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Friend had an insight with oil consumption issues, so not those either.


I was upset when games like world of warcraft were charging for online play. I could see it back then that companies would charge you multiple times just to play games.


Automatics have also become wildly better in the past 10 years. They used to be 3-4 speed and break all the time. Now they are 10 speed and super quick and more reliable.


Where I live you can drive at 16 and I believe you can also drive a fully loaded 40 ton grain semi for farming purposes on a regular license.



I program mine to run less when we’re not home. On top of that I set a “super cool” routine on weekends when it’s going to be hot outside.

You see, the a/c is most efficient when it’s cooler already. So in the last hour of darkness in the summer I set it to run down to 68 or so. Then it doesn’t have to run as long to do that. Then it doesn’t have to run again for several hours as the temperature is set back to 72.

I also clean the outside coils annually and put up a sun sail so that the outside unit is shaded all day. This has helped save a lot of money along with the thermostat programming.


In keeping with Nintendo naming conventions it with be the “switch u” or more likely “switcheroo” It will be a VR based system that seems like an add on peripheral for the switch, but is actually a new system that nobody buys due to confusion and lack of titles.



I used to work with the “king” of geocaching in our area. If a new cache went up, he was always the first to get it. I figured out it was him from comments he had made online, not from talking to him. I often thought about ways I could mess with him, like making a new cache and waiting for him.


Yes, you can rewrite something in your own words and as it isn’t copied verbatim, then it isn’t infringement. You can’t copyright the idea of something.


I read an article in NYT and then I used the information to make money. Come sue me.


Thank you for that. The video is .mp4 1920x1080 7 minutes and 15 seconds, 1.21 GB in size! frame rate was set to “Automatic” in the stock photo app. that’s quite a big video file for 1080p. maybe there is a tool for analyzing that instead?


I have a lawyer for the criminal case, unfortunately without evidence, there’s not much to be done. If under questioning, the officer states that he did review the footage, then I can assume that he did do something. If the recording is unedited, then my phone was theoretically locked when they grabbed it since it stopped before they got there, so my phone should have been locked by then. Unfortunately, any chance to ask questions will be weeks away from now.


I think I’m still going to poke around and see if I can find some workaround to get it rooted without wiping. I know that there are more robust tools out there that the police and governments have that allow them to do it. They always say there’s no way to delete something, so there are ways they just aren’t widely available.



The issue is that I’m just totally unsure if they did anything or not. It’s been several weeks at this point so the data could be lost anyway, and it might not even matter.


I'm looking for the best way to recover data from an android phone that isn't unlocked or rooted.
Long story short, I was arrested for disorderly conduct and "resisting arrest." The police took my phone and arrested me when I told them I was recording. They took me in a car, and we waited for about 15 minutes, then they brought my phone back. When I got out of jail, the recording only went up to a few seconds before a key moment and then ended before the time the police arrived. Under file properties, the time 'edited' does add up to the length of the recording after another short recording had stopped. I started and stopped recording, and the started again shortly afterward. If you trim the end of a video, does it also change the time it was edited? The Trash folder on my phone was empty, I have never emptied this folder, perhaps I've never deleted anything in 1.5 yrs? I still have 40 gb left in storage. One of three things happened: 1. I bumped the phone, and it stopped recording, I wasn't looking at the screen at all and was just holding it against my chest. 2. My phone overheated and stopped recording. It is a pixel 5a 5g, it has overheated on me from just sitting in the sun, so I can see it overheating while recording, it was very hot out at the time. 3. The police officer trimmed the video down and then emptied my trash folder to make it harder to recover. I've tried several different apps and haven't been able to recover anything relevant, only old files that I deleted (Again, I don't remember ever emptying my trash folder) All the options for copying a full disk image require root, which requires unlocking the bootloader, which requires wiping the entire phone. I might still be able to recover data that way, but who knows. I'm almost willing to have it sent off to have the data pulled from the physical storage inside the device if I have to. I feel like I'm going crazy, it would really help to have the rest of the video since it does show someone threatening my life with a weapon. I already explained this to my attorney. If the police claim they watched the video on my phone, they are lying since my phone would have been locked by the time they got there if it wasn't recording, right?
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This CEO just started like yesterday, they’re still in their probationary period.


There’s a lot of dumdums out there who will fall for this shit.


Seems a little inconvenient to carry a Nintendo switch in your pocket. Plus the battery life is probably not as good.


“lifetime” fluid doesn’t mean what you think it does. It means the lifetime of the transmission, which will fail if you don’t change the fluid at some point.

Any time a manufacturer has said that it has turned out to be b.s. and someone figures out that some off the shelf fluid works better than the stuff they put in at the factory.


Ok, I know this is outside of the norm for this page, I don't really care. Backstory: I buy things from estate auctions on hi-bid. Nobody else bid on this so I got it for the minimum bid, $2.50 USD. It was missing the hdd, and it was in a filthy barn. Side note: auctions are generally "as-is, where is" that means you pick these items up at the location of the estate, they usually pull things out and organize them, but they don't clean them or anything usually. I have an extra IDE HDD, so I threw that in and tried to install Windows XP. I got errors halfway through saying "setup cannot copy the file:" Then I got it to go all the way through, but it won't boot. Then I got a system error that the HDD is not present. I tried an IDE adapted SSD, still not recognized. Then I got the HDD recognized again. I figured I would check the ram: 1x 256MB. I threw in 2x512MB, that's a neat trick. I also swapped out the cd drive since it was having a hard time opening up anyway. Now I'm back to, "setup cannot copy the file:" Maybe a bad CD burn? Idk, it's been awhile since I've done this.
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I live in a semi-rural community with few internet options. T-mobile become an option so I decided to give it a shot. It's a decent price/performance option between DSL and cable internet. As you can see I've made a fully custom hanging shelf with a piece of scrap 1/4" plywood and twine for optimal placement. I then cracked open the unit and installed external antenna adapters. I placed a directional antenna on the roof. I kept experiencing complete connection dropouts which became worse over time. After some research I found that other users said that the problem was the unit overheating. I placed a 120mm fan on top. I wired up a barrel jack so it can be plugged into a normal 12v adapter and it just stays on all the time. I might clean this up and use a temperature controller in the future. It's currently held to the unit with scotch tape. Everything has been stable for now. Maybe I'll find some more ways to tweak it to get better performance.
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