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Notification: 5 day delay because of a power adapter (Patreon)

Published:
2020-04-04 10:37:34
Imported:
2026-06

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Ok, let me tell you real quick what happened:

I was chilling with my laptop in my bed when suddenly I heard a bang, followed by a small spark of fire. The cable that connects my laptop with its power adapter had a short circuit or however you call that in english and was about to set my sheets on fire. 

Never seen anything like it. It only stopped when I pulled the plug. The good news is that apart from an unusable power adabter and a slightly burned sheet, nothing happened. Sometimes I leave my laptop on and charged when I go out...I doubt that I will do that again. Don't want to imagine what happend if I wasn't present when it happened.

The bad news is that I cannot simply walk into a store and buy a new power adapter or a usb cable (I learned that you can charge a laptop with usb 3.1, which my laptop has), because of the lockdown. Every store is closed here. I thought I had a usb to usb cable at home, but after hours of search it turns out I have a billion usb to micro usb cables, but none for usb to usb :(.

It all happened on wednesday, I ordered a new power adapter immediatly (the adapter is from a chinese brand, not everyone has it in store), but unfortunetly it did not get delivered today. Tomorrow is sunday, so let us hope for monday, because I got a notification email that it got sent on friday evening. I don't know if there are any current delivery delays due to corona.

All in all pretty annoying, because I was making good progress...it will most likely push the release to end of april.

Let us hope they deliver the right power adapter in time ;). And I have to think about a solution on what to do when my laptop decides to light itself on fire. I don't want to backup everything to my normal desktop because of the huge asset library. Idk, maybe some kind of cloud solution...

Not the best update, I know. Sorry guys, can't show you any pictures atm because they're all on my laptop, and I spend the last of its battery life watching...inspirational stuff :)

Stay kinky!

Comments

Drake Breen

It's okay, Darktoz, we know you make scorching hot content already, you don't have to prove it 😂 Glad you're okay!

Ormmwar

get yourself an old pc and a dell raid card, set it up for raid1 and back it up on there

Darktoz

what is the benefit of that? I have not much clue about this stuff... I was thinking about a simple onedrive cloud solution

Ormmwar

raid1 array lets 1 of 4 drives die without any data loss, however you lose 1 drive worth of capacity, ie 4 1tb drives give you 3tb of available storage

B. Freundlich

Hmm, Raid 5 Sound better to me... For what he wants...

B. Freundlich

@Darktoz Good that nothing happend. Maybe I can send you a USB C Cable if you show me how it should look like.

Darktoz

thanks, but no need. it would take longer to arrive than the power adapter who is already on the way :)

Ormmwar

RAID5 cards are considerably more expensive. Cards i have are Dell UCS-61, got them for 50pln each, about 10 euro a pop. They are plenty quick as well, with SATA 3Gb/s and DDR cache

Deadmanfrank

A backups on a desktop would probably be wise.

BeneathUK

Well, thank goodness you weren't hurt and that it happened while you were around and didn't burn your whole house down. A delay of a few days is the least worse case scenario.

Darktoz

I think the best would be an online storage, but I don't know much of how to set up a good backup

Darktoz

yeah, to be honest I thought these new cables got protection for that kind of stuff, but this would have set my bed on fire for sure. truly worrying, have to be more careful and take security measures

Deadmanfrank

You could probably do both, because have everything on a laptop is to dangerous.

AL121

yeah the Content is too hot! and Darktoz you may wanna think not to touch anything you order for 3 days with bare Hands just in case

Dorian Benkoil

yes if you have disinfectant, or just carefully wash it while wearing gloves and then wash the gloves....