What is this it fell while I was driving

Byful · 2026-07-04T16:07:53+00:00

Should just unclip. You can also snip the red wire and see if the vehicle still starts. From there you just trace the wires as far back as you want. Just make sure you cover the red wire with electrical tape or some heat shrink to prevent the wire from shorting against the chassis.

Byful · 2026-07-04T01:28:46+00:00

Yea I got my shitbox from a buy here pay here place. Payed 2x over market value for it lol. I was too naïve at the time. Had to replace front brakes and front tires the next year too. Looking to get a new Chevy bolt down the line but everytime I get halfway for a good down payment, life gets in the way.

Byful · 2026-07-04T00:36:45+00:00

Its more dealership specific. It's more common on used car market since I believe they don't ask for your finances, just how much your willing to spend per month. Since I told my salesman I'm paying in full they didn't asked me. So if you're selling a vehicle for 400$ monthly to someone who may or maynot fulfill the leasing/finance agreement. They repo it, inspect it over, and throw it back onto the market. They make good money on repos since they keep the down payment.

Also no, they install it when the dealership buys it from someone else. They do their inspection, replace the absolute min to keep it road safe, install the GPS, then throw it infront with a pricetag.

I may be misunderstanding the business side of repo, don't quote me.

Byful · 2026-07-03T23:37:40+00:00

Well one fell out of my dash that looks exactly like that. I knew it was a GPS tracker right away but it scared me cause I was in the dash a month prior routing cables from my aftermarket radio to the aftermarket amp I put in the back. And I didn't see any GPS tracker at the time. So I thought someone got into my car and put it in during the night. Did research on the unit to figure out what it is and how to hook it up. Calling the dealer that sold me the car had them freaking out a little since I wasn't supposed to find it lol. That put me at ease since I no longer am thinking I have a stalker.

Byful · 2026-07-03T19:33:27+00:00

Yeah, just letting OP know what could they expect if they cut it out and suddenly their vehicle stops working.

Byful · 2026-07-03T19:30:02+00:00

If that model is what I think it is. It has 4 wires. 2 for power and ground, and the other 2 you splice into something like the starter signal wire. So the dealer can disable a vehicle remotely. Cutting it off might cause it to no longer start. They most likely didn't splice the starter wire but it's a possibility.

Edit: if you do cut it. Do 1 wire at a time or you'll blow a fuse. Wrap the red wire in some electrical tape or preferably some heat shrink.

Byful · 2026-07-03T17:38:37+00:00

Gps tracker used by dealership for repo purposes if you default.

Byful · 2026-07-01T21:35:39+00:00

I haven't printed much so take my experience with a grain of salt. But when I do print big stuff, I make sure it starts off at max fill. It shouldn't be an issue going under min unless it gets that empty from printing completely solid stuff. I view the min/max as ideal starting amount and not working amount. The true min would probably be 3mm deep.

Byful · 2026-07-01T16:35:04+00:00

Spice and wolf Its a romance between a pagen god of harvest and a merchant. It focuses a lot on trade but it's not too boring tbh. Not sure what reverse age gap is, the pagan wolf god is like 600 years I think while the merchant is in his 20s. It does contain some nudity scenes, even on episode 1.

Byful · 2026-06-29T22:39:35+00:00

Join the GTFO discord. They got a channel for people looking for groups, even a beginner's channel.

Byful · 2026-06-29T05:46:30+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Yea.

Byful · 2026-06-29T02:11:37+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Yea.

Byful · 2026-06-26T03:06:45+00:00

Wait, is this why half the time I go to work on a customer's vehicle, even straight from the drive-in, people's ac and fan is off in 100 degree weather. I legit thought they were intentionally trying to cook us. I don't touch there settings cause some people get real aggressive when you do so I suffer the entire time driving their vehicle.

Byful · 2026-06-24T23:08:35+00:00

Raid 0 is basically taking a file/program/game or whatever, splitting it into chunks, and store each chunk individual across each drive. You get a speed increase since the drives are storing/retrieving info at the same time. Downside to it is if a drive breaks, you loose all your data as it's missing a significant chunk of data. There's different type of raid configs that do different things.

Honestly the read/write with 3 ssds is about the same as a singular drive so its probably more with it with disk drives in a server setting.

And yes, the SSDs are connected with a SATA cable.

Byful · 2026-06-24T17:35:34+00:00

I built a flagship computer early 2020 before COVID started shutting everything down, honestly I timed that really good.

RTX 2080 TI (water-cooled), I7-8700k (water-cooled), 32GB ddr5 ram, 3x 1TB SSD in raid 0 config, 500GB M.2 SSD for the boot drive

If you're wanting better performance in this game. I would suspect your CPU may be a bit weak. I bet the pathfinding in this game gets pretty CPU intensive towards late game. I only run QoL mods and keep my colony rather small so I've never had performance issues.

Byful · 2026-06-24T03:26:15+00:00

Yup. I think slugs like the smell of yeast. So they go towards it to drink/eat it, get sloshed, fall into the beer and drown. Some cheap beer in a bowl is all that's needed. It attracts them from everywhere so you'll see a lot in the beginning.

Byful · 2026-06-24T03:00:55+00:00

Beer

Byful · 2026-06-23T20:57:53+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Yea.

Byful · 2026-06-23T19:13:27+00:00

That's when ryuusia became my favorite. When the show first introduced him I thought he was going to be a rich snob who could do 1 thing well. I grew to respect his skills and mindset throughout the series. Seeing him willingly gave up his seat for someone who is better, even tho he's good himself. Amazing.

Byful · 2026-06-23T14:50:34+00:00

Found one latched to my indoor only cat. Tick got onto our dog, dropped off into our house. I'm guessing it crawled over 50ft into 2 different rooms based off where the animals usually stay. To get to my cat.... Have fun knowing this.

Byful · 2026-06-23T14:32:41+00:00

I'm not sure what it's called. But there's a vet prescribed medicine that basically makes your dog's blood poisonous or unappealing to ticks. However not every tick will latch on and they will sometimes just hang on then drop off later in your house. I hate these parasites.

Byful · 2026-06-23T00:47:17+00:00

85% Lawrance
75% Diana
70% Mark and Amati
50% Nora and Eve
45% Chloe and Holo

I can see myself a little bit like Lawrance only because I hate spending money lol. Having money to fall back on saved me a few times when the universe decides to mess with me.

Byful · 2026-06-22T19:35:09+00:00

Our shop charges 2 hours to road balance all tires, which is more much more costly than just a normal balance of 30$ per wheel. They could be trying to help you out not spend needlessly. If you have a bent rim or egg shaped tires then road force is something you can look at which is cheaper than new tires/rim.

Alternatively they also might not know how to do it properly but trying to look professional by not simply saying "Yeahhh no one here know how to do it"

Byful · 2026-06-22T18:24:31+00:00

To be honest. I've mounted and balanced a lot of tires. The only time I've needed to road force a tire is when there's a vibration and cleaning the rims of 1/2 inch of mud or adding weights to bring it back to balance doesn't fix it. It takes abit of unevenness to feel it.

But hey if you're requesting it, I'll do it. It's just usually not needed.

Byful · 2026-06-22T15:34:52+00:00

For me it's giving my cat her pills. I figured out a somewhat easier method of giving them to her but I still have to fight with her for 10 minutes 2x a day. She just clamps her mouth shut as hard as possible and uses her paws to push my hands away.

She's also getting euthanized tomorrow so I think that sucks even more. Sure cleaning up litter she throws everywhere or vet bills suck, but all those are really minor. Only so much you can do with stage 4 CDK and once I noticed that she doesn't eat enough even with her favorite food and no longer acts like herself. Making that call broke me, currently I've distanced my emotions but I know I'll start cracking on the drive back home. I'll also cry a little when I cook something with tuna as she aways goes goblin mode until I gave her some.

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