I was about to throw out my old iPod Classic because the battery was shot

I had it open on my kitchen table in Austin, ready to recycle the parts. Then I saw a tiny, faded sticker on the inside of the case from the repair shop that fixed it in 2010. It hit me that I'd been treating it like trash instead of a fixable thing. I ordered a new battery kit online for 12 bucks and it's working again. Has anyone else saved a gadget by just looking a little closer?

Am I the only one who gets annoyed when people post huge 4K files directly in the thread?

It totally kills the page load for anyone on mobile or slower internet. My buddy in rural Idaho literally can't view the showcase half the time because of it. Can we just agree to use links to compressed previews instead?

Spent $1,200 on a new GPS depth sounder for the old cutterhead

Back in the day, we'd drop a lead line and guess, or just go by the feel of the machine. Last season, I finally bit the bullet and got a modern unit installed. The first week on a channel job near Mobile, it flagged a rock shelf the old charts missed, saved the suction head from a real bad day. Now I wonder how we ever worked without that kind of clear picture. What's the one piece of tech you guys added that felt like going from the dark ages?

Remember when we only used one kind of bleach?

Back in 2010 at the salon in Bakersfield, we basically just had one heavy-duty powder bleach for everything. Now, I've got five different formulas from brands like Wella, each for a specific level of lift and hair type. The change happened over the last decade as clients started wanting more natural, lived-in looks instead of blocky platinum. What's the most specialized lightening product you've added to your kit recently?

Rant: I thought legacy board games were just a cash grab until I tried one

For years, I heard people at my local game store in Austin talk about legacy games like they were the best thing ever. I thought it was just a trick to get you to buy more stuff, like you pay for a game and then wreck it. Then my group played Pandemic Legacy Season 1 last month. We played it over six weeks. The way the game changed forever after our choices, and the new rules that came out of an envelope when we lost a city... it felt totally different. It wasn't just a board game anymore, it was our story. I was wrong. It's a legit new way to play. Has anyone else had a game type they hated until they actually gave it a real shot?

Just realized I've been using the wrong trowel for stamping for like three years, a customer's kid pointed it out lol

Question about a weird number fact I saw on a bus ad

I was riding the bus in Chicago yesterday and saw an ad that said 37% of people have had a deja vu moment that felt like a memory from a dream. That number seems way too high to me, like a glitch in how we remember things. Has anyone else come across a stat that made reality feel a bit off?

Serious question, has anyone else tried to get their non-comic friends into a big event comic?

Honestly, I tried to get my buddy Mike, who only watches the movies, to read the whole 'Secret Wars' 2015 run with me. I lent him my trades, gave him a quick backstory, and figured the big action would hook him. Ngl, after a week he gave them back and said it felt like 'homework' and he was lost after issue three. I learned that jumping into a huge crossover with decades of history is a terrible first step, even if the art is great. It's like handing someone a book that starts on chapter 20. Now I feel bad, maybe I should have started him with a single hero's book first. What's a better comic to give a total newbie that won't scare them off?