a great deal about hate. Hate that is truly real and everlasting. All hail the wasp.

Mr_Dr_Oink ,

All hail the wasp!

metallic_z3r0 ,

This is the reason I’ve taken to carrying a small magnet with me (combined with a flashlight/blacklight/laser pointer), so I can easily pick up those little bits that get lost (my wife cross stitches too, and sometimes her needles fall into the carpet, so it’s nice to find those before our feet do).

TalesFromTheKitchen ,
@TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.ml avatar

Exactly. Just had to buy a hundred pack of M3 screws for drives.

dacookingsenpai ,
@dacookingsenpai@lemme.discus.sh avatar

Someone explain pls i feel (or am) stoopid

onion ,

they lost a screw

shneancy ,

sometimes when things fall to the floor they drop through the cracks in reality never to be found again. Common things that tend to slip into the 4th dimention include:

  • all types of screws
  • m&ms
  • pills
  • coins
  • guitar picks
  • small trinkets
  • important items
dacookingsenpai ,
@dacookingsenpai@lemme.discus.sh avatar

gg now i get it

i guess i am so used to it that i tought it was the norm

themelm ,

Strong flashlight. Even in a well light room, getting down there and moving a flashlight around will reveal little screws your eye wouldn’t have ever noticed without the changing contrast and reflections.

pixelscience ,
@pixelscience@sh.itjust.works avatar

The other one is somehow 15 feet away under the most difficult thing in the room to access.

CalicoJack ,

You think you saw it there, but once you move the thing you learn it’s actually a thumbtack. The screw fell into a vent instead, and will occasionally rattle around to taunt you.

idunnololz ,
@idunnololz@lemmy.world avatar

I dropped a screw once and found it in another room. Both the room I was in and the room it ended up in had its doors closed.

I mean there is a big enough gap for the screw to roll under so to the screw there is no door but it was still unexpected.

idunnololz ,
@idunnololz@lemmy.world avatar

Ok I have to confess. I remembered more about the incident and it wasn’t a screw. I was putting together a gunpla (plastic Gundam model) and it was one of the pieces.

itsgroundhogdayagain ,

I depend more and more on gravity to keep my PC parts in place.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • [email protected]
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •