sounds like fun without coffee, not addicted to the stuff to care if i had any, but warm drink i suppose not bad, stiff drink works just as well i suppose too LOL
My first LEGO took 8 hours to complete. It was a boat.
OMG I totally agree! Every Christmas or Birthday with my extended family was always about the younger kids bringing me their new LEGO (or bike/radio-controlled car/Meccano/etc) and asking me to assemble it while they watched impatiently.
Thank your lucky stars you're not my neighbor, or I'd be on your doorstep right now w The Gaurdian BattleOMG I totally agree! Every Christmas or Birthday with my extended family was always about the younger kids bringing me their new LEGO (or bike/radio-controlled car/Meccano/etc) and asking me to assemble it while they watched impatiently.
I guess the remaining adults were very happy to say that since I worked construction, that somehow qualified me to assemble plastic toys - "Go see your Uncle over there!"
And FWIW folk always seemed to buy the most complicated LEGO or Meccano kits that they could find
Does look complicated! I'd be tempted to just use up all the pieces and build some random spiky shapes and just argue that's how it's meant to be, the image is just a 'serving suggestion' like the disclaimer on food packagingThank your lucky stars you're not my neighbor, or I'd be on your doorstep right now w The Gaurdian Battle
yeahhhh someone gets one yearly down here in florida. usually from bodies of water or some moron tourist drinking/playing in the reclaimed water that's used to water plants/grass. never heard of this one. gonna stop using my neti pot lol here on out. but not surprised. florida's tap water is gross.Today I learned, that America sometimes has dodgy things in the public water supply...
Florida resident dies from brain-eating amoeba
"A Florida resident has died after becoming infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba, officials say.
Health experts in Charlotte County, in southwest Florida, say the victim was probably infected after rinsing their nasal sinuses with tap water.
Naegleria fowleri infects the brain through the nose. Officials say that drinking it is not dangerous.
Infections are almost always fatal, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Officials have not identified the victim. On 23 February, the Florida Department of Heath said that a patient had been infected "possibly as a result of sinus rinse practices" utilising tap water."
"People who are infected contract a disease called primary amebic meningoencephalitis.
Symptoms include headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, disorientation, a stiff neck, a loss of balance, seizures and/or hallucinations.
According to the CDC, around three Americans get infected each year, often with deadly consequences.
Between 1962 and 2021, only four of the 154 people infected in the US survived."
Company I used to work for had a team that did new hospital construction, and I was the Building Systems Engineer (looking after electrical, comms, fire, water, HVAC, medical gas systems etc) and the Fire guys were always the talkative ones.
Went fishing one day and get to the ramp to put in and see EMT down there. It's a river with rising water at any given moment and I hear the EMTs joking about the drowning victim, the cop called her a floater. It's how they cope.
I get it, you can't keep all that suppressed. I got called out once in the middle of the night to inspect a bridge structure after a semi-trailer had gone through the parapet railing.
LMAO That's not light-hearted. It's a terrible movie.
Well Sesame Street - and particularly B&E - always made me laugh!
Usually, the infection comes from lakes. This is the first i've heard of it from tap water. We do have regular water boil notices too, so i'm aware. The area where the guy got his brain friend was where a hurricane mostly hit this past september, so it could have been in relation. They usually do water boils after big storms too. So who knows. There was probably a runoff/leak.
You are spot-on with most Florida municipal water supplies being nasty. We also have a similar set up.... A well, reverse osmosis, water softener and UV. The water is actually really good but the municipal water supply in our city is pretty nasty. BUT, in my travels, I have encountered some states with water so bad it made FL's water seem like the nectar of the gods LOL
Our entire infrastructure here, water supplies, electrical grid, roads, etc are an embarrassment to be honestThis is another thing that amazes, stuns and in a way appals me about the USA.
Safe drinking water provided by the relevant municipalities when you turn on a tap (faucet) is a given here in Australia.
As long as the drives not dead and hasnt been completely overwritten you might be able to recover some of the data.
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As long as the drives not dead and hasnt been completely overwritten you might be able to recover some of the data.
I have had good results recovering data with recuva.
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It might still get picked up by recuva, since one of the systems still finds it, i would assume there is something that was currupted that stops windows and mac mounting it. If you go into device manager in windows you should be able to see if it's getting picked up but not mounted or if nothing is being detected on the usb port. (since it's an external it could also be the usb board in the enclosure thats failing, so if all else fails you can always try pulling the drive out of it and plugging it into the system (assuming its a desktop) with a sata cable, if it's a laptop then you would need to grab a spare enclosure to do the same check (they are generally pretty cheap, you just need to know if the drive is 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch). Given that one system can still pick it up though I would think the usb controller is fine, but still worth checking if you cant get it working imo.
if it shows in device manager you might be able to manually mount it and assign it a drive letter.
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I've occasionally used one of those sinus flush/rinse pots, and wondered if there really was a need to pre-boil the water as they recommend. If I ever use it again, I won't question that now
