@mike808 I’m going to wait quite a while before taking that step. I need long-distance short-stopping-time travel capability way too much to be able to put up with the current generations of EV.
@werehatrack Yeah, same here. A 600 mile trek that has to be same-day and not need an overnight recharge in a hotel. 2 days travel time each way is just not happening.
So, I’ll milk the olde ICE until the wheels fall off and pray the infrastructure and the battery/charging technology keeps advancing.
@mike808 I just paid off my ICE car, so it will be a while before I buy again (because nothing drives as well as a car with no payments), but when I do, it will be an EV. I don’t drive that much, so I don’t need a ton of range, and some of the lower-end models look good to me.
@mike808@werehatrack 600 miles does make that tougher. You’d have to stop twice with most Teslas, though some of the model 3s can go nearly 400 miles, and if you have Supercharger in the right spot, that means an hour of charging in the middle once. The Rivian can go just over 300 miles, but I’m sure that wanes slightly as it ages. Maybe the next generation will do what you need, though
@ahacksaw@mike808 While I’m in a position in which I could afford a new EV, it doesn’t make any financial sense in operating costs versus running a paid off vehicle. Even with fuel costs over $6 here in SoCal, the math wouldn’t work out for my usage.
I did take an interim step last month and got a used hybrid. Provided it’s only regular maintenance, it’ll start paying for itself by 2025.
That’s the magic phrase. I’m watching closely things like recharging and supercharger network locations and technology improvements in batteries and charging. It’s almost at the tipping point for me.
@mike808@narfcake “Almost” is the key word there for me. I think I’m probably a couple of years away from being fully ready to but, but the growth in availability of fast charging and other advantages is fast enough that the two years might turn into just one. Then again, I could just keep driving my VW till it falls apart.
@duodec I also need to move to a better state. The blatant gerrymandering that happened last year absolutely guarantees a supermajority in perpetuity. All hope is lost.
@duodec@tweezak Don’t forget the “originalist” activist Supremes (Looking at Alito) who think that if the people want to vote for a king to rule our country, then that’s what our founding fathers intended, since there’s no prohibition on it in the Constitution. What a bunch of disingenuous hypocrites.
Oh, and don’t think Missouri is any better. They’re all in the shallow end of the gene pool with floaties here in Misery.
@haydesigner I got one late last year, they are wonderful. But I had a hard xfer over from the old one as it was still running 10x. Proper transfer of the all the email stuff was the tough nut. Apple support was really helpful, though walked me through it very patiently.
@haydesigner@stolicat SO just purchased the last version of 27" iMac built with Intel i7 (refurb from Apple store, so a decent bargain); they use some software that currently doesn’t play nice with M1 processor? Anyway, upgraded from a 10+ year old machine, so the improvement is dramatic even if not M1-scale.
@compunaut@haydesigner I think you’ll be fine if you want to upgrade to the M1, it was from the much older machines running OS10.x, especially earlier versions. I’m sure your recent refurb has current or nearly-so OS on it. My understanding is OS 12 supports both the last couple generations of Intel processors as well as the M1. Apple usually keeps the upgrade path pretty clean for a few years, it’s only when you jump over 5 years or more that you run into problems.
If I’d been a good boy and and least upped to OS11 on the old machine, I wouldn’t have had the problem.
@pooflady Good God! The man is a savage!
When he cleans his hands for dinner, does he just rub a paper towel around for a couple of seconds and call them “clean”?
@pooflady We did the shower conversion maybe 10 years ago. It’s so nice. I put a shower head with a hose on it so it can be used when cleaning. I think I bought it here! I also put the same shower head in our other bathroom because it raises the head 6".
@pooflady You can get cheap bidets for like $40 or less on sale and you can install it on any toilet with similarly sized rim. Just do it. If he doesn’t like it he can just not use it, it isn’t like it squirts without you turning the knob or pushing the button. If he objects then he is just being hard headed (and filthy).
My PC just turned 11 years old. It’s gotten an SSD and a new GPU in that time, but other than that it’s still the same things trucking along.
Around 2015 is when I decided that it no longer made sense to put money into it and I would just run it until it blew up and get something new. But it just keeps running, albeit with some horrible fan noises sometimes.
@brennyn I’m the opposite; I loathe TenVirus and TenVirusPlus so much that I will patch and scavenge to keep these alive as long as possible, and by then I’ll have eased over into Linux anyway. And I have several spare licenses for 8.1 which is still supported on all of the current mobos I’ve priced. I don’t give a FF whether M$ is still supporting the OS at that point.
@brennyn@werehatrack My laptop is going on 15 years now. Replaced the Pentium P6000 CPU (har har) with the last gen (4th? Arrandale) Core 540M that fit the socket and it worked. Replaced HDDs with SSDs. Replaced slim DVD with a slim SATA cage and put another SSD in. Upgraded (free from MS) from 7 to Win10 x64 just fine and does all the desktop-y things a laptop on your desk should do - read email, shop, pay bills, surf, and occasionally a zoom meeting. I might have replaced the battery with an extended capacity battery (one with extra cells that also acts as a stand to allow airflow underneath). It’s probably dead (or only good for long enough to shut down if the power goes out) and likely nobody makes replacements that fit anymore (or they’re old stock that has dead batteries).
@brennyn I had a HP that the fan ran at high speeds constantly and I was afraid something would die of heat so I got a laptop stand with a large fan and that cooled it enough that the fan slowed to normal speeds. I read that there was a problem with cooling the vid card in the laptop. I opened it and there was a foam heat sync that I took out and replaced with a copper shim. That lowered the temp to normal and the fan never went high again. HP designed those laptops to fail, I think, because foam isn’t a conductor of heat, it’s an insulator!
@Kyser_Soze Thermally conductive silicone sponge is a thing, but it only lasts a few years. Maybe some engineers decided that the sponge would have better thermal conductivity for long enough to last the lifespan of the laptop. But you’re right either way, because that’s still designing for failure.
@hchavers Take the back off your computer and take a look. Odds are good your fans are clogged with hair and lint.
I once did this for a friend whose brother’s laptop would not even POST. I found a fiber disk that looked like wool felt over the fan. He always sat in bed with it chatting or playing games. Once I cleaned it out it ran flawlessly.
My poor Forester was left out in a hailstorm last week and is now covered in dents. I have to get the insurance company to check it out, but the last time it happened, they cut me the check I used as a down payment on this one
@guyfromhawthorn Oooooh, a Subaru… Hail dents can often be pulled out without damaging the paint, depending on the depth and location. Bad ones, particularly if the hail was big enough to damage any glass, not so much.
@werehatrack yeah, the last one (an Impreza) had super deep dents and it cracked the windshield, so they wrote it off. This one has more but shallower dents, but given how tightly packed they are, I don’t know if paintless repair will even work. I still have to get the insurance company to check it out though
Laptop is 8 years old and runs fine but can’t update to win 11. MS lied when they said 10 was the final version of the windows os. Might need a new one soon.
Been in my house for 30 years and am not sure if I can find anything in as good a neighborhood in my price, but I’d like to get something without a pool.
@Kyser_Soze Win 10 still has support until October 14, 2025. But past history suggests that may get extended.
I’ve played with 11 a bit but I wouldn’t consider using it until they finish building it. Too many bits are still missing. Right now you’re paying to be a beta tester.
Yunno, I chose “house” because I do not like my house, but my car has somewhere between 0 and 10 years of life left in it, and Apple just ended OS updates for my laptop.
It’s really a tie between a car and housing. My awesome little car is 17 years old now, and though I never want to admit it it’s elderly at this point.
As far as housing, until this bubble bursts in the area we’re kind of stuck where we are
My Kindle, which I bought in August of 2013 and still works fine. It is a Kindle keyboard and Amazon has indicated that I will no longer be able to use it after August of this year.
i would like my next upgrade to be a house but I may need to upgrade the job/lottery winnings to get that.
Not sure I would call it an upgrade but the pandemic interrupted my next bicycle build. All I got is a frame right now. Still in the box just over 2 years later.
Main computer needs to be upgraded but I have no idea what to buy.
Shower/bathroom remodel and kitchen upgrades too.
When I get back to my condo, when we’re done taking care of the MIL, (hopefully she’ll go into a nursing home soon) I’ll be putting in a new shower. I need a walk in shower and I’ll do away with the tub.
The kitchen cabinets need to be reconfigured, there’s so much wasted space and storage that I physically can’t get to.
These are things that would have been done a few years ago but instead I came to support my guy with his parents. I’m SO READY to get back home and enjoy my new condo! I had only just bought it in 2015. Can you say homesick…
I just got a new car/SUV last month! What a pain in the butt that was, prices are over the top and it’s pretty slim pickins! Ended up with a Hyundai Santa Fe Sport unlimited and every time I get behind the wheel I say out loud how much I LOVE my car!
My Republican senator Roy Blunt, #3 on the NRA blood money recipients list. His partner in crime, is Josh Hawley, made it to #15 in his very first (and hopefully only) term.
It isn’t looking good for Missouri because this is the Republican front-runner, the convicted cheating ex-governor Eric Greitens, just last month:
This is from his campaign for governer:
Even worse, the 2nd place Republican candidate is this guy – Mark McCloskey (Here he is at George Floyd protest march “standing his ground” and defending the “castle doctrine”) :
We are all fucked if people don’t stop this insanity in the voting booth. It may be the last time we get to do that.
I need a new bottle of orange juice, the old one’s turning grey and smelling funny.
My social life! Been a little boring since March of 2020
/giphy tumbleweed
@tinamarie1974 Dust Puppy, is that you?
Car. When it dies, bye bye ICE. Going EV.
@mike808 I’m going to wait quite a while before taking that step. I need long-distance short-stopping-time travel capability way too much to be able to put up with the current generations of EV.
@werehatrack Yeah, same here. A 600 mile trek that has to be same-day and not need an overnight recharge in a hotel. 2 days travel time each way is just not happening.
So, I’ll milk the olde ICE until the wheels fall off and pray the infrastructure and the battery/charging technology keeps advancing.
@mike808 I just paid off my ICE car, so it will be a while before I buy again (because nothing drives as well as a car with no payments), but when I do, it will be an EV. I don’t drive that much, so I don’t need a ton of range, and some of the lower-end models look good to me.
@ahacksaw Same here. Payment-free for 6 years now and haven’t had to sink much money into maintenance yet.
@mike808 @werehatrack 600 miles does make that tougher. You’d have to stop twice with most Teslas, though some of the model 3s can go nearly 400 miles, and if you have Supercharger in the right spot, that means an hour of charging in the middle once. The Rivian can go just over 300 miles, but I’m sure that wanes slightly as it ages. Maybe the next generation will do what you need, though
@ahacksaw @mike808 While I’m in a position in which I could afford a new EV, it doesn’t make any financial sense in operating costs versus running a paid off vehicle. Even with fuel costs over $6 here in SoCal, the math wouldn’t work out for my usage.
I did take an interim step last month and got a used hybrid. Provided it’s only regular maintenance, it’ll start paying for itself by 2025.
@ahacksaw @narfcake
That’s the magic phrase. I’m watching closely things like recharging and supercharger network locations and technology improvements in batteries and charging. It’s almost at the tipping point for me.
@mike808 @narfcake “Almost” is the key word there for me. I think I’m probably a couple of years away from being fully ready to but, but the growth in availability of fast charging and other advantages is fast enough that the two years might turn into just one. Then again, I could just keep driving my VW till it falls apart.
My tired, old ass…
I need replacement parts for all the things that hurt all the time.
House. Once we retire. That will also involve upgrading state of residence from ill-annoy to a better place.
@duodec I also need to move to a better state. The blatant gerrymandering that happened last year absolutely guarantees a supermajority in perpetuity. All hope is lost.
@duodec @tweezak Don’t forget the “originalist” activist Supremes (Looking at Alito) who think that if the people want to vote for a king to rule our country, then that’s what our founding fathers intended, since there’s no prohibition on it in the Constitution. What a bunch of disingenuous hypocrites.
Oh, and don’t think Missouri is any better. They’re all in the shallow end of the gene pool with floaties here in Misery.
My iMac is over 9 years old, and 2 OS’s behind. I finally bought the new M1 three days ago. (Of course it’s backordered
)
@haydesigner I got one late last year, they are wonderful. But I had a hard xfer over from the old one as it was still running 10x. Proper transfer of the all the email stuff was the tough nut. Apple support was really helpful, though walked me through it very patiently.
@haydesigner @stolicat SO just purchased the last version of 27" iMac built with Intel i7 (refurb from Apple store, so a decent bargain); they use some software that currently doesn’t play nice with M1 processor? Anyway, upgraded from a 10+ year old machine, so the improvement is dramatic even if not M1-scale.
@compunaut @haydesigner I think you’ll be fine if you want to upgrade to the M1, it was from the much older machines running OS10.x, especially earlier versions. I’m sure your recent refurb has current or nearly-so OS on it. My understanding is OS 12 supports both the last couple generations of Intel processors as well as the M1. Apple usually keeps the upgrade path pretty clean for a few years, it’s only when you jump over 5 years or more that you run into problems.
If I’d been a good boy and and least upped to OS11 on the old machine, I wouldn’t have had the problem.
A new bathroom. Take out the tub, install a walk-in shower. If I can talk husband into it, a bidet.
@pooflady Good God! The man is a savage!
When he cleans his hands for dinner, does he just rub a paper towel around for a couple of seconds and call them “clean”?
@pooflady We did the shower conversion maybe 10 years ago. It’s so nice. I put a shower head with a hose on it so it can be used when cleaning. I think I bought it here! I also put the same shower head in our other bathroom because it raises the head 6".
@mike808 @pooflady Your comparison makes me worry about how you eat dinner.
@pooflady You can get cheap bidets for like $40 or less on sale and you can install it on any toilet with similarly sized rim. Just do it. If he doesn’t like it he can just not use it, it isn’t like it squirts without you turning the knob or pushing the button. If he objects then he is just being hard headed (and filthy).
/giphy brain
@f00l Euw! Yucky giphy!
My PC just turned 11 years old. It’s gotten an SSD and a new GPU in that time, but other than that it’s still the same things trucking along.
Around 2015 is when I decided that it no longer made sense to put money into it and I would just run it until it blew up and get something new. But it just keeps running, albeit with some horrible fan noises sometimes.
@brennyn I’m the opposite; I loathe TenVirus and TenVirusPlus so much that I will patch and scavenge to keep these alive as long as possible, and by then I’ll have eased over into Linux anyway. And I have several spare licenses for 8.1 which is still supported on all of the current mobos I’ve priced. I don’t give a FF whether M$ is still supporting the OS at that point.
@brennyn @werehatrack My laptop is going on 15 years now. Replaced the Pentium P6000 CPU (har har) with the last gen (4th? Arrandale) Core 540M that fit the socket and it worked. Replaced HDDs with SSDs. Replaced slim DVD with a slim SATA cage and put another SSD in. Upgraded (free from MS) from 7 to Win10 x64 just fine and does all the desktop-y things a laptop on your desk should do - read email, shop, pay bills, surf, and occasionally a zoom meeting. I might have replaced the battery with an extended capacity battery (one with extra cells that also acts as a stand to allow airflow underneath). It’s probably dead (or only good for long enough to shut down if the power goes out) and likely nobody makes replacements that fit anymore (or they’re old stock that has dead batteries).
But it still chugs along.
@brennyn I had a HP that the fan ran at high speeds constantly and I was afraid something would die of heat so I got a laptop stand with a large fan and that cooled it enough that the fan slowed to normal speeds. I read that there was a problem with cooling the vid card in the laptop. I opened it and there was a foam heat sync that I took out and replaced with a copper shim. That lowered the temp to normal and the fan never went high again. HP designed those laptops to fail, I think, because foam isn’t a conductor of heat, it’s an insulator!
@Kyser_Soze Thermally conductive silicone sponge is a thing, but it only lasts a few years. Maybe some engineers decided that the sponge would have better thermal conductivity for long enough to last the lifespan of the laptop. But you’re right either way, because that’s still designing for failure.
Streaming device
The laptop’s fans are constantly running and the case is hot to the touch. Windows 10 with Edge really save the CPU cycles.
@hchavers Take the back off your computer and take a look. Odds are good your fans are clogged with hair and lint.
I once did this for a friend whose brother’s laptop would not even POST. I found a fiber disk that looked like wool felt over the fan. He always sat in bed with it chatting or playing games. Once I cleaned it out it ran flawlessly.
My poor Forester was left out in a hailstorm last week and is now covered in dents. I have to get the insurance company to check it out, but the last time it happened, they cut me the check I used as a down payment on this one
@guyfromhawthorn Oooooh, a Subaru… Hail dents can often be pulled out without damaging the paint, depending on the depth and location. Bad ones, particularly if the hail was big enough to damage any glass, not so much.
@guyfromhawthorn Dents make for a more aerodynamic shape, proven with golf balls and the Mythbusters. Think of it as Mother Nature helping you.
@werehatrack yeah, the last one (an Impreza) had super deep dents and it cracked the windshield, so they wrote it off. This one has more but shallower dents, but given how tightly packed they are, I don’t know if paintless repair will even work. I still have to get the insurance company to check it out though
@guyfromhawthorn @werehatrack Insurance tip:
Laptop is 8 years old and runs fine but can’t update to win 11. MS lied when they said 10 was the final version of the windows os. Might need a new one soon.
Been in my house for 30 years and am not sure if I can find anything in as good a neighborhood in my price, but I’d like to get something without a pool.
@Kyser_Soze Win 10 still has support until October 14, 2025. But past history suggests that may get extended.
I’ve played with 11 a bit but I wouldn’t consider using it until they finish building it. Too many bits are still missing. Right now you’re paying to be a beta tester.
My wardrobe. I have shirts that I’ve been wearing for over ten years…although they do go with my 10+ year old pants. Sigh.
Yunno, I chose “house” because I do not like my house, but my car has somewhere between 0 and 10 years of life left in it, and Apple just ended OS updates for my laptop.
/giphy bank account
I haven’t had a car for about 3 months, so definitely that one.
It’s really a tie between a car and housing. My awesome little car is 17 years old now, and though I never want to admit it it’s elderly at this point.
As far as housing, until this bubble bursts in the area we’re kind of stuck where we are
WORKER BEES! HERCULES! TURKEY GREASE! AWESOME!
Meh, are u going to be selling all of those things next?
@Felyne You may be on to something. I predict bathroom accessories, new car deodorizers, computer cleaning aids, fancy wallets, and some sheets.
@Felyne @hchavers How about gas mileage snake oil?
Just in case:
https://jalopnik.com/fuelshark-wants-us-to-apologize-because-they-sell-bulls-1527588505
Expectations
My Kindle, which I bought in August of 2013 and still works fine. It is a Kindle keyboard and Amazon has indicated that I will no longer be able to use it after August of this year.
@Harbingerdc You just can’t connect it to the internet, right? You can still use something like Calibre to put files on/off it.
i would like my next upgrade to be a house but I may need to upgrade the job/lottery winnings to get that.
Not sure I would call it an upgrade but the pandemic interrupted my next bicycle build. All I got is a frame right now. Still in the box just over 2 years later.
Main computer needs to be upgraded but I have no idea what to buy.
Shower/bathroom remodel and kitchen upgrades too.
When I get back to my condo, when we’re done taking care of the MIL, (hopefully she’ll go into a nursing home soon) I’ll be putting in a new shower. I need a walk in shower and I’ll do away with the tub.
The kitchen cabinets need to be reconfigured, there’s so much wasted space and storage that I physically can’t get to.
These are things that would have been done a few years ago but instead I came to support my guy with his parents. I’m SO READY to get back home and enjoy my new condo! I had only just bought it in 2015. Can you say homesick…
I just got a new car/SUV last month! What a pain in the butt that was, prices are over the top and it’s pretty slim pickins! Ended up with a Hyundai Santa Fe Sport unlimited and every time I get behind the wheel I say out loud how much I LOVE my car!
My Republican senator Roy Blunt, #3 on the NRA blood money recipients list. His partner in crime, is Josh Hawley, made it to #15 in his very first (and hopefully only) term.
It isn’t looking good for Missouri because this is the Republican front-runner, the convicted cheating ex-governor Eric Greitens, just last month:
This is from his campaign for governer:
Even worse, the 2nd place Republican candidate is this guy – Mark McCloskey (Here he is at George Floyd protest march “standing his ground” and defending the “castle doctrine”) :
We are all fucked if people don’t stop this insanity in the voting booth. It may be the last time we get to do that.
Oh yea, a new bathroom.
All of the above.
I’m in the market for a new gaming computer. Could be a desktop or a laptop. I’m not all that picky. Suggestions?