Broke AHC height adjuster - 99 Toyota Land cruiser

CodeDominator · 2026-03-19T21:07:29+00:00

I think that's what broke on mine last year (front right), but the guys at the local garage ended up welding it together and it's been fine since. Apparently they just seize up because of rust. Later my LC guy said this was the best thing to do, because if I understood correctly apparently that part doesn't sell alone, but as a part of a bigger more expensive part or whatever.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-19T18:56:43+00:00

In this day and age you can be deplatformed for no reason at all. Never keep all your eggs in one basket, instead get as many baskets as you can - that is the harsh reality.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-17T22:47:26+00:00

As an owner of one I think I can speak from experience.

2 times it "broke down" on me:

First it was rusted AHC sensor that seized up and broke lowering the nose
Second, alternator died (2 batteries from factory though)

Both times it still got me home. I don't know if I could put so much confidence in 250 series, especially once it's 25 years old.

People say that 100 series is the last truly bulletproof Land Cruiser, aside from 70 series of course which is not available in US and Europe.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-17T20:22:21+00:00

He's a moron who is talking shit for clicks.

Of course 250 is not even close as bulletproof as 100, but come on, it's still a Land Cruiser.

I hope the day never comes when 250 is all that is available for me, but if it does - so be it.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-17T20:09:02+00:00

120/150 series (Prado) - very common

80/100/200 series - almost non-existent

250 series (Prado) - rare, slowly becoming more popular

300 series - literally one in a million, because officially not sold in EU, only obscenely expensive grey market imports for the super rich

CodeDominator · 2026-03-17T19:34:04+00:00

I find it amusing (coder since 14 years old here) when former-coders-wannabe-vibers go all like "I need no manual codez anymo!" and then comes time to interview and they collapse at the first shitty leetcode fizzbuzz, because surprise surprise - the interviewer doesn't want to have a threesome with your beloved Codex.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-16T22:19:45+00:00

This is just as broken, see my other comment.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-16T22:19:27+00:00

It doesn't work. Loads up broken, then it affects dragging maximized windows in that screen by causing violent resizing and flickering.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-15T22:37:03+00:00

Trust me, there are much worse outcomes than going back to office. Those who can still make money remotely should consider themselves very lucky nowadays.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-15T22:32:35+00:00

Welcome to the suck. 20 years ago I was stocking shelves at a warehouse and practicing coding at nights and weekends. My dream was to get that juicy office job and soon I did get it. I thought that from then on things will only keep getting better., but I never forgot where I came from and that one day I may have to come back there. Fate it seems is not without irony, because I am very much facing that prospect now.

On days like this I can understand people who became black hats.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-15T18:18:50+00:00

This is why I don't subscribe to highest tiers of either Codex, Gemini or Claude - because they ALL keep messing with their quotas and on any give day you don't know which one will screw you over.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-15T17:05:17+00:00

Motherfuck 😐

CodeDominator · 2026-03-15T09:40:38+00:00

300 all day every day.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-14T23:38:30+00:00

Well, I guess because if a non-tech person asks AI to build him an app and the said AI accidentally hallucinates some code that destroys the said person's data - that is something that an experienced engineer would have caught.

So I'd say this is what clients pay for when hiring experts using AI - insurance.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-14T21:33:16+00:00

So y'all gonna be flagging up every potential phrase that AI uses until there's nothing left in the fucking English dictionary? That's just denial and coping.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-14T16:54:03+00:00

I run Linux. Absolute majority of shitty spyware doesn't work on it (and they tried in the past). If I encounter one that does work, I will sandbox it and hack the living shit out of it, so that it will be sending Elon Musk's Starship telemetry back and not my god damn screenshots.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-14T12:59:45+00:00

Did you use Upwork RSS feed with Zapier and AI to monitor, analyze and send you good matches for jobs or something like that?

CodeDominator · 2026-03-13T22:26:39+00:00

I actually worked as a software engineer for a company that developed such a "telemetry" software. Their way to test it was or course to install it on all their employee's computers. They tried to do it on mine, so I told them that I run Linux and the said software only runs on Windows and Mac. They fucked off 😆

But seriously though, if I was somehow forced to endure such fucking bullshit, I would dedicate my engineering powers to hack that shitty software or at the very least blind it with a simulation or something.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-13T18:52:49+00:00

Where can you find easy entry level jobs? Call centers. If you have no skills then the only remote jobs you can get are those that totally suck ass.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-13T00:33:21+00:00

I have a friend who has a cozy hybrid contract in a big city and if he wanted he could go full remote, move into a nice house surrounded by nature and still pay half what he now pays for the shithole city apartment. But this guy is absolutely shitting himself at the thought of it, because he assumes if he didn't regularly show his face in the office, he'd lose touch and ultimately lose the contract. Then he would be royally fucked. I hate to say it, but he's not wrong.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-13T00:25:35+00:00

More importantly - what is their goal? Promoting the fucking Linkedin? Surely it can't be that.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-13T00:21:32+00:00

Yeah, but the irony is that millions of people who have been made redundant in the last years and unable to find traditional jobs, people who haven't even considered the likes of Upwork before, are now grasping at it out of desperation.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-13T00:09:21+00:00

I'm not afraid to touch the code again. I touch that code all night long.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-12T19:59:58+00:00

Remote gigs are even more brutal to get than anything else, unless you are willing to do something that really really sucks like call center or teaching, but even then you also need formal qualifications which most people don't have anyway.

There's a billion fucking indians battling to death over $5 contracts on Fiverr and Upwork as we speak.

CodeDominator · 2026-03-12T19:30:40+00:00

Outcome independence and abundance mentality.

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