{"id":9060,"date":"2022-07-20T02:49:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T06:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=9060"},"modified":"2022-07-20T20:08:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T00:08:43","slug":"by-the-way-my-index-works-again-those-damn-fpcs-benies-general-blog-blogs-to-unbore-think-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2022\/07\/20\/by-the-way-my-index-works-again-those-damn-fpcs-benies-general-blog-blogs-to-unbore-think-to\/","title":{"rendered":"By the way, my Index works again \/ Those damn FPCs… \/ Benie’s General Blog – Blogs to unbore\/think to"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this is going to be a mixed bag of news for you guys. First off, a week ago I got
\nmy Index working again! ..How? Turns out they never asked me to check the power adapter.
\nBasically it was Friday night and I was prepping my ‘dead’ Index, putting it on a box. And I remembered they wanted the power adapter. So I remove it from the UPS, and was preparing to wrap it around then.. stopped myself.
\n
\nIn my head: “Wait.. this isn’t an Index plug…”, and opened the drawer I put all my spare power adapters. One of them looked like it was designed for the Index. Untangled it from the mess of wires, grabbed the breakaway cable of the Index and did a test fit.. and it went in very snuggly, like it was specifically designed.
\nNo WAY! This… this couldn’t be the reason why my Index isn’t working. It just couldn’t. That would be too ridiculous! But I tried it anyway, and booted up SteamVR.
\n…It came BACK TO LIFE!!! Solid green lights, and getting an image on my lenses. Started laughing, couldn’t believe just how… how easy of a fix that was. I tried everything, but this. Then I started yelling OMG IT WORKS!!!! IT WORKS!!!!<\/strong>
\n…Wow. Weeks, not knowing what the hell I did to my Index, and it was all because it wasn’t the right power adapter. Quickly told Steam Support I got it, and didn’t need the replacement anymore (and then closed the ticket). Such a silly person I am.
\n–
\nNow in my defense, back then I was just trying to get my computer operational again. I wasn’t sure what I was plugging in at the time, and didn’t even think I would need the adapter for the Index as well.<\/p>\n

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\nMoving on, gotta talk about these god damn FPCs, or Front Panel Connectors for short. I have lost count how many damn times I couldn’t turn my computer off by the button on the top (as I usually do) by the time I go to bed. Having to take the side panel off, grab a flashlight, put my hand on something metal for 5 minutes to ground myself, and then very carefully try to push the damn connectors back in their pins.<\/p>\n

Getting really sick of having to do this. I have never had to do it so frequently when the room was back the way I originally had it. Like there’s just so much damn tension on those wires that even typing on my keyboard like I’m doing now, causes them to slowly slide out of their pins. And I won’t know if I have to do it again until I try to turn it off by the
\nbutton… and it won’t turn off.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd now finally, the 3rd thing. Even though I got my Index working again I haven’t been on.. as honestly there’s really nothing to do without Jero and\/or Kovo being on. Guess I’m feeling that burnout again that nothing I have really interests me.
\nThat doesn’t mean I haven’t been doing anything. I’ve completed the campaign
\nof PowerWash Simulator<\/em> as the game came out of Early Access. And I must say the ending was very interesting, but also predictable. And the achievements… the achievements are more like lengthy challenges that honestly aren’t worth achieving as of how ridiculous they are. For example, an achievement that tasks you to get 95% cleaned… without completing anything. To me, this is nearly impossible.
\n–
\nI also was playing Phasmophobia<\/em> solo, and last night I played with Kovo (who got on desktop). And from what he saw VS what I saw looked quite.. buggy. He was constantly being ‘hunted’ while the ghost didn’t even give me<\/span> a single ghost event (or a hunt). It felt like a classic ‘what<\/a>‘<\/strong> moment with the Earthbound music.
\n—
\nOutside of that, I’ve been watching various Youtube videos. But out of all of them, there’s one guy who.. I gotta say, honestly makes me wish I can fucking move to Amsterdam and leave the US behind. His channel, called ‘Not Just Bikes<\/a>‘, is a guy from Canada who has gotten married yet wants a better life for their kids to grow up. And after going over all the options, they left Canada and moved to the Netherlands. And his experiences, he shares with them.
\nAnd he, has SOLD me time and time again!! Don’t have a car? Don’t wanna learn how to drive and wish there was a better way to feel independent!? No problem! In
\nthe Netherlands, you can bike or walk to work, get groceries, or whatever you need!
\nLike.. oh my god. I was born in the wrong country. He said their kids bike to school, and are happy they have some level of independence… instead of America and Canada where you have to have a car for anything.
\nHe just, every time he nails it just how bad our infrastructure is here! How badly we rely on cars instead of trains or bikes. ..Can you imagine just how much of a better, happier and healthier life I would’ve had if I was raised there? Not having to use a school bus. Just use my bike. Not have to deal with the damn Stroad<\/a> that is my city’s main route, and nearly getting ran over trying to walk to Waffle House by dumbasses turning right who don’t see (or don’t give a fuck about) me standing there waiting at the crosswalk?!
\nI fucking hate it here. Wish I could move. ..It just sounds so awesome. So calm and peaceful instead of this concrete jungle we live in that’s America.<\/p>\n

But I shouldn’t really bitch about living here. It’s actually quite peaceful (outside of the sirens of emergency vehicles) compared to actually living in a big city (or even in a poor country). However I’m reading Americans are actually moving to Europe due to ‘The American Dream’ being too expensive. Good on them. I’m sure their lives will be so much better there. ..Just don’t go to the UK right now over how hot it is and the ridiculous premium pricing of a AC unit (according to Jero).
\nAll the video series has really done is pushing me to learn how to not fall off my bike again. With the price of everything going sky-high, and also the real chance of Doordash and Grubhub going belly up… using my bike to ‘be my own delivery driver’ might be my only option (including getting groceries).
\nI mean.. I have had multiple dreams of this (in the past), as if it’s a sign of my future. But that can happen really well if Southern Indiana would redo their infrastructure to support
\ncyclists. Except the cities around us… are covered in Stroads. Clarksville alone
\nuses three<\/strong> Stroads due to shops and malls. It’s very dangerous if you don’t have a car.<\/p>\n

Though I’m very fortunate the Stroad that makes up our city’s main route, allows bicycles. Not all sidewalks allow this. But looking at Google Earth Pro, the sidewalk doesn’t go all the way to our ‘local’ Kroger. Planning out the route from my house, I would have to go through a few parking lots (or a large suburban neighborhood).
\nBut hopefully in the future they will extend the sidewalks, as the images on Google are quite old (maybe they have already).
\nThey also should make this extremely busy intersection, bike and walking friendly. Notice there’s no sidewalk on the bottom of this Stroad intersection.
\n
\nGod damn car dependent city…
\nWhat’s bad is there’s not enough push to really do anything in congress. The government and oil companies will always be in it for the money.
\nI’m just glad Louisville HAS taken steps to try to make their city friendlier to cyclists and walkers. Now if only Southern Indiana would follow suit.. instead of do Stroads like the picture above.
\n—
\nFinally, there’s this video<\/a> talking about what if America had a nationwide high speed transit system. While this has been a huge want for me… I don’t see it happening in my lifetime. America loves cars way too much to even start the groundwork on this.
\nAnd that’s extremely depressing. Never did we ever in the 1940’s think about “you know not everyone has\/wants a car, we should make cities accessible for bikes and walkers.. so they won’t have to commute 5+ miles to the grocery store.” \ud83d\ude14
\nI also blame our mayor for only caring about Amazon and not about bikers and pedestrians. Like I said before, I’m glad 3+ years ago they redid the highway to have sidewalks. But more could be done, like having a designated bike path (to make it safe to commute when you don’t have a car).
\nBut I guess I shouldn’t really bitch. It could always be worse.<\/p>\n

.
\nAnyway, that’s me done ranting and talking about other stuff. Sorry I haven’t really been blogging that much. Really losing interest in it, but I’ll still occasionally blog when I feel like doing so. I’m still OK, just bored out of my mind honestly.<\/p>\n

You folks take care of yourselves. And if you have a city in America and Canada that actually is starting to care about the future (to lessen our carbon footprint on this
\nplanet by not fully depending on cars), I’d love to hear from you.
\nAlso please subscribe to Not Just Bikes (and all other Youtubers trying to raise awareness to this discussion) if you found what I was talking about entertaining and inspiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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