The General PPC-Off-Topic Tittle-Tattle Chit-Chat Chat ... ("Hyde-Park Speakers' Corner")

[DearthnVader]

Funny enough, I have an early 50s Frigidaire in my office at work with the exact same problem.

I don't have a clear-cut answer. Basically I'll bring a softdrink or something in to put in it that I intend to drink that day, but leaving one overnight is a sure way to a mess.

We have someone at work who is pretty sharp with this sort of stuff, and I've asked him to look at it but he hasn't gotten around to it yet. I hope he can soon, as I'd like to be able to use it normally.

One other thing to consider, though...the door gasket on mine is pretty badly dry rotted and I'm not sure it seals well. I've been told that poor sealing can make it run too much(I can hear it cycle on and off, so it doesn't run continuously) but won't let it correctly set the temperature. Replacement gaskets can usually be found with some sleuthing, although I've meant to try a smear of grease around it to see if that helps before throwing that at it.

I hope I can find an answer, though.

Thanks, my door gasket is really bad, maybe the issue, I'll order one before I replace the thermostat and see if that fixes the issue.

 

[z970]

I’d just like to input that the events that have transpired in this thread are the exact reason why I have lost any motivation to use my collection of PowerPC Macs. People like Dronecatcher and Z970 who insert their agenda for how they want to use their computers into every single thread and god forbid you use them in any other way than the way they want. Countless threads have been overtaken by their unchangeable viewpoints and detract from the original question at hand. It shouldn’t be necessary to hear a whole endless rant about why Linux is the greatest operating system in the history of computing when the OP simply asked how to install Leopard on his PPC. Or why running classic is “vastly” superior to running OS 9 itself, in a thread about how to install OS 9. Or how about the hundreds of threads on how to play YouTube on a PowerPC Mac. It’s 2020, the last PowerPC Mac rolled off the assembly line 15 years ago. YouTube in its current format was not designed to run on hardware and graphics that are probably older than half the people coding the website itself. If you have to do 20 different things and take 10 minutes to watch one single YouTube video, is it even really worth it?

People like those aforementioned above have squeezed every last drop of fun and magic out of PowerPC Macs. No one is free to go off and do stuff their own way with their Macs and post about in here without receiving about 20 different replies about how they did it wrong and it should have been done a different way and how dare they have done it that way. Not only is that discouraging to new comers, but that’s discouraging to people like myself, Bunnspecial, LightBulbFun, Dosdude1, eyoungren, and others who use PPCs for their own enjoyment and experiment with them in ways many of the people berating others cannot because they lack the skills and knowledge to do so. If Dosdude was told “how dare you take a perfectly good G3 Mac with the greatest processor in the history of the world and put a crappy G4 in”, do you really think he would be encouraged to keep doing stuff like that? That’s what happens when the aforementioned do exactly that with every conceivable thing anyone else can do with a PPC Mac, because how dare you not use it the way they are.

I’m tired of seeing it and I know many others are as well. This is why so many prolific users who used to be active on the forums, like Intell for example, don’t even bother posting in here anymore. Why make the effort to post about something if you know there’s a group of users who are going to crap on and break down every single character you type into the forum post.

Guess it’s time to go back into hiding now...

This has been bothering me (no doubt @Dronecatcher too, for his own reasons) for quite a while now, since a long time before it was even posted. I suspect this will be the last I say anything more of the matter given its fruitlessness so far, so I'll just try one more time here.

@Gamer9430, I'm serious; I don't want you to go back into hiding. Quite frankly, it is an injustice to not only you, but everyone else here who may benefit by what you have to offer from your years of experience working with computers and learning from others here. And, I'm sick to death of this vendetta you have kept against me non-stop.

I acknowledge the fact that I was poorly informed of the local forum etiquette in 2017. I wholly acknowledge the fact that it never occurred to me when to stop my incessant outward enthusiasm for Linux in 2018. And, I take full responsibility for the fact that I was a little too quick to get defensive over minor disagreements in 2019. We are all human and are extremely prone to misstep, especially as we learn. Over time, I have tried hard to rectify this by practicing better humility and gratitude for any experience or lesson life gives to me, and have made and will continue to make great efforts to give back to the world.

For the record, I am very glad I decided to join this forum only to end up clocked by people left and right throughout the three years I've been here. It helped me to grow not only as a member of this forum, but indeed even as an individual and the truth is that I wouldn't be who I am today had I not joined and thereafter made improvements as the opportunities presented themselves. As the saying goes, there is a silver lining to everything, and I continue to see that hold true every single day.

As I have said, this is the last time I'll acknowledge the matter (and with good reason), so I'll ask you again: I want to know what this problem is in you that I've only inflamed during at least the last six months. Kindly list them out (like you effectively said you would in your other since deleted post) so that I can address them in order for us to hopefully bring closure to these silly feuding games and instead be unified during these historic times - which are already painful enough on their own, mind you.

I would appreciate if you did not ignore this request like you ignored my first attempt to make amends with you last year, and like you ignored this one on Monday, giving me the idea to try one final time here so that there might exist a better chance to draw out an actual reciprocation.

Much appreciated.

(Many thanks to @bobesch for this thread.)

 

[Gamer9430]

Wow... so this is it huh? This is how you want me to respond to you? Your ego really doesn’t fail to amaze me, as this really is a new level. So congratulations, you’re getting me to reply to you, but I’m not going to comment on literally anything about the content of your post. Maybe you never considered the fact that I have a life and an actual paying job that I put 40 hours a week into, and I really don’t have time to spend my whole life online on a forum anymore. Perhaps that’s why I didn’t reply to your message that you sent me only 2 days ago. Or maybe it’s the fact that I really don’t need to answer to you or to anyone about my opinions. It’s the free and open internet and I am just as allowed to have my opinions just as much as you are allowed to question and criticize them.

If I want to post here, I will post here. If I don’t want to post here, I won’t post here. I shouldn’t have to feel obligated to reply to you, or anyone else, or to share my knowledge from my 6years of experience working with Macs and other technology of varying ages. People have lives and move on. I’m a full time college student now, my priorities no longer align with trying to work on getting 15+ year old computers to handle my daily work load, play YouTube, and make it appear as a brand new computer. My priorities now are getting my degree, finding a suitable job that I both enjoy and can make a living off of, and trying to start and support a family. People’s lives change, and you are probably still too young to realize that fact, much like I was when I first got on the scene of PPC and this forum when I was 14 and a freshman in high school.

PowerPC Macs are and should only be a hobby. If you let them become anything more, you will miss out on the bigger and newer things in life. Don’t let them detract from taking advantage of opportunities you will never get again. My biggest regret was letting a bunch of machines detract and take away from my high school years, as I became so fixiated on getting more and more and more and fixing the ones I had and spending so much time on here. I missed out on a lot of opportunities I can never get back again, and many of those missed opportunities to live and enjoy life are coming back to bite me now as an adult. Don’t take time for granted, because we only have so much.

I’ve said my peace, and just as you said, it’s time to move on and put this behind us because honestly, this is a dead horse that will produce no more fruit than it already hasn’t.

 

[z970]

Clearly, then I suppose there is nothing more to be said regarding anything at all, as you have just confirmed yourself. - In fact, it is now painfully obvious that there is nothing worthwhile here to speak of that could possibly come out of this for anyone... therefore I choose not to respond as well, even though I could express twenty well-founded objections.

Thanks for your time. I wish you well in all that you shall do and beyond.

Genuinely.

 

[MagicBoy]

I'd love to know what the first 4 edits of that post looked like. Most likely nothing like what's left.

My 2p - there's dedicated forum sections for general and off-stuff. The PPC section isn't special enough to deserve their own walled garden topic within this section. Go socialise with people outside the PPC bubble on the wider forum and behaviour will likely be better in here.

 

[Project Alice]

"Pukebook"

😂

I usually refer to it as F***Book to be totally honest lol