skyspydude1

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[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, that time is even moreso now because cars are far more complex and expensive as fuck now. Just the HVAC system alone on a modern luxury car probably has more components than the entirety of my old 1972 MG. You can bet your ass my friends find it very valuable when I can quickly fix stuff on their cars a dealership wanted to charge $1200 for.

[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Now just imagine how the hype is for literally everything they've ever done, and it's on the exact same level. Once Tesla/Musk does something related to your field, it's abundantly clear what an absolute fraud he is.

[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

And honestly, you can make a lot of really good bread quite quickly. Leaving out proofing for a bit, it's less than watching an episode of a show. Bread it also easy enough that you can totally watch a show while making it, and not worry about chopping off your fingers lol

[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What's wilder is seeing the Confederate flag well outside the USA. I was just in the eastern part of Germany for a wedding, near-ish to Leipzig, and at the venue one of the employees had a Confederate flag plastered on the back of his van.

[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But they were at least limited in their portability and loudness and battery life. Now you can have a tiny speaker that gives up any semblance of sound quality for loudness, but will also manage to last 8+ hours.

[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, that was pretty wild. Thanks for taking the time to type that out, it was well worth the wait.

[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Well, are you going to tell us the story?

[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Looking at the bottom corner of the bumper, I definitely think this is the case

[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

At least on my TV, I've had firmware updates enable things like variable refresh rate, enable 4K/120Hz, improve the dynamic contrast performance, and fix a couple of weird bugs it had shipped with.

[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

So far, no ghosts yet! Only haunted by the vague odor of the church it was in before, so it kind of smells like an old lady's house, but it's going away pretty quickly.

[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I went on the low side since it's not in perfect shape and is an older (1985) Young-Chang built Wurlitzer. It was a church piano so it has some bushing wear in the keys, but still very playable, and had a broken string on D2 that was an easy $50 fix. I think after moving, tuning, the string, and eventually rebushing it in the next year or so, I'll have about $900-1000 into it all said and done. Still definitely a pretty inexpensive piano overall, but understandable why they might not have wanted to put money into something that was probably a donation to begin with.

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