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by rconti 8mo ago
I've got a 2011 BMW X5 diesel with 189k miles on it. The DPF went out at around 150k, which is roughly the expected lifetime from my understanding. The part alone is ~$4000. Regardless of living in CA, I'd have replaced it anyway
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by rconti 8mo ago
Quite possibly!
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by rconti 8mo ago
> because the key caps are brand new, it feels even better than the keyboard on my own now-four-years-old MacBook Pro, the most-used key caps on which are now a little slick Honestly, I have a hard time typing on a new Apple laptop; it d
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by rconti 8mo ago
I don't visit Canada for the same reason I don't do a whole lot of touristy stuff here in the US: The travel costs aren't really _that_ much cheaper vs going somewhere more exotic like South America, Europe, Asia, etc, and it
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by rconti 8mo ago
The mini is the only iPad I'm interested in. I finally bought one after years of dragging my heels waiting for multi-user support. Still, I don't use it much. Mostly I'm not a tablet person, but also, the UX is just so bad. I
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by rconti 8mo ago
They finally added user profiles to tvOS. So there's hope. Maybe.
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by rconti 8mo ago
Yeah, mine's the same (2013 981 S 6MT). As you know, they're geared to the moon, and taking a surprising amount of rowing to get the most out of the powerband, so often I'll merge onto the freeway and just be hanging out in 3
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by rconti 8mo ago
Well, the concrete pond is usually empty. But yeah, the site kinda smells like methane. Hard to say if it's from the dump (which of course has vents), or from the sewage treatment plant. The sewage treatment plant is always burning.. s
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by rconti 8mo ago
There's an XJ that races (raced?) in the 24 Hours of LeMons (Team Petty Cash Racing) and it was remarkably fast and reliable.
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by rconti 8mo ago
I've owned a handful of BMWs (no S54 though) but I'm partial so the sound of the S62 V8. The turbo 6 generations were truly a remarkable change for BMW in terms of power, though. At the moment, I have a Boxster, and the flat 6 som
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by rconti 8mo ago
The inline four has largely converged around a 2.0L displacement with an equal bore and stroke. IIRC, it's fairly optimal from a performance and thermodynamic efficiency standpoint.
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by rconti 8mo ago
Honestly, I hadn't used Microsoft Office in 15 years, and it somehow went 20 years backwards in that time.
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by rconti 8mo ago
The best time to do this was ~2010 before all of the cloud lock-in stuff. The second best time is now.
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by rconti 8mo ago
This was all so weird to read about. I guess I just assumed the polygraph was of marginal utility, and you either passed, or you didn't. I didn't realize it was part of a combative interrogation process, even for regular employees
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by rconti 8mo ago
Yup. And unfortunately, I realized I've benefitted from the algo too. I tried the friends feed, and I ended up with MORE politics!
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by rconti 8mo ago
I've been a male (it's in my profile!) for all 22 years (yikes) I've been using facebook. I don't get that stuff.
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by rconti 8mo ago
I always really enjoyed Facebook -- much more so than any other social media network. It was all friends, friends' content, and groups I was interested in and cared about. Sure it had ads, and a bit of suggested stuff, but mostly it wa
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by rconti 8mo ago
This is a reaction to the inability to accomplish anything at the federal level in the "we have to do SOMETHING" vain.
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by rconti 8mo ago
Probably this- my IOT network forces 2.4GHz, whereas my WPA2 and WPA3 networks both use 2.4 and 5GHz on the same SSID.
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by rconti 8mo ago
"Use a web browser for older versions" was not working for me the other day, though I now cannot remember if it was when I was dealing with a Safari version with old/unusable SSL. I was able to load the webpage, though, so SS
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by rconti 8mo ago
I started as a desktop Linux user in 1994 and I can guarantee you it would have been more work for me to install Kubuntu for the first time :) Regardless, this one is going on eBay, so it's probably best for it to be running the latest
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by rconti 8mo ago
I can't remember now -- I have a WPA3 network, and I also have a WPA2 network, and an IOT network. I agree it would be reasonable for WPA3 to not work, but I'm pretty sure I was trying WPA2. Regardless, it's something I ran i
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by rconti 8mo ago
And it's hard to even find the download links, and a lot of them don't work.
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by rconti 8mo ago
I reinstalled MacOS on a 2011 MacBook Air and it was actually shockingly hard. Thankfully, my machine booted and worked fine, so I didn't need to create a bootable USB stick. From memory: - Network recovery boot cannot connect to y
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by rconti 8mo ago
Well, we used to at least not have to suffer through gambling ads...
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by rconti 8mo ago
> The fix has been rolled out and the issuance flow has been undrained. We again apologize for the inconvenience. issuance flow has been undrained?
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by rconti 8mo ago
The right has an extremely large chip on their shoulder when insisting that the their _more popular media outlets_ do not count as "mainstream media" because... reasons.
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by rconti 8mo ago
I would expect (but cannot prove) that these hostile patterns decrease engagement on the individual level. But maybe the effort to cater to people who avoid this stuff isn't worth it, or maybe they find it doesn't really discourag
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by rconti 8mo ago
It's amazing that the algorithms are so universal rather than personalized. You'd think they'd want to notice that I _absolutely never_ watch shorts, and stop showing them to me, instead recommending something else. I unders
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by rconti 9mo ago
> cutting edge model that requires tens of billions of dollars to train seems like there are a lot of those out there these days, and the costs are falling > a massive concentration of talent and experience Apparently 3000 employees?

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