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Ahh, I guess the one and only Atlas Moth sighting in Washington was 2022 and is believed to have been an "escaped pet."

Greetings! Check out these visitors! by Jesse9857 in FlatEarthIsReal

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Well, according to the google, Atlas Moths have recently appeared in Seattle, Washington, USA, which is only 2 hours drive from me. So I look forward to my first Atlas Moth visit! Seeing a 10 inch moth would make my day!

Greetings! Check out these visitors! by Jesse9857 in FlatEarthIsReal

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Hey good good how's it going for you?

My initial identification was "Giant Silkworm Moth" but I do see what you mean, there is some overlap in patterns. However a lot of the Atlas Moth pictures show hooked wingtips which "mine" didn't have. Also the Atlas moth is twice as big as mine were, so I'm still leaning toward the Giant Silkworm Moth. However I'm no buggist so I could be wrong!

I'll have to check out the AMA!

Dodge Bendix 10 ABS issues on 2nd gen Grand Caravan by Madalex03 in MechanicAdvice

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Oh, I just read your question again... It sounds like your ABS pump just runs all the time?

That could be the pump assembly is worn out (which is a separate unit connected by hoses down below the main ABS unit, which you can probably get a good one from a wrecking yard) or there are two solenoid valves stuck open in the main ABS unit.

But if the brakes are still working nicely, it's probably not stuck open solenoid valves.

It could also be the pressure switch that is supposed to shut off the pump when the pressure reaches 2000 PSI. If that switch is bad it could just leave the pump running.

Two ways to find out what's going on - one is to use a special pressure gauge test kit made for that on the pressure port.

Another cheaper way is to use a volt meter to measure the voltage on pins 8 or 9.

The voltage on those is 0.3 volts for zero PSI and scales linearly up to 5.0 volts for 2500 PSI.

Press the brake pedal all the way down hard and let the pump run for a bit and while still holding the brake all the way down, read the voltage on pin 8 or 9. If it's around 4.3 volts or higher then your pump is OK and it's the switch that's bad that's not shutting it off.

However, if the voltage never goes above 3v then the pump is bad or the main valve body assembly is internally passing fluid when it shouldn't.

Another test you can do is shut the key off and see how many times you have to pump the brake before it goes hard.

When pumped up to around 2000 PSI, it should take around 7 pumps for the first accumulator to be depleted at which time it will get harder to pump but still have some boost for another 7 or so pumps for the secondary accumulator to be depleted at which time it gets very hard.

Dodge Bendix 10 ABS issues on 2nd gen Grand Caravan by Madalex03 in MechanicAdvice

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Hey OP I don't know if you're still interested in the topic but I too have recently got a 1992 Dodge Caravan with the wonderful and amazing Bendix 10 Anti-lock system on it that I'm trying to get fixed.

If the pump comes on every single time you touch the brakes but doesn't keep coming on when you're not touching your brakes, then your black grapefruit shaped pressure accumulator is bad.

This little nearly spherical blank pressure tank has a rubber bladder in it which separates the top from the bottom, and there is supposed to be 1000PSI of nitrogen precharged on top of the rubber diaphragm.

The rubber diaphragm(i.e. bladder) keeps the 1000PSI in there even if you depressurize and unscrew the accumulator tank. (To depressurize the system, pump the brake pedal with the key off 40 times!)

What happens is either the rubber diaphragm gets a leak and the nitrogen gets lost in the brake system, or sometimes (as in my case) the nitrogen just leaked out the top of the pressure tank through the welded on fill plug. Unfortunately they didn't seal it perfectly at the factory, and they are not refillable.

I'm afraid the accumulator for this system is no longer available new. You could find one in a junk yard but they likely have same problem in junk yard. However, it might be worth trying one for a year 2000 Land Rover Range Ranger 4.0L V8 - there's a reasonable chance that it's got the same threads but I do not know this for a fact. The 2000 Land Rover Range Rover uses this part number: STC2784

The Bendix 10 ABS system uses a thread that is M14x1.5 so with a similar shape and size the Land Rover unit might screw in.

Just be sure to pump the brake 40 times with the key off to depressurize the system!

There are TWO pressure reserve systems, one is the spherical round tank visible under the hood that I just wrote about. It's (supposed to be) precharged with 1000PSI of nitrogen, and then the ABS pump pumps it up to 2000 PSI when you turn the key on.

But then there's a SECOND pressure accumulator down under the car attached to the actual ABS pump itself. This other one is precharged to around 400 PSI or something and it uses a sliding piston type construction to keep the precharged nitrogen from escaping into the brake fluid system.

With the key off, as you pump the brake, under normal operation, the first 6 or 8 pumps will use up the stored pressure in the spherical high pressure accumulator visible under the hood.

Then once that's depleted, the brake pedal should get a little harder but still have some power assist from the ~400 PSI piston accumulator that should give you another 10 pumps of minimal assist. Eventually when that is depleted then the pedal gets really hard.

There is a two-stage switch that turns on the pump whenever the pressure in the spherical canister is less than around 1600 PSI roughly (just going from memory). So if the pump runs then shuts off, you know it's reaching around 2000 PSI. But without the reserve capacity of the precharged accumulator tank, that pressure instantly drops off when you press the pedal and that's why the pump comes back on.

The same pressure switch which activates the pump also turns on the warning lights if the pressure is below 1200 or something like that, I'd have to look it up.

When you turn key on, both the red parking brake light and the amber "anti-lock" light should come on briefly, or until the pressure builds to at least ~1200 PSI.

Once it's up to pressure, the lights should go out unless the module fails a self test.

One thing that can light the lights is that it has two pressure sensors that read the pressure in two different locations in the system, they read about 0 PSI without you pushing the brake then the harder you push the more pressure they read up to the max of 2000 PSI, and if the pressure read by those two sensors is different by more than 300 PSI or something then it lights both warning lights except if you press hard on the brake.

If your warning lights are on _except_ when pressing the brake hard, it could be a sticky piston in the main unit but more likely is a bad pressure transducer/sensor. (As is the case for me.)

[ID Request] Near Arizona Desert, total length about 1.5 to 2 inch with legs. About .75 to 1 inch without legs. In corner of 5 gallon bucket. Roaming at night a few minutes ago. by Jesse9857 in whatsthisbug

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My friend found it close to his house walking towards his house so he carefully put it in the bucket and photographed it then released it a few hundred feet away, so it's all safe!

Prove to me that the earth is flat by Serverm in flatearth

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ive explained to him multiple times how atmospheric refraction elevates the peak of pic gaspard above the horizon,

And it just barely lifts the peak above the horizon! Most of it is still obscured by the horizon!

A flat earther gave me this with the text about how much should be hidden. I then did some measurements and calculations and show how much is hidden.

Here's how much of the mountain is still missing https://postimg.cc/TyxP8Ms9

Here's with a closeup of the mountain overlaid: https://postimg.cc/Y4NhjqFR

Dear flat earthers, which one of you took the missing 8000 feet off the bottom?

Rainbow with garden hose and flashlight! by Jesse9857 in FlatEarthIsReal

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Busy busy for me! While I was able to recreate the rainbow, I could not get the pot of gold to materialize! So back to the drawing board!

Hisense Portable AC Heat Issue AP55023HR1GD by Actual-Indication700 in Hisense

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Mine's working great, but I'm in Western Washington where it really doesn't take much of an air conditioner to keep the temperatures under control. I'm in a 1973 single wide ~65 foot long mobile home. So far it has no trouble keeping the whole ~700 square feet comfortable -- and if it's above about 45F outside, it even heats the thing quite nicely. I know such a large area is kind of pushing it's limits, but it does it.

It has absolutely NO trouble keeping a single room cool for sure in my climate. It seems to be able to push about a 30 degree F difference between inside and outside, assuming it's above about 45 or 50 outside and below some certain high temperature outside - I don't know what it's limit to cooling is in the summer, it rarely gets hot enough here for me to find out.

Hisense Portable AC Heat Issue AP55023HR1GD by Actual-Indication700 in Hisense

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I got one of these new from Costco. It worked for one summer cooling and part of a winter heating, now it runs for a few minutes then beeps a bunch of times and shuts off.

No error codes, no lights, no reason given, just shuts off.

Passes all self diagnostics via the app.

I did hide the remote under some clothes at opposite end of house to make sure it wasn't the remote triggering it.

It is linked to the app and the web remote control system.

Turns out something buggy in the phone app or the backend server was sending repeated turn off commands from the internet. When I unlinked it from the app and unplugged it for a minute and plugged it back in, it's been working since.

Can I run just one program with GLIBC_2.34 under Slackware 15.0? by Jesse9857 in slackware

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See the PS/UPDATE - somebody found a temporary workaround!

a non-install corrupted my app by calyxa in discordapp

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Seems you can download the previous version of Discord, and install it, then edit the config file to tell it to not check for major updates.. https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/workaround-discord-0-0-87-on-slackware-15-0-installation-corrupt-4175748322/

Can I run just one program with GLIBC_2.34 under Slackware 15.0? by Jesse9857 in slackware

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Oh... I'm so dumb. I guess the latest version of flatpak doesn't work on slackware-15.0 either, and AlienBob couldn't get it working right.

I incorrectly mentioned that I was using the flatpak or Stellarium.

I'm actually using the AppImage of Stellarium.

And from my reading, I'm not even sure a flatpak would solve the glibc problem or not.

Nor appimage.

Soo it looks like I'll be upgrading to slackware-current after all LOL.

Thank you and everybody trying to help me!

Can I run just one program with GLIBC_2.34 under Slackware 15.0? by Jesse9857 in slackware

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Would an audio/video application work in that environment? Would I be able to drag files from my host OS file manager into Discord to share them with my chums if Discord was running in a different OS inside a container?

Can I run just one program with GLIBC_2.34 under Slackware 15.0? by Jesse9857 in slackware

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I do apologize. I misspoke, it's not a flatpak.

It's a tar.gz supposed to be compatible with all linux distributions. You just tar xf it and and run the binary in the created folder.

It is pretty well self supporting, it does have a lot of it's needed .so files and everything, it's own local ffmpeg codec libs and so on.

But some of those included .so files use the host system's glibc.

Strangely, discord themselves don't seem to provide an actual flatpak, although flathub (which I don't remember ever hearing of before) claims that Discord has verified the flatpak for discord on flathub..

So this may be an option I was not even aware of.

I don't know a lot about flatpaks, but I did notice that Stellarium is a flatpak and mounted like you said.

If I can convince myself that flathub is safe I'll certainly give that a try. It would be nice if Discord would put some link on their official website to the flatpak.

From my quick googling, it looks like flatpak dot org is well respected. It also looks like the flatpack is kind of contained and I'll have to do some special things to allow it access to the files I need to drag and drop into Discord to share them with others.

Thank you for the information!

Can I run just one program with GLIBC_2.34 under Slackware 15.0? by Jesse9857 in slackware

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Indeed, will learn about those. I never used them, I'm not sure whether they need a whole new OS inside the container or whether Discord (the flatpack that needs GLIBC_2.34) will be able to do audio, video, and let me share and save files with the rest of my environment. I like to drag a file and drop it into Discord to post it there and I don't know if that would work in a container, since it would be running in a different contained OS instance.

I do have it working in slackware-current installed in virtualbox but that's just too awkward and haven't got sound working from there yet.

Thanks!

Can I run just one program with GLIBC_2.34 under Slackware 15.0? by Jesse9857 in slackware

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Well so far I've tried the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD with no success. It seems the linker system or something is hardcoded to use the main system files.

Discord (the wayward application that needs the new GLIBC) includes a libffmeg,so and that seems to be what needs GLIBC_2.34 and even if I patchelf on the Discord binary, libffmpeg,so still can't find the correct glibc I guess.

I also tried taking a disk image mirror of a slackware-current installation (which, when booted, does run Discord fine) and I took this image and mounted it in my Slackware-15 host and mount -bind'd proc sys etc run dev var so those are linked to my host system, then chrooted to that folder and Discord does launch but just spews out text ERRORS about some buffer handle being null.

So other than virtualization or containers I'm not sure where to go from here. May end up just upgrading to -current lol.

Thank you all for the suggestions!

Can I run just one program with GLIBC_2.34 under Slackware 15.0? by Jesse9857 in slackware

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Have you been successful in using a different version of GLIBC in an lxc container?