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Back at work, on "very light duty". That apparently consists of them keeping one of the electric shopping carts ready for me, and me riding around the store facing stuff I can reach from a sitting position for most of my shift, along with collecting abandoned items and returning them (or scanning them out if perishable). Then spending 2 hours (the maximum I'm allowed to spend on my feet) stocking bread. I was surprised the battery on that cart held out all night. It just has a 3 color indicator, but it was still green when I plugged it in as I left. Still seems kinda pointless that I'm essentially getting paid for 8 hours to do ~3 hours worth of work, but it's money coming in (injury pay doesn't start until a week after the injury). I'm huuuuurting though. Tomarse posted:Try leaving it in the freezer for longer. It’s been a 12 hour/overnight job when I’ve attempted it. (I think it has worked twice out of 3 drives) I'll give it a shot. FWIW, it doesn't sound (or feel) like it's spinning at all, it sounds like the heads are seeking a few times then it goes completely silent until the enclosure's controller tries to initialize it again. So it's very possible the spindle motor is having issues. Luckily the external enclosure I have pops open really easy (cheap Aukey external USB 3.0 thing I paid $4 for ages ago). The enclosure works fine with the HDD I had in it before, along with the cheap SSD I got to replace the dead drive. I'm not used to a spinning HDD dying while in active use, but I do remember it was set by default to spin down after 3 minutes (wtf Asus?) - it may have spun down just before it poo poo. Upside: it's like a brand new PC now that I tossed a cheap Hyundai SSD and another 4GB of no-name RAM at it - power on to desktop in ~15 seconds (it was >3 minutes on the HDD, though that was an upgrade in place from Win7). $70 well spent. It's an Ivy Bridge i5 to begin with, so it wasn't a bad machine for its time. It's also setup for cloud backup now... which should have been done to begin with, but it's not my computer and up until now, I didn't really use it much at all. No backups strikes again! random thought: should I freeze it inside the enclosure, inside the enclosure with the lid off, or bare? I'm thinking the full sealed enclosure, just to keep it cold longer (and hopefully keep condensation at a minimum). Kazinsal posted:Yeah if you can get it going with a controller swap then count your blessings and get everything off there ASAP in order of most to least important. That's the plan. I did find controller boards, but I need to look at the board to see which revision it is. And brush up on my soldering skills, since like on most drives, you have to swap one of the chips over. An issue I'm going to run into is file permissions (since the OS has been reinstalled - it originally had Win7 Pro, did an upgrade in place to Win10 Pro a couple of days ago), so I might just wait until my desktop is here - I'll have enough space to make an image that way, and it has a Linux VM on it. My laptop runs Linux, but only has a 120GB SSD in it, and I only have one external enclosure on hand (it's also an olllld machine, I don't think it'd be fast enough to really xfer stuff quickly enough). Can't move my desktop (or really anything except clothes) until my leg heals up, I'm not even supposed to lift over 15 lbs or use stairs right now. Turning my external HDD into a bootable Win10 install device from a Linux laptop was more of a PITA than it should have been, WoeUSB really didn't want to do it from the GUI (didn't see it at all). Command line was also being a pain until I read the github page for Woe and realized I had to force it to do NTFS for later releases of Win10 (it defaults to FAT32, the current Win10 install image apparently has some files too large for FAT32 now? or the file paths are too long? I'm not a professional computer toucher damnit) GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I can't recommend a data recovery service, but I can recommend not doing a platter swap yourself in a home built "clean room" Oh hell no. If I ever touch a seal or screw on a HDD cover, I don't expect it to ever work again. I may try to find a board for it, but it looks like I'll have to swap the BIOS chip over. I'm Shaky McShakerson when it comes to soldering. trouser chili posted:Good news everybody, it’s more Vicodin time! Oh wait, this is Diazepam. I’m taking diazepam. Sorry this my drug collection of active medications right now.  Milk Bones are part of your drug regimen?  Why did they put you on Valium anyway?Be careful with the Valium, the withdrawal from it isn't fun. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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Humphreys posted:First go at vinyl wrapping something today: I did the same to the “chrome” runners along the window on my mazda3, except I paid the tiny shop to do it :/ Big fan of the after affect though of no more chrome.
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MomJeans420 posted:That's a video game but the IRL version is pretty nuts at least $1 trillion a year is only being 90% wasted I guess. When the local soldiers are like "holy poo poo" at how OP that is, that's pretty neat
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Yeah uh, apparently the stuff on there is pretty drat important. I'm gonna ship it off to a recovery company and see what they say. Doesn't cost anything to get an estimate (... but I'm gonna make DAMNED sure there's multiple backup solutions in place if she goes forward with the recovery). It definitely isn't spinning up, but the heads are seeking back and forth several times with each power event. I'm worried it's creating a hard drive platter version of some of the stuckest poo poo Matt's Off Road Recovery has dealt with.
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The Bad Obsession boys finally go racing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlTrxCDYBjQ
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Happy Bathurst 1000 Day everyone!
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:The Bad Obsession boys finally go racing: Love the car number, very nice
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You Am I posted:Happy Bathurst 1000 Day everyone! Id rather change brakes on a lovely Subaru than watch that boredom Oh wait, thats exactly what I'm doing!!
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It's been a good day, I hosed off to a neighbouring town to ride bikes for a couple of hours and am now holed up inside watching BOM. At least the restricted numbers have made the town less crazy this year.
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You Am I posted:Happy Bathurst 1000 Day everyone! I was out and about, completely forgot so hightailed it home to see the last year of Holden race. Neighbour had a big TV hanging between two posts in eth back yard for some breeze and I had a big bag of beef jerky and beer. That made the afternoon enjoyable. drat, that last sprint after the safety car! And with the stupid daylight savings, I had time to pull the front off the wagon to change the headlights... Yes. Before  Very hazy - might one day try and restore them  Bar off after a bit of work. 10 screws and 6 fasteners.  SHINY! Even the neighbours came over for a look  Test fit:  And funnily enough the lighting went to poo poo by the time I sorted out a dead bulb and fitted the front bar again. So no 'after' photo for now.
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Lights look good Humphreys! I drove out of town to help my mom and stepdad install some lights, I’m saving the 5th ep of bad obsession racing for tonight when I get home keep my mind off missing the kids
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A friend of mine was mugged, shot and nearly died in Cincy yesterday. He's alive, going into surgery tomorrow. He said in his post they told him people shot in this manner almost always die whatever that means. Almost lost another one. gently caress this year man.
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I mean, it happened in Cincy but okay, let's mock my friend nearly dying. have a look https://i.imgur.com/iri1WHX.jpg
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Ohio is just wide indiana with more fentanyl and apparently muggings Seriously though, glad it looks like he'll pull through? That sucks.
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Rhyno posted:A friend of mine was mugged, shot and nearly died in Cincy yesterday. He's alive, going into surgery tomorrow. He said in his post they told him people shot in this manner almost always die whatever that means. Almost lost another one. gently caress this year man. gently caress man I’m sorry about your friend.
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Rhyno posted:A friend of mine was mugged, shot and nearly died in Cincy yesterday. He's alive, going into surgery tomorrow. He said in his post they told him people shot in this manner almost always die whatever that means. Almost lost another one. gently caress this year man. God drat, that’s horrific. I have a worrying feeling the world is gonna keep getting meaner for a while.
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Rhyno posted:A friend of mine was mugged, shot and nearly died in Cincy yesterday. He's alive, going into surgery tomorrow. He said in his post they told him people shot in this manner almost always die whatever that means. Almost lost another one. gently caress this year man. gently caress I'm sorry, you doing okay? Cincy has some really rough areas.
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Glad your friend lived Rhyno, that's a borderline miracle.
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Rhyno, I am glad your friend survived. I am sad that he got beaten and shot.  STR, there's a free TEM (Philips EM301) in Austin, please hop on slack so a bunch of us can convince you that you need to be able to see individual atoms that are larger than about 350 picometres in diametre.
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Fermented Tinal posted:STR, there's a free TEM (Philips EM301) in Austin, please hop on slack so a bunch of us can convince you that you need to be able to see individual atoms that are larger than about 350 picometres in diametre. Why's it gotta be so far away?! I'd be all set for Christmas shopping for my wife if I could get ahold of that thing
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TEMs are only free because they're gigantic and a pain in the rear end to set up and use (I should know. I once got a free TEM). People who would buy used electron microscopes actually want SEMs. Those are the ones that, like, let you look at a fruitfly's armpits.
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Safety Dance posted:TEMs are only free because they're gigantic and a pain in the rear end to set up and use (I should know. I once got a free TEM). People who would buy used electron microscopes actually want SEMs. Those are the ones that, like, let you look at a fruitfly's armpits. I’ll finally be able to take that dick pic that everynoone has been asking for!
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Fermented Tinal posted:Rhyno, I am glad your friend survived. I am sad that he got beaten and shot. While that'd be cool as poo poo, I'm back in a 2nd floor apartment instead of a house. With a hosed up leg. I could store it for someone, though, I have a fairly empty 10x10 storage unit.Rhyno, glad your friend is gonna pull through, that looks gnarly. Fermented Tinal posted:Nobody wants to see Trump's dick. Speak for yourself. I think my parents really want to see it. And do stuff with it. 
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I'm okay, this kicked my wife really bad. We fuckin love this guy. I just wish he wasn't so far away.
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So today I was sitting at the edge of my garage working on rerouting / integrating relays into my C10's headlight harness. An absolute peak stereotype XJ comes rolling down the road and stops haphazardly sort of angled into my driveway. Kid gets out (I'm assuming late high school or maybe a forever-stuck-at-home college student, I've seen this thing in the neighborhood before) and gestures towards my TJ parked on the other side of the street and asks if it's mine. I answer yes, assuming he's either just going to start talking my ear off about Jeeps or maybe someone ran into it while I wasn't looking and now it's blocking the road. "You got a jack? I need to swap my spare tire on." So I mask up, grab the HF Daytona jack, drag it down the driveway and shove it his way. I turn to start back on the wiring project. "It's not staying up." "Turn the handle to the right... the other right" At this point I realize the kid is absolutely green as gently caress when it comes to cars and working on them, so now I'm helping him do most of it. Starting with moving the jack from under the rock slider to under the axle, since good luck getting the tire up lifting that way on an XJ. My Milwaukee mid-torque impact had to hammer at some of the lug nuts for a solid 15 seconds before they spun. They were rusted as gently caress and probably impacted on by someone else. They appeared to have originally been the kind that get all swollen and turbofucked from rot too but it seemed like all that chrome plating had been obliterated off. The tire he was concerned about changing was about five miles shy of "bald", but the other three weren't far behind, and they were all dry rotted to utter hell. Bonus points, the tires on the XJ were 31s, and his spares (he had two!) were maybe 29" tall. "Yeah, I need to get to my girlfriend's place in Scottsdale. Can't afford new tires right now." Let the person who has never done questionable things in the name of getting laid throw the first stone. He was back 15 minutes later to swap the other front for his other spare. Imagine that, it pulled a bit with some front stagger. Gave him my best friendly-dad-tone "please please PLEASE get some newer tires on this thing" and I think I at least convinced him that the leaking grease boot on his drag link is a much lower priority than "these tires scare me to just filling them to 30 PSI". slidebite posted:Other than the MS Surface/Surface Go series, is there a tablet that runs true Windows? Probably loads of "convertible" laptops but unless you like holding a "tablet" by the now-useless keyboard on the back... yeah.
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mariooncrack posted:Cincy has some really rough areas. I never really think of Cincinnati in that way either. It’s straight up naïveté I think in part because everywhere looks safer when compared to St. Louis. Speaking of naïveté, I’m starting work again tomorrow. The plan is that because I’ll be out of pain pills, I must then also be out of pain. The fact that it’s now 1AM, I’m awake and in tears is starting to show the folly in my thought process. I split my last hydrocodone in half and just took it. Here’s hoping..... trouser chili fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Oct 19, 2020 |
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First time in some years Im screaming SHUT THE gently caress UP LEGS BRING THE PAIN ON as Im belting along at 45 kph on the bike. There may have been some vomit at high speeds flying too. TBH I just plain havent felt this good on a bike since brain breakage in 2017.
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Meanwhile I can't even walk. Went a bit over my "work restrictions" at work yesterday and my right leg feels like it has a few ice picks shoved into it, being wiggled around, like a still-in-school nurse digging for a vein to do a blood draw (don't ever loving do that, it hurts like hell and just blows the vein out, when a pt tells you "go to this vein, it's the only one anybody can ever hit", they know their body damnit). Doesn't help that Brokeback's throttle is starting to stick (it's my right leg that's hosed, natch), it takes a solid stomp to free it up after it's been sitting awhile. Sitting tonight out from work since I couldn't even make it down the stairs. Followup appointment (and hopefully the beginning of PT) is tomorrow. I replaced the throttle cable on ex-roommate's old WRX right before he got rid of it.. Brokeback has quite a bit more room under the hood, so hopefully it'll go pretty smooth with a little less swearing. His WRX started pissing gas from every loving fuel line on the driver's side after that, but I've been through the fuel line exodus with Brokeback already.   
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Humphreys posted:I was out and about, completely forgot so hightailed it home to see the last year of Holden race. Neighbour had a big TV hanging between two posts in eth back yard for some breeze and I had a big bag of beef jerky and beer. That made the afternoon enjoyable. drat, that last sprint after the safety car! Here we go! After! 
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Humphreys posted:Here we go! After! Noice! There is nothing like hanging out with a kid to improve your mood. I was feeling really lovely this afternoon but then my 3 year old nephew told me he liked my moustache and that I'm the cutest person he knows. 
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slothrop posted:There is nothing like hanging out with a kid to improve your mood. I was feeling really lovely this afternoon but then my 3 year old nephew told me he liked my moustache and that I'm the cutest person he knows. Some of the neighbourhood kids have started to call me Uncle Humphreys when passing on their bikes. It was a bit unsettling at first but I'm not a stranger and their parents are good friends so it's kinda neat when they get a new bike or toy and wanna come muck around with it in the forecourt (also begging to use the go-kart constantly)
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slidebite posted:Other than the MS Surface/Surface Go series, is there a tablet that runs true Windows? What do you need it to do? I ask because their are surprisingly quite a few small, underpowered win 10 tablets. I still daily a now almost 6 year old surface pro 2 I can look at the office today if you tell me your needs and budget for one a couple of years ago their was a flood of $79 windows 10 tablets bc Microsoft was licensing windows for free if the screen was under a certain size
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God drat, Rhyno, sucks for your friend. I hope he makes it through without a) a lifetime of issues stemming from the assault and b) a lifetime of debt to various medical providers. That looks horrific. STR posted:Meanwhile I can't even walk. Went a bit over my "work restrictions" at work yesterday and my right leg feels like it has a few ice picks shoved into it, being wiggled around, like a still-in-school nurse digging for a vein to do a blood draw (don't ever loving do that, it hurts like hell and just blows the vein out, when a pt tells you "go to this vein, it's the only one anybody can ever hit", they know their body damnit). Could try lubing  the cable. I've got a nifty little thing that clamps over the cable end that forces *most* of the lube down the cable. It actually works. Still makes a mess, but it works.Did you part ways with the roommate? I caught that you were in a different residence, but missed the actual activity.
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We've raised a grand for his impending expenses so far. But nobody has any idea what this will cost. I think he's going to end up back here since his parents are still local.
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I filmed a pull with the 335d. Just a quick 2nd gear pull on the highway on ramp 30-60. I'll post it if you guys are interested. I understand that it is a very douchey thing to do I just wanted to film one pull before it gets sold because seriously the torque really is something else.
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