Can we talk about picking between two AI writing tools back in 2021?

I was helping a friend's small bookstore in Asheville with their website and had to choose between Jarvis (now Jasper) and a cheaper tool called ShortlyAI. I went with ShortlyAI because it was only $29 a month, thinking it would be fine. It worked okay for product descriptions but really struggled with anything creative, like blog posts about local authors. Has anyone else tried both and found one was clearly better for a certain job?

Pro tip: I spent three whole days trying to get the headband on a quarter-leather binding to sit flat without puckering.

What finally worked was a tiny bit of paste on the leather itself before I put the book in the press, has anyone else found a better trick for this?

I ran a free password strength checker on my old email account and it flagged a password I thought was strong.

Just saw a stat that a single serving of frozen peas costs less than 10 cents at my local store. That blew my mind.

My kid's toy robot stopped moving and I found the fix in a 1998 service manual

It was a 'Talking Rover' from a thrift store, just dead. I opened it up expecting a loose wire, but the gears looked fine. I searched online and found a scanned PDF of the original service guide on a hobbyist site. The guide said to check the motor brushes for carbon buildup, a thing I didn't even know toy motors had. I cleaned them with a pencil eraser like it said, and it started rolling again. Has anyone else fixed an old toy using a manual that old?

A journeyman in Toledo told me my 6010 root pass looked like a stack of dimes, but it was actually too cold and lacked penetration, so I cranked the heat up 10 amps and focused on a tighter arc length.

Anyone else get a piece of advice that went against what you thought was a perfect weld?

Warning: I keep seeing people skip the flux step on basic soldering jobs

Just fixed a friend's game console where the previous repair had cold joints all over the power board. He said the guy 'just used the iron and solder'. I told him you need flux every single time, even with rosin core. It's been six months of seeing this same mistake in local shops. Has anyone else noticed this getting worse lately?

A guy on Reddit told me my 'ask anything' posts were too vague and it totally changed how I write them.

Desoldering wick was my last resort until this repair.

Had a console motherboard with solder bridges everywhere. Wick cleaned it up perfectly, and now I keep a roll handy. Feels good to be wrong sometimes lol.

TIL that a clicking fan can mean a power supply is going bad

I had a desktop that kept shutting down randomly. After listening closely, the power supply fan was clicking, and replacing it fixed everything. How do you usually test for power supply problems?