I am not a robot. I promise.
None. I was the one usually giving motivational thoughts and words Then J. showed up. J was an abused woman, about age 26, burned with kerosene on her chest… ☹️
I learned something that day, things could be way worse.
I hope J. is doing good these days…
Meanwhile, while I service vehicles over 30 years old, and new old stock still sits on the shelves and they ain’t making new parts for old vehicles anymore…
Yeah, please, please tell me that everyone’s brake pads were manufactured within the last two years, I’ll laugh you right out of the shop. 😂🤣
Everything wears out, regardless of temperature. Sure Teflon lasts a good long time as long as certain temperatures aren’t exceeded, but even at room temperature/dishwashing temperature, particles of those molecules are still gonna wear off, and they don’t just randomly vanish.
What’s that stink you smell out of your vacuum cleaner? Well yeah, lots of dust and dead skin cells and such, but also all the other toxic debris gradually wearing away from our household items and whatnot…
Teflon, see my other comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFAS
TL;DR - Teflon, plus other chemicals, but particularly Teflon
Yup, sad world we live in.
But I have no lung problems… cough cough…
43 and already got toes in the grave…
I’m not panicking, I just had my daily inhaled dose of asbestos dust today, doing a front end alignment. What do you think most brake pads are made with?
Source: Am mechanic, and know what the smell of freshly wet road consists of, which is all sorts of toxic substances, including asbestos dust. And we’ve all smelled freshly wet pavement before…
You know that stinky smell on the streets and roads just after it starts raining? Yeah, that’s a combination of asphalt, tire rubber dust, and asbestos brake pad dust… What a lovely smell!
Asbestos never disappeared, it’s still used in most brake pads to this day, though there is at least some recent motivation for vehicle manufacturers to switch to other materials.
A day late and a dollar short if you ask me, cuz I bet that unless you live under a rock, you’ve inhaled asbestos before. ☹️
There’s no such thing as rapidly aging, there’s exactly one year per year, we don’t age any faster nor slower. Declining birth rate, sure, but no such thing as rapidly aging.
Does the urine go in before or after the bleach?
Asking for a… GODDAMN IT GARY I TOLD YOU TO WAIT!
Anyways, asking for a friend…
Inside out helps mark your scent in the local laundromat, who doesn’t do that? /s
LOL, I already have a leather hobby, and I don’t use cheap or faux leather either…
Oh, indeed the material does hold tough so far (I think I’ve had this for a little over a year now).
I just figured I’d ask, for sake of asking anyways. Thank you and others for the info, not really all that much I can do to keep the material lasting 10+ years…
I do indeed keep it in my pocket, in an exact position in my left front pocket, behind my phone, to keep the case/sheath wear consistent. And yes the edges are ever so lightly starting to peel, honestly I already expected that anyways being in pocket, but consistency of exactly how I load and arrange my pockets seems to keep wear and tear down.
I don’t expect anything to last forever, but I like to know whatever tips and tricks might help stuff last longer…
Candy Crush
That ancient USB to PATA adapter I had, before it got stolen anyways, was actually a repurposed adapter for an external USB 4X CD burner, so it kinda makes sense that it would never support any drives over 128GB (120GB in practice), as it was never actually meant to be used on hard drives in the first place. But for 120GB and less, it worked just fine.
It sucked for me though, as I had and still have a 1.8" 160GB hard drive from an OG iPod 1 and all the other relevant adapters to connect it to 2.5" PATA. Also sadly, my old Dell B130 apparently also has the 120/128GB firmware limit, so I can’t even use it natively, I had sooo wanted to upgrade that thing from 80GB to 160GB…
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Sadly I’ve never seen a PATA to SATA adapter that supports SMART stats either. I spent quite a while late last year on eBay looking for a direct USB to PATA only adapter on eBay, with no luck though, all I keep finding are those combo adapters ☹️
The last ancient USB to PATA only adapter I once had did actually support SMART stats, but apparently the adapter’s firmware didn’t support drives over 128GB ☹️
Sigh, maybe I’ll stumble into something someday at a thrift store or something 🤷
I don’t know about TRIM compatibility specifically, but I must suggest you don’t get one of those combo SATA/PATA adapters. Although I don’t know about TRIM compatibility, I do know for a fact that those combo adapters do not support SMART stats for mechanical hard drives. So I assume combo adapters won’t support TRIM either.
I would go back to 1955 (yes, kinda ironic to think of it), with more modern medical instruments, anesthesia, sterilization, etc, and try to save my Baby Blue uncle who I was named after. He was born with his intestines on the outside and only lived one day ☹️😭
Yeah I’m no medical expert nor surgeon, but holy shit he might have had a better chance with more modern medical equipment and knowledge, I would have surely tried to do my most cautious best…
Bleh, whether the trip is a success or not, do they at least have two functioning toilets?