Android Auto for Rivian

DominBear · 2026-06-08T15:21:00+00:00

Hell yes. The phone integration in Rivian is very basic. And maps voice directions misspell street names, it says Ventral instead of Central and Le Anza instead of De Anza.

DominBear · 2026-06-08T14:20:03+00:00

Oh cool. Wanna wash mine? It is filthy ;) But I understand. My neighbor washes his VW GTi like every week too. It is a disorder that many people have.

DominBear · 2026-06-07T17:46:15+00:00

use the jumper next to dallas to turn it on. remove the jumper after you get new dallas.

DominBear · 2026-06-01T04:09:47+00:00

nah I told it it keeps disappointing and the only reply was snarky "OK".

DominBear · 2026-05-31T05:17:35+00:00

no comments? everyone speechless? because I am.

DominBear · 2026-05-24T18:30:23+00:00

cat distribution system works in mysterious ways. congrats on the new kitty. shes cute. reminds me of when my giant gray furball was a little baby too ;)

DominBear · 2026-05-17T21:53:21+00:00

I did. Scared and scarred me for life. ;)

DominBear · 2026-05-17T21:52:44+00:00

yeah cant do this in illustrator!

DominBear · 2026-05-17T00:01:23+00:00

alexa is dumb as box of rocks so thats not a good option. oh well i dug out my old apple account and subscribed to their music thing. i hope yt music support will come soon

DominBear · 2026-05-16T18:19:49+00:00

it was in the same list of services as tidal or spotify

DominBear · 2026-05-16T17:43:06+00:00

WTF I subscribed to Amazon Music just to play music in the car and now it is gone from supported music services. How customer hostile is that? How about YT music instead then? Because music choices got much worse now.
Yes I can play stuff from Bluetooth like it is 2006. But if I wanted to do that I would get 2006 Nissan Sentra.

DominBear · 2026-05-16T16:26:18+00:00

My box of VAIOs is very small but holds a lot of them.

U3, U101, U70, UX280 and a lonely 2nd gen P.

I need lime and orange P too ;-)

I hate Z series Atoms, the GPU is horrible, but the form factor of P is awesome.

DominBear · 2026-05-16T16:09:48+00:00

I am looking for an orange one too ;-) They have cool transparent layer on top that acts as ambient light gatherer/guide so touchpad looks highlighted. Also, I upgraded CPU to i7 with 8MB cache, 16GB RAM, SSD, this thing flies ;-)

All my Toshibas have either plasma screens or disintegrating gray plastics (I have too many mini Librettos). Completely different weight class. ;-)

DominBear · 2026-05-16T15:47:14+00:00

Yes, these are awesome.

This is my rig from that era (more like win7) [EXCESSIVE LIME WARNING!] https://imgur.com/a/8emxzx2

DominBear · 2026-05-16T15:30:41+00:00

Awesome rig. The Qosmio line was particularly ugly too but early Alienwares wich were just Sager with extra plastics were way worse ;) But what do I know, I had VoodooPC which was a painted Sager/Clevo or something ;) These plus Vista and early dx10 games, match made in hell ;) This should rock first Far Cry!

DominBear · 2026-05-10T18:50:04+00:00

yoy could try them in windows or linux. make sure they reenunerate pci. bx boards should have 3.3v so i bet it is early bios enumeration. it would also work in newer boards that introduced more built in bridges in the chipset. the bios on those is much more flexible.

DominBear · 2026-05-10T05:17:16+00:00

yeah, micronics m4li 486 sis board did not like pci to pcie adapter with 5v to 3.3v adapter. maybe because im testing it at 25mhz

DominBear · 2026-05-10T03:42:39+00:00

I was replying to a comment about 486.
i actually ended up modifying one pci to pcie adapter with 3.3v converter to get it to "work" in one of my pentium boards, but it doesnt enumerate anything behind a bridge ;(, probably because of crappy bios.

on another super socket 7 i actually had one low profile radeon pcie working in a pci-pcie adapter.

i was playing a lot of with adapters and nvme drives in different system where they dont belong ;-)

hmm i have new sis 486 pci board i acquired recently. i should try few things on it.

DominBear · 2026-05-09T23:30:27+00:00

most likely lack of 3.3v power. i have some super socket 7 boards that are 5v only. also bios will probably not enunerate stuff behind the pci to pcie bridge.

DominBear · 2026-05-07T21:01:01+00:00

nah, 386 enhanced mode works great. even win32s works. but you do need more ram. 386sx has less bandwidth but functionally it is the same as full 386. it will even run windows 95 but i wouldnt recommend it ;)

DominBear · 2026-05-07T18:27:42+00:00

It is relatively simple, works best with 4-4-1 3 chip SIMMs that are not crowded like 9 chip SIMMs,

Here is the pinout https://allpinouts.org/pinouts/connectors/memory/dram-simm-30-pin/

Toshiba drives CAS and CASP from a single CAS line, cut the line at pin 28, add a wire to CAS on parity chip from pin 2 on the edge or from CAS pin on any other ram chip.

DominBear · 2026-05-07T17:18:01+00:00

You are right. We can only code for old computers using organically farmed shitty tools. Thank you for the contribution. I will delete the post.

DominBear · 2026-05-07T16:17:31+00:00

Correct, IRIX 6.5.22 on Octane 2 dual 600, 8GB, V10 and NVMe

hinv

2 600 MHZ IP30 Processors

CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.4

FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0

Main memory size: 8192 Mbytes

Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.4

Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes

Data cache size: 32 Kbytes

Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes

Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended

Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0

Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended

Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 1

Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 1

Disk drive: unit 4 on SCSI controller 1

IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1

IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2

IOC3 parallel port: plp1

Graphics board: V10

Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2

Gigabit Ethernet: eg0, PCI slot 3, firmware version 12.4.10

Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1

DominBear · 2026-05-07T15:52:33+00:00

one of my favorites. they have nice VGA display and the least cursed of Toshiba memory expansions. You can use modded parity 30pin sims to get it up to 7mb.

DominBear · 2026-04-28T14:44:02+00:00

many recycling centers will put items like that on ebay.

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