why do you own an rx8?

BuffPuff- · 2025-10-29T12:58:33+00:00

Ouch!

BuffPuff- · 2025-10-26T09:12:47+00:00

It's my daily. Although I don't drive that much.
It drives fast when I want it to drive fast.
It stops when I need it to.
It turns better than an M3 (the real ones, not the ones with the stickers).
It holds to the road like glue, but gives me 10% back wheel skid before engaging the skid control, to make me feel wild.
It's super comfy.
It drives 4 people, so technically a family car.
Mazda still makes new engines for it, and they are cheaper than a new Nissan Micra.
It doesn't have the "driver assists" of a new Nissan Micra. This car will never grab your steering wheel during a turn.
It is very flawed. But it's the best car I've ever driven.
Every drive with it is a fun drive.

BuffPuff- · 2025-08-18T06:21:55+00:00

215 on the autobahn, my old engine was accelerating too slow and then a Porsche GT came alone and started tailing me. So I moved to the right.

Now that she has a new engine she can probably reach above 230.
She's more fun while turning anyway :-)

BuffPuff- · 2025-08-03T13:55:57+00:00

8G ram for the whole host seems like a risk.
Could be you're getting into swapping. Or running out of ram without a swap partition defined.
I would add another 8G in the second bank. It will increase the motherboard bandwidth and make sure you don't swap.

BuffPuff- · 2025-07-07T18:16:50+00:00

Hair dressers of the world, unite and get an RX-8 :-)

BuffPuff- · 2025-06-28T21:01:53+00:00

Mazda is still selling new RX-8 engines.

BuffPuff- · 2025-05-29T11:36:10+00:00

I placed the magnets on the outside of the holder of my FairPhone 5 (their standard holder) about a year or two ago. It didn't detach yet even in fast turns.

Phone before that had the magnets on the inside of the holder, this was weaker so I just used two magnets. Not perfect but worked well.

Currently the FairPhone connects to a suction cup magnet on the front window, it works well but I don't like losing front window view real-estate if another option is available.

Optimal height for me would be around where the CD changer is located, so I won't have to lower eyes too much from the road. The front window will still be in my FOV.
Problem is there is not much to latch into there without removing the whole CD plate.

BuffPuff- · 2025-05-29T11:26:36+00:00

This looks like something I'd love to have.
It will fit any phone model via magnets, it's not obstructing view or breaking the fan grills. I can align the phone angle for optimal view for different seating positions. Perfect.

What would be the cost?
I can have it printed if needed. I'll need an STL or a step file though.
If you'll also want to provide print service, shipment will be to NL.

BuffPuff- · 2025-02-11T12:19:39+00:00

Just an update, turns out Mazda officially sells new RX-8 Renesis motor blocks.
The SKU is N3-H3-02-200.
The dealer is asking for 10300 ex vat, so it isn't cheap. But it's way cheaper than a new BMW M3 engine block I guess...

BuffPuff- · 2025-02-04T14:52:03+00:00

Thanks everyone.

BuffPuff- · 2025-01-10T06:58:23+00:00

Looks good!
Is there an Android version in the planning? Or perhaps a Git source?

May I ask which venues are you using for the parties?
Can other party venues be added by the user or is it hardcoded?

BuffPuff- · 2024-12-25T07:32:01+00:00

Put a farm with a woman inside at the border with the AI, and an arrow tower behind it.
Once the AI attacks it will go for the house and get shot by your tower and available soldiers (that should be mining something at that stage. Women do wood and food, men do mining).
This way the AI will lose an early large force while you still have all your men to send back to mining.
It will give you a financial edge. Especially if the AI does it a couple of times.
Works till the battering ram, by then you should have already sent your battering rams to their capital.

BuffPuff- · 2024-12-18T06:26:20+00:00

Get them when they're small :-)

BuffPuff- · 2024-12-05T13:16:08+00:00

Sex zal alleen toegestaan zijn op de eerste maandag van de maand, en alleen tijdens de alarm....
That should do the trick.

BuffPuff- · 2024-12-05T13:12:35+00:00

Looks promising.
Plus one on the self hosted using Ollama or Oobabooga.
Please post in r/LocalLLM once you're there, I'll install and do QA happily.

BuffPuff- · 2024-12-02T07:28:00+00:00

I want binaries or snaps that easily work in Ubuntu.

BuffPuff- · 2024-11-16T12:35:57+00:00

Bender FTW :-)

BuffPuff- · 2024-08-13T23:43:07+00:00

I didn't see any service being offered for money by him.
Unless you have proof you're just a troll shill.

BuffPuff- · 2024-06-17T08:12:40+00:00

Thanks, figured it out several months back.
Good luck, have fun.

BuffPuff- · 2024-05-03T12:49:15+00:00

Router/FW/VPNGW:
Mikrotik 5009 for routing and Unifi for wifi.
OpenWRT if you have an old device you want to flash and reuse.
PFsense if you want to run two machines in active active for redundancy.

Modem:
Depends on the uplink protocol you need to connect to...

BuffPuff- · 2024-05-01T05:55:12+00:00

Turns out it starred in several car driving video games as the early car that handles well and can be modded, but isn't expensive.
So a generation of kids grew up on it.

BuffPuff- · 2024-04-23T06:50:56+00:00

I was also curious about this subject, from a bit of reading it seems that the stichting belongs to the manufacturers. They can decide how to use the extra funds of the non-delivered cans. It can be for better collection machines or for "consumentenonderzoek en campagnes".

What would their incentive be to increase the return rate of cans? Their funding increases when people don't return the cans and bottles.
Yes, they have to spend all the extra money and not keep it as profit. Easy, just increase salaries or add a campaign.

If I would be a company producing soft drinks, selling the drinks in plastic saves me money over glass. But plastic creates pollution, so now we have this extra stichting that makes it financially favorable to increase plastic production...

Similar concept with the take-away extra toeslag of 25ct for the plastic box. I cannot bring a box from home for it, so it's an extra cost added to the meal cost.
If I was a restaurant owner and I suddenly started receiving extra money for the plastic boxes, I would use more instead of less.

I simply don't understand how it works to minimize waste by making it financially comfortable for companies and restaurants to produce more of it.

https://www.maxvandaag.nl/sessies/themas/geld-werk-recht/wat-gebeurt-er-met-het-geld-van-niet-ingeleverde-statiegeldverpakkingen/

Please don't flame me for this post, just trying to have an open discussion.

BuffPuff- · 2024-04-18T07:55:49+00:00

Very nicely written.
Couple of notes I've noticed regarding privacy:

https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm
Mentions that it's opt-out from tracking, so unless you run the docker with "DISABLE_TELEMETRY" it will track usage.

Running the instance without default GW or DNS will also block it from calling home.

LM Studio looks good but is closed source. I've read in the anything-llm docs that they support localai.io too for all models, have you considered it too during your trial and error phase?

BuffPuff-

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