𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆 @ spicytuna62 @lemmy.world

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Same is generally true here. I've never had a car that doesn't turn off the fog lights when you turn on the high beams. Maybe on older cars that had them. I think the idea is that if it's foggy, you shouldn't have your high beams on ever.

If you want to stay truly legit, buy used physical releases. They cost less money and you could support your local record store. Movies and music on a home NAS + Plex Server are god tier.

Mine is my '97 Prelude that runs and drives but needs work. So until I get jack stands, it's not getting worked on yet. Once I do have jack stands, it'll probably get parked on them for a few months while I address the things I can.

It mostly needs fluids and suspension work. It does have an oil leak that needs addressing. Then I'll get to the body issues. Two big dents. I'd like to see what PDR can do to pop them out. If they can be done relatively cheap, I'm going to give it a new coat of paint in the original Milano Red. Myself. Because Maaco would have charged damn near what I paid for the thing. So I'm gonna try a roller paint job. If it's really expensive to get the dents taken care of, I'll probably leave the body alone. I kinda like the concept of a car that's mechanically sound but looks like a piece of shit. It also needs the spoiler because the Type SH does not have an interior third brake light. It's in the spoiler. Someone along the line must not have liked the spoiler and took it off. The trunk lid was obviously repainted. So anyway the car has no third brake light.

I paid $2,700 for the thing. So I'm not about to spend another $7k to have a car that's worth at best $5k. It's got 253,000 miles on it. It'll never sell for what top shelf 5th gens command. And I do so little driving now. I did the math that it'll take another 17 years for me to roll the odometer to 300k.

Horrible Products applies just as well today as it did in 2002.

Craftsman and Kobalt hand tools are honestly pretty great for like 99% of homeowner-handymen. My dad uses Snap-On because he's a farmer and he's hard on his tools. But me? Most I'm doing is tightening something in the house or wrenching on my car. I've never in my life had an issue with Craftsman tools.

Fair use does allow you to back up your stuff. That's why you can rip CDs in the US. Nbd. They tried to make it stop, but it didn't. And I buy CDs specifically to rip the lossless audio off of them. You can also rip DVDs legally.

But Blu-Ray gets a little muddy. It's not the content that's the problem, but the DRM. You're allowed to back up the content, but it's technically illegal to defeat the DRM in order to access said content.

Hasn't stopped me. I don't make my MKVs available on the Internet. I acquire copies of my movies legitimately. What I do with the discs when I get home is honestly nobody's business.

It's such a bullshit argument. Imagine buying a Snap-On wrench because of the lifetime warranty, and they told you, "Oh no no no no, we meant the lifetime of the wrench."

I went to Houston once.

I just checked Amtrak. I can hop on a one way train from Houston to Portland. The journey takes 4 days (not counting delays) and costs $1,700.

It's cheaper to fly and faster to drive. Are we really to believe that companies like Ford, GM, BNSF, CSX, Union Pacific, Boeing, American Airlines, and Delta have nothing to do with this and that it's genuinely the free market at work? Ofc not. Amtrak is a government agency. The government can and should use eminent domain to seize ownership of the entire rail network and fairly compensate the current owners for their stakes. In short, nationalize the rails.

We use it for basically everything from food and beverage sweetener to car fuel.

I'll pass up on the lack of a standardized work week, the child labor, and the general robber barons, but passenger rail does need to make a comeback.

Car guy checking in. I think Teslas are cool and all, but trains are the future. I want trains to be so good that people would rather take them so that people like me, who care a lot about driving, get to drive. And people who would rather read a book or play a game while commuting aren't forced to drive when they clearly don't want to.

I have a 1997 Prelude Type SH manual. And I'm looking to replace my 2012 auto Civic with an 8th Gen Accord LX manual because I really missed driving stick daily and want a cheap manual I can daily.

Cállate.

But at least the Canadians have healthcare and weed.

$1,000 is a nice little windfall to get back in February or March.

$1,000 is a lot of money to suddenly have to come up with before April 15.

If that the same one about vacuum fluorescent displays? That's such a cool video to watch on any OLED display you have.

Also, found out from that video that my 10 year old Whirlpool oven uses a VFD.

jesus you don't have to yell

I don't want to kill, but if it comes down to them or me, I always pick me.

More "cats can't love" bullshit. Do my cats get excited to get fed? Sure, but so does my dog. Cats can and do love. There's a zillion different cat personalities out there. Some are more lovey than others. One of my cats bugs you all day for affection. The other one will lounge on the bed or the sofa all day and never mess with you, but has an extreme appreciation for when you go snuggle her.

If you think cats don't love, you're just blatantly wrong. And I'll bring all my black clothes covered in orange and white hair as receipts.