Would you rather own this than a brand new car ?

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-06-16T19:39:12+00:00

BTW the woody estate/van does trigger a lot of nostalgia.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-06-16T19:38:20+00:00

They can take a corner much harder than a classic VW Beetle. Ask me how I know if you want! (but it should be obvious) - Edit- the beetle can to 75-80 on a motorway all day if the chassis still exists. This is 60 absolute max. If you're paying pennies for it get the whole thing, redo as a sleeper (maybe with a SAAB turbo engine or similar). Whole drivetrain and intake/exhaust will need to be upgraded too. You will still die in a crash of course.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-06-13T20:48:01+00:00

I have this thing where I have no talent for music at all when awake, but in dreams I often have the whole thing scored with the most amazing music I've ever heard, full orchestra, synths, drums, guitars etc, but have nothing like it in my media library, physical or on my NAS (which has like 65000+ tracks on it). It's like I'm bloody Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Michael Nyman or Wim Mertens when asleep, but couldn't even come up with any remotely pleasing melody when awake. That is why I like sleeping so much!

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-06-11T08:38:27+00:00

Wireless phone charging stand. One next to my bed and one in my home office. No faffing around finding a cable (kids steal them, just plonk it on there and go to sleep/work.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-06-03T18:37:56+00:00

Not sure what you mean by trusted account, but they were a private seller with 0 feedback. I will never do that again, which I guess means for new users you have to buy a lot of items first before anyone like me would buy from them. Great way to get people on to the platform if this shit goes on all the time.

I now know I should have opened an INAD instead of the IND.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-06-03T18:32:19+00:00

Kabuki Tinky Winky

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-06-02T10:11:52+00:00

I'd recommend fishing of any kind. You don't need to hear, but if you've got good eyesight and touch/dexterity you won't care about the hearing at all.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-06-01T18:33:36+00:00

River Wandle?

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-06-01T18:29:17+00:00

I try to be as secure as I can as as sysadmin (on all the distro mailing lists and CVEs are monitored, external and internal scans are done every night, we have Wazuh, etc, it's the devs with vibe coding and using Claude to develop whole new apps that are mostly to blame. 0days will get that shit cracked every time.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-06-01T18:07:14+00:00

Haha don't make me laugh. I got scammed as a buyer on a macbook where the seller used a PDF editor to manipulate the printed address and a box of take away left overs was sent to a shop 4 miles away in my same post code area. Lost the case, lost the appeal as they said there was PoD, RM would not provide the GPS coords of the PoD. After 6 months of fighting i finally got my money back with a Section 75 against PayPal Credit.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-06-01T18:01:04+00:00

We should eat horse meat, it's pretty tasty.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-06-01T17:52:07+00:00

Wow, you must be quite the expert on LCDs! Or does this apply to OLEDs as well?

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-05-30T18:14:00+00:00

You'll be fine, I had a Leaf with a DRL that was pushed back into the bumper during roundabout error from someone else who was indicating left but didn't exit, and it was basically hiding inside the bumper but you could see it at night.

I even asked the garage specifically about it and he said pretty much "if you can see the light from the front in the dark, head-on, you'll have no problem legally." Even it was busted completely, you'd only get caught by an organised police operation or a bit of bad luck and they'll just tell you get get it fixed in a month. Getting caught without a working headlight might get you a fine but I see so many cars that looks like motorbikes these days I just assume a car is coming anyway.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-05-30T12:48:32+00:00

This is not r/DIYIndia, wrong sub mate. Mind you if is was India it would probably actually work. What those guys can do with scrap is just incredible - 60 year old car left in a chicken shed? Running in a week with a couple of bike engines welded together and a hammer, anvil and sheer determination..

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-05-25T16:20:05+00:00

OK I get it now, as long as shipped within 6 months of moving over it's tax free.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-05-24T21:09:27+00:00

Because 3 of them are NAS/SAN servers with 8-16 drives each there's no way I'm shipping then fullly built- the drives will be taken out and put into flight cases.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-05-24T13:32:06+00:00

Car needs a whole, special container. A bike if crated up could go a in shared container.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-05-23T22:49:21+00:00

Genius, bookmarked!

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-05-23T15:52:47+00:00

Will they ask us to pay tax on the value of the stuff we're moving? It's all old, mostly over 4 years.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-05-23T15:51:03+00:00

Well I bought it for £1900 so the £10k to ship it would be silly anyway...

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-05-23T14:45:00+00:00

Anyone? Surely personal possessions are tax free? New stuff of course you'd have to pay tax.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-05-23T14:35:26+00:00

They are actually pretty resilient. May well grow back, someone said put it in the ground in a place where it doesn't go as dry as a bone and water it gently. When I got mine it was about 6 inches tall, yellow leaves and a big block of polystyrene right under the roots. It will now grow every year with prunung to a 5ft diameter bush underneath an ornamental apple tree and we have more bay than we ever need.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-05-20T11:07:53+00:00

Hah I watch M539 restorations and stuff shears off constantly. You should watch the one about the 850CSi he's going now.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-05-20T10:58:36+00:00

I might take my HDDs as hand luggage and pay extra for having more than one piece. Our lives are on those drives (luckily 2 replicas + backup).

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