About six months ago I was having problems with my portable air conditioner. It was so hot in my room that my AC which should have been strong enough to manage my small room was still overpowered by the fact that it was hot, heat just collects in my room due to many factors, third floor, the central vent is blocked or something because air cools the rest of the house but not my room, and I do have myself and my electronics in my room. There was so much heat taking temperatures into the nineties in my room that I had to run my AC more and it couldn't fight the heat. This used to happen in my last apartment when the central ac froze over for three days at a time to thaw but it only happened occasionally. In this apartment, I applied many solutions to resolve this issue, blocking all the sunlight, applying tons of foil over my window and on the back of my curtain, putting a thermal sleeve over my AC exhaust hose to my window, the only thing that really ever moved the needle down was when I turned off one of my Proxmox VM's running Windows OS Active Directory.
I had three VM's, the physical machine could only run two VM's at a time and so I always needed Windows Server and at least one of the two Windows 11 VM's, so I turned both Windows OS VM's off, and the temperature went down a bit, so I turned off Windows Server too, figuring I could just turn them on remotely through Proxmox if I really ever needed to work on them. I didn't work on them for a while so I turned the Proxmox machine off too. This seemed to lower the temperature into the 80s, but it stayed in the 80s even with my AC running for hours at a time which would cause the AC to leak.
And I had been salivating over the idea of a fun that I could just put over the AC vent that would somehow pull air into my room and it would have to be strong enough and I almost started wondering if there was a way. Until I discovered that floor booster fans were a thing and bought one, my AC was leaking water which is bad because I can't afford to have it damage the floor. To drain the AC only somewhat, I had to turn it on one side while suspending it in the air over a tub so I had to move it out of the corner to have enough space to do this.
The temperature outside was falling slightly from Autumn and so I thought it was perfectly fine and turned my AC on again less often. That wasn't the case. Every afternoon until about 5AM every morning, my room turned into a furnace, and instead of it happening because it was hot outside, it was still hot because my roommates turned on the heater every night. And one day I discovered the AC was leaking so I had to move everything again and empty it.
I finally had an idea to buy a shower curtain and fold it up like a box and buy bed risers to place inside it and put my ac wheels into each riser. But before I got around to forming the shower curtain box that would fit in the corner perfectly behind my TV out of sight and was tall enough to be able to hold an amount of water with the AC on top of it, I had the curtain laid out in a larger area with the sides folded up. The AC dropped tons of water every single day but it could just collect in the shower curtain now until I solved the problem of removing the water. And sometime before I formed the shower box, I had everything moved around in my room to make it easier to reach to water to scoop out manually, and a good deal of water had collected into the shower curtain but it was over a large area so it wasn't deep.
And one day the legs gave out again on my TV tray. This happens about every six months, the legs get hit just the right way and the table collapses. I use this TV tray as a desk since there just isn't enough room for a real desk. I use my laptop on it which I use to control two computers with Mouse without Borders. So the legs gave out and everything went collapsing on the floor. My beloved GPD Pocket 3 laptop somehow stayed on the TV tray that had fallen down and skewed down and the table top bumped a lot on the way down knocking everything off and scattering everything everywhere on the floor.
I was relieved my laptop was fine. But to my dismay, the Flipper Zero was half submerged in the water collecting in the shower curtain. It was off. But I didn't think that would be enough. I didn't try to turn it on, but I was going to put it in rice and didn't have any and thought, I'll just take it apart immediately hand dry with a cloth or something so no fibers would be left on it after drying. I took it almost completely apart without instructions, and it was in five large pieces plus a tiny orange thing for the SD card slot and I feared I would never figure out how to put it together and would it be worth it? Because, it may not turn on again. I let it sit for a very long time to dry and was a little nervous about dealing with it but then I needed my iFixit kit recently and thought, I think I will try to put the Flipper back together.
I looked at it for fifteen or twenty minutes without any instructions and started to see how the larger inner pieces fit together, and took another ten minutes to figure how the two larger ribbon cables connected back, one of them being snaked through a tiny slit that was easy to miss and too short if you snaked it through the larger square opening in the frame that is on the left-side on the inside of the device. I couldn't figure out where all the screws went or where the little orange thing went and thought instead of constantly rewinding and examining video taken by someone on YouTube with all the parts I need to see clearly all motion blurred or conveniently skipped by the host, I would try iFixit's website, having heard they have guides to repair devices. I searched Flipper Zero and found a guide to take it apart so I scrolled all the way down the end and scrolled back up through the instructions, doing them in reverse to put it back in order. And when it was finally put together, I held it whole in my hand and looked at it, and thought to remember how to turn it on and then held the back button and it came to life. Then it told me it was very unhappy from lack of use. Huhghghgh. What a relief that it can even tell me it's in a bad mood. I didn't think to take pictures while I was doing this and only realized afterwards that it was blog worthy after I put it back together.
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