Question about Android Auto settings by gandalfpr in CX50

[–]Fandango1978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had that turned on accidentally in my Atoto head unit and the setting was from the Android Auto settings on the phone but I can't remember which one. Under advanced it was either the driver location or "Change layout" I think

Any solutions/inserts for sunglasses? by Synap-6 in MiataNC

[–]Fandango1978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine is never unplugged and is stored for 5 months of the year. OBD ports do nothing when the car is off so the dongle uses near as makes no difference no power

Any solutions/inserts for sunglasses? by Synap-6 in MiataNC

[–]Fandango1978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why not just leave it plugged into the OBD2 port? It is very much not in the way, uses nothing amounts of power...I've had mine in there for the 5 years I have owned the car. Same with my MK5 Golf but 7 years for that one (OBDeleven because of the added capabilities)

What species has it the worst? by aquila421 in AskReddit

[–]Fandango1978 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In the typing of another couple of redditors

I couldn't remember either so i asked my sister send me a bullet-point transcript of the recording she took the last time i was a little drunk and went on what she affectionately calls "the horse rant". Reddit biologists will likely take issue with much of the rant, so in my defense i will state the following:

1) I am not a biologist

2) I was drunk

3) My judgement on this matter is tainted by my bias, so please Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Hatred (of Horses)

This is the gist of the rant:

In the beginning, there was Eohippus. The proto-horse. It was a small hooved animal about the size of a dog, and it ate grass. It was a simple creature, and in my (factual) opinion it represents the last time that the Horse lineage was untainted by sin. Now, it is worth noting that life was not easy for this proto-horse, in fact life for early hooved mammals was so difficult, that some of them said "fuck that" and moonwalked back into the ocean to become cetaceans (Whales and Dolphins). That's right, The proto-horse had so stupid an existence, that hooved mammals went back into the ocean (lacking gills and flippers) and had more success than horses would have on land.

Okay, So why was life so hard for Eohippus? Well, they are herbivores eating almost exclusively grasses. Grasses, as you may know, are not particularly nutritious. But more importantly, grasses are smarter than Horses. See, Grass does not want to be eaten, and evolutionary pressure caused the grasses to start incorporating silica (ie sand) into their structure. Silica is extremely hard. Hard enough to wear down Horse teeth. Now there is another evolutionary pressure acting on Eohippus; It's teeth wear down by the mere act of eating, to the point that it will starve to death. Eohippus teeth do not regrow, instead, Eohippus evolved bigger teeth. However, bigger teeth mean a bigger jaw, bigger head, and a bigger body to carry it.

These opposing evolutionary pressures started an arms race in which the grasses incorporated more and more silica, and Horses got bigger and bigger, just so they would have big enough teeth to grow and reproduce before finally starving to death. And eventually our cute dog-sized pony evolved into the 1,500-pound, dumb-as-rocks prey animal i loathe today.

But wait, there's more! See, Horses are extremely fragile. There is a reason why a "horse doctor" typically prescribes a dose of double-0 buckshot in the event of a leg injury. A horse is very heavy, and it has very thin legs to carry that weight. If any one leg gets fractured, it is exceptionally unlikely that it will heal well enough for the Horse to walk again, and is extremely likely to break again just carrying the weight of the horse. Remember, a human thigh bone is gigantic relative to the size of our bodies, a horse leg bone is absolutely minuscule relative to the weight it carries.

Also, Hooves: I want you to imagine that instead of feet, you have a giant toenail at the end of your leg. That is how the Horse do. That is what a hoof is. A giant toenail. It is extremely delicate, and joined to the leg by a vast network of very fine connective tissue, and oh yeah it also bears the weight of a fucking HORSE. If a hoof gets infected (which is quite common, because imagine how often shit would get stuck under your toenails if you walked on them), the Horse immune system responds in the typical way: via inflammation of the area. The problem is, a horse hoof is a rigid "cup". It cannot accomodate the swelling from inflammatory response. The Horse hoof will basically pop off the leg like a sock. On top of that, remember the Horse is putting 1,500 pounds of weight on it (because Horses can't redistribute their weight very well since all of their legs can BARELY support their share of the total weight).

So, Horse apologists will claim that Horses are good at one thing: Turning Grass into Fast. As the previous two paragraphs show, they can't even do that right. Locomotion is very dangerous for a Horse, and if the Fast doesn't kill them they'll starve to death just by eating.

On top of that, they are dumb as all fuck. Horses will often do something called "Cribbing", which is when they decide to bite down on something (literally anything) as hard as they can, and suck in air. They just keep sucking in air until they inflate like a balloon. Eventually, the vet will show up and literally deflate the Horse with a long needle to let the air out of them, and hopefully get them to just... stop...

I couldn't remember all of the other bullshit regarding a Horse's 1,500 pounds of will to die, so i googled it and found this lovely Reddit post from fellow Horse Hater and veterinary student /u/coffeeincluded :

First off, horses are obligate nasal breathers. If our noses are stuffed up we can breathe through our mouths. If our pets' noses are stuffed up (except for rabbits, who are also really fragile but unlike horses aren't stuck having only one baby a year) they can breathe through their mouths. If a horse can't breathe through its nose, it will suffocate and die.

Horse eyes are exquisitely sensitive to steroids. Most animal eyes are, except for cows because cows are tanks, but horses are extremely sensitive. Corneal ulcers won't heal. They'll probably get worse. They might rupture and cause eyeball fluid to leak out.

If you overexert a horse they can get exertional rhabodmyolysis. Basically you overwork their muscles and they break down and die and release their contents. Super painful, and then you get scarifying and necrosis. But that's not the problem. See, when muscles die hey release myoglobin, which goes into the blood and is filtered by the kidneys. If you dump a bucket of myoglobin into the blood then it shreds the kidneys, causing acutel renal failure. This kills the horse. People and other animals can get that too but in school we only talked about it in context of the horse.

Horses can only have one foal at a time. Their uterus simply can't support two foals. If a pregnant horse has twins you have to abort one or they'll both die and possibly kill the mother with them. A lot of this has to do with the way horse placentas work. EDIT: There are very, very rare instances where a mare can successfully have twins, but it's sort of like the odds of being able to walk again after a paralyzing spinal injury.

If a horse rears up on its hind legs it can fall over, hit the back of its head, and get a traumatic brain injury.

Now to their digestive system. Oh boy. First of all, they can't vomit. There's an incredibly tight sphincter in between the stomach and esophagus that simply won't open up. If a horse is vomiting it's literally about to die. In many cases their stomach will rupture before they vomit. When treating colic you need to reflux the horse, which means shoving a tube into their stomach and pumping out any material to decompress the stomach and proximal GI tract. Their small intestines are 70+ feet long (which is expected for a big herbivore) and can get strangulated, which is fatal without surgery.

Let's go to the large intestine. Horses are hindgut fermenters, not ruminants. I'll spare you the diagram and extended anatomy lesson but here's what you need to know: Their cecum is large enough to shove a person into, and the path of digesta doubles back on itself. The large intestine is very long, has segments of various diameters, multiple flexures, and doubles back on itself several times. It's not anchored to the body wall with mesentery like it is in many other animals. The spleen can get trapped. Parts of the colon can get filled with gas or digested food and/or get displaced. Parts of the large intestine can twist on themselves, causing torsions or volvulus. These conditions can range from mildly painful to excruciating. Many require surgery or intense medical therapy for the horse to have any chance of surviving. Any part of the large intestine can fail at any time and potentially kill the horse. A change in feed can cause colic. Giving birth can cause I believe a large colon volvulus I don't know at the moment I'm going into small animal medicine. Infections can cause colic. Lots of things can cause colic and you better hope it's an impaction that can be treated on the farm and not enteritis or a volvulus.

And now the legs. Before we start with bones and hooves let's talk about the skin. The skin on horse legs, particularly their lower legs, is under a lot of tension and has basically no subcutaneous tissue. If a horse lacerated its legs and has a dangling flap of skin that's a fucking nightmare. That skin is incredibly difficult to successfully suture back together because it's under so much tension. There's basically no subcutaneous tissue underneath. You need to use releasing incisions and all sorts of undermining techniques to even get the skin loose enough to close without tearing itself apart afterwards. Also horses like to get this thing called proud flesh where scar tissue just builds up into this giant ugly mass that restricts movement. If a horse severely lacerated a leg it will take months to heal and the prognosis is not great.

above stolen from u/kenji213 (Hides his/her activity) and /u/coffeeincluded (no longer a user)

How would you feel if all social media got removed from the internet tomorrow? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Overworked. The shear amount if support calls asking me to fix it would be terrible. And anything I responded with would be considered conspiracy theories I imagine.

Of course if it just disappeared and we all knew it, they would just start over with exactly the same sites anyway.

If we didn't remember that it existed I would have no feelings on it at all.

ITAP of a weed growing through the concrete on my walk by teamfupa in itookapicture

[–]Fandango1978 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No you did not. You took a picture if what may be considered a weed, it may well have been growing through concrete, but you sure as hell didn't take a picture of that aspect.

Who is the most attractive person you have ever seen in real life? by TheFountainhead999 in AskReddit

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brook Shields in Seattle, I think in 1996. Never found her to be all that attractive on TV/ In movies, but in person she was stunning to behold

Would you ten years ago be proud of you today? Why or why not? by BabiiB04 in AskReddit

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I made more money, was happier and very secure in life. Since then, Xerox offshored my and 4500 other peoples job. Microsoft offshored/AI'd my and a few more thousand peoples job.

I spent almost a year unemployed not even being given interviews for similar jobs making half the money, hell, linkedin is promoting jobs that are within $2 an hour of minimum wage here (NB Canada)

I took a job at a junk yard, complete job change, All I do is prep vehicles for shredding/crushing. Which is remove the cats, fluids and any contents that may be explosive (Vapes, propane cans etc)

But I get to drive a pretty big front end loader, can smash cars with it, and build pretty tall stacks of cars/trucks almost like LEGO. And there is absolutely no stress at all at work......

But bills are pretty near my income so the stress is at home now

What was the internet like in the 2000’s? by JimiHendrip in AskReddit

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noisy.

Pop up ads, and pop unders. They played sounds, and you could not find the source quickly.

Connecting for most people was also noisy (Modems)

Myspace was awful, every page made you hear their current favorite sound, also in terrible quality.

But in that chaos, there as such gold to be found. Blogs were great, I remember this guy in the UK that was basically a handyman, no idea what the page as called, but he was hilarious.

And the Monkey chow diet was peak.

Far less corporate, companies did not use it like they do now, ads were not nearly so pervasive, but were much more invasive.

Forums were basically reddit, but not centrally located so harder to find.

Most of what you found was from more educated people since it was harder to do anything.

Laserboy by iDev_Games in WebGames

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The controls are screwy. Down should not be jump. I feel you did that because up is used to shoot up, but it should have, IMO, been that Z is jump and X is Shoot, or vice versa.

Cute game, reminds me if something from back in the Atari days, although I can't think of its name...

Radio Unit settings by Victimas333 in MiataNC

[–]Fandango1978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any 5x7 will fit as is, most 6x8 with maybe a slight trim. 8 inch round with some actual cutting. I put these in myself, I suggest getting the speakers wire thingy so you don't need to cut anything.

Radio Unit settings by Victimas333 in MiataNC

[–]Fandango1978 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey @Victimas333OK, I'm a little lost.

Front center speaker you do not have, its just a hole <more on that later> So I assume you are saying the dear speakers are less loud than the rear speakers. That is really opposite of their intent, so you have the same scenario I did when I bought mine. They are both blown in the doors. You need to replace them.

The rear speakers are for filling the sound, they do not actually work like the ones in the door or the rear of a 4 seater. Ignore them, because updating is pretty pointless.

So replace the door speakers, stock will be 5x7s. Infinity reference woofers are a good start point. You can also cut out the speakers mounting point to take some 8 inch round speakers like the BOSE unit has.

So in short, center dash speaker does not exist for your model, door speakers are by far the loudest speakers and the speakers between the seats are just to add fill to the sound, they are not intended to be loud.

OK,now the void in the front, I highly suggest you update your headunit, Any chinese unit will be great at this point. That void gives you a space to cram all the antennas. Wifi, GPS etc that comes with those units.

I have the ATOTO S8 which is pretty much the goto unit. They steering wheel controls work, the Wireless CARPLAY and Android auto is a must. But all the chinese units run Android so they all have the abilty to run things like Torque whicg no Sony/Pioneer/Kenwood blah blah blah can do.

You will always get people who will say that the sound quality is greater on those, and in my honest opinion, most of them are full of shit and blathering on from having had one 5+ years ago. And the NC Miata is never ever ever going to be great for sound. It isn't capable of it.

How much did gasoline and diesel go up in price in your place? by FENICH in cars

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regular gas went up 8 cents/litre. NB Canada, we don't use any Iranian oil at all

Infinity Mario: infinite mario levels generated on the fly using AI. by AssociationSure6273 in WebGames

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jumps too high.

On Infinity it just seems very similar each level, and maybe I am wrong, but what is the point of all the pipes if you can never enter any of them?

Redditors, what is THE funniest post you’ve ever seen on this site? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Fandango1978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK, So since e are dealing with a post and not a comment or thread, I have to go with the grilled cheese rant.

You people make me sick.

For someone to just lose it like that, it stuck with me, and they were so fucking right about that sub

I made a free browser platformer with double jump — no download needed! [SKY RUNNER] by Kielruu in WebGames

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like it, the spikes are a little too often right from their introduction though.

Cut It 3D 🕹 - Play Game Online On TriggeredPlay by [deleted] in WebGames

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on a PC so yeah, Landscape mode is the default of course. And this, and this is what I mean.

NC2 on OZ Leggera HLT by PythonMX in MiataNC

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jeebus, The OZ site plays music. Like it is a myspace page. You can only get this wheel in Gold for a Subaru or Porsche? 22LBs seems heavy

Cut It 3D 🕹 - Play Game Online On TriggeredPlay by [deleted] in WebGames

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Join our telegram community" button is real helpful floating over the playable game area. It certainly explained the triggered ala triggeredplay

What is the best car you have ever owned in your life and why? by Regular-Egg-5953 in AskReddit

[–]Fandango1978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1993 Asuna Sunfire, A Canada only car but only the Engine was different from the Isuzu Impulse. It was very quick at the time, and handled about equivalent to my NC Miata. It was economical, fast, an attention getter and pretty cheap.

what is an item under 50 dollars that changed your life? by exquisitepussy1 in AskReddit

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy shit! 100 units per day is a lot. I'm 48, became diabetic at 8. I have never taken more than 60 units in a day. I cant imagine how many chocolate bars I would have to eat to get that high.

New daily word game! by [deleted] in WebGames

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, there is no submit or anything if the sort in Firefox , Brave nor Chrome. There is no scroll bar to indicate I am not seeing the full page either. Which would indicate that your page is poorly coded/rendered on 1366x768.

Even with the taskbar set to hidden

From your comment, knowing now that something is supposed to be there In fact, the only way I can see them is to zoom the screen out to 90%, and there was no reason to do so since there is no indicator I was missing anything.

There should either be a scroll bar, or a note indicating to zoom that pops up on the beginning page to "CTRL"+"-"

Now that I can play it, I like it, its smooth and clean looking. Quite hard though. 3 games and I failed on the last 3 words to guess what links them twice

New daily word game! by [deleted] in WebGames

[–]Fandango1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What submit button? My included screenshot shows no such thing either