The early 2000s were a horrorshow as far as capacitors were concerned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

Wow, my friend's TV just failed. We cracked it open this past weekend and we found a busted cap that looks just like those. Manufacture date would be mid-2000s, probably 2006-ish. I wonder if they were from one of those bad batches. Crazy coincidence to learn about this now.

Edit: Hm, maybe not: """With a typically shortened life span of about 1.5 to 3 years for the failing capacitors, from mid-2003 up to mid-2006, the last of the bad capacitors should have failed by 2007. Commentators on the Internet often predicted the year 2007 would be the end point for "bad capacitors"."""

So that's why the ELO monitor power supplies kept dying...

Haha, the thing that blows my mind is if those are real Rubycons, that's kind of like selling a "7 series" BMW encased in a real C-series Mercedes enclosure.

Would be funny if that one was a fake too. A nesting doll of fakes all the way down

A 0.1 uF 0603 ceramic, in a 10 uF tantalum case, in a yellow epoxy 22 uF ceramic through-hole....

Zhihu is a vast improvement on Quora both on the quality of content and site design though.