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Rhyno posted:Had a pretty nice sit down with the bosses, looks like I'm off the hook for the BS and I got a "you're an essential part of the team, we don't think we can ever replace you." from them so that was cool. Spoiler that poo poo. I was only halfway through your arc.
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Jesus christ, selling something locally on craigs/kijiji is an exercise in frustration. Thursday afternoon, listed my 980ti at $350 - $50 less than any other one for sale so I could just sell it. Literally, within moments of posting the ad it began: "is it still available?" "card available?" "will you take $220?" "WHAT IS YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR?" "Trade for an aquarium?" "I WILL TAKE IT" when I replied "I NEED YOU TO SHIP IT TO QUEBEC". When I say no "WHY NOT?? IT IS REASONABLE AND EASY. GO TO CANADAPOST.CA AND SEE!!" Because, if I wanted to ship the loving thing I'd sell it on ebay or any other number of forums, plus going to the loving post office at christmas would make me purposely forget to get forget to unload my P226 when I clean it. "Hi - available?" "260" "HELLO ME AGAIN ARE YOU SURE YOU WON'T SHIP TO QUEBEC? I WILL PAY YOUR PRICE" "CARD AVAILABLE?" "I LIVE IN VAUGHN ONTARIO SHIP IT TO ME OKAY" "Would you like a snake?" "Hello I am interested in your video card. Is it still available?" (yes) "Will you take $220?" End of the day, a guy that simply told me "Hey, I'll take it. I can meet pretty much anytime" so we met in the police station parking lot at 5PM yesterday. He game me $350 cash, no negotiating, no bullshit. I told him to keep a $20 for being my sole glimmer of hope for humanity.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Thanks for all the tripod advice. Spent this morning buying a 2004 Volvo S40, a repossession I bought from the finance company with HPI check so I know the titles clear. Needs tyres and fluids but stress over. Just need to strip bits from the fiat and get it dragged away.
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I am going to drive my coworkers crazy. clack clack clack clack CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACKLACKACLAKC
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InitialDave posted:Good you're mobile again. Is that an early or late one, they changed about then, didn't they? The update. I know it's a thirteen year old car but it didn't look or feel like it. Apart from PO was a vaper and there's a mysterious oily substance inside the centre console. Disgusting twat.
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cakesmith handyman posted:The update. I know it's a thirteen year old car but it didn't look or feel like it. Apart from PO was a vaper and there's a mysterious oily substance inside the centre console. Disgusting twat.
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Dec 9, 2017 19:42
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Yeah. I learnt my lesson, my wife doesn't do enough miles to warrant a diesel.
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Dec 9, 2017 19:51
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cakesmith handyman posted:Yeah. I learnt my lesson, my wife doesn't do enough miles to warrant a diesel. That's heresy
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WEDDING RECEPTION PLAYLIST UPDATE Four Andrew WK songs thus far. That poor woman has no idea what she's gotten into.
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Dec 9, 2017 20:39
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CommieGIR posted:That's heresy I once donated an I5 TDI volvo to a tank driving experience fight me. (2 miles a day some days, she choked the egr because it never actually got warm)
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CommieGIR posted:That's heresy
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Cage posted:I am going to drive my coworkers crazy. Mechanical keyboards are great, although I'm personally not sold on the LEDs. Cherry blues?
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cakesmith handyman posted:I once donated an I5 TDI volvo to a tank driving experience fight me. I needed that motor you rear end in a top hat. I still want a I5 TDI for the 5000 Quattro Wagon. InitialDave posted:The problem here is that they pushed diesels as being a better, more economical option, without people really being educated in the nature of the emissions gubbins they attached to them, or their unsuitability for short-journey urban use. NOx on one hand, CO2 on the other, they both suck. Electric is the only true solution (as long as your power provider is not coal/gas)
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Cage posted:I am going to drive my coworkers crazy. I love the keypress feel but i dont love the keypress sound.
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CommieGIR posted:I needed that motor you rear end in a top hat. I still want a I5 TDI for the 5000 Quattro Wagon. CommieGIR posted:NOx on one hand, CO2 on the other, they both suck. Electric is the only true solution (as long as your power provider is not coal/gas) InitialDave fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Dec 9, 2017 |
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CommieGIR posted:I needed that motor you rear end in a top hat. I still want a I5 TDI for the 5000 Quattro Wagon.  Seriously though over here they are in Volvo's and VW's by the thousand.
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InitialDave posted:Keep building i5 petrol turbos, like a respectable member of society. TDIs are easier to tune and get power out of, require less electronics, and can make the 5000q into a decent towing vehicle. Its easier to tune a vehicle when knocking is just what it does naturally. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Dec 9, 2017 |
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cakesmith handyman posted:I once donated an I5 TDI volvo to a tank driving experience fight me. How badly did it damage the tank?
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Raluek posted:Mechanical keyboards are great, although I'm personally not sold on the LEDs. Cherry blues? They're blue switches. For $18 it was an easy buy. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01H6P8ASU/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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slidebite posted:Jesus christ, selling something locally on craigs/kijiji is an exercise in frustration. Thursday afternoon, listed my 980ti at $350 - $50 less than any other one for sale so I could just sell it. I've got a stack of hdd's here to get rid of after upgrading my NAS and lab boxes, but holy poo poo is it a crap show to try and sell them. I'm probably going to just list them as a lot on eBay and let someone else deal with the flakes/scammers.
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I honestly can't wait for bitcoin to crash again so all the buttcoiners gently caress off and graphics cards don't cost $Texas anymore.
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the spyder posted:I've got a stack of hdd's here to get rid of after upgrading my NAS and lab boxes, but holy poo poo is it a crap show to try and sell them. I'm probably going to just list them as a lot on eBay and let someone else deal with the flakes/scammers. Be like everyone else and realize electronics are supposed to be disposable* so normal people don't buy them second hand. If you are selling them you will mainly get the crazies and time wasters. If you are fine with that then go ahead. gumtree cl kjikjijkjik etc work fine when selling stuff normal people buy second hand. I have no hassles with tools, ladders, cars, vintage stuff. *unservicable, too hard to visually check, no idea if an item being tested gets flakey after 1hr use etc)
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Rhyno posted:WEDDING RECEPTION PLAYLIST UPDATE So.... "if you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough" x 4?
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slidebite posted:Jesus christ, selling something locally on craigs/kijiji is an exercise in frustration. Thursday afternoon, listed my 980ti at $350 - $50 less than any other one for sale so I could just sell it. Snake hater.
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redgubbinz posted:I honestly can't wait for bitcoin to crash again so all the buttcoiners gently caress off and graphics cards don't cost $Texas anymore. Bitcoin isn't the source of your pain, it hasn't been profitable/practical to mine with GPUs since 2013. Actually, if you can't afford to fill a datacenter with ASIC miners you can't really turn a profit - and those who can are only looking to use bitcoin as a vehicle to move their wealth out of repressive countries like China. Its altcoins that are driving up the price of GPUs. And considering some of the more recent ones (like etherium) have limitations built in that prevent FPGAs and ASICs from having a substantial edge GPU prices aren't likely to go anywhere any time soon. Geoj fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Dec 10, 2017 |
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Seminal Flu posted:So.... "if you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough" x 4? don't hate
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Cage posted:I am going to drive my coworkers crazy. That looks like a quiet keyboard. Repent to the church of the buckling spring.
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Cage posted:I wouldn't do the led thing on my home computer but for work where I really don't type all that much I thought it would be cool mostly for the decoration. I have a LOT of dumb non-work related crap on my desk. Wh..where's the 10 key 
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Cage posted:They're blue switches. For $18 it was an easy buy. I get $26.99. Aww  I still haven't got around to finding a suitable mechanical switch to replace the broken one in my XT mechanical keyboard that I was using on the PC. I don't even know how many keyboards I've gotten through since that one. Some cheap ones, maybe 3 or 4 Logitechs and an IP rated one for medical and industrial use. Just wish I could find my heavy-as-a-brick XT keyboard that beeps with every keypress. Great for infuriating people. It doesn't have an F11 or F12 though. I literally never use the Windows key so I couldn't care less about that. Dieselchat: I'd love a diesel. It's not uncommon for me to drive 7-800km a day only stopping for the destination in the middle... and fuel. loving cars and their puny tanks. My old ZL fairlane had a long range tank. The NF Fairlane was dual fuel and I could get maybe 900km out of both. The Niva has horrifying fuel efficiency, but it's what I use for hauling poo poo, running errands and going bush. The Rav4 really wasn't very efficient. Came in at roughly 11-12L-100km. The XJ with it's O2 sensor CEL, lots of Km and fairly knobbly A/T tyres still gets the best economy. Go figure. Two things sell for a whole lot around here. Small, efficient cars regardless of age and diesels. Fuel is very expensive and drives are always long.
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Geoj posted:Bitcoin isn't the source of your pain, it hasn't been profitable/practical to mine with GPUs since 2013. Actually, if you can't afford to fill a datacenter with ASIC miners you can't really turn a profit - and those who can are only looking to use bitcoin as a vehicle to move their wealth out of repressive countries like China. I also seem to recall a lot of online retailers are adding purchase caps where you can get up to 2 GPUs at normal price, but the 3rd one and up cost like $10k a piece when you add them to your cart. Could just be apocryphal though.
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cakesmith handyman posted:The update. I know it's a thirteen year old car but it didn't look or feel like it. Apart from PO was a vaper and there's a mysterious oily substance inside the centre console. Disgusting twat. In case anyone thought I was exaggerating... 
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What the gently caress. I hate filthy cars and always cringed at the state of the exterior and interior of the exs car, (or my EL falcon when I let her have it before she bought her own commodore to trash) If you think it's vaping related then it's just glycerin or propylene glycol Fo3 fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Dec 10, 2017 |
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Cage posted:Listen! Do you smell something? today a man complained to me he couldn't smell the cologne I was selling "because it's too dark in here"
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I just had a drive in my parents' new car, a brand new Peugeot 308, with the 120hp 1.6 diesel. I came away thoroughly impressed. Quiet, comfortable, impressive handling and so many toys. Sensors and cameras everywhere, it reads road signs and even shows a drat overhead view while you're backing up, however they hell the that works. It goes completely crazy with beeps and indicators when you back out of their tight driveway. And of course it nudges you back if you accidentally cross lines on the road. Modern cars, man. The only thing I can't get used to is the rev counter, which goes counter-clockwise, for some odd reason.
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How did you find the infotainment in the 308? I’ve found PSA’s one to be quite dimwitted, skipping tracks with Bluetooth takes ages. My wife has a 208 with the 90hp version of the 1.6 diesel, it moves it along quite nicely but feels very neutered if you try to push on.
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slothrop posted:today a man complained to me he couldn't smell the cologne I was selling "because it's too dark in here" 
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slothrop posted:today a man complained to me he couldn't smell the cologne I was selling "because it's too dark in here" "You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel." I now know what half the people in Airplane! felt like. Shouldn't have had the fish.
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stump posted:How did you find the infotainment in the 308? I’ve found PSA’s one to be quite dimwitted, skipping tracks with Bluetooth takes ages. It's not too bad, and Android Auto is pretty cool. But I honestly prefer an AUX cable and the phone in a holder.
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