𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆 @ spicytuna62 @lemmy.world

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In all seriousness, periods of marked deflation are generally not economically prosperous times. The economy deflated more than 20% between 1929 and 1936. But we don't call that period in time "The Really Cool American Price Drop." It goes by another name I can't think of right now, and it's making me feel greatly depressed.

We shouldn't be fighting for lower prices. We should be fighting for better wages that track with prices over time.

Bud, my car is older than you and has driven enough to circle the globe ten times. You're really stretching the definition of "extended" here.

But, you know, if y'all wanna pay to repaint it, I won't say no lmao

It's funny. I used gnome for a long time, and after I fully switched to Debian, I didn't have any problems with my nvidia card with gnome + wayland. But I switched to plasma recently, and it's janky. I figured out my vsync issues, but it still runs a post when I wake it from sleep, which just defeats the purpose of sleep mode. I might as well shut it down every time I'm done using it like it's 1997.

But I started using X + KDE, and most of my problems went away. Still takes forever to wake from sleep. But that's it, really.

True story - I keep blank audio CDs around because my cars have CD players. The fact that I still burn CDs is another story, but Debian is still small enough to fit on a CD-ROM. So I keep a backup of Debian 12 on a CD-ROM so I don't have to lose a flash drive to that task. Very convenient. And I've broken my system a few times tinkering. I'm not even sure how. But hey, I love to go fast and break things. I probably made an edit to a file long ago and forgot about it and now it borked stuff. It happens.

At this stage, I've got it down pretty good. If I break my OS, I can plop in my boot CD, use rescue mode to back my home folder up to a flash drive and wipe the system. I keep lots of other things on extra HDDs so all I ever wipe is my boot SSD. I have an Nvidia GPU so before I log in for the first time, I just get back into rescue mode and set up my root password, user account and password, reclaim my home folder, change ownership to the new account, set up fstab, and install drivers and programs before ever logging in as my user for the first time - all from the console.

As for data loss, I haven't lost any. I have never needed to wipe my hard drives so as long as my home folder is intact, retrieving that is easy enough. I don't keep just one copy of irreplaceable files, either. While my phone does back up my stuff to Google Drive, I keep additional copies of my favorite pictures and videos on DVDs. Three copies, on at least two different media, one of them off-site.

Breaking your OS is really not that big of a deal once you know how to retrieve stuff without it. You don't even need CDs lol The boot CD is just for convenience. You can bork the system on a computer with just one storage device and as long as you have two flash drives, you can get it all back pretty easy.

But I'm only here after years of experience in bash. If I went back ten years with a busted laptop and told my 22 year old self to use lsblk, mount, and cp to copy the home directory to a removable device all in command line, younger me would probably cry lol

Everything I know about bash I learned by spending a decade copy-pasting random commands I found online into my terminal.

It's really that easy. You'll be sudo apt update-ing with the best of them in no time when you spend a decade copy pasting commands you found on the web to your terminal.

He's a shelter dog. Both of our dogs are.

We haven't done a DNA test on the girl. She's still pretty new to us.

It has blue spots!

It was a hot day and he ran hard

He's the best in the world at stay.

Mostly pit bull with a side of boxer, chow chow, German shepherd, and husky.

It's an H22A in a Prelude Type SH. But the valve cover between the B and H do look very similar.

There is no room to get to the oil filter from the bottom. Believe me. I tried. This engine mounts it up top to make room for the ATTS unit. The base Preludes, however, do have side-mounted oil filters that are significantly easier to reach. The filter on my R-series Civic is bottom-mounted and super easy to reach. But yeah, this guy was a true PITA.

I snapped this after I found it. I'm a fairly honest dude. I wouldn't say find the thing that isn't in the picture lol It's the blue canister in the center bottom of the pic. You'll see it just left of the brake master ;)

It also probably causes a huge itch with all of the guys that say you absolutely must prime your filter each and every time you change because you never want it to run dry or the engine will literally explode.

You cannot prime a top mounted filter. I mean, you can try, but you won't get the results you want lol

This car has 257,000 miles, and I promise you this thing has never received a primed oil filter. I bet the bearings are in great shape. I bet the rings fail long before the bearings do.

Nope. H22A in a Prelude. There's no way to get it from the bottom, unless Gilderoy Lockhart just "mended" your arm or you are Mr. Fantastic in the flesh. You must get it from the top.

The H22A4 that comes in base Preludes has the filter on the side. It's much easier to reach, but you will spill. This top mounted filter on the Type SH drains back to the pan every time you switch the engine off, but it's a real pain to get to.

On the plus side the top mounted filter was kinda nice. I didn't have to worry about spilling a filter's worth of oil on the garage floor.

Not like it matters because it already leaks. But hey, we take the good with the bad.

Shhhhhhhhh

We ignore little things until they're problems. Tis the broke bitch car guy way.

Yeah, it's pushing thirty years old. We've got some deferred maintenance items to tend to. This isn't my daily lol

And no I totally don't blame the techs and mechanics for super snugging filters. I was pissed off an hour ago, but now that I'm on the other side of this job, I get it.

I mean, I'm still pissed, but I get it lol

I love the way you think. Fire always solves something lmao

You have fifteen minutes in the game, son. Go score a backrub or whatever they call it idk I don't coach football.

I've heard of punching screwdrivers through them. I didn't have any screwdrivers I wanted to get oily since I use those on my PC. I did grab some oil filter pliers from the parts store and those finally did the trick.

I won't use them much, but I'm sure they'll come in handy again one day

Lmao yeah I just grabbed some oil filter pliers from the parts store. That did the trick. So many interference items just for an oil filter. I got maybe two degrees of rotation with each squeeze.

"I've already called the FBI. You can't prove it was an accident. Do you know who I am? You're going to prison for the rest of your life, bud."

Joking aside, I hope that poor bird is okay.

Only 70? You need to drink more water.

This is gonna be in my view history on our shared account, and my wife is gonna ask if I'm okay lmao