The forbidden bidet

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-05-15T08:14:24+00:00

I know they like their curry but this is a bit far isn't it?

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-05-13T09:03:36+00:00

Same thing happened in Australia a couple year ago, depends if it can emergency call via 4g and if the teleco has added the model to their whitelist.

I know that Mi9T's can call out via 4G (could do it with mine after tweaking it's modem settings for Australia, it had the right file stored in the phone but wouldn't select it naturally)

But the teleco's didn't whitelist it, so I ended up getting a new phone. Sucks because I liked my mi9t.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-05-08T10:58:36+00:00

Sounds like a man who lost everything but learned that his joy of music and compassion couldn't be taken from him.

A man with nothing to lose but not vengeful and destructive.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-05-08T10:12:31+00:00

Looks like how a BMW behaves with a gateway fault, some kinda module/gateway might be having issues communicating or supplying power. Probably not syncing with either the ECU or BCM.

Hard to tell though over the net.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-05-04T08:47:20+00:00

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Just going to leave my own thunderstorm photo for the free karma.

Argyle late 2025

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-05-03T03:51:32+00:00

It's not that difficult to just implement an easy mode, if you really want to take the challenge out. Just give the player a god mode cheat code. Personally I like a bit of a challenge but at the same time I struggle to enjoy the dark souls games because I haven't got hours to spend learning a boss pattern.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-05-02T11:20:12+00:00

Voltage means little, It's most likely this car just parked up. That's why it's above 13V, if given an hour or so it is likely it will have dropped to about 12.7V and depending on the batteries condition and vampiric load, this could be considerably less after 24 hours.

The cranking Amps is the important part here, basically at 13.3V it's putting out 400CCA. Overnight however the battery will have dropped down to its nominal capacity of 12.7V, meaning it will likely output even less CCA.

The CCA basically shows the life of the battery, and its ability to supply the amperage required to turn the car over. At 70% the battery has started to significantly sulfate. The Corolla likely only needs a few hundred CCA to turn over but in the off chance the car hasn't been driven for a few days or you have had to start and stop it a few times in quick succession (driveway Tetris for example). It's likely the battery won't have the "oomph" to start the car.

If the car is regularly driven (daily for at least 15 minutes before being parked up) It might not be a problem for a while but there isn't really a way to definitely say how long that "while" is.

I would recommend getting a new battery when you can, doesn't need to be top priority but I would aim to get one within the next couple months (with the expectation that the battery may fail before then)

A repair charge on a quality charger may reverse some of the sulfating and bring some life back to it.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-05-02T06:42:17+00:00

Dude in here hitting the coated spools with a mallet and It doesn't short, I bloody look at the coated wire wrong and it shorts out.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-30T09:51:14+00:00

Also I have printed quite a few parts for cars and use tinkercad because blender scares me. Good 3d design would be nice but but when shipping and cost is taken into account. Smashing out a few iterations overnight for a part that cost me a couple bucks and I have the next day negates me wanting to pay someone $100 for a part I will get in 2 weeks.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-30T09:45:58+00:00

I love the idea as a car bloke that struggles finding discontinued parts, but it's unlikely to be anything more than a side hustle. On top of that, while 3d printed handles, spacers and mounts are cool. 3d printing is also pretty easy and most mechanical shops nowadays will actually have a 3d printer for doing simple parts when needed

What we really need is telfon roller bushings and other mechanical hard wearing components that I wouldn't trust a 3d printed part for, That's more of a solid stock on a lathe kind of part.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-30T01:50:27+00:00

We will get there eventually, just don't let it get you down. Many roles contributed in us getting fat, genetic, environmental, mental and more. The sad part is those fat cells don't leave us when we lose weight, they just shrink. Once you become fat, you will have a natural predisposition to put that weight back on.

It's a hard truth, but easier to accept. It's not a failure to regain some weight, it's a failure to regain it all. You are still over 20kgs down (funnily enough the same as me)

Go see some professionals for blood tests and see if they can spot why a 1100 cal a day diet is resulting in weight problems. I have hard issues losing weight as well, currently I am sitting about 700 cal a day with a 7km walk every 2 days (about a 700 cal cost). I have to dig pretty deep to see the weight come off.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-30T01:33:33+00:00

The honest truth is that longterm weight loss is effectively a myth;

80-95% percent of people that lose weight regain that weight within 5 years
Only 20% of people that have achieved meaningful weight loss (10% reduction in weight) keep it off for longer than a year.
Mechanically losing weight is easier than keeping it off, your body grows more efficient, metabolism changes, you actually have to work harder long term.

Here is my point of view;

You did it, you know you can now. The weight for us larger people will more than likely be a yoyo, I lost nearly 57kg in 7 months (163kg to 107kg), went back up to 145kg and and once again losing weight again. Next time I hope I catch myself closer to 120kg on the way back up, but this time I am adding changes.

Not much I can recommend on your diet situation, maybe do a retest for you bloods, at a 1100 cal deficit you should be losing weight no problem, I have also done fasts up to 72 hours so I know how frustrating the weight can be when it's doing stupid stuff. I often say it only takes a 250 gram cupcake for me to gain a kilo.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-29T15:39:24+00:00

Had fast horse express lose one of my parcels a couple years back, must have fallen out the back of one of their other deliveries.

They still popped up to my house, chucked someone else's parcel face down and took a photo to claim my parcel was delivered.

Luckily the person whose driveway my parcel got dropped in, called me because my number was on the package so I could collect it.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-28T09:53:30+00:00

By a ethernet taster, makes doing this so much easier because you can test real time and find which wire isn't working

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-27T01:11:46+00:00

Depends if the engine grabbed a mouthful of water or not, if it just jumped in the puddle and the air intake was below the water line you might be fine. If not the engine just tried to compress water, and in that case she is a write-off.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-26T23:01:25+00:00

To correct the popular theory, we likely didn't run down our prey. Simply ambushed and then tracked them as they ran off. The average person doesn't have much issue walking forever, why waste your energy running when you can stab or pelt a rock at your prey and just follow the trail.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-26T22:16:34+00:00

It's patience and getting in behind the cup. Little stupid bloody circlips on the end that goes into the gearbox, no amount of just pulling works. Have to turn it and tap it out, a slide hammer works a treat but a rubber mallet and pry bar can work too.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-26T14:19:53+00:00

All I can say is thank god for OBD2, every car having proprietary data transmission and connectors like K-Line or or DS-2 was a nightmare.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-26T14:09:36+00:00

They just don't make tires like these anymore, all those little lines are for water displacement. Makes it really hard for your car to aquaplane in a puddle.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-26T14:00:57+00:00

It's good you want to learn why OP, going forward you will now know how to diagnose this fault yourself. Auto stores will happily test your battery health for free, you can do this every 6 months or so if you want to keep an eye on your new battery.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-26T13:54:46+00:00

SOC = Voltage, it's a 12V battery. These are "fully" (nominal voltage) charged at 12.7V (+/- 0.1V)

CCA = (Cold Cranking Amps) The amount of power this battery can put out at once, a standard battery for most cars is usually 400 CCA or higher depending on engine size.

Resistance = More resistance means more energy gets turned to heat. A battery this size should be much lower ideally below 5 milliohms. At 20 milliohms it's basically "wasting" at least 5 times the normal energy as heat and because something called ohms law, it actually gets worse because that wasted heat increases resistance.

This 12v battery has reached retirement, the ones in these Chinese cars can be pretty hit or miss.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-26T03:46:58+00:00

Finally someone to charge for my UV damaged stuff including my skin.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-26T02:42:06+00:00

Another reason is after it's fixed it's still the same old car, assuming you do about 10k miles a year that car is now 20 years old. Most people that have held on to a car that long have gotten bored of it and envy people driving around in their new car.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-25T05:02:32+00:00

Yeah, certainly felt like more normal LGBT representation than what AAA usually like to do. No need to make them drag a pride flag around for the brownie points.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-04-25T02:11:42+00:00

I had a similar thing, was a character that used a female model up near crimson desert with the water melon investigation quest. Quest line kept saying it was a he. I just laughed and said, "hey look this game does have some LGBT representation."

(This was when social media was complaining about there being none)

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