August Chat Thread: I've never loved something I've hated this much.

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randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Welcome to the hellish month known as August, also known as the month STR was born (which is why STR sniped the August thread). Much of this OP is shamelessly stolen from CAT INTERCEPTOR's OP for the July thread.

Ready? Here we go.

This is a chat thread for anyone who reads AI. We talk about computers, life, how much alcohol we drink, how much we spend on alcohol, how much we hate our lives, how little we get laid, take bets on how long it will take Ricco to relapse and fail a pee test at his not-so-new-anymore job, where it's finally getting hotter than the asscrack of Satan in the USA and colder than Elsa's lady parts in Australia, STR amuses us with delivery driver stories, Mad Max fan fiction and shipping Furiosa and one of the Wives, LITERALLY A FISH occasionally slam truth bombs while CAT INTERCEPTOR infects our minds and sends us all to the cycle asylum - leading an army of AI cyclists to slaughter hipsters on fixies, some of us try to avoid gun chat, wonder how the gently caress Chris Evans hasnt been reprogrammed with a baseball bat, we post cat pics, dog pics, whatever, just no penis pics (PM those to STR or CSB instead). Just imagine this as one large garage with a keg of lovely flat beer, and we're all pretending to work on some broken rear end 80s Dodge while talking poo poo about anything that comes up. Anyone who is just wandering by, stop and say hello! Most of us don't bite, and we're a pretty chilled out bunch of normal people. Except apparently when [list of topics you already know to avoid] comes up. anyway.

aw yeah check out that sweet-rear end setting - pull up a barrel and lets talk some poo poo!

ASMITH ACTUALLY HAS A FALCON, LETS GO TO HIS PALCE AND SINK HIS PISS - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3767188

I stole half of that paragraph from CAT INTERCEPTOR and LITERALLY A FISH..... and the January chat thread and I am not ashamed IN THE SLIGHTEST

Is Literally a Fish literally a fish? NEAI will be able to answer that for us shortly, and will even have a van for him! _{Said van may or may not ever move under its own power again, but we'll Ford that river when we come to it}

Is kastein a human, or just a computer full of every possible combination of Jeep parts?

Will Pham Nuwen's 280ZX ever shift into reverse? Let's find out!

Follow the thrilling saga of (attempting to) Megasquirting a turbo VAG 5 cylinder, by CommieGIR! And other associated earlier Audi shenanigans, of course.

CSB has not one, but TWO projects for us! Shithouse vs Larger Shithouse

Is 13 inch slowly becoming more insane? Are we driving vehicles that haven't moved under their own power in decades halfway across the country with little more than basic tools and an old Camaro as a chase vehicle? Or will the chase vehicle wind up being an engine donor? Only time (and this here link) will tell!

If you don't like chatting, how about reading? Someone suggest a book, I don't read much, but I'll edit it into the post.

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Did I mention we all have way too many cats?

Meet STR's Cat, The Dude Lebowski:

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Rosie has found a 13 inch:

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Below cattes belong to CAT INTERCEPTOR:

Maddie

Maddie, being a young mum bringing up a family of kittens is conservative and wants safety first for her runs for food. She is careful and wants to arrive so she understeers � she lacks front grip but thats okay that keeps her speed down. Her front paws wash out on tight corners so she reacts naturally and backs off, weight shifting to the front paws and hence more grip and tightening the line. Misses the apex but hey, she still took the corner. Rear paws dont do a lot of work

Rally Ed

Ed is light, fast, highly maneuverable and clearly has about as much oversteer as a Mk II Rothmans Escort

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_iBsFxn08Y

A lack of rear grip is his problem, not having big enough paws for the amount of power he wants to put down. The front has good initial bite and he handbrakes like a champion. Much like Ari Vatenen, the speeds he tries to carry does get him unstuck and frequent crashes occur. However he is very throttle sensitive and reacts well to sudden changes of direction.

Gelignite Jack

A most curious puzzle I thought observing. He had a very different set of handling characteristics reminisent of Maddie, is a younger but quite a deal bit larger kitten than Ed, but suffers none of the understeer issues, as well as holding a far higher cornering speed and ability to accelerate. So as I was studying his handling while he was pulling max g in the kitchen that he reminded me of�

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qp3srbsps

Even sounds like one too.

And in all sadness that�s how I worked out a handling issue on the WRX and came to the conclusion I had a blown strut. Since then I�ve also worked out that cat handling is indeed completely relevant to cars � and set up a mini skid pan in the kitchen to see how each cat reacts to a slippery surface. 1/3rd of a cup of water over the entraceway, a note pad and a few neat treats for cats to come running to. And indeed, Ed screams in at 10,000 rpm and slides out like a mad drifter, Maddie is relaxed and has a mild slide, while GJ keeps it flat and does a long AWD drift with the weight shift noticeable as he adjusts traction front to rear.

I�ve also been able to work out how to make the turn tighter so I can experiment with different setups, like if GJ has more castor.

Sadly no pictures as I really didnt expect this to work.

But then again this is Cat Handling by Stig

randomidiot fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Aug 19, 2016

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 23:24

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Yes they do. :v:

I'm still editing catte content into the OP along with a few snarky thread links.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2016 05:49

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Seat Safety Switch posted:

How are you guys tensioning accessory belts? I keep putting off buying a belt tension gauge but I feel like it will probably have paid for itself by now.

I've always just gone for my highly scientific method of "tight enough that it doesn't slip when I hit a puddle"

Rhyno posted:

I was about to make a thread that just had an OP with the word "chat" typed 10,000 times.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2016 05:55

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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nm posted:

Why are the catte pictures broken STR?

Some of them are hosted on CT's server and timg'd, the rest are on imgur with normal img links. Which ones aren't working?

e: I'll rehost CT's pictures on imgur with regular img links and see if that fixes it for you.
e2: rehosted

randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Aug 1, 2016

# ¿ Aug 1, 2016 06:47

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Ah, that explains that then.

They're all on imgur with regular [img] tags now.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2016 06:51

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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The Locator posted:

August birthdays are of course the best birthdays.

Yeah but I'll be one year closer to death. :argh:

# ¿ Aug 1, 2016 07:12

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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literally a fish posted:

P.S. STR I'M GOING TO BE IN YOUR CITY FOR LIKE FOUR HOURS ON WEDNESDAY

Well there's some cheap hotels near the airport... :wmwink:

# ¿ Aug 1, 2016 08:55

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Nodoze posted:

I am 23 days from turning 27

How did this happen to me

I'm fewer days from 38. Shaddup. :v:

CommieGIR posted:

Where's my introduction STR?

Right here *unzips*

I thought I had put your thread in the OP. :doh:

I'll edit it after work.

scuz posted:

Painting the deck since the previous owners used interior latex house paint.

I discovered my apartment is all latex when I tried to use one of those 3M Command adhesive strips. Took the paint right off. :downs:

That's gonna be real fun when I remove my alarm whenever I move again. I used tiny drops of hot glue to attach the wires to the front door sensor to the baseboard.

Alarbus posted:

Oh hey. STR, I drove through your town last month. We were trying to get to Kansas for a wedding, and a storm cancelled our flight from DFW to ICT. And all of the flights were booked until well after the wedding, so we rented a car and flogged it. Denton seemed nice for the 10 minutes we were in it?

I thought I didn't like the new Corolla that much, but when we turned it in at ICT for the local rental, I got a Cruze, and liked that even less. Horrible ergonomics.

I haven't lived in Denton in a few years. :sigh:

Currently in south Garland, basically off of I-30 and the eastern end of the Bush turnpike (if you look at a map of I-30, I'm a mile west of Lake Ray Hubbard). I miss Denton a lot, but it's too far from work. There's not really much in Denton unless you like live music and arts though, it's very much a college town (2 public universities there).

I liked the Cruze rental I had, but then again I drive a Saturn, so my judgement is questionable. :v:

The ergonomics did seem bad, but it was a peppy car.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2016 20:41

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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I'm reading Nikki Sixx's The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

# ¿ Aug 2, 2016 06:25

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Dagen H posted:

Relevant thread title?

Added to Sept shortlist :v:

meatpimp posted:

I've had and been around Audi/VW cars for decades and yeah, they have some... quirks.

But my brother has an MKV GTI and was having some intermittent problems with his driver's door not unlocking. Looked up the procedure for replacement of the door actuator -- Step 1: Remove OUTER DOOR SKIN

Shoulda bought a Saturn, the door skin just unscrews from the rest of the door. :haw:

# ¿ Aug 2, 2016 21:16

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Text from stepdad: "call me asap kon 11038 three times blood pressure 110/38 call asap"

Me: holy gently caress

He calls as I'm tearing out of my apartment complex. He said that's my mother's blood pressure, I'm asking why he hasn't called 911 and that I'm already on my way, hang up and call 911 you dumb gently caress

Stepdad: "what does the flashing battery thing on the display of the BP machine mean?"

Me: *hurls every loving insult known to man*

They throw new batteries in it... and get a much more normal reading.

loving christ on a stick, that shook me up.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2016 02:11

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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In about 15 hours I'm supposed to have lunch with literally a fish. I'll let you guys know if he lives up to his username.

Boaz MacPhereson posted:

Jesus, what a fucker. Glad she's ok, man.

His twig and berries will be curbstomped to dust, then force fed to him, next time I see him for putting me through that. All because the fucker's been ignoring the flashing low battery icon for weeks.

I feel like total poo poo since the adrenaline wore off. Too worn out to do anything, too angry to sleep. Mostly angry.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2016 05:05

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Eh, get me drunk enough and my bi streak comes out a bit.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2016 06:48

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Friend that's staying with me disappeared into the kitchen for an hour.

If anybody needs me, I'll be in a food coma _{and having a heart attack from the cholesterol but it's worth it}

# ¿ Aug 4, 2016 05:24

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Elmnt80 posted:

Marry him/her/it/variousgendersnotmentioned. Chicken fried chicken or chicken fried steak?

Also, made black beans and rice with spicy sausage for dinner. I'mma be singing ring of fire tomorrow.

Chicken fried steak. Best part? I think the entire meal, for all 3 of us, cost about $12... and that's with a whole bunch of leftover CFS (the package of cube steak she bought was around 3 pounds). They paid for it, all I had to do was take her to Winco and point her in the direction of everything on her list.

She's already married (and her husband is also staying with me at the moment).

# ¿ Aug 4, 2016 05:50

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Masterjuice... masterjuice... MASTERJUICE!!!

Am I doing this right?

# ¿ Aug 4, 2016 06:51

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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I'm 195 and pretty drat chubby.

5'7 though. And I dropped 10 pounds just by switching to wine from beer.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2016 22:53

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Ether Frenzy posted:

Yeah, you only have 34 years and about 11 months to go and that baby will stop crying and asking you for money! (congrats on the surprise baby!)

So that's when Maksimus54 will die?

:v:

Cakefool posted:

I'm 5'8" and 69( ) kg so 152lbs? How much do you drink?

Not enough sometimes.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2016 23:23

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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I used to be 230. 195 is a hell of a lot better IMO, but still heavy.

And yeah, mostly got there by drinking.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2016 23:59

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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I'm probably gonna sweat 10 pounds off before the end of next week.

Top floor apartment: never again. Especially poorly maintained top floor apartments. I'm gonna have to pick up a window unit for my bedroom so I can at least sleep in semi comfort.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2016 02:36

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Guess who got a bill in the mail for Frontier FiOS?

:fuckoff:

# ¿ Aug 5, 2016 02:56

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

I haven't wanted to skullfuck a Millenial to death... yet

September chat thread title spotted.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2016 04:49

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Darchangel posted:

No poo poo. The marginal-for-the-house-size AC in my home is not keeping up with 102F. Got a 5000BTU (I think? Way bigger than needed for a 10x12 room) window unit in the bedroom, though. 75F nights make for better sleeps.
According to my Nest, AC's been running... a lot. 10 hours is the least it's run, after the rain last week. 12-14 hours is more usual. Leaky 50-year-old house, too-small AC, may need a charge...

5000 BTU is one of the smallest window units you can get - generally claimed to be good for up to 150 sq ft.

Still haven't received my Nest from Reliant, but I'd probably have a stroke if I did see how much it was running. It's a 2.5 ton unit for a 752 sq ft (advertised, it measures out to a bit bigger) apt, so if anything I'd think it would have been on the big side. Leaky ~35 year old apartment with mouse poo poo for insulation. Thank gently caress it's a relatively new a/c - maintenance said it's only about 5 years old.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2016 00:03

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Sigma X posted:

My postman doesn't even try anyone's doors. Their policy is that apartment dwellers are scum and don't actually deserve postal service, so all mail and packages goes to the rental office. In a complex of literally hundreds of apartments.

I'm in an 850 unit apartment complex.

... with a set of mailboxes for every. single. building. Half of the buildings have individual street addresses, with repeating apartment numbers on every building. And the mailboxes aren't even labeled externally with a corresponding apartment number (let's say I'm in apartment 103; my mailbox is #6 in cluster #1 in front of my building. cluster #2 also has a #6). I had to ask the landlord which mailbox was mine when I moved in.

The rest of the apartments have mail centers scattered around

I feel bad for my mailman, but it's a wonder poo poo doesn't get mixed up frequently. Thankfully there's 4 large boxes in front of my building for holding stuff that won't fit in the normal mailbox, and he can just leave the key in my box.

fridge corn posted:

I approve of your pussy. :3:

# ¿ Aug 7, 2016 04:54

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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iwentdoodie posted:

They're probably all marked on the back side where he loads them. That's how our last house was.

Felt creepy as poo poo trying the key in every box until one worked, cause no one told us what box we were.

They're marked inside with a slip of paper. Apt number and last name.

And the locks are all hilariously worn out and stick like crazy. I've already broken one key off in the lock. One of these days I'll figure out where my powdered graphite went..

# ¿ Aug 7, 2016 05:16

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Geirskogul posted:

Terribad.

You're going to laugh (and maybe puke), but Bud Light Platinum (Platinum!!1!) has a decent 6% kick. IMO it's a little better than Budweiser.. and gets you past the point of caring what it tastes like fairly quickly.

Previa_fun posted:

Milwaukee's best is one of those beers you get really sad when you see someone buying.

Same with Natty Light, and moreso with Lone Star. But Lone Star is dirt loving cheap in Austin and San Antonio ($10 for a 12 pack.. at 7-11 - it's more like $8 for a 12 pack in a grocery store down there, closer to $13-15 up here).

# ¿ Aug 8, 2016 09:12

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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The Locator posted:

Damnit... I got home from work and fired up the computer, got to the first video posted in an AI thread and ... no audio. After poking around for a while, the Denon A/V receiver that drives my speakers from my computer has apparently died. Switched to tuner and nada, so it's not the optical input, it's the output, and for both A & B speaker sets. Crapola.

It make the typical 'click' sound when powered up, just doesn't output any audio.

Is there a tape monitor setting?

That's caught me on several a/v receivers.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2016 08:17

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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A coworker is having a pretty lovely day.

Her apartment doesn't have fire damage, but has heavy smoke and water damage, and the building has been declared a total loss. Red Cross put her up in a Motel 6 for tonight.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2016 08:55

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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The PSU and RAM are the only things I think need any attention in this PC.

It's a 5 year old i5-2500k system. Still runs everything I use perfectly fine. The only reason I think the PSU needs attention: it's a Corsair builder series (CX500), which is supposedly low quality, and I may be pushing it pretty hard with 4 internal drives. Dropping in a SSD made this thing feel like a new system.

RAM... I downgraded it to 8GB in order to bump my mom's PC up a bit. I'd like to bring it back to 16GB.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2016 04:57

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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mariooncrack posted:

The CX series is a budget line. I would definitely replace your PSU when you get a chance. 5 years is usually around when my PSUs start to poo poo the bed. Unfortunately, the better ones around $100 but you can always use them in your next computer.

RAM, however, is cheap these days. 8 GB of DDR3 should be about $30.

I have 4 x 2GB sticks, with 4 slots on my mobo, so I have to buy 16 GB. :v:

I had 2 x 4GB sticks, but mom was bitching about her PC always being sluggish (and her PC only has 2 slots). Had this laying around, so threw it into mine. But yeah, RAM is crazy cheap again.

Haven't had any issues with the PSU, but I know it's a low end model. I only intended to use it for like 3 months, which turned into 6 months, which turned into a year, and uh.. here we are 5 years later. :haw:

It's outlasted my last 3 Antecs combined though (TruePower, EcoPower, etc).

I'm still trying to find a way to justify upgrading my system to something newer, but even the current generation i5 stuff doesn't seem like it offers a whole lot in performance over this (for desktop usage anyway). Definitely better in power efficiency though.

randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Aug 11, 2016

# ¿ Aug 11, 2016 06:50

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Super Aggro Crag posted:

Oh man I love relaxing on the front porch during a rain storm.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2016 00:15

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Rhyno posted:

So the pissing cat continues to pee in the same spot no matter what I do. I had the idea that maybe if I buy a motion sensing air freshener and sit it right in that spot it might scare him away. I'd of course need to fill it with water so I don't poison him but how cruel does this sound?

The SSScat is basically that, but uses ~~compressed air cans~~ r134 like every can of "compressed air".

https://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-KIT19001-SSScat/dp/B000RIA95G

# ¿ Aug 14, 2016 05:02

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Goddamn, this whole insurance and body shop thing has been frustrating as hell.

Other person's insurance has refused to talk to me beyond "we just got your claim from the answering service, don't call us, we'll call you".

My insurance finally got a "we've decided your client is at fault" out of them on Friday. Except they never talked to me to ask what happened. My insurance has already told me that this won't be a chargeable claim and they feel I wasn't at fault, but it may take a long time to get my deductible back (if ever).

The body shop I had originally selected doesn't respond to voicemails, and emails are either responded to at least a few days later (if I ever get a reply), or with a terse "That person doesn't work here anymore, what did you want?". So now I'm trying to find an in-network body shop that isn't booked solid for the next couple of months.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2016 20:15

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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When even your cat is shaking his head

randomidiot fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Aug 16, 2016

# ¿ Aug 16, 2016 03:16

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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slidebite posted:

So why the hell is Asus always recommended for motherboards? I have had 4 or 5 motherboard failures since I've been building PCs in the mid 90s and each one has been an Asus. So I buy another brand to fix it (even cheapo like MSI or Gigabyte) but then when I'm building a new PC months later I read all the reviews gushing Asus so I think hey, maybe they are better now right?

Every Asus board I've owned has died way sooner than they should have. The most amusing was a brand new, fresh out of the box Asus that smoked the power supply (which worked fine an hour before, it was out of my old build) and itself as soon as I hit the power button. I've had pretty bad luck with MSI boards too, except for the one in my mother's PC.

I've had really bad luck with Antec power supplies too, even their high end ones. But for a long time they were the go-to brand.

Meanwhile the Gigabyte board I have now has been trucking along fine for 5.5 years with a pretty hefty overclock and a low end (but still name brand) power supply. :iiam:

It's starting to have an occasional cold boot issue - blank screen, no POST - but that only hits if it's been off for a day or two. Usually it's on 24/7. After 5.5 years, I'd say I more than got my money's worth out of it. I have two HDDs in this system that are older than the board too. :stare:

# ¿ Aug 17, 2016 20:31

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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So my Nest thermostat finally showed up.

I want to find whoever ran the thermostat wiring for this place and slam their head through the wall. Fuckers stapled it to the studs with jussssst enough wire to reach the original thermostat.

Not proud of how I extended the wires, but it works. I just got a $200 electric bill :stonk:

so hopefully it'll help a bit there. At the least I can get auto away working. And set schedules up. If I wanted to do it "right" I would cut the wall and pull the wire out that way (I can get to it from the ceiling via the return air vent), but that's entirely too much work for now.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2016 01:41

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Happy birthday to me! Apparently I bought myself a motorcycle jacket and an iPhone 6S, according to ebay and paypal. It also looks like I live in Oklahoma now.

At least the charge for the iphone didn't go through. My eBay account was linked to my debit card. :argh:

Darchangel posted:

Nest set to 76 with the auto-away. Just paid a $365 bill for July, on 1400 square feet. Ouch.
It's been cooler since then, thanks to some recent rain, and my daughter started school yesterday, so the auto-away should kick in more. It already did somewhat today.

I have auto away enabled, but for some reason it never went into auto away while I was gone today. Makes me wonder if the geofencing in the app is broken (or, more likely, my dying phone being a pain in the dick again).

And yeah... $200 for ~750-800 sq ft here (it's advertised as 752 sq ft, but when I measured the rooms, they were all a bit bigger than what the floorplan claims). Big loving ouch there. Normally I've always cranked it up to ~80 when I leave and turn it back down when I get home, but I've had friends staying here for a few weeks... so the place is rarely unoccupied. My electric bill last month was $110.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2016 04:10

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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CommieGIR posted:

My electric bill was about $202 for 1,900 sq ft. But our AC ducting and flow is really poor, and I run servers 24x7

I have an i5-2500k w/4 HDDs running 24/7, but according to my Kill A Watt it pulls a whopping ~40 watts from the outlet while idle with all drives spinning. The only incandescent light bulb in my place is in my microwave, almost everything is LED (with a couple of CFLs for places where LEDs are too drat bright). I keep it pretty drat chilly inside (72 when I'm home), but try to set it to 80 when I leave.

We also hit 107 last week, with every day this month up until then over 100, and I'm on the top floor of a rather run down apartment building. I'll use almost nothing this week compared to last week, since we haven't even gotten out of the 80s this week. Thank gently caress the hottest part of the year is almost behind us here.

The AC works decent, except when it's above ~102 or so outside. Once it breaks that, the inside starts getting warmer - the day we hit 107, it was about 80 inside for most of the day.

randomidiot fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Aug 19, 2016

# ¿ Aug 19, 2016 05:13

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Guys, I hosed up good.

I delivered a package to the right apartment, but in the wrong apartment complex. And Amazon's customer service gave the customer my cellphone #. :sigh:

At least I use a separate phone for work, so I can just turn it off outside of work. I brought it in with me to dinner so I could do my shift bid, I was a bit surprised when it rang.

Got a hell of an rear end chewing from the customer while I was in a restaurant eating dinner. I would have preferred to be contacted over it tonight for sure; I was able to go collect the packages and take them to the right location (in my defense, both Amazon's navigation and Google Maps show the wrong location, and there's no visible street address on either property). But picking up my phone and being cussed out and yelled at kinda sucked.

Pham Nuwen posted:

Not posting in the craigslist thread because it's not a craigslist ad & it's from a dealer... but does this seem too out of line?

https://www.reliable-chevrolet.com/used/Ford/2005-Ford-Ranger-5d9a01710a0e0a6b278b2504fd032c32.htm

Weird. There's a Reliable Chevrolet here too; they replaced the fuel pump on my car and got GM to cover it. They also did the ignition switch recall on my car.

Wonder if they're related? I was really happy with their service department. Sales wasn't pushy either.

Can't say anything one way or the other about the price.

Pham Nuwen posted:

Ranger's great except for a loud high pitched whine that seems to originate from the fuel pump. Might go for it any way if I can get a deal, sitting at dealer now

Someone put a cheap fuel pump in it. Ignore it until it dies unless it gets annoying, at that point drop in an OEM fuel pump.

PopeCrunch posted:

it's a 96 hyundai elantra stickshift, the guy has taken METICULOUS care of it - replacing parts ahead of expected life, all oil changes with synthetic, OEM parts only (he experimented with equivalent brand wheel bearings, but replaced them with OEM a few days later because he 'didn't like the sound'), the whole nine yards. The only problems it has are that the exhaust needs a weld and a tire's flat, whoopty poo poo. It is five hundred dollars, because the guy thought 'actually i take the bus to work anymore, so paying for car insurance is for suckers' and just doesn't really need a lot of money out of it. Plus, nobody around here drives stick (DC) so that's the ONLY REASON it wasn't snapped up four seconds after the ad was posted.

This will be me selling my car at some point. It's had nothing but synthetic oil since I've owned it, and the few parts I've had to throw at it have all been OEM (except for the serpentine belt and thermostat).

I know I won't get poo poo for it, it's a 10 year old Saturn (11 if you go by build date), but I figure if the OEM parts took it this far, when I replace them, they'll probably outlast the car. I don't like having to do the same job twice.

randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Aug 24, 2016

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randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Yeah.

I fully expect to catch some heat over it, but seeing as their own navigation sent me to the wrong place I don't think I should catch 100% of the blame. :smith:

Hopefully I keep my job, they let people go over the smallest poo poo.

In other poo poo. My phone pissed me off again. It's gotten to where people always say I'm breaking up. It also locks up a lot, and drops calls, drops data,, and barely shows a signal when other people around me on the same carrier have a strong signal. I finally threw my hands in the air and bought a new one. Since I bought that phone used, I don't have a warranty on it.

Goodbye Moto X. Hello Nexus 6P (and hello using my Amazon credit card.. ugh... hopefully I'll get it paid off in a month or two). My 2014 Moto X was and is a great phone - but it's on a $30/mo 100 minute/5GB plan for work only. My 2015 Moto X that I've been trying to limp along is a pile of poo poo that I'm going to enjoy curbstomping.

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