Lka1988

BAH GAWD

I can’t imagine the handling is truly that high

Debatable, but agree to disagree.

but I do agree that you found the superior cart.

Indeed

You missed the most important one

I do that at IKEA all too often… 👀

Ikea dorifto

I’ve got four paid-off vehicles (2 cars, 2 motorcycles), and am about to acquire another car (W123 diesel Benz) from my wife’s grandmother who is no longer able to drive.

I don’t care to have any more car payments, and I hope it stays that way for a long time.

I bought my 2008 Toyota Sienna for $4500. I talked him down from $4900.

It had:

• 230k miles (269k now)
• an engine replacement (2010 engine with 110k miles, replaced at 201k on chassis)
• severely worn out sliding door rear hinges, bad enough to be grinding the body under the 3rd row windows down to bare metal
• broken power steering rack (found that a few weeks later)
• balding tires
• rattle-can patch job (black paint on factory black paint, not a deal-breaker for me)
• blown out rear shocks
• more that I’ve forgotten (noted down in my records)

I bought that van because 1) it was a really good price, 2) engine and transmission are in really good shape, 3) rust-free, and 4) I knew what most of its issues were before I bought it and was able to fix it all in my garage.

Also, I have 5 kids, so the minivan was a necessity. $5000 is the bare minimum for a family car these days.

I did this in my younger years and the cars I got always had some hidden fucked up problem.

My minivan is (well, was) like this. The person I bought it from said the roof-mounted DVD player was professionally installed. I got it home, pulled the interior apart (I was installing a new headunit, backup camera, and some other things), and found the “professionally installed” wiring crossed in front of the side curtain airbag. It wasn’t secured anywhere at all, either. Just flopping around. I fixed that up along with some other issues I found.

Yes, let’s ban the single most common form of transportation in the country because you’ve never had to live in an area with zero public transport.

Great line of thinking, there.

I took a loan out on a brand new car many years ago, a 6 year term with 17% interest (don’t do that, kids). But I was able to refinance to ~4% a year later, we knocked another year off the remaining term (5 years to 4 years), and I still ended up paying less per month than the original payment.

I miss that car sometimes. It was a 2012 Kia Soul, and I really liked it. I went on a 3-week business trip a few years ago, and my rental happened to be a 2021 Kia Soul in mustard yellow. I loved every minute of it.

You’re not wrong; I was just being hyperbolic.

An immutable distro would be ideal for this kind of thing. ChromeOS (an immutable distro example) can be centrally managed, but the caveat with ChromeOS in particular is that it’s management can only go through Google via their enterprise Google Workspace suite.

But as a concept, this shows that it’s doable.

TL;DR - Because people are stupid.

One of my coworkers (older guy) tends to click on things without thinking. He’s been through multiple cyber security training courses, and has even been written up for opening multiple obvious phishing emails.

People like that are why company-owned laptops are locked down with group policy and other security measures.

Systemd is fine. This sounds like an old sysadmin who refuses to learn because “new thing bad” with zero logic to back it up.

Cinnamon by and far.

I’ve used so many distros and DEs I don’t even know where to begin, but Cinnamon got me hooked for the long run. It’s legitimately the most polished and “ready to run” DE I’ve ever used, yet still allowing for far more customization than Windows ever offered.

That thread was a godsend. Turning off tcpkeepalive was the other one that I couldn’t remember, but that seemed to help out as well.

My wife has had multiple MacBooks over the years (I set up her old 2009-era A1278 with Linux Mint for the kids to do homework), and after I “fixed” it and talked about the longer wake-up process, she told me that’s what she was used to already and the “super fast wake up” was a very new thing for her when she bought it. So no complaints from her, and the battery performs better. Win/win.

My Thinkpad T14 running Linux Mint (LMDE) gets better battery life on “Suspend” than that damn MBP does when hibernated. It’s the 2017 A1706, too - out of ALL the variants it had to be that one 😂

It depends how much shit is blocked on the network at the user level.

So here’s the thing - if you can think of it, I’ve already tried it 😅 I spent a week and a half sifting through countless forum posts on Apple’s own support center, Macrumors, reddit, and a host of other forums.

The “Wake for network access” setting was the first thing I disabled after I wiped and reinstalled the OS. Among a number of other settings, including “Power Nap”. Still got the fucking “EC.DarkPME (Maintenance)” process firing off every ~45 seconds, no matter what I did, causing excessive insomnia and draining the battery within 12 hours.

What I ended up doing was using a little tool called “FluTooth” to automatically disable wifi/Bluetooth on sleep (the built-in OS settings did fuck-all), set hibernationmode to 25, and a few other tweaks with pmset that currently escape me (edit: disabled networkoversleep, womp, ttyskeepawake, powernap - which was still set to 1 even with the setting in System Settings was disabled 🤨), and a couple others I can’t remember as it’s not here in front of me).

I put several full charge cycles on the brand new battery before it finally calmed the fuck down.

As someone who just had to bandaid an unexplained battery draw on his wife’s MacBook - no, Mac OS no longer “just works”. Apple buries some of the most basic settings inside a command line-only tool called pmset, and even then those can be arbitrarily overridden by other processes.

And even after a fresh reinstall and new battery, it still drains the battery faster in hibernation mode than my Thinkpad T14 G1 running LMDE does while sleeping. Yeah, that was a fun discovery.

That Thinkpad is by far one of my most dependable machines.