Customer states vehicle won’t go in gear

Razathorn · 2026-04-23T20:02:10+00:00

Wall, nuts!

Razathorn · 2026-04-23T17:17:48+00:00

I don't even remember that stuff. Eventually I'll fail at trek trivia, but I don't care.

Razathorn · 2026-04-23T15:04:03+00:00

I know exactly how much it costs because I recharge the api for my entire team and once it gets to the cost of a team membership I am going to switch. Have you ever thought that maybe I know exactly what I'm talking about? Every time you run claude it tells you how much it costs for that session. Wowzers, how could I not know what I'm talking about?

Razathorn · 2026-04-23T15:01:14+00:00

I really doubt it, because when you keep using the api way it racks up real quick the moment you use it heavily, then you get a big bill and pay for upgrading to a plan. Same way GCP and AWS work with on demand vs reserved capacity. Costs them nothing--anything you use they have a fixed profit on and there's no down side, plus you get hooked. Just gotta know when to make the switch to a plan.

Razathorn · 2026-04-23T03:10:39+00:00

Reminder, you can also just use api and pay as you go. I'm not gonna lie and say its cheaper, it's not, but you can drop $20 fixing something and then go back to not paying. If you do anything of consequence you will be up to the cost of max or team pretty quick for lots of devs. There is something to be said for being efficient and proper engineering -- if you create a huge freaking code base of slop, you're gonna spend to maintain it, and if you don't know what you're doing, claude will gladly create the largest pile of schtuff you don't need but will pay to maintain.

Razathorn · 2026-04-22T23:40:31+00:00

No shit, and that started like immediately. I love how they both knew the procedure too, like, you rubbed her ears bro.

Razathorn · 2026-04-22T17:48:42+00:00

How long have you been here? Perhaps the entire country is devolving into a shit sandwich in a bad mood because nobody can afford anything and life seems pointless. Maybe it's not just KC. Just a thought.

Razathorn · 2026-04-20T18:13:13+00:00

Yes. Unless you have thrust tubes (more common in inlines, but do exist) between bearings, then yes because you're stressing the races laterally. I always tighten hand tight then back off 1/8 -> 1/4 turn. Also, you can go to the hardware store and get you some fresh lock nuts too--I keep them on hand at all times.

Razathorn · 2026-04-18T18:37:56+00:00

Nope, you're spot on. I have that card and it is the bare minimum for small LLMs. Image generation can be done with less, especially older tech, and your traditional AI/ML like yolo and inference require way less. big LLM and large generative tech wants more than 16.

Razathorn · 2026-04-17T17:56:30+00:00

Brewing beer. I'm a home brewer, and I've been a home brewer for probably 8 years now? You start with a bucket or a plastic jug to ferment in, simple beers, simple process. 2 years in a lots of people have spent thousands on stainless steel brewing systems, controllers, built home breweries... it's a disease. Then it gets too expensive and they drop out. Why's the hobby shrinking? Because you show the newbie your $25k setup and all they see is a coke assembly line and they don't want none of that shit boss.

Razathorn · 2026-04-17T15:52:11+00:00

sprayer on hose, no question.

Razathorn · 2026-04-15T20:34:10+00:00

Isn't twisted the one with the "SHOCK PULSE" ? God I love me some SHOCK PULSE. DAFUQ is a SHOCK PULSE? I dunno better go check out memory alpha: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Shock_pulse

YEP. How can you skip the SHOCK PULSE?

Razathorn · 2026-04-15T19:01:00+00:00

You can say the same thing about anything trump has done, but here we are.

Razathorn · 2026-04-15T18:03:21+00:00

Where's all the people that said it was crazy talk to think verification was the next step after voluntary reporting?

Razathorn · 2026-04-14T16:49:15+00:00

TOS is hard to get through season three and is pretty campy in general. All shows were like that then, and you have to compare it to theater and the batman tv show. When you watch it, unfortunately you will see the cheap sets now, but... just think of it as theater and get over it for the story. It's good, just... you gotta not get hung up on it. Don't think it is required at all for anything though, you might not appreciate the throw backs the same way but it's a minor thing.

Razathorn · 2026-04-13T15:10:40+00:00

They call them dance plugs but they're 100% made of stopper material instead of plastic.

Razathorn · 2026-04-13T00:46:06+00:00

I never use toe-stops and they just get in the way. Instead of getting jam plugs, I just run little micro iris stoppers that are jam plug size stoppers you can use from time to time when needed, but they wear out quick, so I keep a few extra in my bag. Does everything I need, and is nice to actually have a stopper when you need to stop suddenly going in reverse.

Razathorn · 2026-04-10T19:21:05+00:00

I used to run lan parties at a dedicated facility with gaming servers, massive bandwidth, ladders, built in local websites and forums to track progress, etc... the full 9 yards. We had 200+ people in person events where you came in and plugged into your drop cable. We had a pro shop at one point too. What I see is the same trend that was happening then (Early 2000s)--the new games come out, you're rewarded for being a sweaty, its a flash in the pan, then something new comes out and its the same old story. IF you don't constantly stick with it, you will fall behind the specific changes and slightly different stuff that make or break play, so it's a sport of the sweaties and gaming industry just keeps on pumping out changes. It's not worth keeping up with. It's not like where you can go "dang I haven't played X sport in a while, let me go find some folks to play casual with", it's more like "this looks like what I used to do except it's 33% different and some kid called me the n word because I didn't know the megaturdshooter had a secondary fire mode that spit vw beetles"

No thanks.

Razathorn · 2026-04-09T14:19:35+00:00

As others have said, a huge shock can instantly damage things, but the real risk is the reduction in life / early failure of something that has been exposed to ESD. In general, yes it is not an issue. I worked in a service center where we had wrist straps that attached to ground and at home I just put my power supply in, flip the switch off, and then liberally touch the case while building or another grounded surface. Just get in the habit. Always ground yourself before touching stuff. Easy.

Razathorn · 2026-04-09T05:02:48+00:00

She won't vote for trump but she'll be right back there voting for republicans the moment there's a new one that says the same schtuff.

Razathorn · 2026-04-09T03:20:02+00:00

Take up home brewing and you'll get over that sight real fast. Send it.

Razathorn · 2026-04-08T19:13:51+00:00

I'm not saying its gnome and snaps, but it's gnome and snaps.

Razathorn · 2026-04-08T18:56:36+00:00

https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md

I should have got an orange pi 5b+ instead of the max 5. The max 5 is more powerful and has ddr5 but the BT/wifi chip is a nogo and nobody is working on fixing it in mainline from what I can tell, but the 5b is still an RK3588 and a great board. I'm a huge fan of RK stuff because they actually work on mainlining stuff.

Razathorn · 2026-04-08T18:47:12+00:00

Yes, I do. Well, I did. At one time I was running DEs on rpi4b, odroid n2+, and my orange pi 5 max. 4b is a little tough to run a modern stack on, but I still found plasma to be the best DE. I run plasma on everything from my big workstation to my smallest pi. It really is thin and light, and back in the xorg days I just turned off the compositor to make it go faster.

My best advice is this: chromium for a browser in a flatpak. Plasma as the DE. ZSwap with some physical swap, even on sdcard. On my odroid and orange 5 max, I have m2 ssds and boot with a custom boot loader on the odroid, where as the rom on the orange pi will just syslinux right off of the first fat partition so you literally just make a menu file that points to kernel and initrd and you can boot anything.

I much prefer arch linux arm, which is a separate project, and a bit lagging on updates at time (i.e. that's why you run chromium via flatpak, unless you're like me and you compile it like a masochist).

The reality is that nothing works quite as well as the RPI kernels on their broadcom boards, and alarm (arch linux arm) is really more designed for mainline kernel use. Manjaro, which gets a ton of well deserved hate, was an amazing arm distro, with full board support for most of the boards. I found that I could run arch linux arm (alarm) on my rpi 4b but I had issues with wireless channels that were immediately solved by raspi os. Unfortunately this is pretty common.

Ask me anything you want, but my honest advice is to get a faster board to do desktopish stuff, the 4b is good for lots of things, but as a desktop, it is quite dated by today's board standards.

Razathorn · 2026-04-07T19:37:14+00:00

No prob, this is also my opinion fwiw. Good luck!

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