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Tomarse posted:Welcome to dealing with BT Not a new build though. They own 3 out of a row of 4 connected 116 year old wooden but and bens. When they bought the first two it had electricity and cold water, but no toilets or drainage. The old alcoholic who lived there previously used to poo poo in the garden. Thankfully buying the third one in the row got them a septic tank which allowed them move in. It's still half finished... no hot water yet but it is going to be a great house when it's done, the living room comprises the whole of the first house.
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Checked pricing on mounting/balancing/disposal etc and to see what the local shops had for tires. Got a couple of hilarious quotes. One was $40 per tire for mounting, another place wanted $160 ea for Firestone weatherforces. Les schwab will take care of mounting for 60 and then the actual Firestone store offered a pretty good deal on blizzak ws80s. 510 out the door which is less than $30 more than the generals + studs would work out to. Might go with those instead.
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literally a fish posted:Um, yes they do. Almost every single model of iMac does. "Memory is not user-removable on iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013), and iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2014) computers", that's it, and they still have slots you just have to disassemble the unit to access them, with the exception of the VERY LATEST 21" model ("• Memory in iMac (21-inch, Late 2015) and iMac (Retina 4K, 21-inch, Late 2015) is not upgradeable.") which is understandable since chances are nobody's ever upgrading the RAM in a 21". I'm gonna say this again: Dell Precision M4600, M6600, etc. They are pretty cheap second hand, extremely powerful, extremely upgradeable, and give you manuals on how to service them. Plus: 4 RAM slots in a laptop, upgradeable CPUs, up to 3 Hard Disks with RAID, 4 if you get the bigger models (including the mSATA SSD) Excellent graphics cards, cheap parts. C'mon guys, its a power users dream.
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Nov 20, 2015 04:26
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Do you know what one thing limits me to like 2, 3 laptop choices? My undying need to use a Trackpoint. Everyone else at my company is on Macs, but I have to buy my own Lenovo X1 Carbon to get the trackpoint on a machine that can do dev work. The touch screen is really nice, though. I find myself tapping other screens reflexively.
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Nov 20, 2015 04:33
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kimbo305 posted:Do you know what one thing limits me to like 2, 3 laptop choices? Guess what the Dell Precision has?  Other than cat fur on it... Oh, and being able to drive 4-5 monitors natively is really nice for dev and sys admin work.
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Nov 20, 2015 04:39
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I'm watching South Park for the first time in years (hotel tv aww yeah) and it's not bad I guess? But at some point the animation style lost its crude charm, maybe sometime around 2005 I don't know.
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Nov 20, 2015 04:53
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CommieGIR posted:Guess what the Dell Precision has? I've heard those aren't as good? But I haven't tried any in the last few generations. Do they use the same form factor for mounting the trackpoint nipple? In addition to needing a trackpoint, I also insist on the concave nipple.
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Nov 20, 2015 05:03
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kimbo305 posted:I've heard those aren't as good? But I haven't tried any in the last few generations. It uses a square mount, and I've swapped trackpoint nubs from other laptops.
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Nov 20, 2015 05:17
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I used to be a clitmouse fetishist for a long time - had a lot of Thinkpads over the years, all the way back to a first-gen Pentium with NiMH batteries. But after using Apple trackpads, no other laptop pointing system comes close.
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Nov 20, 2015 05:23
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Just watched the pilot for The Man in the High Castle. Hella dissappointed that they completely missed the tone of one of my favorite books.
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Nov 20, 2015 05:23
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IOwnCalculus posted:I used to be a clitmouse fetishist for a long time - had a lot of Thinkpads over the years, all the way back to a first-gen Pentium with NiMH batteries. But after using Apple trackpads, no other laptop pointing system comes close. I'm still using an X61 for work due to size, keyboard, and clitmouse. Unfortunately it's starting to show its age because Chrome and Linux are fat hogs. I'm thinking an X1 is next, although the keyboard isn't as good. My usage habits tend to include a lot of middle clicking so three real buttons are pretty important.
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Nov 20, 2015 05:28
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Can't stop watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoUyFcDA27M How do the small round dies help shape / brace the inside of the tube? 1500quidporsche posted:Just watched the pilot for The Man in the High Castle. Hella dissappointed that they completely missed the tone of one of my favorite books. That's too bad. The fetishism on the West Coast for Japanese mannerisms was so creepy. Like weeaboos actually were status quo.
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Nov 20, 2015 05:45
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kimbo305 posted:That's too bad. The fetishism on the West Coast for Japanese mannerisms was so creepy. Like weeaboos actually were status quo. That was my primary problem with it. In the novel most of the characters were pretty isolated and there was a creepy copying of the oppressing culture in order to get ahead. In the show as soon as the doors are closed every character practically says "gently caress those dirty japs"
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Nov 20, 2015 05:49
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CommieGIR posted:Guess what the Dell Precision has? Touch pad not centered, get the gently caress out
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Nov 20, 2015 06:02
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Nodoze posted:Touch pad not centered, get the gently caress out Touch pads? Get the gently caress out.
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Nov 20, 2015 06:18
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Nodoze posted:Touch pad not centered, get the gently caress out It's correctly centered under the keyboard, on a laptop that has a full numberpad. If they centered it on the actual laptop, it'd be weirdly skewed to the right of the keyboard and the buttons wouldn't sit under your thumb while you use the trackpoint with an index finger.
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Nov 20, 2015 06:28
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Tomarse posted:Welcome to dealing with BT. New buildings are horrible to get connected. If they have to cross a road or someone else's property to get to your house it's gonna take them longer than Christmas. If they have to dig anything then add a few more months. That's the weird thing, there's an openreach hatch in the "road" between these three new houses 20 feet from my front door and a coil of bt branded cable in each of the front lawns. The ground work has been done, unless the hatch is empty  I need an engineer to come connect the cable to my house and fit a faceplate (I asked, doing it myself may result in Brasil AC levels of retaliatory works) and do some magic with the other end of the string to plug it into the internet.
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Nov 20, 2015 07:21
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jammyozzy posted:Threw an SSD in my old Thinkpad T410 yesterday and put Win 8.1 on it because hey, once I turn all the charms poo poo off and put a real start menu back it's not too bad. I've just spent the last 3 hours trying to install Lenovo's crappy function key drivers so I can turn Wifi and Bluetooth on and off. The solution, naturally, is to install a version a year out of date in Win 7 compatability mode. That stuff usually works out of the box on most laptops with a fresh 7, 8, or often even XP install, you just don't get any indication that anything has happened. Or is Lenovo that much of a special snowflake?
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Nov 20, 2015 07:24
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The answer is to run your T410 on the Windows 7 it came with. I'm running a T410s right now and can turn everything off without that poo poo. With an SSD, this is still a mostly functional laptop, which is good because I'm cheap.
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Nov 20, 2015 07:35
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i love my t440 except the touchpad is overly sensitive and badly placed; you constantly brush against it while typing, jumping your loving cursor halfway across the screen also click and drag functionality only works on windows (ie not icons/files) and involves double tapping (not clicking, which the whole pad does) and holding the second tap until the window kinda flashes a little and then you can drag. since the whole touchpad (except the bottom right corner which acts as right click) is the mouse button, you can't click it and then also drag over the pad while clicked, it doesnt register. and you also cant click the pad and use the nipple mouse to move. and the best part is there's apparently no way whatsoever to turn it off that doesnt involve like BIOS hacks it's real annoyib 5 inches away from the touchpad. ng when you're trying to type a paragraph real quick for homework anking like this anytime you don't hold your thud your poo poo keeps loo (this sentence simulated for effect)
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Nov 20, 2015 07:54
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Enourmo posted:also click and drag functionality only works on windows (ie not icons/files) and involves double tapping (not clicking, which the whole pad does) and holding the second tap until the window kinda flashes a little and then you can drag. since the whole touchpad (except the bottom right corner which acts as right click) is the mouse button, you can't click it and then also drag over the pad while clicked, it doesnt register. and you also cant click the pad and use the nipple mouse to move. This kind of poo poo is a big reason why I can't deal with Windows laptops. For some reason, any non-Apple company (even on high-dollar products) seems to be unable to produce a trackpad that is worth even half a poo poo. Whenever I try to use a classmate's trackpad I get irrationally angry at how janky it is.
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some texas redneck posted:That stuff usually works out of the box on most laptops with a fresh 7, 8, or often even XP install, you just don't get any indication that anything has happened. Or is Lenovo that much of a special snowflake? WiFi worked out of the box but it refused turn the Bluetooth radio on.  You're right that it should have worked, hence my frustration. nm posted:The answer is to run your T410 on the Windows 7 it came with. This is probably the answer, but I wanted bitlocker and was too bloody minded to admit I'd made a mistake. 
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Nodoze posted:Touch pad not centered, get the gently caress out Its not supposed to be, and it looks better that way 
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Nov 20, 2015 15:07
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^^^ Yes it is, and no it doesn't  Fuuck so I went to get the biennial tech inspection and their passenger car line is broken today. All other places closed after lunch, of course, so I'll need to keep driving with expired poo poo over the weekend. Maybe that's ok though since I had the passenger seat out to transport winter wheels, which caused the airbag light to go on. And I also need to hit the front fender near the light to get it to turn on.
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Nov 20, 2015 15:25
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Just talked to the HR department of the 2nd fiber optics company. They do random piss tests which is kind of a bummer. Plus they start you off at a lower wage than I am making now. Still gonna set up an interview anyways. I don't mind the idea of pre-hre drug testing but randoms just piss me off. None of your business what I do in my own home not on work hours.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Just talked to the HR department of the 2nd fiber optics company. They do random piss tests which is kind of a bummer. Plus they start you off at a lower wage than I am making now. Still gonna set up an interview anyways. I don't mind the idea of pre-hre drug testing but randoms just piss me off. None of your business what I do in my own home not on work hours. The land of the free. 
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Nov 20, 2015 15:43
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mobby_6kl posted:^^^ It's there because its a full size keyboard, and because if it was in the middle, your palm of your right hand would sit directly on top of the touchpad when typing. That's loving annoying. If it didn't have the num pad, it would be centered, but I want my god damned num pad.
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Nov 20, 2015 15:52
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CommieGIR posted:
The palms of your hands shouldn't sit on anything when you're typing
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Nov 20, 2015 15:54
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I may have to resort to dryer ducting and zip ties for a few days.....
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Nov 20, 2015 16:05
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  Took a few tries to figure out the appropriate setting, but this one came out like bare minimum acceptable. Fatcow said it's probably Columbus, OH.
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Nov 20, 2015 16:07
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In timg form I thought it was a closeup of a cracked windshield.
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Nov 20, 2015 16:15
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Phone posted:Fatcow said it's probably Columbus, OH. Wow, that's...nicely done.
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Nov 20, 2015 16:26
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Pham Nuwen posted:The palms of your hands shouldn't sit on anything when you're typing Fine, bump it. Either way, I don't want the touchpad anywhere near my palms while typing. And yes, I type with my palms flat.
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Nov 20, 2015 16:31
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Since we were talking about mash ups earlier : https://youtu.be/DbEDsaMcS_8
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The laptop keyboard shouldn't have a numpad because it causes the center of the keyboard and consequently pointing devices to be too off-center with the screen. The trackpad doesn't matter because you disable it and use the clit as civilized person.
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Nov 20, 2015 17:09
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mobby_6kl posted:The laptop keyboard shouldn't have a numpad because it causes the center of the keyboard and consequently pointing devices to be too off-center with the screen. Function over form, thank you very much. I need a numpad, I don't want a USB numpad, and your hatred of asymmetry is confusing.
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Nov 20, 2015 17:14
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My coolant is pink, it should not be pink, it should be orange. Could atf contamination do this, even if its not milky pink?
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Nov 20, 2015 17:17
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maybe it's supporting breast cancer awareness.
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Nov 20, 2015 17:17
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Elmnt80 posted:My coolant is pink, it should not be pink, it should be orange. Could atf contamination do this, even if its not milky pink? Yup: http://www.compressionstroke.com/atf-contamination/
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Just talked to the HR department of the 2nd fiber optics company. They do random piss tests which is kind of a bummer. Plus they start you off at a lower wage than I am making now. Still gonna set up an interview anyways. I don't mind the idea of pre-hre drug testing but randoms just piss me off. None of your business what I do in my own home not on work hours. Lots of companies say that they can do random screening, but I don't think very many actually do it unless they have a reason. My company has the provision for random testing, but unless you start acting strange at work or give them some sort of indicator of an issue, they don't actually do it.
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