It’s not always the cable

A week ago (or so) I debugged the kitchen clock which is doing this:

I tried swapping out everything else except the screen itself, but no dice. And then a commenter confirmed that these screens are indeed flaky (or at least some production runs are), so I got a new one.

Which arrived a couple days ago:

Unboxing:

Lots of little doodads…

And the screen.

Yes! It’s the same as the one I had — Waveshare have many similar ones, so I wasn’t 100% sure I was buying the right model.

The inside view of the old one.

OK, the old screen is just fastened with double sided tape, so using a prying kit should do the trick…

No! Man, this tape sticks hard. Gotta use a screwdriver to bend it off.

Done! Look at my expert jigsawing skills…

I should probably check the new screen before I mount it… seems to work? And no flickering:

Yay.

So the lesson is: It’s not always the cable.

Capitalism Failure

I wonder how this happened — it’s a cheque from CD Universe from 2003 that I found while rooting through some old boxes. It’s TWENTY TWO AND 25/100 DOLLARS and I didn’t cash it, probably because the fee for cashing it would have been more than that…

I don’t really have a recollection why CD Universe would send me a cheque in the first place, though. Probably some referrer thing? Did the eyesore web site use to have referrer links to shop albums, perhaps? That’s the only thing I can imagine… Let’s see…

Heh, yup — still in the HTML (but commented out now).

Oh, well.