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I've been farting almost nonstop for two hours. Tell my family I love them.
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New high point for my HOA. I've had 2 wheels of the Escalade off the driveway and in the grass to give my wife more room to back out while the Juke is still in the garage. I got this little nugget of joy this morning:quote:During a recent community inspection on 08/13/19, it was observed that there was a Cadillac SUV with the license plate of xxxx parked in your front yard. If you have not done so already, please remove vehicle from your front yard, per your Association guidelines. I can't  hard enough. I called so that we can review the pictures they took. Assholes. There's a house across the street that put a loving arbor vidae spite fence in its front yard without repercussions, yet I park with a couple wheels off the grass and it's "parking in the front yard."
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Aug 27, 2019 14:50
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meatpimp posted:New high point for my HOA. I've had 2 wheels of the Escalade off the driveway and in the grass to give my wife more room to back out while the Juke is still in the garage. I got this little nugget of joy this morning: That sounds like fun to deal with. Our neighbor bordering our backyard tried to tell my wife that our backyard is part of a protected wetland and that I can't legally tear down all the trees and plant grass. Funny how only my backyard was a part of this so called wetland.
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meatpimp posted:New high point for my HOA. I've had 2 wheels of the Escalade off the driveway and in the grass to give my wife more room to back out while the Juke is still in the garage. I got this little nugget of joy this morning: what the gently caress is wrong with people? i had a neighbouring shop who had a drag car who used to do runs up and down my street and i just went in there and asked them to move it a street over (where there arent any residential buildings) because the cattes kept getting out and i didnt want them smooshed. why wouldnt you just go up to someone and ask them nicely to do whatever? that said if its not impacting you at all why would you give a poo poo? its not like an escalade slightly on a lawn affects anything
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Aug 27, 2019 15:27
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big dong wanter posted:why wouldnt you just go up to someone and ask them nicely to do whatever? There have been many stories from bad neighbors threads to know this can backfire extremely bad as a reason people may be hesitant to do this.
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meatpimp posted:New high point for my HOA. I've had 2 wheels of the Escalade off the driveway and in the grass to give my wife more room to back out while the Juke is still in the garage. I got this little nugget of joy this morning: Land of the freeeeeeeee 
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Aug 27, 2019 15:55
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Lol my mates spare car has been out the front of my house and not moved for two months and no one has said a peep about it! The council just drives the street sweeper around it. I’m still rocking a 2600k with 16gb of Ram as my main PC... had that thing since the 2600k was first released and all I’ve done to it is throw some SSD’s at it and upgraded the graphics cards. Just picked up a cheap EVGA 1070 superclocked and popped that in and it’s woken the thing rift the hell up- had a 4gb 770 in there before Laptop is a 2012 MacBook Pro. I ripped out the optical drive and moved the original mechanical drive into that spot and put in an SSD as a boot. The screen has a few funny colour splotches in it from... impacts... but it still keeps trucking along. Tho if I start getting a bit more serious in my videography stuff with the drone and cameras, I might have to consider upgrading something... I’ve got an old Mac Pro 1,1 that’s now running dual quad cores, but they aren’t hyperthreading and it’s too old to run the modern versions of OS X. Maybe look at picking up a cheap Mac Pro 3,1 or 5,1 and build it into a video rig. Would very much prefer to use Final Cut Pro rather than adobe...
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Travel insurance suggests that I attempt self-sodomy since “police report no signs of forced entry”, i.e. they’re blaming us for the situation. AirBnb obviously gives zero fucks. The only things stolen that nobody’s dicking us about on is my wife’s headphones (Shure SE215s with BT2 cables - like $350 or so), and that’s through the credit card’s purchase protection...  Last ditch is to call home insurance provider today. Fingers crossed we’re not actually out the $14k I put on our Visa card last night 
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Aug 27, 2019 16:17
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angryrobots posted:Jebus gently caress I see what you did there  We normally wouldn’t travel with so much $ in electronics but my wife was working on her grad school, I was using music-making to help decompress, and we brought our good camera gear to shoot our friend’s wedding. Perfect storm for getting really taken to the cleaners. Thankfully everything we need on the notebooks is stored in Dropbox / backed up at home, and I’d already pulled the photos so they’re in iCloud. It’s literally just money. It could have been 1,000,000x worse. Neither of us were hurt, had our passports with us, gently caress it. I hope whoever took the poo poo really needed the gear itself or the cash. Make some beautiful art with it or something. We’ll survive. Thanks for the kind words though, thread. 
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You got a police report? gently caress, man, did you suck off the chief inspector? The rest of us just get a "crime number" and that's about it.
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HandlingByJebus posted:Travel insurance suggests that I attempt self-sodomy since “police report no signs of forced entry”, i.e. they’re blaming us for the situation. AirBnb obviously gives zero fucks. The only things stolen that nobody’s dicking us about on is my wife’s headphones (Shure SE215s with BT2 cables - like $350 or so), and that’s through the credit card’s purchase protection...
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Aug 27, 2019 17:50
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Goddamnit, I’m now traveling to an Airbnb tonight and was thinking of bringing my laptop along to write up a few emails and look up some stuff while I’m there. Maybe not, now. That really blows. Did the flat have a door with a keypad? If they’re not seeing “forced entry” I’m starting to wonder if this is something the host and a particularly dirty friend of theirs worked out in advance.
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Aug 27, 2019 19:03
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Oh hai I own a fire truck now 
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everdave posted:Oh hai I own a fire truck now This is the best thing to ever happen in AI.
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Aug 27, 2019 19:12
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everdave posted:Oh hai I own a fire truck now OMG how much?
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Aug 27, 2019 19:15
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everdave posted:Oh hiace I own a fire truck now One of these days I need to drive over and see your growing collection. That firetruck is so cool
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Aug 27, 2019 19:20
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therobit posted:OMG how much? Look at this, does it even matter how much? 
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No, except that we all want one too. How much?
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Aug 27, 2019 19:36
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They usually go for $6-8k. I bid 6 and won for $3500 but I got lucky. Has 3800 (yes 3,800) actual KM Edit: yes Siren and flashy light still hooked up
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everdave posted:They usually go for $6-8k. I bid 6 and won for $3500 but I got lucky. Has 3800 (yes 3,800) actual KM Goddamn. Nice find.
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everdave posted:They usually go for $6-8k. I bid 6 and won for $3500 but I got lucky. Has 3800 (yes 3,800) actual KM Do you have a thread somewhere on importing Japanese vehicles? I had never even considered the possibility of importing a firetruck and now I feel like I have to have one.
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therobit posted:Do you have a thread somewhere on importing Japanese vehicles? I had never even considered the possibility of importing a firetruck and now I feel like I have to have one. All everdave and I do these days is import JDM https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3829078&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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Aug 27, 2019 19:44
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Please post video of siren and lights.
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Aug 27, 2019 19:45
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NumbersMatching320 posted:Re: Dremel 3d printer, there's been one on display at KMS since they came out and it's basically always too broken to demo fuckall. It is unbelievably poo poo, only prints in PLA, and is outrageously expensive for what it is. If you want a 3d printer for home use, jump on Ali Express and get an Ender 3. It does everything the dremel does, plus prints ABS, and PETG. And it's only $250. MustardFacial fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Aug 27, 2019 |
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Aug 27, 2019 19:49
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I told my friend and he desperately wants to know how much you'll let it go for.
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Rhyno posted:Please post video of siren and lights. When it gets here I will do just that
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big dong wanter posted:what the gently caress is wrong with people? Because it's a HOA; the board members have nothing better to do than to order people around. They're all bored retirees who were bullied their entire lives, or bullied others. Source: my 91 year old step grandfather is the HOA president in his neighborhood (my dad and stepmother live across the street from him)... when I was visiting, he told my dad "<Dad>, why don't I get that piece of poo poo Saturn towed from in front of your house? It's old as hell and ugly", with me standing there. I replied "Joe, for your information, that piece of poo poo is 4 years newer than the Lexus in your garage, doesn't have a single dent, unlike your Lexus with all of its unrepaired damage from you hitting your garage, house, and multiple parked cars... has perfect paint, less miles, and just got me here from Dallas. And if you'll look on the windshield, it has a brand new registration and inspection." His answer was "uhh, I meant... a different Saturn. Certainly not your Saturn STR! There was a different one parked there yesterday!" while dad was turning bright purple trying not to laugh his rear end off. His FIL is a retired Army officer of some kind. Dad later told me nobody has ever had the balls to stand up to him within the HOA, because his ex Army officer persona comes out. There's less than 2 dozen houses on the street, and I was definitely the only pauper in a Saturn. (this was the old Saturd, definitely not the piece of poo poo Negative Ions I drive now) Rhyno posted:I've been farting almost nonstop for two hours. I kept crop dusting a coworker (technically one of my boss's now) alllllll night last night. TBF I warned him "dude, stay upwind of me if you want to keep your dinner in your stomach" more than once. He didn't take my advice seriously until after I heard him dry heaving. Ripoff posted:Goddamnit, I’m now traveling to an Airbnb tonight and was thinking of bringing my laptop along to write up a few emails and look up some stuff while I’m there. Maybe not, now. Keep an old beater laptop for that kind of stuff. Mine's an old Core2 of some kind... I think (same era, anyway). I don't even know. I just know it's painful to use with Windows (even with a SSD), but reasonable with Linux. I remote into my desktop at home if I need actual processing power. The CPU fan on it goes into hairdryer mode if I even stream Hulu. I couldn't give 2 shits if someone curbstomps it to dust. There's nothing actually stored on it outside of the OS; it's basically used as a thin client. It's not quite as painful as the PowerPC-era Mac I have as a footrest, but it's slow. I need to get a new battery for it, it runs for about 10 minutes now. Or maybe just a newer laptop. If that happens some unfortunate goon will wind up with it for AI:SS. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Aug 27, 2019 |
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Ripoff posted:That really blows. Did the flat have a door with a keypad? If they’re not seeing “forced entry” I’m starting to wonder if this is something the host and a particularly dirty friend of theirs worked out in advance. I had the same idea, or else someone in the same building who knows how to break in easily.
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Or it's just a house and residential locksets are insanely easy to bump / rake which wouldn't show a goddamn sign of anything. I lost my keys once and had a locksmith bump me into my house and it was almost disturbing how quickly he got through three locks. I've spent more time fumbling with my keys than that.
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We should just skip to January 2020 before somebody gets killed.
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cakesmith handyman posted:You mean the date of the apocalypse?
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cakesmith handyman posted:You mean the date of the apocalypse? You're thinking November 5th 2024
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It was Jan 20 2027. We're all dead.
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Tremek posted:You may be able to install it but FreeNAS has two peculiar but important requirements around RAM: Geoj posted:ECC DDR3 is dirt cheap right now, especially if you're willing/able to use 4GB modules. Thanks, will have to research. Minis use laptop RAM, and not sure if they support ECC. Might just punt and grab a cheap-ish HP or Lenovo SFF desktop to use. I would grab an USFF (or "micro PC") but my Lacie drives have USB (2.0), FireWire 400/800, and eSATA, so I'd really like to get a FireWire or eSATA card to use in the PC, if possible. Ugh, this is getting complex. Raluek posted:...but if you're planning on slamming an HFS+ drive into freenas, it's not going to be the most frictionless experience. You can probably get it to work, but that's not a supported configuration. Hang on. FreeNAS can read HFS+? That might make moving the files a bit easier. I'd prefer to use ZFS for "production", but if I can move from one drive array to another on the same machine, that would be smoother. Though, I guess if it's too much trouble I'll find another way. Ferremit posted:Laptop is a 2012 MacBook Pro. I ripped out the optical drive and moved the original mechanical drive into that spot and put in an SSD as a boot. The screen has a few funny colour splotches in it from... impacts... but it still keeps trucking along. I did the same thing to my MBP 2012 when the optical drive poo poo itself. And I realized that I didn't notice for, like months. That SSD boot drive really woke it up. quote:Tho if I start getting a bit more serious in my videography stuff with the drone and cameras, I might have to consider upgrading something... I’ve got an old Mac Pro 1,1 that’s now running dual quad cores, but they aren’t hyperthreading and it’s too old to run the modern versions of OS X. Maybe look at picking up a cheap Mac Pro 3,1 or 5,1 and build it into a video rig. Would very much prefer to use Final Cut Pro rather than adobe... Mine Pro is a 5,1, if I recall correctly. I have no issue with it other than they are power pigs, and I leave mine on all the time. STR posted:It's not quite as painful as the PowerPC-era Mac I have as a footrest, but it's slow. Holy poo poo, even I won't go there, even Mac Now, my Mac SE running System 7, or my LCIII running OS9? Heck, yeah - real retro-gaming! I've got *so many* floppies and CDs of '90s Mac games and software. What? Of course they are perfectly legal backups.
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InitialDave posted:No, that's still 31st October. The UK: "Hold my gin & tonic"
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T-Square posted:Guess who pulled a stainless pan out of a 450F oven on Sunday night, and then promptly grabbed it again without an oven mitt? I did that last year; I was making steak and ale pie and I had just pulled the dutch oven out of the oven and I set it on the stovetop for a moment while I finished preparing the pastry. I went back and grabbed the dutch oven without my oven mitts on, like, full-on grabbed the handles and held on tight for about a fraction of a second before I dropped it back to the stovetop. At least it didn't spill or do damage to the glass cooktop when I dropped it.
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