ExplodingSims posted:

Well this got lost in the depression shuffle of the last thread,
But I'm super loving happy about it so uts getting reposted

shy boy from chess club posted:

Or a little skunk-sized sweater for her in the winter which would be totally adorable.

Some good news to offset sad chat is that I'm down to 185lbs from 224 from the last time I went to the doctor in the spring. Last year after losing my friend I was up to 244 since I didn't care about anything until I finally got help. My bp was something like 140/95 with debilitating depression and my doctor is awesome and helped with both those things.

At the spring appointment he wanted me to lose 10lbs before my next one in September and by then I should be down to 180 which would be 44. I've also been going out and doing fun things with new people which helps a lot to not feel like a fat sad sack. I still miss my friend immensely and have occasional bouts of depression but it's just about a 180 from a year ago. Sucks I missed the AI fitness thread cause the 64lbs less of me has been a huge difference.

Ripoff posted:

Holy poo poo, I’m glad your family and pets were okay. Cars and bikes can be replaced, family members can’t.

Shame about your Dad’s gorgeous old cars. I won’t pretend to know what the wood-paneled beauty is, but I hope it can be restored.

Also yeah the more I’m thinking about it, the more it seems they want you to sign that you’re not selling parts off of the cars before signing them over, because they may intend to sell the BMW motor to the junkyard. I’d imagine with rarer machines with particularly desirable motors that parting the car out can net you a pretty penny, and the insurance company wants that to offset their expenses. Who knows, though, still seems like they should be able to easily quote you a “you keep it and scrap it” payout and a “we take it all” payout.

Ether Frenzy posted:

Gotta keep one of those wheels as a coffee table base or something no??

The Royal Nonesuch posted:

Wait hold on here; your charred remnants are getting actually legit looted? What/where the hell is this?

(lol at that emoticon btw)

I can smell that burnt garage smell from here man, sorry

STR posted:

Yeah don't do any of this until you have their offer. I've never had them take the car or title/keys until after we've negotiated the value.

And one of those totals was with AAA. They were pretty easy to deal with TBH, but they absolutely hit me with the "we don't want your business" rate at renewal time ($100/mo to $350/mo). IIRC they sent me the check before I sent the title and keys, but I'm not 100% on that (it was 10 years ago).

big dong wanter posted:

put a deposit on a ve commodore ss 6mt, anyone know of a good shifter because the stock one is hot garbage?

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Yeah nah, they gonna put whatever the cheapest piss they can find for it

Kazinsal posted:

Okay I get it people are stupid and ping ping knock ping what's that sound must be the BOOST I paid for knock knock ping

QuarkMartial posted:

Fake engine noise through speakers? What?

opengl128 posted:

Oh sweet summer child

mariooncrack posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundaktor

Preoptopus posted:

Trying to find a music video. I think it was an Irish band but the video is a pov drunk walk home I remember him pissing all over a toilet at one point.

KillHour posted:

That came on when I was driving and wouldn't go off. It went away when I left it off for 10 minutes. Hopefully, it doesn't come back.

KillHour posted:

fridge corn posted:

Also lol leaving the rear quarter glass raised with the roof and door glass lowered is very triggering to me pls fix this!!!!

STR posted:

Give him a break, he used to be an Aston mechanic... and now he works on Italian cars. His perception of a quality electrical system is probably massively skewed.

ilkhan posted:

Is that the 2.7L? My 3.5EB gets around 15 with my heavy foot. Oops.

STR posted:

IN MY DEFENSE she's the one who asked me to cut her off from the outside world. And by the time she gets home, I'll be sound asleep. She's really gonna love it when she realizes the is also hidden.

meatpimp posted:

I don't think the cause was ever determined, and he had a penchant for the call of the void.

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

Update:
I figured out how to get worse mileage.



Sport Mode

Beverly Cleavage posted:

Congrats CT!

To bring August back down, #4 is here and doing well. Now, to call that Urologist...

(I swear the name Finnegan is not inspired from YT’er of roadkill fame. Just an amusing coincidence)

LloydDobler posted:

I don't mind having to hunt for good music, makes you feel cool when you find it. The market for music is massive, a band can put out a couple fantastic albums and never make the radio, but that's what spotify and other music servers are for.

I find most bands I listen to through random youtube views, "related views", "customers who bought this also bought..." on amazon, and recommendations of friends. I'm enjoying the synthwave resurgence due to someone posting gunship in this here forum last year. And I really enjoy hearing someone great in the background of a TV show or movie and finding out that all of their songs are great.


Once you get over the terror of them not having any reflexes or judgment and teach it to them, it's pretty fun. My daughter has passed the year and is over 60 hours now, and is ready for her test. When we drive at this point I just nitpick about cutting too close to the edge of a lane and letting off the gas when she changes lanes. She was really nervous at first but her confidence skyrocketed after about the 30 hour mark. I think the hardest part is learning to really communicate, yelling WHOA WHOA WHOA doesn't alert them to what you are reacting to in any useful way, but that's how I reflexively do it, took a lot of work to be truly communicative in a panic situation.



Also there are guides for parents that remind you what is most important to teach first, and when to step up to more advanced and dangerous things. Like they don't recommend highways until 20 hours or more.

Outside of driving my general recommendation would be to just be her friend, don't treat her like anything more. Especially if she has a dad active in her life.

fknlo posted:

Sounds like where I'm at in Colorado. It's one of the reasons I'm trying to go back to Kansas City.

Beverly Cleavage posted:

SC'ed FRS/BRZ sounds awesome, but wasn't it Muffinpox that bought one and eventually got rid of the SC if not the car itself?

ilkhan posted:

The 2.7L's codename is nano, and it's seriously small. Which is why people are pissed that it's not in the Ranger. It'd be awesome.

Somewhat Heroic posted:

congrats on the new sex trophy. I’m probably getting snipped next month. I’m done with three.

Suburban Dad posted:

Sorry we ruined your (and everybody else's) climate.

Darchangel posted:

I use a 2012 MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM and an SSD to wake it up a bit as my daily at home, and likewise a 2012 i7 27" iMac and a 2010-ish Mac Pro quad-core Xeon usually running Windows on my desk in my office for heavier-duty tasks.
I would like to at least get a 2013-2015 MacBook Pro, though. I'm taxing the poor 2012 a bit with the truly stupid number of Chrome windows and tabs I keep open. Not really a failing of the laptop, though, more of me.
My existence as a Professional PC Janitor means that I've used castoffs and hand-me-downs for the last two decades. My last (and first!) brand new machine was in 2000. ASUS system board, P4, I think. Windows ME. Eventually put a windows and lighting in the case, but it was fairly pedestrian. I did build it myself, though, as part of my Electronics Technology course at ATI.

Ah, almost forgot the Mac Mini I'm using as a file server. I really need to find another solution for that. Macs are great, but don't really work the best as a file server. My main sticking point is that the storage drive attached to it is in a format that only Macs speak, which means hours of copying to change. Tremek brought up FreeNAS a while back, and I want to see if this little guy can work with that, since FreeNAS currently does everything I want to do with that box, including serving Plex and grabbing Bittorrents. at some point I need to decommission the Mac Pro from running 24/7 - it chews up a lot of power, and the only reason it needs to stay on is Bittorrent. Which I guess I could move to the Mini right now...

Raluek posted:

And don't talk too much poo poo about PPCs, I'm posting this from a G4 Powerbook. It's one of, uh, many.

toplitzin posted:

loving Camry.

Rotated the tires and the TCS is freaking out whenever you hit the gas.

Cleared the codes, too it for a few laps around the neighborhood with plenty of turns, and nope, will angry.

Even after an ECU reset.

Drives fine with it off, but then you have the ugly light on and the lady gets upset.

FML

Raluek posted:

I only use it for shitposting.

The browser I use is this one, which is indeed a couple years old, but much newer than what it shipped with. And it supports modern SSL and stuff. There's also tenfourfox, which is up to date with current firefox, but it's quite a bit slower.

Not like I log into anything more sensitive than my SA account with it, anyway.

I wonder if there is any malware in the wild anymore that targets OS9...

Maksimus54 posted:

She doesn't really have any say, but not telling her who is possibly moving in is a dick move, and a bigger dick move by your dad for making it your problem.

Suburban Dad posted:

Kinda. The rate of data on from the OBD-II might not be sufficient for gauges. Which is why

Good folks on these here forums.

STR posted:

Except the sampling rate over OBD2 is much slower than interfacing directly with the bus. And the more PIDs you're checking, the slower the refresh gets.

10 hZ (best case) is a bit too slow for stuff like a tach, and the more stuff you're pulling data for, the slower it gets. Hell the factory tach on my car is laggy enough, and it's tied directly into the bus. Comparing directly interfacing with the bus to capturing data using the generic OBD2 protocol is like comparing 6mbit DSL to a 2400 bps dialup BBS.

There's ways to directly interface with the bus over the OBD2 port, but you need something that speaks the car's native tongue instead of the generic OBD2 protocols. That's not gonna be as cheap or easy.

Wikipedia posted:

ISO 15765 CAN (250 kbit/s or 500 kbit/s). The CAN protocol was developed by Bosch for automotive and industrial control. Unlike other OBD protocols, variants are widely used outside of the automotive industry. While it did not meet the OBD-II requirements for U.S. vehicles prior to 2003, as of 2008 all vehicles sold in the US are required to implement CAN as one of their signaling protocols.

pin 6: CAN High
pin 14: CAN Low
CANH signal voltage level: 3.5V (min/max 2.75 to 4.50)
CANL signal voltage level: 1.5V (min/max 0.5 to 2.25)

All OBD-II pinouts use the same connector, but different pins are used with the exception of pin 4 (battery ground) and pin 16 (battery positive).

STR posted:

I'm aware of that, but many of them are significantly slower when communicating with one of the several OBD2 protocols instead of the manufacturer-specific protocol.

And CAN dates back to 1992 for automotive use; GM and Mercedes were the first to use it. GM's implementation, at least in the late 00s, uses a whopping 10.4 Kbps for stuff that doesn't need the high speed bus (the PCM and other critical components communicate with each other at ~500 Kbps).

I'm not saying the CAN bus itself isn't speedy - it's plenty fast for what it is. But speed goes to poo poo when you're using one of the generic OBD2 protocols instead of a manufacturer specific protocol. The whole reason this came up was implementing aftermarket gauges; any that actually do tie into any kind of bus will likely be using one of the generic protocols.