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GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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Hmmm surprisingly not hungover.
I mean I didn't really get drunk, but I drank a bunch of different things and that doesn't usually work out so well for me.
2021 off to a good start.

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GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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Man, I really should have planned this better.
I'm trying to build a desk and I went to Lowes and bought what I thought I needed, but now I keep changing my mind about what I actually want to do.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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LloydDobler those smashburgs look fantastic.

I am so hyped for this oh my God! I am gonna cut this dude a check for my stimulus monies.
https://twitter.com/itsmethecharlie/status/1345177139784638464

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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Humphreys posted:

For my next trick I inadvertently made a hollow Toblerone bar by leaving it standing upright for a few days in QLD heat then remembering it and chucking it in the freezer.

One end is all hollow, the other is a solid brick of goodness.


congratulations on your chocolate flavored fleshlight.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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welp we're nearly a week into the new year any my desire for a lovely beater of a Saab900 Turbo still hasn't diminished. Uh oh.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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T-Square posted:

Woke up this morning to a bunch of messages in our close friend snap group from one of my buddies venting about how much he hates his job but it’s financially stable and he just bought a house, doesn’t know what else he would do, feels trapped, doesn’t see an end in sight where he’ll be happy, etc, etc.

And I thought: “I’m not alone :unsmith:

It doubly sucks because we both love cooking and experimenting with food and have dreams of starting a food truck together but that’s just not reasonable.

Then of course, another friend who’s had a successful business handed to him by his dad and never had to deal with the rat race struggle chimed in, completely missing the point by a country mile, with “Just go back to school, two years and you can be a medical receptionist, $50k a year.” :fuckoff:

wow a whole $50k a year to crush your spirit and hopes and dreams while simultaneously putting you in about as much debt? sign me up! /s

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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Wow DC is going nuts right now.

MAGATS broke into the Capitol building and they're just casually walking around taking pictures... lol what?

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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BraveUlysses posted:

break in? nah cops let them in (because they're feral hogs too)

https://twitter.com/moonddng/status/1346924307692318723

Yeah sorry I forgot to keep updating this thread.
My favorite part was the cops taking selfies with protestors.

meatpimp posted:

Edit: And it just got really stupid. One of the dumbfucks got herself shot inside the capital building. It's gonna be a bad night, boys.
:nws:
https://twitter.com/TaylerUSA/status/1346913549898149888
gently caress around and find out I guess...
Really surprised it wasn't more people to be honest. Especially since the crowd was busting down literal barricades with armed men protecting Congress on the other side.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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sharkytm posted:

You're on the West coast, it's 0100 here.

I've got a COVID test in 7 hours... If I test negative, I can finally go see my mom for the first time since the 14th of December. Meanwhile, Congress is bickering about mail in voting instead of doing their loving jobs, moving the election results along, and passing COVID relief, dealing with the vaccine distribution mess, or anything else productive.

Good luck!

I have a fever of 101 right now so I'm going to try to get tested in the morning but there's literally nowhere around me that has anything available it looks like. I already have an RX in hand but I might have to wait 2 days and drive 2 hours to get one.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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sharkytm posted:

poo poo, that sucks. I drove 10 minutes to my local hospital's drive thru site, and was in and out in under 5 minutes. Hopefully you can find something closer, because driving that long isn't a good idea when you're sick. TBH, I'd seriously think about just riding it out at home. You're symptomatic, it's probably COVID (assuming you've been exposed), there isn't anything getting tested is going to tell you other than confirming the diagnosis. Bed rest, fluids, maybe some vitamin D, and monitoring that symptoms don't get worse is all they're gonna tell you to do. If you feel like you're getting worse, call the ER and follow their instructions.

the whole point was to try and determine if it was safe to ride it out at home. I have a wife and child I don't want to infect, but really nowhere else to actually isolate except going camping.

Today was very much a lesson in: don't believe everything you see on the internet.
I managed to get a PCR at one of our county's pop up sites, and a rapid at the Patient First without an appointment.
However it took 6 hours of driving around and calling places to see if I could get it done. At one point I drove out 45 minutes to this "Covid Testing LLC" site, which turned out to just be a couple of young dudes in a Camry without masks hustling people for $400/test cash only.

Anywho I got a PCR which should be back in less than a week and the rapid came back negative, but so did my flu test so I'm just gonna go "camping" in my unfinished basement and poop in a bucket until this blows over.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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Previa_fun posted:


Also I got the covid. I'm not feeling too bad, just congested and I've lost 90% of my sense of smell/taste.

Well that sucks. Hope you're all right and your sense of taste and smell comes back.
Hope you can self-isolate without too much inconvenience.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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I wanna know if they're cut off from their instances entirely or if they just can't host the app. Like what about database and vm backups? Can they still exfiltrate those?
I'm sure Amazon is going to hang onto that for at least 90 days as legally required.

Either way it's loving hilarious.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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bolind posted:

I can heartily recommend watching the DEFCON talk on Bluetooth buttplug hacking.

Turns out BT sex toys and their associated software are full of security holes, who would’ve thunk?

So you're saying my sex toy SHOULDN'T be full of holes? I'm confused...

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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One friend I even still occasionally hung out with went off the deep end with Qanon poo poo well over a year ago and that's about the time I stopped talking to them.

The only other friend I regularly visited with lived an hour away so get togethers were seldom anyway. But I haven't seen him for about a year now and he's moving so that sucks.

Prettymuch ever since I had a kid I just stopped hanging out with people anyway. I just threw myself into random hobbies and turned into a hermit. I don't really talk to anyone except my immediate family (and even that's rare). I just retweet socialist memes on twitter and nerd out with people who spend every spare cent on keyboards on Discord. Oh and occasionally post poo poo ITT. That's about the extent of my human contact.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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STR posted:

Babby's first smart bulbs. Was waffling between Cree's Connected Max and Phillips Wiz. Wiz has a lot more form factors, but they cost a bit more. Also, not available at Lowe's (I can use an employee discount there), and I dislike the orange box.

Then found out I can't get the Cree ones locally easily (Lowe's used to carry them, but they don't list a shelf location, and they're not on the shelf, so probably discontinued even though they show 20 on hand). Amazon has them backordered until next month. Best Buy had a two pack of the Wiz bulbs for $20, so..

The Google Home integration is pretty neat, even if changing colors with voice commands doesn't work reliably. Scheduling and scenes work well.

Of course now I've hit the connected devices limit on this lovely router from Spectrum (it takes like 2-3 weeks to drop a device from its internal memory unless I force a factory reset, and can only be configured with the @!(%#$ Spectrum app). My ancient TP-Link can handle a lot more, but it's gotten fairly flaky (it likes to drop the connection to the modem to 100mbit instead of gigabit at least once a day, even after trying several cables), and the range isn't as good. I might see if I can set the TP-Link up as a 2nd router just to handle the connected home poo poo - I doubt any of it will care about being double NATted except maybe the thermostat.

The only "smart" bulb I've had before was the OG ilumi, which.... was not great. RMA'd twice, 3rd one died around the same time in the same way (turns on in cool white mode, but the bluetooth is totally dead, every time, so it's essentially a very heavy cool white bulb that runs pretty drat hot).

Now if I could just figure out how to get the damned alarm clock to automatically take over all voice outputs from Google Assistant whenever I'm home - if it could only do it when I'm in the bedroom, that'd be nice. SO and I work opposite schedules, so the alarm clock blurting out "got it, turning on the dining room light" at 2am isn't gonna be good. Didn't even realize it was doing that until I called out "hey google, make a noise" when I couldn't find my phone one night, and it went through the alarm clock...

I have a couple Wiz bulbs and I love them. The only other ones that I like are the Wyze non-rgb bulbs because their Home integration is top tier.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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Goober Peas posted:

I've been rocking the smart home for about 10 years, won't go back. I like being able to lock the doors, set the alarm, turn off all the lights, and set the thermostat back in one fell swoop. I have Hue lights in the bedroom that change color and temperature based upon time of day. Robot vacuum runs daily, but only if I leave. With geofencing, the thermostat goes back to its home setting, lights go on, and music starts playing when I get to the community gate.

I bought a lot of my smarthome products with geofencing in mind. Then I had a kid, and then the pandemic hit, so there hasn't NOT been someone in my house for almost 3 years now and it's been sort of a pointless endeavor.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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Wow I am really glad I don't have a spare $10000ish lying around right now

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1989-saab-900-turbo-airflow/

Don's gone. I'm stoked.
I'm out of liquor though. Need to make a trip to the liquor store. Actually I needed to go like 3 months ago but I finally completely ran out of booze.

It'll be nice to finally stock up on food sipping liquors like whiskey and rum instead of "drink yourself to sleep" liquors like vodka and cheap rum.

GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Jan 21, 2021

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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cakesmith handyman posted:

gently caress, battery died in the Volvo again, couple of weeks or so after the last one, difference is the last one dropped to 11.2v after being left a week (e: 10yr old battery), this dropped to 3.6v after 3 days. My charger won't recognise it as a car battery so it won't put enough voltage out to even try to charge it.

Okay, so I'll take it out and exchange it.
Battery's in the boot. Won't unlock because voltage.
Prise the little cover off to reveal the hidden keyhole.
Won't turn, apparently never has.
Okay, drop the back seats and go in that way to open the boot.
Seat release is in the boot. No ski hole.
Jump it from my car? No cables.
Neighbors cables? 2.5m. car is nose in down the side of the garage, can't get closer than 4/5 metres.

gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress.

This is life's way of telling you to buy a jumper pack.
They're way better than cables anyway.

I've had mine for like 15 years and it's been a godsend.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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Mustache Ride posted:

Boss asked me to come to his house today. I got to drive this:




And this:





Results: Daytona has a built motor and race seats that my fat rear end doesn't fit in. Great car, handles amazing for a kit cat, brakes are eeeeeh. Engine is amazing. Tore it up in his neighborhood.

Belvedere was more up my alley. RV big block hemi and tons of torque. Rode better than my Scout despite being 20 years older.

Immediately wanted to buy both.

If that's your Boss' car then you deserve a fuckin' raise.

Darchangel posted:

It does, yes. TRUENO is a trademark of Toyota.
At small scales, TRUNED looks close enough, though I would have gone with TRUEND.


No, it's very definitely TRUNED:

It also says APCX, for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guck4FoWQss

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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Rhyno posted:

That woman is awesome and we should get her to join AI just so we can creep her out so she runs away in disgust.

b...but...what if she likes us?

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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Watching Ameritrade cut off GME simultaneously makes my blood boil as well as makes me laugh my rear end off.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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rdb posted:

Blood boiling here. I have some cash to throw into the fire and it makes me want to do it even more now.
Eh you sorta missed the boat on GME so don't bother. Focus on AMC now.

To be clear, I'm just in it to ruin hedge funds. I'm not here to make money.

meatpimp posted:

Yep, the poors are making money? Stop that poo poo in its tracks.

Collateral GME effect: I was just talking to a buddy of mine at another major retailer. His stock went down 15% today, because the hedge fund holding GME shorts also held a huge amount of his company's stock. So the hedge fund sold all their holdings to free up capital, tanking the stock price of my buddy's company.

poo poo's weird, yo.

Good. Maybe now poors will be able to afford to buy it and rally.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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Liquid Communism posted:

I don't think anyone had any illusions that the major brokers and exchanges didn't collude to make sure their biggest customers don't lose money.

oh this is not a surprise at all, just enraging when it does happen.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/12/longest-exposure-photograph/

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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https://www.nbc12.com/2021/01/28/year-old-virginia-boy-befriends-baby-deer-while-playing-outside/

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GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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apologies for skipping the last couple pages but today was a fuckin day.
Nothing bad but god drat work was nuts and will be again tomorrow.

I am well. How are the rest of y'all?
I want to yeet money at the stock market solely for the purposes of burning down some hedge funds but I cached out all my bitcoin and spent it all on keyboards.

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