Chatbox Thread

[KevinVarnes]

In a separate note. I love how here we all are able to lean on each other for help and we know how to all solve problems we have. The problem about the forum (any forum, really) is that it's slow. FB OTH is quick turnaround time but people always tend to give you the runaround on answers or complete BS answers.

On that, the format of FB kinda sucks. When you reply to a post, you reply to the person and not their post. So you may not know exactly what others are replying to unless you read it from the top of that segment of thread.

FB as a whole, honestly is a cesspool of all sorts of shit. I hate it now except for MP (the new Craigslist)

I absolutely hate FaceBook and everything it stands for. Car "forums" on there are terrible and impossible to follow. The only good thing about Facebook is that everybody sells stuff there. Unfortunately they make their search engine for MarketPlace so unbelievably terrible on purpose (in my opinion), that is is wildly annoying to sift through. I am thankful to have been around for the glory days of BBS car forums. I still think it is a far superior format than anything else I have come across.

 

[Zep5.0]

I'm perfectly fine waiting a day here to get a reasonable answer as opposed to getting all the dumb shit on FB. I'll try it if I'm in something knee deep and need a quick answer to avoid having to start over again, but I'm usually sad I tried.

 

[Chingon1]

Well, I'm officially an old fuck! My daughter gave birth to an 8lb 11oz baby boy late last night, both baby and mom are doing great. His dad is too!

Joe

Congrats to you and your family!!




I do agree, the FB forum does have a lot of male Karen’s. Pretty annoying. Every now and then you do come across some very informative stuff tho. I’m on a couple 4.6 forums, which are super duper informative, specially with that guy Todd Warren and also Matt Hayes, those 2 guys bring the heat.

 

[XR7-4.6]

Congrats Joe!

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In a separate note. I love how here we all are able to lean on each other for help and we know how to all solve problems we have. The problem about the forum (any forum, really) is that it's slow. FB OTH is quick turnaround time but people always tend to give you the runaround on answers or complete BS answers.

On that, the format of FB kinda sucks. When you reply to a post, you reply to the person and not their post. So you may not know exactly what others are replying to unless you read it from the top of that segment of thread.

FB as a whole, honestly is a cesspool of all sorts of shit. I hate it now except for MP (the new Craigslist)

The FB format makes it feel like you’re commenting into the ether, it’s the main factor in why it never gelled with me from the beginning. It’s weird given we all use our silly handles rather than our real names but forums feel less anonymous and more communal.

I don’t even like marketplace that much, which is my main use for the platform. All the annoying things about Craigslist (tire kickers, low ballers, sellers who never respond, buyers who never show up, scammers, fake listings) are all still there but now my real name is out there too for them to look up? It’s even more sketchy!

 

[Ericv8thunderbird]

FB as a whole, honestly is a cesspool of all sorts of shit. I hate it now except for MP

Agreed.

My wife and I recently did a “social media fast”
We stayed off all social media for a weekend,
I’ve still been off it, except for marketplace. I don’t really miss it much, I almost feel refreshed.

 

[KevinVarnes]

The FB format makes it feel like you’re commenting into the ether, it’s the main factor in why it never gelled with me from the beginning. It’s weird given we all use our silly handles rather than our real names but forums feel less anonymous and more communal.

I don’t even like marketplace that much, which is my main use for the platform. All the annoying things about Craigslist (tire kickers, low ballers, sellers who never respond, buyers who never show up, scammers, fake listings) are all still there but now my real name is out there too for them to look up? It’s even more sketchy!

I never really understood the exodus from Craigslist to Marketplace. Did people think all of the idiots from Craigslist would just stay there and not migrate over to Marketplace? At least the search function on Craigslist works. I recall numerous times searching the entire country for something specific in maybe 15-20 minutes. On Marketplace it takes me 15-20 minutes just to sift through mounds of crap in one region that has absolutely nothing to do with what I searched for.

 

[XR7-4.6]

I never really understood the exodus from Craigslist to Marketplace. Did people think all of the idiots from Craigslist would just stay there and not migrate over to Marketplace? At least the search function on Craigslist works. I recall numerous times searching the entire country for something specific in maybe 15-20 minutes. On Marketplace it takes me 15-20 minutes just to sift through mounds of crap in one region that has absolutely nothing to do with what I searched for.

Right? I often find something on marketplace to sleep on and then when I go to search it out later I end up having to scroll for an hour to find it again, even being very specific in my search terms! It also has a bad habit of giving listings from 1000 miles away even though I set distance to 0-30 miles


Craigslist shot themselves in the foot ending personals, all the weirdos and freaks left and they had all the cool stuff for sale

You can find deals there still, I got my current set of wheels and tires there in 2022 for stupid cheap because they weren’t listed anywhere else.

 

[Irv]

Q: Do you guys have any excess hard drives?
- Have you seen how much hard drives are going for nowadays? It's nuts.
- While I typically place just as much value in used HDDs as I do used condoms (they will probably work, until they dont), I was shocked at how many people were gladly paying me $12/TB for 5yo 8TB-18TB drives.

I shut down my experiment with CHIA crypto last weekend and had almost all of my drives sold just under a week later. I still have a dozen 8 and 10TB HDDs which I'm debating about how many I'll keep and how many I'll sell off. I may even decide to list some 1TB drives on FBMP and we can see how much they go for.

I always have one hard drive in my PC and whenever I upgrade it, usually when it gets filled to 66-75% capacity, I relegate the previous drive to my primary backup drive that gets removed from my case and put into a USB SATA dock. The next upgrade after that will move the drive that was in the dock to my eBay queue for sale.

In November, I sold my 12TB Seagate BarraCuda Pro drive for $130. Next up for sale will be my 14TB BarraCuda Pro after I install a 26TB Seagate Exos that will displace the 18TB Seagate IronWolf Pro that's inside my case now.

With the way things are going, the 26TB Exos might be the last cheap(ish) hard drive I buy for a long time. It's a factory recertified drive that I got for $295 in November. Those same drives are now selling for $450+ and the seller I bought mine from is now selling them for $560.

 

[Irv]

Despite FB Marketplace being the best feature of the platform, I've yet to use it even though I should. I'm just so used to selling on eBay and not dealing with local meet-up logistics. I feel like eBay also grants some sense of accountability, although that increasingly benefits buyers more than sellers these days.

I rarely log in to FB anymore, and when I do, maybe I'm posting home improvements or car mods to my own wall, but I'm not sharing them to groups. I lost interest in that. The dopamine hit was great back in the day, and it's still kind of cool that my HID retrofit is still the most liked group album post in the FB group. However, even though I like a number of people there, along with that also comes some stupid-ass responses like why did I pay $900 for headlights? I don't know, maybe try not being poor? I don't mean that in an elitist way either, but I won't dignify the reaction of someone who puts dual subwoofer enclosures completely unsecured on his back seat, or just randomly talks shit to Rod because he complimented his tow truck driver.

People aside, the real issues there are that the threading and posting format sucks on FB. Matt's DIY on the illuminated mirror switch would be damn near impossible to post there in any coherent manner, and then it would become relatively difficult to search for in the future unless you were to bookmark the post.

 

[theterminator93]

A little late, but I guess beggars can't be choosers...

A loud “boom” was reported across Northeast Ohio just before 9 a.m. on Tuesday.

NASA has confirmed a 6-foot, 17,000-pound meteor traveled 44,000 miles per hour over northeast Ohio. It was 50 miles above Lake Erie when the first flash was detected.