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01:06:59 <arch> welp, the volvo is now scrap metal. timing belt skipped, noticed a lot of rope/string like material after taking off the timing belt cover, and the engine sounds horrid
01:07:18 <arch> fuck volvo for using a timing belt
01:08:12 <arch> it doesn't even start up now anymore. if it does, i hear something rattling around and it sounds like cylinder 1 has no compression. probably busted some valves
01:32:07 Quit: DogWomble ([email protected]) EOF from client
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01:46:04 <Agripa3> Yep, interference engine is ruined.
01:47:19 <electrohead> arch: "whoops"
01:47:47 <arch> electrohead, this is the volvo: https://tenor.com/view/ah-eto-bleh-gif-3121606177296457880
01:47:47 <EEVBot> [url] Ah-eto-bleh GIF - Ah-eto-bleh - Discover & Share GIFs | tenor.com
01:48:50 <arch> and this is my reaction when i opened the timing belt cover: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/031/003/cover3.jpg
01:51:11 <Agripa3> Should have been this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIaFtAKnqBU
01:51:11 <EEVBot> Temporary error talking to YouTube: [SYS] unknown error (_ssl.c:2638)
01:51:19 <electrohead> lol
01:51:32 <electrohead> I'm actually waiting on a reply back right now, from a guy that is potentially working on my engine
01:52:27 <arch> Agripa3, or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LukyMYp2noo
01:52:28 <EEVBot> [YouTube] Sad Trombone Wah Wah Wah Fail Sound Effect | 5s | Channel: GamingSoundEffects | 2,194,314 views | 2015-02-09 - 14:26:02 UTC
01:53:08 <Agripa3> Usually a complete engine rebuild is necessary, and sometimes even that is not enough.
01:54:09 <arch> thats why i love hondas. if the engine breaks, just get a junkyard replacement for $400 and be on your merry way
01:54:24 <arch> good luck finding volvo engines. not very common
01:54:50 <arch> and you can even mix and match different heads for some of the honda engines
01:55:04 <arch> mix and match different head and block i mean
02:55:34 <MrMobodies> Hello
02:57:27 <Kuschelpony> helo Mrmobodies
02:58:39 <MrMobodies> Anyone use Libreoffice?
02:59:34 <Kuschelpony> yes
03:00:08 <MrMobodies> Quite impressed how it can open a large complex pdf file accurarely and save it in jpg.
03:00:21 <MrMobodies> it seems to have come a long way from 2015
03:00:39 <MrMobodies> no longer freezes or hangs when I do a few formulas in calc.
03:01:51 <MrMobodies> and found I can do this where to save something in HTML format where Word 2021 only seems to have MHT for Internet Explorer
03:01:53 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/HxUkl1Q.png
03:02:46 <MrMobodies> Chrome browser with some auto refresh extension
03:03:20 <MrMobodies> I just find it easy and less irritating compared to Microsoft Office
03:03:54 <Kuschelpony> Microsoft office was never an option for me running Linux at all
03:04:31 <MrMobodies> well that is good, no chance to lure people into it in it's early stages
03:07:56 <MrMobodies> I buy that rubbish and I feel put off using it. Libreoffice, didn't buy and ease to set it up the way I want and pleasant to use.
03:08:48 <MrMobodies> Maybe i should have donated to projects like that insead of buying the Office.
03:08:52 <Kuschelpony> i left after WinNT, woud never do the online activation thinges of XP
03:09:56 <Kuschelpony> anything i use has to <just work>
03:23:01 <Ampera> hallo Kuschelpony
03:23:13 <Kuschelpony> and hello Ampera
03:23:17 <Ampera> has it been obnoxiously hot for you guys down there too?
03:25:48 <Kuschelpony> it just hit yesterday
03:26:10 <Ampera> it's still rather toasty here in Essen
03:26:25 <Ampera> I went to Solingen the other day to visit the German Blade Museum
03:26:32 <Ampera> so many sharp and pointy objects in one building
03:30:24 <Kuschelpony> oh
03:39:06 <Agripa3> I upgraded from Office 2000 to Libreoffice a couple years ago.
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04:02:18 <MrMobodies> in Office 2003 the annoyances started to happen on a minor scale, the side panel thing that I found later could be hidden.
04:02:39 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/2etUcvY.jpeg
04:02:45 <MrMobodies> Now don't these two look alike?
04:03:24 <MrMobodies> with that "thirst for conquest" grin.
04:22:00 <Agripa3> I really like that Disney makes so many movies and TV series now, because it makes it easy to know what to ignore.
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05:24:10 <arch> all of them?
05:30:07 <rc-garage> that makes it really easy. just ignore that movies exist
05:37:51 <Agripa3> https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/1956437736128237667
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06:29:01 * arch pretends rc-garage does not exist
06:31:43 <rc-garage> yeah, I wonder what that would be like. Probably, no one would notic
06:31:47 <rc-garage> e
06:33:58 <arch> eh? thought i heard something. oh well. must have been the wind.
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07:30:04 <MrMobodies> Agpipa3, reminds me when Dave Jones talked about one of one of their pre releases or previews being slaughtered some much with the dislike counter and some time later Youtube removed it due to pressure from the big media companies in late 2021.
07:31:42 <MrMobodies> When the new CEO renamed Macrium Reflect 8 to X, a name familiar to what use to be Twitter. I sensed bullshit was about to be out on it's way.
07:33:31 <MrMobodies> Then all the fancy meaningless terminology and "flowerly" decorated words... then "we did feedback which indicats our customers LIKE subscriptions because of so and so blah blah blah and they want modern=newer=pretty=better up to date released.
07:33:59 <MrMobodies> that's the pattern that triggers my skepicalism.
07:34:17 <MrMobodies> followed by "LETS DENY THEM A CHOICE"
07:39:20 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/Yv7HhE0.jpeg
07:39:34 <MrMobodies> Acronis 2018: "Although we think of image backup sofqare in terms or restory a partition or disk. *Many* job don't involve those SO DENY THEM A CHOICE. Instead we demand users recover single files or folders."
07:41:18 <MrMobodies> I was told before being refunded that it won't extract the disk image directly and needs to be done via a pen drive on the destination computer and I then have to find the drivers to put in this script and whole load of messing about.
07:44:06 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/8jRNQrn.png
07:44:32 <MrMobodies> Compare the two, don't the style of their wording sound similar with a fixed perception and idea's about their users?
09:35:19 <arch> electrohead, whats wrong with your engine?
09:39:08 <electrohead> head gaskets and etc
10:19:01 <MrMobodies> Any signs before it broke down?
10:19:08 <MrMobodies> I have this light
10:19:15 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/bNNDW2Z.png
10:20:00 <MrMobodies> well 2 of them. Brought by mistakre as it has this mechanism that involves infrared to switch it on
10:20:52 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/z7B3M1r.png
10:21:14 <MrMobodies> Power supply says constant current 21v. On the leds I measure 17v
10:21:22 <MrMobodies> Is there a way I can bypass it
10:22:12 <MrMobodies> I want it to come on as I press a switch.
10:22:22 <MrMobodies> I mean the power supply
10:31:05 <electrohead> MrMobodies: I have a 2004 subaru wrx, they are known for head gasket issues from time to time. is my first car I ever paid off, and trying to keep it versus getting something newer
10:45:12 <MrMobodies> I heard of them and I don't hear much of them breaking down
10:45:40 <MrMobodies> I knew a few folks in Derbyshire Matlock who had those in the 2000's. there was this garage up the hill
10:46:19 <MrMobodies> that were Honda's and Subaru's dealers
10:46:40 <MrMobodies> they told me they hardly have issues
10:47:01 <MrMobodies> compared to the others such as some Fords
10:47:26 <MrMobodies> Shame about the known head casket issue
10:47:50 <MrMobodies> For you to keep it that long you musr love it
10:49:13 <MrMobodies> This one? https://www.netcarshow.com/Subaru-Impreza_WRX_STi-2004-1280-4c1206067c586c20665b5ee580808ac10f.jpg
10:52:13 <MrMobodies> At the pub last week, two men talking about their electric cars, how a map update broke the infotainment system, £250 later in the garage it did it again. The other man, he allowed the firmware to update, after that all the lights on the dashboard, including the warning ones came on screen and wouldn't go off but he could still drive it which he did to the garage to sort out.
10:53:00 <MrMobodies> I can see why you maybe reluctant for a new car.
10:53:06 <arch> good old subarus blowing head gaskets
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19:38:50 <electrohead> MrMobodies: there are different variants, that picture is a slightly different variant, but very close
19:38:56 <electrohead> I have the 2004 Subaru WRX
19:39:03 <electrohead> notice no "STi"
19:46:31 <rc-garage> it clearly needs some neon underneath.
19:52:30 <electrohead> eventually I'll put LED strips underneath, it's going to be a show car in its later years
20:02:06 <rc-garage> you have to figure out your priorities. nice lights underneath, or head gaskets....
20:02:19 <rc-garage> no one can see the head gaskets
20:03:00 <rc-garage> and maybe you should convert it to a remote mount turbo, as that was a thing, back then, lol
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20:27:20 <electrohead> rofl
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20:49:20 <electrohead> https://0xznc01.pw:2600/public/fjx476edxnhc1.jpg
20:59:44 <rc-garage> so, does anything get thru that? I think it would be cheaper to just unplug the cable?
21:04:01 <electrohead> probably is
21:49:03 <electrohead> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IewMXUzt7U
21:49:03 <EEVBot> [YouTube] Inventing the Adjustable Allen Key | Toolroom Takeover 2025 | 20m 5s | Channel: Chronova Engineering | 82,036 views | 2025-08-15 - 19:00:07 UTC
22:17:45 <rc-garage> wow, that is a terrible idea, heh
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