I’d love some example questions for this.

Wow, this is highly informative, thanks for taking the time to put that much effort into your reply!

I expect the drums are probably fine as the squeaking only started very recently and only occurs at the very end of coming to a complete stop (it does not happen during otherwise normal brake usage).

The cost effectiveness that you have noted for a few different maintenance items really affirms my interest in this. My auto-dealer gives me free oil changes, but only under the condition that I stay with their service schedule. I know how easy and cheap it is to change out oil so while that might sound appealing to other people, it really is not for me because as you have shown, I could be saving much more money if I learned how to do the other kinds of maintenance myself.

I guess I can use whatever the dealer has on their service schedule as something to orient myself on what items I should go learn how to do, but I think something that would be handy in that regard would be to first learn how to diagnose what should be getting replaced or fixed.

As you noted, I can use calipers to check the brake drums to make a determination on replacement there, and the fact that I can hear the brakes beginning to squeak implies that the pads should be changed.

I wonder if there is a resource somewhere which has information on this specifically - just how to make these checks to make that determination on what should be done. Surely I know a few others. I know how to check if the oil is low, or the washer fluid etc, but would be really interested in other items like this, because for me I think it would be a really great jumping-off point.

Thanks!

Thank you, this is really informative!

Thanks for the recommendation!

Oh this is great! My vehicle is in there as well, thanks a lot!

True enough, thanks.

Thanks!

I can replace a flat fine, I understand how to use a jack and a torque wrench and have tangential knowledge regarding a little bit of mechanical engineering from a previous job.

The feeling I get is that auto work goes much much deeper though, and I am interested in resources that offer that knowledge.

Today on my win11 work system, the windows menu stopped producing output when I typed into it and webpages stopped loading. Had to perform a full system restart to get it to work again.

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Can I ask why you used this in place of “th” mostly but not always?

Three actually I think.

Oh haha, Gee whiz neighbor, I wish I could say different but I’m quite certain I would eat the lips clean off your head if I had to.

That’s not to say I would never consider doing that with some friends though.

Its possible, like I said the signature may be behind that grass - but it is just too bad it is not credited regardless. If you were the photographer, you would think you would look for the signature/source of the art you are photographing to credit it.

When you have a new PC, put it on the old one too. You could run a Jellyfin server off it it or use it as a NAS device or something.

Fascinating. I think this may be a photoshopped image though. That fox art was made by an artist named “stewy”, but I have not seen a picture of it on this short wall.

https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/05/c1/9e/05c19ea496215b9d707767dbce172241.jpg

How do I know this? Because I adapted my own profile picture here from the original source years ago, long before 2018.

It’s sad to see that Matthew here does not seem to be crediting the original creator of the art in their article. I expect if this is real, the artists signature should be right there behind that grass, or was otherwise removed.

One of my favorite comparisons is computing to magic. They say that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

A lot of people have a hard time drawing that comparison, but if you tell them that there are very special, rare silica rocks that you can only find in specific places on earth, and that if you inscribe one of these rocks with billions of tiny transistors runes and then power infuse the rock with electricity lightning you can actually make trick the rock into a processor thinking, and that this now let’s you create software incantations which explain to the processor thinking rock how to execute a program do specific things for you, then they begin to see why.

This is neat. They say sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Conventional programming in the style of serialized text is like a spoken incantation in that regard, but I think this is neat because it puts me one step closer to summoning my daemons from a sigil.

Is that a starship prompt? How do you style that divider above the prompt that way? It looks really good.

edit: I’ve read up a bunch on starship and now understand, very nice.

Perhaps consider a SOCKS5 reverse proxy. If done over SSH, the client systems networking would act as though they are on the server itself, traffic would be secure, and it would walk around most firewall rules that probably exist.

Using key based authentication would also make it such that it is more secure and easier for the researchers to log in - they wouldn’t even have to remember a password, they would just need some SSH client/configs.

Specifically, read up on “bastion hosts”.

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