This.

Longtime computer “nerd” here. 8 years ago I would have balked about spending more on a cellphone than my gaming PC, but I end up using my phone more hours per day than my desktop so I bit the bullet and bought a nice phone. Now my PC is basically a dedicated entertainment device, and my phone is my go-to for email, chat, music, videos, reading, documents, and even some work.

If I wasn’t an avid gamer, I probably wouldn’t have a desktop or laptop at all right now.

And I will be switching to Linux this year, mainly because of Windows 11 and the general direction the Microsoft is going. I’ve got a laptop to test with and when I have the hang of it, the big battle station is getting switched too.

Put cheap “rum” in it.

Pretty sure you can do that for home as well, just as long as you aren’t in S mode.

Otherwise, admin console and clear the file permissions.

All that being said, for your average user, if you are trying to delete a file and windows says you don’t have permission, it’s probably best to leave it alone.

Whichever 21 Pilots “song” was played most recently in my vicinity.

I think on a purely technical note, Air Conditioning goes beyond just cooling the air and involves reduction of humidity. Personally, I wouldn’t consider it AC because you’d have to keep refilling the evaporator resivor, instead of just powering the device, but that is a nitpicky item that isn’t technically a requirement.

Only if you use a better working fluid and add compression and expansion steps, but a long pipe in a ditch filled with water isn’t what I would call AC quite yet.

Painting your house a lighter color. Can’t say how effective but makes sense intuitively.

Probably makes a big difference. I just measured my patio, grass and driveway temps today with an infrared themometer. Grass was 109, patio was 123, and the blacktop was a whopping 148. My wife has been talking about using a cream or neutral gray finish on the driveway, and a 20 degree difference is definitely worth it.

Thats basically how earthships are cooled. You can also run the pipe through an evaporative cooler to cool the air even more.

I don’t buy into the “too big to fail” idea for individuals.

I really think it only applies to banks, mainly because they hold the money of common people. Anyone else should be allowed to fail. Probably the greatest financial policy fuckup of my life was bailing everybody out in 2008 and not holding anyone accountable for their actions. That gets back to risk and reward breaking down. Those companies should have been allowed to fail. The money, workers and demand for services don’t disappear, they shift to more stable competitors.

I too, killed the last owner of my car to get a good deal.

I’m down. I think every year, we ought to take the richest person in the country and redistribute 50% of their assets.

Hmmm. Good question. I’m not an economist, but I’d say it was around the time Reganomics got started, maybe a little bit beforehand, since I think Reganomics was probably a consequence of the powerful having enough money to out-fund the general populace.

Yeah. You probably just blew up that reverse idler then. Not sure if that is easier or harder to fix TBH. Disassembling the whole transmission isn’t something I would do, but I could see myself dropping in a junkyard transmission, and doing my clutch and rear main seal at the same time since you’re going to have everything off and drained anyway.

Does 1st still work? Reverse isn’t usually synchro’d, it’s just an idler for 1st to reverse the rotation of the output shaft.

If 1st still works, then your probably just chewed all the teeth off the idler, or shattered the gear.

Anyway. I’m impressed you managed to force it into reverse at highway speeds, that takes some serious strength (props to your shifter and linkages too), and your transmission is full of metal shavings at this point, so if you are going to drive without fixing it for a while, at least flush the fluid out.

Have fun using the Flintstone drive for reversing.

Agreed to manage our clients AVD environment.

Yeah. I have a car that has telemetry. Sucks for privacy, but if I was going to commit a crime, I would just ******************************************************************************, use the system to obfuscate the data.

Hahahah, fuse go brrrr.

Jokes aside, they probably shut off the car if it can’t phone home within a certain time period.

Once you have enough money, anything you do makes you money.

Elon blew 44 billion or Twitter, axed the servers, staff, and the name, and he was able to leverage that into a government job where he could kill investigations into his companies years later. You could say it’s intelligence, but I’d say it’s a combination of luck, and the resources to blow 44 billion and not have it affect you personally in any way.

Watch the RichRebuilds review of Chinese EVs. There is a lot of “make it look good” in their engineering, like massive painted brake calipers…that are a single piston. The cars probably aren’t as quality as other EVs, but the prices, specs, and niche features are very compelling. I’d definitely consider one in the US. Anything that isn’t a Tesla or a massive crossover would be great.

The major premise of Capitalism is risk vs reward. We hit a tipping point though, where 99% of people do not have any capital to risk, and the people who do have the capital have enough to nullify any risk.

Tax the rich.