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+Episode: 4295
+Title: HPR4295: Three Holiday Hacks from 2023
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4295/hpr4295.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-25 22:36:52
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+This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4295 for Friday the 17th of January 2025.
+Today's show is entitled Free Holiday Hacks from 2023.
+It is hosted by Ken Fallon and is about 8 minutes long.
+It carries a clean flag.
+The summary is replacing the battery, swapping a fan, and getting a new desktop.
+You are listening to a show from the Reserve Q.
+We are airing it now because we had free slots that were not filled.
+This is a community project that needs listeners to contribute shows in order to survive.
+Please consider recording a show for Hacker Public Radio.
+Hi everybody, my name is Ken Fallon and you are listening to another episode of Hacker
+Public Radio and as you probably heard, this is a reserve show, so we are short and
+shows.
+So if you have any topic that you find interesting or cool stuff that you've done, people
+will be interested in, only one person has to be interested in it, then send it on
+in here.
+R.
+Today I want to tell you about three little hacks that I did over the Christmas period.
+There were things that were on my wish list to do for a while, but I didn't get round
+to them, so I thought, well, let's talk about them here.
+First of all, my son's phone, the battery started expanding in the back.
+It was Sony Xperia A10, nice phone, that was very fast, I give it runs lineage OS, absolutely.
+And the battery had been expanding, but it never thought to send it to me and apparently
+not everybody on the planet knows that once the back case of your phone starts expanding,
+that you should not use that phone, it is, don't charge it anymore, don't plug it in,
+the battery is in a state that it is now heading into dangerous and as a firehousing.
+So I brought it down to the local phone guy and he did absolutely nothing to it and I
+lost my faith in that shop and will never buy there again, went back a week later and
+the situation had only got worse to a point where the phone was, the screen had detached
+from the screen and stuck on to the back and it had totally detached.
+So I thought to myself, well, it's already broken, I can't break it anymore, so I thought
+I'll send off for a kit for a new battery, 15 euros, sounds a bit dodgy, but okay.
+And over the intervening time I was keeping the phone in uncharged a container.
+So I used a gun, a hot air gun that you use for stripping paint and a digital infrared thermometer,
+the local pump shop, a few quid and I was able to tell the temperature, one of the things
+is you need to melt the, the lure on the case and that I was able to do by using the
+heat gun and checking the temperature and then I slid like a plastic pectrum, piece of
+plastic or a credit card or all credit carders in and was able to just assemble the phone.
+A particular phone won't even give you the link to it because unless you have the exact
+phone yourself, but there are plenty of breakdown videos on how to take apart phones.
+So did it slow and liberr, slow and carefully, kept note of all the screws on where they
+went in, various different ways of doing that and then just reassemblers put the battery
+in, reassemblers and the thing is as good as new.
+That was one of the hacks, so quite happy with that.
+The other one was I have a Rygo DS1054, I got it on an offer, saved up a few years of
+birthday monies in order to get it, but I found I never really used it here because when
+you turn it on it was exceptionally loud and somebody explained to me that that's fine
+because in a lab environment where it usually resides, there's so much other noise as well
+that.
+But really for such a good piece of it would be let it down, so I spent a tenor or so on
+the silent or a more silent replacement fan and it was a bit scary opening or breaking.
+Manufacturers warranty thing, but then again, if you don't break that, if you don't open
+it up, it's not your case, so I opened it up, followed the procedure that I had seen
+people do online, was careful to make sure the flow was in the right direction, so this
+tiny little bit of soldering to be done, soldering out the old connectors and soldering, put
+that back together and literally within a half an hour the job was on now and that's
+it before.
+Very nice.
+The other thing that I did over the Christmas I did is on my desk and my wife's desk, we
+both have two IKEA standing desks, the Kant desks, I got, I had another one which was
+a manual which had a motor on but I took this one as well.
+The issue is that the desk top that it comes with it are 120, so the desk is 120 centimeters
+of what's that in, is about four foot wide and that's fine, that's a nice size of a desk
+for your monitors, etc.
+But it comes 80 centimeters which is 32 inches, about two and a half feet deep and that
+whole thing comes from back in the day when we had those, remember those big CRT monitors
+on your desk?
+That's where that standard desk but that's completely unnecessary and I've noticed that
+I hadn't been using the front of my desk and down here where my offices is in the cellar
+and that extra 20s space that I'm losing was too much.
+So I thought while I'll try replacing the desk on there with something else and not
+wanting to spend too much money because I'm cheap, 25 euros, they sold a tabletop in
+my key as well, 120 by 60 which is two foot instead of, and I was worried because this
+thing is literally made out of tissue paper, it's thin laminous with corrugated paper
+inside.
+But the mounting positions on either side have a slightly more material in but that only
+comes in about 30 centimeters or a foot in from both sides so I didn't know if this project
+would work or whether I would need to get actual connectors.
+So it was a simple matter of taking off the old desk, I put some paper down and made a
+template for where the holes would be, I drilled those holes and then I put it in and reassembled
+it quite a bit.
+In hindsight, I'd probably just clamp it and draw all the holes but either way it was
+a good move to do because you gain a lot of space and I have monitored stands at the
+back so the monitor doesn't push back on the desk, I still have the same amount of desk
+space for doing desk stuff and it's just made the room a lot more usable workable space
+in it.
+So those are three hacks, I don't know if anything in the show is particularly of interest
+hackers.
+There were three little projects that I was quite chuffed about, I guess the moral
+of the story is don't be putting on these little things that will make your life a little
+bit better.
+I drive enjoyment from it as far as the wriggle since then, not afraid of the sound of a
+jet engine going off the desk was definitely a win, just so much, you know, was literally
+10% of the floor space was being taken up by this guy, well, I exaggerate about a percentage.
+And then the phone, just having a working phone when somebody says that they'll be happy
+with it.
+So that was it, that was my thoughts for the day, tune in tomorrow for another exciting
+episode of Hacker.
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