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This week sucks and needs to be done already. I stopped by the local gas station before work to grab a drink. After backing out to leave and starting to pull out towards the exit, a chevy 3500 with a big flatbed tray on the back started backing up. I noticed him just before he started crumpling my front passenger fender in, so no time to honk or evade him. Even better, the guy driving it was one of my regulars at work and he instantly recognized me. Yay. Now for the lovely part, at the end of october, my insurance expired and I have yet to renew it since they jumped my 6 month rate up $600 to $2300 for me and my mother on my car that is worth... around $4000. Neither one of us has had any accidents or tickets in the last 3 years, but my insurance is still fuckoff expensive, even compared to people with sports cars and DUIs on their record. The good part is that the guy who backed into me is more than willing to help pay for the stuff since the damage appears minor upon both my inspection and his. Even better, the tray on his truck was heavy gauge diamond plate. I didn't even scratch the loving enamel paint on it. Current inventory of damage is: Passenger front fender (we can source one new thats unpainted through work for $36.85 and I know a good body guy through work that'll do side work if my boss bats her eyelashes at him a few times.) Headlight locating bracket (Dorman and tyc make replacements, sub $40) Front passenger marker light ($15 from tyc through work) Only question mark is why I have no power running to my front passenger headlight. I'll have to disassemble it monday and see if the harness got pinched. I work back to back 12s tomorrow and sunday, so uhhh, heres to hoping I don't get pulled over in the next 2 nights. Pictures of the carnage: The small tab in the second picture is whats actually causing the misalignment with the headlight. Can't bend it back out without pulling out the fender. My fun task for monday. Edit: Oh god drat it, bent some of the metal out of the way so I could inspect the passenger headlight and harness. The bottom of the headlight assembly is smashed. Those fuckers are $200ish for the cheapos like I have in there now. Oem is $675ish. Each. Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Dec 2, 2017 |
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Elon loving Musk is launching a Tesla, his personal car, to Mars. While blasting Space Oddity.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:This week sucks and needs to be done already. I stopped by the local gas station before work to grab a drink. After backing out to leave and starting to pull out towards the exit, a chevy 3500 with a big flatbed tray on the back started backing up. I noticed him just before he started crumpling my front passenger fender in, so no time to honk or evade him. Even better, the guy driving it was one of my regulars at work and he instantly recognized me. Yay. Your post is the kind of thing pushing me to just buy a crappy DD to replace the current cars. I just don't want to deal with that ever again.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:This week sucks and needs to be done already. I stopped by the local gas station before work to grab a drink. After backing out to leave and starting to pull out towards the exit, a chevy 3500 with a big flatbed tray on the back started backing up. I noticed him just before he started crumpling my front passenger fender in, so no time to honk or evade him. Even better, the guy driving it was one of my regulars at work and he instantly recognized me. Yay. As I was pulling into a parking space today, the guy in the car next to me (already parked) flung his door open, right into my door, while I was still moving. Scraped down the side of my car before I realized what happened. Surprised it didn't do worse - like crumple his door when it hit the (LOL GM SIZED) gap between my doors. I stopped, got out, dude just started walking off. Said "WTF man?", he just shrugged and kept walking into Barnes & Noble. Such a nice guy. Found some paint transfer from his (pretty new loaded Silverado) onto my car, but I was able to remove it with just a cloth and WD40 in a couple of minutes right there. The edge of his door is missing a bit of paint. At least got pics of his license plate, truck, and the damage to his truck, but there was no real damage to my car (plastic body panels strike again). Since he walked off and didn't seem to give two shits about his ~2017 Silverado LTZ, and my damage was just paint transfer that came off easily, I'm just gonna forget it happened (still pissed about it, took pics just in case he claims I hit him and took off, but he didn't even stop to look at his own truck). Plastic body panels win again, I guess. Also your insurance is likely to be even more fuckoff expensive since you let it lapse. Insurance companies don't like that, even if you're switching insurance companies. So uh there's that... Kazinsal posted:I, uh, actually don't know what my blood type is. Cop Porn Popper posted:Usually a good installer will leave a long run of extra cable in the wall when he does an install so that if john q fucknut drives a nail through the wall and damages the cable (or a rat eats it or whatever), they can just pull the cable out and crimp a new fitting on the end of the line. This saves them having to try running a new drop down the wall which is a pain in the dick at the best of times or running it along a wall which most property owners object to doing. Any house my dad did an install in has probably 5ft of spare wire in the wall for every outlet that he hooked up. Probably part of where my whole "plan for future fuckups" thing comes from. Yeah, I figured it was excess left by the last installer. Tech did say the place has definitely been rewired, as outside they have the old style A/B cable (dual cable lines from before digital cable was a thing), but inside the wall is much newer single line cable. I still have 2 jacks side by side, but he's pretty insistent that there's no connection between the old "B" line and that jack (there is a cable running to it though, and it's not from the FiOS box... that jack is across the room, behind the couch). There's also a bigass conduit running from the pedestal to the attic. But he also said there was never A/B cable in this town... so why would the pedestal have the dual (attached) cables leading into every unit? I have an idea.. he left the pedestal wide open anyway. I'm going to try the 3 jacks in the bedroom and see if I have a better signal (or any signal at all) in there. Going to try hooking up the other line and trying the other jacks. I only have 6 cable jacks in the drat place anyway, and the one the modem is currently on is physically the farthest from the pedestal. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Dec 2, 2017 |
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i had undiagnosed lyme disease for eight years so i was told not to donate blood
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:i had undiagnosed lyme disease for eight years so i was told not to donate blood I have two missed calls from Biolife today so I probably have AIDS and they just found out.
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The dual wire setup was from well before they made the switch to digital. Like from when that apartment complex was put into place. It was something the company who provided the cable service in the 80s set up to combat some goofy problem. I'd have to ask my dad for the details since he was contracted to that company at the time and actually know about the system. Its lovely, dumb and now causes more problems than it solves. Also, if you have the kind of wall box where the front panel slides down, they should have a flange at the top that can be pried up to gain access. Hell, shoot me a pic of the wall box or pedestal anywhere in the dfw metro area and I can tell you how to get into it with hand tools in about 2 minutes. FAT32 SHAMER posted:i had undiagnosed lyme disease for eight years so i was told not to donate blood One of my medications I took in school bans me from ever giving blood. It sucks. Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Dec 2, 2017 |
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Oh this one can (now) be opened with a screwdriver. The lock is long clogged with 30+ years of paint. I just don't feel like loving with it in full view of the street at 1am. And yeah, when I first moved here (here being DFW), A/B was still very much a thing, I think TCI CableVision was the main provider on the Dallas side. The apartments I'm in were originally owner-occupied condos, so I doubt there was any goofy on-site cable system like what I've run into at other apartments I've lived at. The tech who was out here said it was a bog standard setup, with TWC/Spectrum owning the amps and everything inside of the wall box. Once TCI left, I think Time Warner came in, then Comcast, then back to Time Warner. I think the Ft Worth side has been on Charter for a long time, but I've never lived in Tarrant county (Charter also had Denton though, which I did live in). But both Comcast and Time Warner kept the A/B system alive for a lot longer than they should have - I think they finally killed it off about 10 years ago. My parents house was built in late 1994, and has the A/B lines. Rodents chewed up one of them after A/B got killed off, so I just moved them to the other line (and they still have the 2 coax wall jacks). Then the other line got chewed up, so I had to pull new wire through the attic to the main splitter (in the summer....). I spliced it into the wire right when it came into the attic, it's been fine ever since. Your dad might know about my specific area though. It was.... special. I'm in Garland, but not on GP&L for my power (Oncor instead), for example. I'll shoot you a PM with details about my area, it was all 1 developer, and he wound up bankrupting a bunch of S&Ls. In case you didn't catch my edit, gonna move it to this post: e: welp I guess maintenance saw it hanging open (cable guy left it like that since he thought he was coming back the next day), they ran wood screws through the (very metal) cover. But I did confirm that out of 6 cable jacks, only 1 has any kind of signal that the modem picks up on.. and oddly enough, after I took the wall plate off of each of them and yanked on the cable in the wall... the signal quality is a shitload better. It's still crap (tons of errors and a few channels won't sync), but I'm back to low pings and decent speeds, and it synced immediately. I found a splitter behind one of them, but the modem didn't see anything when plugged into that jack (and that wire looked original to the building... mud and paint splatter on it). I guess the cables are all physically attached somehow in the attic, and pulling on them maybe jostled the damaged one enough to start working somewhat? Downstream power levels are all +/- 3dB now, instead of -9 to -12. SnR just sucks on a few channels. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Dec 2, 2017 |
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:i had undiagnosed lyme disease for eight years so i was told not to donate blood I lived in England for >3 months in 1991. Apparently I might have mad cow disease, so I'm banned.
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nm posted:I lived in England for >3 months in 1991. Apparently I might have mad cow disease, so I'm banned. Prions are loving weird and scary.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Elon loving Musk is launching a Tesla, his personal car, to Mars. Maybe he should spend more time figuring out how to make a Model 3 and less time sending personal cars into space.
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The technocrats wish to begin evacuating the earth immediately
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Maybe it's possible to do more than one thing at once, and musk is big on showmanship, it keeps people talking about him and his companies achievements. Silly as gently caress I agree, but funny.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Maybe it's possible to do more than one thing at once, and musk is big on showmanship, it keeps people talking about him and his companies achievements. Maybe it is possible to do more than one thing at once, but "making Model 3s" isn't one of the thing's he's doing. "Launching a car into space" is one of the things he's doing. With Tesla being leveraged so far out, and hemorrhaging money on the daily... I'm just saying maybe he should stop with the showmanship and make some product. It's going to be interesting to look back at Musk in 30 years. His legacy is going to be binary. It's either going to be "revolutionary genius" or "full-on huckster." There is no way it can be anything but.
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God drat it, I've got the worst luck with phones. Of course my GS7 has a firmware issue that causes it to overheat and reboot every two minutes while on airplane mode and trying to use Wi-Fi. Apparently it's a common enough problem to have pissed off thousands of people online, Samsung refuses to acknowledge it exists, and a factory reset only *might* fix the issue. Maybe. gently caress that, it's always a pain to have to re setup a phone after a wipe. Why do I keep coming back to Samsung? My last phone from them self immolated yet I just went and got another one.
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Bajaha posted:God drat it, I've got the worst luck with phones. Of course my GS7 has a firmware issue that causes it to overheat and reboot every two minutes while on airplane mode and trying to use Wi-Fi. I was actually shopping for a Moto Z/Z2 Force specifically after like 3 garbage Samsungs (J3 Prime, Express 3, J7) and somehow decided an S8 is perfect for my active, on the go lifestyle working on and around uneven flagstone pavement and my life is now paranoia and fear
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I got a Huawei Honor 8x for like $220 and am just now realizing i've never had a single complaint about it. Weird.
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Sweet, just flooded the bathroom by somehow forgetting to turn off the sink while I took a shower. Flooring is marketed as waterproof, nothing underneath damaged (just wet cars) and drywall barely looks wet. Currently hot boxing the bathroom with space heaters and fans. Basement cleaned up and all the fans the breaker can support are going. I'm probably wasting money but I have ServPro coming to look things over because I don't want this to be an issue a couple years down the road. Guess I'm reorganizing the basement/garage this weekend after all. So not how I planned my free weekend.
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Seminal Flu posted:Maybe it is possible to do more than one thing at once, but "making Model 3s" isn't one of the thing's he's doing. "Launching a car into space" is one of the things he's doing. With Tesla being leveraged so far out, and hemorrhaging money on the daily... I'm just saying maybe he should stop with the showmanship and make some product. Also damnit I want my 3.
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Seminal Flu posted:Maybe it is possible to do more than one thing at once, but "making Model 3s" isn't one of the thing's he's doing. "Launching a car into space" is one of the things he's doing. How I learned to stop worrying and Love the Musk
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Now for the lovely part, at the end of october, my insurance expired and I have yet to renew it since they jumped my 6 month rate up $600 to $2300 for me and my mother on my car that is worth... around $4000. Neither one of us has had any accidents or tickets in the last 3 years, but my insurance is still fuckoff expensive, even compared to people with sports cars and DUIs on their record.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:This week sucks and needs to be done already. I stopped by the local gas station before work to grab a drink. After backing out to leave and starting to pull out towards the exit, a chevy 3500 with a big flatbed tray on the back started backing up. I noticed him just before he started crumpling my front passenger fender in, so no time to honk or evade him. Even better, the guy driving it was one of my regulars at work and he instantly recognized me. Yay. B+ here, but I'm banned from donating because I receive money for sex e: God, I just ordered a 1080ti because I want to finally use my rift and why the hell is Amazon prime a week? slidebite fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Dec 2, 2017 |
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ilkhan posted:The original goal for the 3 was 5k per week at the end of 2019. He moved it up in response to demand. Let's see what production numbers are in the coming weeks, production hell is real but so is solving problems as they come up and each improvement yielding faster line speeds. Making cars isn't easy. They don't have the experience as the others in the industry for ~100 years. Hate to say it but I agree with meatpimp on this guy, though.
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Seminal Flu posted:Maybe it is possible to do more than one thing at once, but "making Model 3s" isn't one of the thing's he's doing. "Launching a car into space" is one of the things he's doing. With Tesla being leveraged so far out, and hemorrhaging money on the daily... I'm just saying maybe he should stop with the showmanship and make some product. I doubt there's a vacant place in the assembly line labeled "'ol Musky" causing them to miss production targets, there pretty much nothing he can personally do to improve line productivity, in fact his very presence pretty much guarantees worse performance as everyone spends effort and time making things look good or busy or preparing pretty presentations to show how much work they're doing.
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Oh for fucks sake, my wife and I met a lady on PEI last year who runs a fantastic farm (offer tours for kids and city slickers) and they are now getting flack for <gasp> selling some of their cute animals that will end up on dinner plates! The ~horror~ that humanely cared for, non factory farmed and raised animals be dared butchered and eaten. Jesus christ http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/pets-or-meat-p-e-i-petting-farm-gets-flak-for-goats-sold-to-eat-1.3703344 At least she's unapologetic.
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slidebite posted:Oh for fucks sake, my wife and I met a lady on PEI last year who runs a fantastic farm (offer tours for kids and city slickers) and they are now getting flack for <gasp> selling some of their cute animals that will end up on dinner plates! The ~horror~ that humanely cared for, non factory farmed and raised animals be dared butchered and eaten. So factory farming is abusive to animals, but if you raise the animals well and care for them and show kids where meat comes from before slaughter, that's immoral? to that logic.
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My meat comes from Publix
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Next week will be the first time I've worked over 25ish hours a week in a couple of months. Amazon made it so goddamn impossible to get hours that most everyone I know has given up on them. Have 46 hours scheduled with a major national food delivery company that I've worked with before, plus the laughable 2 hours Amazon offered me (I'm really tempted to throw away that Amazon shift though). Been averaging ~$20/hr with the new/old gig, but was still fighting for hours with Amazon (and doing Uber Eats a bit) because their pay schedule worked better until I started getting paychecks. Thursday I hit $30/hr but last night was only $14/hr (mostly because of traffic.. it was taking 30 minutes to get each loving order dropped off). Far less miles than Amazon (~100 a day instead of 200-300), but my mileage goes to poo poo since it's 100% city driving. And my left knee is getting real pissy about the clutch. The obvious downside at the moment is my taxes will go up, since I won't be able to write off nearly as many miles. As much as I hate to say it, I think I'm going to the dark side for my next car and going with an automatic. Gingerbread House Music posted:I got a Huawei Honor 8x for like $220 and am just now realizing i've never had a single complaint about it. Weird. I almost got that instead of my Nexus 6P (also made by Huawei). Only complaints about the 6P are the battery life and the screen burn-in, but I have 4+ hours of screen on time a day. I don't dare leave home without a charger of some kind. Somehow my work phone (2014 Moto X) still has pretty great battery life, despite similar usage (more screen time actually, up to 10 hours a day - the screen is FUKT from burn in.. love AMOLED for the brightness, hate it for the burn in). It's starting to freeze occasionally though. I may go ahead and wipe it today or tomorrow. All it has are work apps, so it won't take long to set it back up. I hope I don't have to replace it anytime soon, it's still reasonably quick and owes me absolutely nothing. With that kind of screen on time I still have to keep a charger with me, but if I leave it just sitting idle on my desk with a full charge, it'll run for nearly 3 days. The Nexus won't make it 24 hours (also sitting idle). NitroSpazzz posted:Sweet, just flooded the bathroom by somehow forgetting to turn off the sink while I took a shower. Flooring is marketed as waterproof, nothing underneath damaged (just wet cars) and drywall barely looks wet. Currently hot boxing the bathroom with space heaters and fans. Basement cleaned up and all the fans the breaker can support are going. I'm probably wasting money but I have ServPro coming to look things over because I don't want this to be an issue a couple years down the road. ServPro is gonna set up dehumidifiers and fans. They'll be a lot more effective than just heaters - the dehumidifiers are basically portable ac units without an exhaust hose. Probably about as damaging on your electric bill as the heaters. They'll probably want to pull up carpet in neighboring rooms to make sure nothing seeped in, might want to open up drywall too (unlikely though). Source: parents used to own a franchise of one of their competitors, started working for them when I was like 10, and was helping on floods within a year or so. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Dec 2, 2017 |
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slidebite posted:
What can i get for a non running subaru?
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Gingerbread House Music posted:What can i get for a non running subaru? Just some head
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The Subaru 60k: in a half hour or less be covered head to toe in every single combination of fluids possible
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:ServPro is gonna set up dehumidifiers and fans. They'll be a lot more effective than just heaters - the dehumidifiers are basically portable ac units without an exhaust hose. Probably about as damaging on your electric bill as the heaters. They'll probably want to pull up carpet in neighboring rooms to make sure nothing seeped in, might want to open up drywall too (unlikely though). After that fiasco I did end up getting around to replacing the thermostat in the Caddy which was the main thing I wanted to accomplish today other than some organization which now isn't possible. Previous owner, who pulled it out of a barn after sitting for years, replaced the radiator and hoses so I thought maybe the thermostat was hung or something. Nope, no thermostat at all. Easy fix but wtf after spending $70-100 on new radiator/hoses would you not buy a $5 thermostat.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:
If you keep driving for work you need a goddamned Prius DICK DICER posted:The Subaru 60k: in a half hour or less be covered head to toe in every single combination of fluids possible You can always tell the ones who've done this before, they don't flinch.
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Blech. Thanks to the long list of requirements from both parties, the only real option for the family Christmas tree is the same one we've been using for years. Except every year it has more dead bulbs and holy gently caress is it a nightmare trying to find the one dead bulb on a prelit tree. As a bonus it was one of the larger twinkling bulbs this year, which I now have no more spares for. I also can't seem to find any online anywhere for the inevitable dead bulb next year.
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Larrymer posted:
So it turns out that this was all about the upcoming launch of the Falcon Heavy - a rocket that has a very good chance of an end in Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, given it will be it's first launch - and it was a decision on the frivious cargo. You dont put real cargo on a first launch rocket. How exactly is Musk goign to be remembered as a huckster again? SpaceX is going to try to launch a Mars capable rocket and has a amazing successful reusable rocket design already for vastly cheaper than anyone could have imagined, Tesla are supplying huge arrays of batteries (amazingly even on time now), Tesla have blazed the EV trail in ways no one thought could happen and redefined EV's and yet because Tesla have hit the production hell that rapid expansion gives you esp in car making, he's a huckster? Frankly he's only guilty of delivering late on his outragous promise timelines. But even then, those promises have been on things no one thought could happen years later and yet here we are, Tesla have even got a loving EV truck in the pipeline. As for the fanbois...... whatever. At least they are fanboiiing a guy who is havign an absolute red hot go at fundamentally changing transport / power and space industries. I'd rather than than the fanbois who gag on the dead cock of a guy who showed off phones that featured nothing others had two years ago CAT INTERCEPTOR fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Dec 2, 2017 |
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:So it turns out that this was all about the upcoming launch of the Falcon Heavy - a rocket that has a very good chance of an end in Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, given it will be it's first launch - and it was a decision on the frivious cargo. You dont put real cargo on a first launch rocket. All these things you're talking about haven't happened yet sooo..
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My Nexus 5x took a swim yesterday, but amazingly everything was working fine so I thought I was golden. Plugged it in to charge and a few minutes letter I notice the unmistakable smell of melting plastic and wires. Apparently the part that tells the phone to stop taking power when the battery is full decided it didn't want to work. Managed to completely melt the USB cable, the back of the case and most of the board the cable connects too. gently caress. Luckily the Moto x4 got released, decently priced and most importantly works with Google fi. Not super pumped about the phone, but I leave for Mexico early Monday morning and it was the only thing I could easily get my hands on in time. The only problem is Best buy didn't have any accessories for it and Amazon can't get me anything till Monday. Now I get to attempt to not destroy this phone while drinking on the beach for a week. On the plus side, I have already dropped it once and no damage!
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fridge corn posted:All these things you're talking about haven't happened yet sooo.. Ausland just got a massive battery array turned on, and the 3 started production on time. Slower production than expected, but still production. Car shows may as well be renamed BEV shows at this point. And the roadster 2.0 and the semi show just how much performance and capability range electrics have. slurry_curry posted:Luckily the Moto x4 got released, decently priced and most importantly works with Google fi. Not super pumped about the phone, but I leave for Mexico early Monday morning and it was the only thing I could easily get my hands on in time. The only problem is Best buy didn't have any accessories for it and Amazon can't get me anything till Monday. Now I get to attempt to not destroy this phone while drinking on the beach for a week. On the plus side, I have already dropped it once and no damage!
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ilkhan posted:
Yeah, I need to call around to all the lovely cell phone accessory stores in town and see if they have anything for this phone. If not, gently caress it I'm on vacation and my phone can stay in my room. Traveling with family, so someone I am with will have a phone on them. Maybe not having my phone on me will actually keep me from checking my work email.
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