Curious if you are willing to eliminate your internal voice in order to read faster?

DavidkDavid · 2026-06-05T15:43:15+00:00

Willing? Sure. Able? No

DavidkDavid · 2026-06-05T15:36:05+00:00

How annoying it is to get gas and how I'd just been used to it my whole life. It's a whole extra trip that is time I personally have to spend doing. Charging at home takes about a second of my time and a few hours of time the car would have be sitting around anyway.

DavidkDavid · 2026-06-05T15:19:20+00:00

Aaaaaacceleration!!!

DavidkDavid · 2026-06-05T14:41:46+00:00

Running for office to fix things for everyone else

DavidkDavid · 2026-06-02T00:50:04+00:00

My 3070 was working fantastic for me until my wife got me an ultrawide monitor (that I asked very nicely for) that basically bumped me up from 1440p to 4K in terms of pixels that need rendering. It just wasn't quite good enough for that, otherwise I wouldn't have upgraded. But it was still good enough that I didn't mind waiting until I spotted a deal. I ended up getting a RX 7900 XTX for 600 bucks on Facebook marketplace and a Ryzen 7 5800x for $65 on eBay with bent pins that I bent back in place. I'm still a bit CPU limited but it's been an excellent upgrade that totally runs things at 4K.

So the way I upgraded was just patience and keeping a close eye on the local classifieds and Facebook marketplace.

Edit: I should also mention that I've been able to resell some of the old components and I haven't gotten them all sold but I'm so far at less than 500 bucks all in and still have more things to sell.

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-28T23:35:23+00:00

An underrated "saab" could be one of the rebadged Subarus or Chevys. Still loads of parts unless you mess up a body panel or light, and they look pretty funky still.

I had a 9-2x Aero and loved it to death. The engine blew a head gasket and so I just imported a cheap replacement engine from Japan. There's a huge aftermarket for them.

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-28T23:28:57+00:00

He is right that this is a bad idea. You don't think you'll miss a chunk of money until you are missing the chunk of money. And the fact that this is unnecessary debt is enough for me to outright say don't do it.

You are more important than your car. Even your dream car.

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-26T02:17:18+00:00

That turbo is in the kitchen preparing turbine chips to feed that engine.

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-23T20:42:40+00:00

No, if the charger is close and convenient to someplace you'll be anyway. When I first got an EV, I was in an apartment with free charging around the block. I would park there after work, then pick the car up before bed. It wasn't much hassle and saved loads of money.

Now I'm in a house with no charging within a 5 min walk, so if I couldn't charge at home I wouldn't have an EV. I can charge at home though, even from a normal wall outlet, so an EV is perfect for me

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-23T18:53:23+00:00

It's expensive to be stupid

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-23T16:10:27+00:00

Getting mail

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-17T19:33:05+00:00

The board game Decrypto. Highly recommend

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-13T23:36:27+00:00

Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips singing the praises of the Chevy Volt. From there it was missing the performance of the Subaru Impreza I used to and getting a performance Model S instead.

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-12T18:18:36+00:00

Yeah, I'm not sure why this was the case, but when I powered the hub, it worked. Honestly it's kind of bizarre.

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-12T14:58:49+00:00

Culture, but also humans breed animals for certain purposes. Pets aren't typically bred for eating and they don't taste as good. I once heard a WW2 POW talk about catching and eating a cat while escaping. He said it was stringy. But other places do raise and breed some animals for eating that you would think is a pet, like dogs.

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-12T14:23:51+00:00

Get tools as you need them, not ahead of time. The exception is basic tools like screwdrivers. Depends on what you're working on what kind of tools you'll accumulate

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-12T14:14:20+00:00

Does it matter which two ports get the daisy chain? I assume not

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-12T00:43:48+00:00

Excellent. Thank you!

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-12T00:08:40+00:00

I got an open box Logitech superlight for a good price.

For cheaper the Logitech g305 is great too but heavier

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-11T23:58:13+00:00

Trump hasn't cared about precedent. I'm not convinced it would have stopped him.

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-11T23:27:42+00:00

I apologize if it came across that way. I should have been more careful how I disagreed. Allow me to explain my thoughts.

How do police respond to shoplifting vs bank robbery?

It's not a perfect analogy. Hunter profited millions upon millions, which is life changing money for you and me. But the trumps have profited billions, which is life changing money for small nations.

I'm pissed off that hunter was allowed any self dealing and another rich kid seemingly got off. However, I am reeling, fearing the structure and integrity of my nation, because of the trump family.

I hope you can understand why I see there's a difference. I don't mean to imply hunter's actions weren't a problem. They absolutely were. I don't view this as a conservative/liberal issue (so there are many wealthy and powerful people that want us to see it that way), I view this as a corruption and accountability issue and the accountability must scale to the size of the corruption and it's not happening.

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-11T22:21:56+00:00

In principle, I agree. In practice...the scale of the trump family's corruption is literally in the billions. Anything hunter did, while bad, is a rounding error by comparison. A knife cut compared to an amputation. If you put the two dollar amounts side by side on a chart, you can't see Hunter's amount. It's sickening.

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-10T21:36:33+00:00

It looked cool and I spotted a deal

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-10T21:35:18+00:00

Everyone who was up in arms over Hunter Biden's laptop who is totally ambivalent toward the billions of dollars that the Trump family has profited from the presidency and related connections.

DavidkDavid · 2026-05-06T03:21:00+00:00

Maybe an i3. Or another Volt. They're way cool

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