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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

It's gone to the void, it especially likes small important things and socks

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

I'm just afraid of it reappearing one day loose in my case, flirting with the PSU.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Not yet, but you're giving me flashbacks to the Diablotech that ate hard drives.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

the void must really like m&ms

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

M&Ms confuse the void because they're small and have writing on it, which is an obvious sign of importance

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

I have compression socks labeled for right and left. 4 pairs. Now I still have 4 pairs, but one pair has two right socks...

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

I lost a wasp to my floor once... a wasp flew into my office room (im very scared of them, so i legged it). i got some wasp spray and waited at the doornway until i saw it again.

I (in a terrified flailing of an attempt) manage to get right up tinit and spray it for a few seconds and backed away to the door again.

I watched it crawl across my desk and go behind a little stack of books and didn't see it come back out.

I cautiously and tentatively crept in to look for it and looked behind the books, and it wasn't there. I looked behind the desk, which is fixed in place and rests on a set of drawa but has a gap at rhe back between it and the wall. I can't see it down there. I got under the desk and checked everywhere. i couldn't get the angle with my head, so i stuck my phone back there and took pictures of the space behind the drawers. It wasn't there. I even found one of these hard drive screws.

I have never found it, and im almost willing to accept. i made it up because i go mental with boredom when im working from home.

[-] justabigemptyhole@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

In a final act of defiance, the wasp robbed you of what you wanted most: the certain knowledge of its demise and the peace that comes with it When I am dying, I too will crawl away to my presumable death, never to be seen again. My enemies will spend the rest of their pitiful lives will be spent glancing over their shoulders and checking corners. Waiting for what will never come. They will never know a moment of true peace. The wasp can teach us a great deal about hate. Hate that is truly real and everlasting. All hail the wasp.

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

All hail the wasp!

[-] Rootiest@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

You should not use that stuff indoors

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Or not at all. If you are outside, the wasp should fly away on their own. If you engage the wasp you could easily end up stung. If a wasp has a nest or something, then you are probably beyond just spraying it at that point, it's a much bigger problem.

[-] Rootiest@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Great point

[-] pixelscience@sh.itjust.works 26 points 10 months ago

The other one is somehow 15 feet away under the most difficult thing in the room to access.

[-] CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

You think you saw it there, but once you move the thing you learn it's actually a thumbtack. The screw fell into a vent instead, and will occasionally rattle around to taunt you.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I dropped a screw once and found it in another room. Both the room I was in and the room it ended up in had its doors closed.

I mean there is a big enough gap for the screw to roll under so to the screw there is no door but it was still unexpected.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Ok I have to confess. I remembered more about the incident and it wasn't a screw. I was putting together a gunpla (plastic Gundam model) and it was one of the pieces.

[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

This is why I bought a magnetic bowl. Every time I have to use screws I set them in it no matter how big they are.

[-] Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

... I don't know why I never thought to put my screws into my magnetic bowl. I've been throwing change into it like an M.

Thank you, I needed this.

[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

First thing I do whenever working on an electronics project is set down a bowl. Screw comes out, goes into bowl. Just don't knock it over.

[-] Reygle@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

NVME screw: phases outside of our dimension before even reaching the floor

Also I really want to know why this can't be tapped for a standard case screw or even a chassis thumbscrew. Been pissing me off since msata and nvme even became a thing. Such great storage and it can't be mounted with a standard @!#%^ing screw that everything else uses WHY?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago

And why are there multiple sizes of NVME screw?

[-] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It seems most of screws have same size, but different thread pitch.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's M2. Regular computer screw is M3. M3 is 1mm bigger than M2.

[-] LaSaucisseMasquee@jlai.lu 4 points 10 months ago

Could we have fractions of inches instead please ?

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Best I can do is decimals of inches

[-] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
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[-] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 12 points 10 months ago

This is the reason I've taken to carrying a small magnet with me (combined with a flashlight/blacklight/laser pointer), so I can easily pick up those little bits that get lost (my wife cross stitches too, and sometimes her needles fall into the carpet, so it's nice to find those before our feet do).

[-] variants@possumpat.io 12 points 10 months ago

I've dropped a screw and spent a good amount of time looking for it only to find it in my pocket later, mostly because I work in a smock that has big front pockets so now it's my first check when I drop a screw

[-] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago
[-] variants@possumpat.io 3 points 10 months ago

Oh wow now I need a patch that says don't knock my smock haha

[-] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Exactly. Just had to buy a hundred pack of M3 screws for drives.

[-] themelm@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

Strong flashlight. Even in a well light room, getting down there and moving a flashlight around will reveal little screws your eye wouldn't have ever noticed without the changing contrast and reflections.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago

Just use a magnet.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

You'll find that other one in your neighbor's yard

[-] EarWorm@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

My motherboard has been on with 3 screws since 2020. Definitely not because my carpet eats screws or anything. Trust me.

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

I depend more and more on gravity to keep my PC parts in place.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 10 months ago

I keep them all in a little Tupperware so they don't roll all over the place. And then I am real careful not to knock the Tupperware off the table.

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I did this until I started fixing my kid's Switch too. So I bought a silicone mat. Legit one of the best 10 dollars from Amazon I have spent for fixing electronics.

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[-] Agility0971@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Always to remember to vacum the floor after a pc build to get rid of excessive screws

[-] Enzy@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Let me call my buddy down here, he's an expert in screwing stuff.

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[-] MxM111@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

It is more amazing when a single screw falls, and it just falls into some portal to hell knows what dimension, while the floor is pretending hard that it has nothing to do with it. That's why it is sometimes called a hard floor.

[-] Misconduct@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

The you find it in a spot you've looked over thoroughly multiple multiple times 😠

[-] butt_mountain_69420@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Every.single.time.

[-] dacookingsenpai@lemme.discus.sh 3 points 10 months ago

Someone explain pls i feel (or am) stoopid

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

sometimes when things fall to the floor they drop through the cracks in reality never to be found again. Common things that tend to slip into the 4th dimention include:

  • all types of screws
  • m&ms
  • pills
  • coins
  • guitar picks
  • small trinkets
  • important items
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[-] onion@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

they lost a screw

[-] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

Luckily two us all you need...the rest are just for redundancy.

[-] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

I have OCD, whenever I take apart tiny screws from something, I watch where they are like a hawk.

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