What does this have to do with repairs? The terrible argument you're trying to make sounds like a great business opportunity. Make BMW keys cheaper than the dealers.
I admit some cars need special sockets or tools now but they aren't expensive. I bought a special socket for the oil filter on my 2007 Mercedes, it was $20. The most expensive special tool I should have bought was a cam lock device for Volvos with variable valve timing. It was around $100. In the end I fabricated my own and learned some welding and other skills.
People here wouldn't think twice about jailbreaking a phone but taking apart their car to see how it can be repaired is unheard of?
Regarding the "know how the cars work" part... some of that is in fact due to technology.
With $300 in tools from walmart and $50 worth of books, you can completely take care of a VW bug or bus (or Porsche 356, 912, or 914), including rebuilding the engine and transmission. With computerized timing, fuel injection, etc. you simply can't do that anymore.
100% bullshit. Those same tools work on a brand new Porsche. Cars are still mechanical devices with bolt on replaceable parts. What are you even smoking? Other than being able to read codes and do further troubleshooting the transmission still does the same job as the one in your bug. Brakes, timing belts, sensors, all replaceable on modern cars.
Modern cars are much easier to work on. I don't have to worry about vacuum pressures, carburetor jets, finding timing marks with a strobe light or dirty points.
Let's try information and education instead, hm'kay?
Sure, next up I'll try talking some fundamentalist christians out of the existence of god. Surely scientific methods and facts will sway their opinions.
I will use self checkouts when the stores pass their savings onto me. I'm doing free work for the store and getting nothing in return. Knock 5% off my bill for starters.
They are in the top 5 most visited sites right now actually. That is why they had the massive cleanup a few years ago for questionable content. So they could look attractive to advertisers. The place is one big echo chamber and the comments are terrible as ever. Voat seemed more interesting but their demographic now is dim bulb conspiracy theorists. Slashdot used to have funny and clever trolls but now its 100% copy and pasted spam.
So I was given a brand new Ubuntu 18 desktop at work. Run Firefox and open a few terminals and all is well. Then I need a calculator. Try running the calculator program from the search menu and nothing happens. Hmm that's odd. Alright let's run it manually and see what the problem is. Open up a prompt and think what the fuck is this thing called? It can't just be "calculator"? Of course not it's "gnome-calculator" according to the wonderful systemd logging system.
Now we're getting somewhere. Try running gnome-calculator and get greeted with an error about not being about to create ~/snap/blah/blah. Really? The directories it complained about indeed exist but are empty. All I asked for is a fucking calculator and I'm troubleshooting snap, whatever the fuck that might be. Sounds a lot like a static build of a program. But hey it's 2019 and everything old is new again. All I needed was a fucking calculator but hey I'll waste some company time investigating.
I consult apt-cache to see if there could be another simple calculator program but soon lose interest in snap and further troubleshooting. Fuck it what happens if root tries to run gnome-calculator? Well it really didn't like that and gave me a screen of more errors. I can't even get a damned # prompt anymore, everything is sudo this or sudo that. I'm a big boy, if 10 commands require root access just let me su.
Ok this is getting old so fuck it let's remove snapd. It removes a bunch of other shit including gnome-calculator. Will re-installing gnome calculator work without snapd? The answer is yes! Success.
Agreed. I now have a job dealing with Linux directly. For some reason they picked Ubuntu because it's what everybody runs. So far my job has been try running all the old software on Ubuntu 18.04 and seeing what broke. What is the deal with that systemd network wait service? If one interface doesn't have an ethernet link it causes a two minute delay in booting. Also found out that was causing sshd to be delayed for several minutes. No warnings or errors. Just systemd saying sshd died and trying to restart the service gives me a blinking prompt. I told them for embedded shit I'd use Slackware because you only add what you need. Nobody had heard of it. Oh the joys of working with people in the early 20s. Also turned off AppArmor becuase it was causing problems with other daemons running.
You have enough fucking features already. Now make them work and write some documentation.
Someone is trying to test the idea of changing his birth date. Now that you can change gender and race at any time he is claiming he feels much younger than his age. This is the world that social justice warriors wanted so now they have to accept it.
Dependencies got so convoluted that nobody could compile code from another project because it needed 100 obscure libraries. 10 of those libraries needed another handful of libraries, etc etc. Voila, problem solved.
I do a lot of my own repair work but changing a tire on the side of a highway is something I won't do. Too many people have died because idiot drivers can't avoid a stationary vehicle pulled way off the road. Maybe I'd consider it if a cop was behind me with his lights on but there are still plenty of videos of people hitting parked cop cars with full emergency lights going.
My grandparents used to have AAA and it would take hours for a guy to show up. I usually call a local company and they show up within a half hour or so. The one time I needed a tow out of state (before smart phones) I dialed information and asked for a tow company. They showed up quickly and took me to a decent garage. My timing belt had broken and a few hours later I was on my way.
Have you looked at car prices lately? Ford somehow made people think pickup trucks are worth $60k and they can't build enough of them. The 0.01% are not buying Teslas.
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What does this have to do with repairs? The terrible argument you're trying to make sounds like a great business opportunity. Make BMW keys cheaper than the dealers.
What a shit attempt at trolling. 1/10.
I admit some cars need special sockets or tools now but they aren't expensive. I bought a special socket for the oil filter on my 2007 Mercedes, it was $20. The most expensive special tool I should have bought was a cam lock device for Volvos with variable valve timing. It was around $100. In the end I fabricated my own and learned some welding and other skills.
People here wouldn't think twice about jailbreaking a phone but taking apart their car to see how it can be repaired is unheard of?
Link for this $400 socket?
Regarding the "know how the cars work" part... some of that is in fact due to technology.
With $300 in tools from walmart and $50 worth of books, you can completely take care of a VW bug or bus (or Porsche 356, 912, or 914), including rebuilding the engine and transmission. With computerized timing, fuel injection, etc. you simply can't do that anymore.
100% bullshit. Those same tools work on a brand new Porsche. Cars are still mechanical devices with bolt on replaceable parts. What are you even smoking? Other than being able to read codes and do further troubleshooting the transmission still does the same job as the one in your bug. Brakes, timing belts, sensors, all replaceable on modern cars.
Modern cars are much easier to work on. I don't have to worry about vacuum pressures, carburetor jets, finding timing marks with a strobe light or dirty points.
Wow. No more Mr. Nice Guy.
Let's try information and education instead, hm'kay?
Sure, next up I'll try talking some fundamentalist christians out of the existence of god. Surely scientific methods and facts will sway their opinions.
I will use self checkouts when the stores pass their savings onto me. I'm doing free work for the store and getting nothing in return. Knock 5% off my bill for starters.
They are in the top 5 most visited sites right now actually. That is why they had the massive cleanup a few years ago for questionable content. So they could look attractive to advertisers. The place is one big echo chamber and the comments are terrible as ever. Voat seemed more interesting but their demographic now is dim bulb conspiracy theorists. Slashdot used to have funny and clever trolls but now its 100% copy and pasted spam.
Why have empty memory?
My favorite button is the fresh install button. They admit their OS is so shitty that it slows down for unknown reasons.
Haha we're back to thin clients again. I love it.
Nobody can seem to answer this question. Why does a US based site need to comply with the GDPR? What happens if they don't?
You must be new here.
So I was given a brand new Ubuntu 18 desktop at work. Run Firefox and open a few terminals and all is well. Then I need a calculator. Try running the calculator program from the search menu and nothing happens. Hmm that's odd. Alright let's run it manually and see what the problem is. Open up a prompt and think what the fuck is this thing called? It can't just be "calculator"? Of course not it's "gnome-calculator" according to the wonderful systemd logging system.
Now we're getting somewhere. Try running gnome-calculator and get greeted with an error about not being about to create ~/snap/blah/blah. Really? The directories it complained about indeed exist but are empty. All I asked for is a fucking calculator and I'm troubleshooting snap, whatever the fuck that might be. Sounds a lot like a static build of a program. But hey it's 2019 and everything old is new again. All I needed was a fucking calculator but hey I'll waste some company time investigating.
I consult apt-cache to see if there could be another simple calculator program but soon lose interest in snap and further troubleshooting. Fuck it what happens if root tries to run gnome-calculator? Well it really didn't like that and gave me a screen of more errors. I can't even get a damned # prompt anymore, everything is sudo this or sudo that. I'm a big boy, if 10 commands require root access just let me su.
Ok this is getting old so fuck it let's remove snapd. It removes a bunch of other shit including gnome-calculator. Will re-installing gnome calculator work without snapd? The answer is yes! Success.
This is the dumb shit that is killing Linux.
To just stop selling phones in Kansas.
Agreed. I now have a job dealing with Linux directly. For some reason they picked Ubuntu because it's what everybody runs. So far my job has been try running all the old software on Ubuntu 18.04 and seeing what broke. What is the deal with that systemd network wait service? If one interface doesn't have an ethernet link it causes a two minute delay in booting. Also found out that was causing sshd to be delayed for several minutes. No warnings or errors. Just systemd saying sshd died and trying to restart the service gives me a blinking prompt. I told them for embedded shit I'd use Slackware because you only add what you need. Nobody had heard of it. Oh the joys of working with people in the early 20s. Also turned off AppArmor becuase it was causing problems with other daemons running.
You have enough fucking features already. Now make them work and write some documentation.
Sadly everyone has one in their pocket now.
Someone is trying to test the idea of changing his birth date. Now that you can change gender and race at any time he is claiming he feels much younger than his age. This is the world that social justice warriors wanted so now they have to accept it.
Dependencies got so convoluted that nobody could compile code from another project because it needed 100 obscure libraries. 10 of those libraries needed another handful of libraries, etc etc. Voila, problem solved.
All these people who got hooked on prescription pain killers and then moved to heroin never once asked for help beforehand. They liked it.
I do a lot of my own repair work but changing a tire on the side of a highway is something I won't do. Too many people have died because idiot drivers can't avoid a stationary vehicle pulled way off the road. Maybe I'd consider it if a cop was behind me with his lights on but there are still plenty of videos of people hitting parked cop cars with full emergency lights going.
My grandparents used to have AAA and it would take hours for a guy to show up. I usually call a local company and they show up within a half hour or so. The one time I needed a tow out of state (before smart phones) I dialed information and asked for a tow company. They showed up quickly and took me to a decent garage. My timing belt had broken and a few hours later I was on my way.
He's always been an insufferable obtuse prick. We call him "binary bro".
Google Inconel.
Have you looked at car prices lately? Ford somehow made people think pickup trucks are worth $60k and they can't build enough of them. The 0.01% are not buying Teslas.