Chatbox Thread

[VicRattlehead]

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.

just save the post, I've got numerous saved folders with different content.

 

[XR7-4.6]

just save the post, I've got numerous saved folders with different content.

I do that, but occasionally I’ll scroll past a listing I’m not interested in in the moment or am looking at something but the app refreshes in the background as I’m doing something else.

 

[Ericv8thunderbird]

Probably just dust on the connection in the knobs from sitting unmoved for a long time. Sometimes you can blow air into it or connecter cleaner slowly around the knobs while turning them to clear up the connections.

I ended up pulling it apart, and cleaning 40 years of dust out of it.
I used DeoxIT on the back of the controls like Grog6 suggested.
It works great! I don’t have anymore sound issues, except the back lighting no longer works, so I will have to pull it apart again and check that out, I was considering swapping it with an led, but I’ll have to do some research on that first.

 

[CDsDontBurn]

My wife sent me this earlier today...

5.5K views · 6K reactions | I was actually thinking about doing this again with another car. . . . #racecar #projectcar #car #mechanic #musclecar | Ethan Hassler

I was actually thinking about doing this again with another car. . . . #racecar #projectcar #car #mechanic #musclecar

www.facebook.com

 

[Grog6]

Deoxit and deoxit gold are staples of any repair shop. Spray a bit in, work the control, and it's good for another 20 years. I've used these since the 70's.

 

[Ericv8thunderbird]

I stumbled upon an article written by some armature writer on Facebook about the Thunderbird SC.
I was going though the comments and I couldn’t believe how misinformed people are about this platform, other than the stupid comments “Thunderturd” and Thunderchicken”
There were a lot of comments about how the SC is on the Fox platform, they were FWD, they had a transaxle, they had cable clutch issues, bottom end issues. The 35th anniversary paint scheme wasn’t factory.
Ugh, if you don’t know what you’re talking about just STFU.

Sometimes, I’ll school them on the MN12 platform, but then it turns into them calling me the idiot. You seriously can’t fix stupid.

This is why I took a social media break, there is just so much toxicity on there.

 

[CDsDontBurn]

I stumbled upon an article written by some armature writer on Facebook about the Thunderbird SC.
I was going though the comments and I couldn’t believe how misinformed people are about this platform, other than the stupid comments “Thunderturd” and Thunderchicken”
There were a lot of comments about how the SC is on the Fox platform, they were FWD, they had a transaxle, they had cable clutch issues, bottom end issues. The 35th anniversary paint scheme wasn’t factory.
Ugh, if you don’t know what you’re talking about just STFU.

Sometimes, I’ll school them on the MN12 platform, but then it turns into them calling me the idiot. You seriously can’t fix stupid.

This is why I took a social media break, there is just so much toxicity on there.

FB is a hot pile of garbage. Even their shorts are terrible with all the embedded ads and ads over the bottom half of the video.

IG, while still a FB / Meta product, is much cleaner. The ads aren't nearly as bad and the commentary section for videos is made (seemingly) to make people not keep a consistent / fluid conversation on purpose, which in turn keeps the comments down. That's my take on IG at least.

 

[theterminator93]

All I know about IG is what my wife occasionally shows me from the "instagram vs. reality" callouts which show the sheer ridiculousness of what people post. I didn't need more convincing to stay off the platform, but it certainly helps keep me clean!

 

[CDsDontBurn]

All I know about IG is what my wife occasionally shows me from the "instagram vs. reality" callouts which show the sheer ridiculousness of what people post. I didn't need more convincing to stay off the platform, but it certainly helps keep me clean!

Cars, space stuff, dark humor, auto-racing, and pendejadas are my IG feed.

My wife watches stuff (on that absolute garbage of a platform owned by the Chinese worse than FB) that romanticizes RL and "look at this, we can do this" and I know 100% that it won't be like that.

 

[XR7-4.6]

I stumbled upon an article written by some armature writer on Facebook about the Thunderbird SC.
I was going though the comments and I couldn’t believe how misinformed people are about this platform, other than the stupid comments “Thunderturd” and Thunderchicken”
There were a lot of comments about how the SC is on the Fox platform, they were FWD, they had a transaxle, they had cable clutch issues, bottom end issues. The 35th anniversary paint scheme wasn’t factory.
Ugh, if you don’t know what you’re talking about just STFU.

Sometimes, I’ll school them on the MN12 platform, but then it turns into them calling me the idiot. You seriously can’t fix stupid.

This is why I took a social media break, there is just so much toxicity on there.

There is a sizable portion of the population that think Facebook is the entire internet and through the day only ever open that app (or Tik Tok, or IG) and think whatever content they saw… which was made for clicks/clout rather than actual passion(let alone knowledge)… is gospel, and the viewers of it now think they’re experts on the subject, where they can go on to comment on it in other posts. It’s a negative feedback loop of willfull ignorance.

I could go further and share my full opinion of what social media has done to civilization since its advent but I’ll save that for the doomsday thread

As for IG, if you tailor you feed it’s fine, but if I wanted to look for pictures of stuff I’m interested in I would find everything I want and more in a Google image search. I guess I can’t comment or engage or know how popular it is though….. oh the humanity!

 

[Irv]

I sold a few so far, this is what I have left that is in nice shape. Most of them were projects that I upgraded. Goal is to sell most of them, going to keep my 600x,t23,t420s and t60 frankenpad.

I gave up on finding that t61 14.1" 4:3 screen assembly, so I put it's motherboard into a t60 15" and made a frankenpad

600x- modded with 850mhz mmc2
t420s- i7 2640m and 1080p IPS mod
t61- 15.4" wsxga+ mint original condition with factory HDD and image
(x3) t23- forgot specifics but clean
t23– 1.2GHz, sxga+
T60- frankenpad, mint, 15” with t61mobo
z61t – 14” WXGA+ titanium lid, 2.33GHz

My current project is a T60 with the original box and packaging, replacing a bad motherboard in it. Trying to get it back to mint in box condition

I've given a bit of thought about whether to keep my W520. On one hand, I've upgraded it a lot (including installing a Core i7 that's faster than anything Lenovo offered from the factory). Since I also have dual 9-cell batteries in good condition, dual AC adapters, and the advanced dock, I could get a lot for selling the whole package.

I'm not actively trying to declutter, but I just don't have a use for older hardware once I move on from using it daily. A few months ago, I considered replacing it with a T580 because that and the T480 are considered to be the best of the classic ThinkPads that still have modern-enough hardware. However, I wouldn't travel with a T580 either because I've had a much newer and lighter laptop for that purpose since 2020.