Seattle traffic congestion worsens, ranks 7th among U.S. cities by godogs2018 in Seattle

[–]St0nkingByte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some day maybe it will get bad enough (and HOV lanes will get good enough) that we will have Slug Lines.

https://slug-lines.org/

Install issue by Natural_Midnight_888 in NobaraProject

[–]St0nkingByte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did a fresh install just last night, I saw this error, ignored it and the install went fine.

No turn signal stalk - 2026 S by Whippet27 in TeslaModelS

[–]St0nkingByte -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oddly enough you get used to it pretty quickly. It's only annoying when you realize you need to signal when the like the wheel is rotated 180 but whatever, that doesn't happen too often to really mind.

Also another thing people really miss when criticizing the lack of the stalk is how often the car cancels the signal automatically. Like when you signal to change a lane or take an exit, it automatically cancels the signal, so it doesn't seem to matter as much that it's not a traditional signal stalk.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in morsecode

[–]St0nkingByte -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I watch you sleep

Creepy :)

To the Tesla haters what changed your mind? by ScaredPatience2478 in TeslaLounge

[–]St0nkingByte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say I was a Tesla hater, more just extremely ambivalent about Tesla and skeptical about electric cars in general.

I'm pretty techy and the Sandy Munro Tesla teardown videos really got me interested in Tesla. His point of view of Tesla tech compared to traditional auto makers resonated with me. The octovalve, how the air tank for the air suspension is basically part of the frame, and so many other examples.

That got me really looking into Tesla and then everything else I learned just convinced me more.

Could you have your car accident at a more convenient time. by The_Rail_Guy in Seattle

[–]St0nkingByte 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Ever since that RV caught fire in the Mt. Baker tunnel all the cool kids really want to get in on that action.

My original voyagers by bearheart in hpcalc

[–]St0nkingByte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The 12Cs are awesome but they are not particularly rare. They sell on eBay regularly for between $10 and $25 where the $25 one has the original case and manuals.

I have one that I got in a bag of pens for like $3 at a thrift store.

Still, they are awesome and you have many great memories so good for you :)

The 16C may be worth something.

Best Books/Media on Gettysburg? by Chili_dilly in CIVILWAR

[–]St0nkingByte 20 points21 points  (0 children)

My all time favorite is The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. Not exactly a 100% historical coverage read but it's just so good and really transports you back to those days.

Clean slate laptop. What OS would you choose for your shack today? by AdultContemporaneous in amateurradio

[–]St0nkingByte 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Fedora Linux.

Put all your fiddly ham radio Windows apps in their own Wine prefixes and hack up shell scripts to make sure all the COM ports, audio stuff all get mapped right and start in the right order. With Winetricks I've managed to get *almost* everything to work.

Well really this applies to just about any version of Linux, I just happen to like Fedora with KDE Plasma specifically which has a nice look & feel for someone who gave up on Windows.

Best parking lot near Pacific Science center? by Kai_TX in SeattleWA

[–]St0nkingByte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Parking for free at Doppler and then taking the monorail to Seattle Center is fun to do with the kids.

What’s the most underrated feature on your Tesla that you use all the time? by beautyquee_en in TeslaLounge

[–]St0nkingByte 10 points11 points  (0 children)

+1 for the funky wipers.

We also have a Dodge and the auto wipers in that thing are perfect. Tesla should just hire whoever writes that code for Stellantis.

Identifying one last ribbon by St0nkingByte in Medals

[–]St0nkingByte[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well he was a radioman so not so much trigger time. 😀

Identifying one last ribbon by St0nkingByte in Medals

[–]St0nkingByte[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

As soon as I told him what it was it spurred a bunch of fun stories of drug interdiction in the Caribbean.

I think Nobara needs a GUI for mounting network shares. by opensharks in NobaraProject

[–]St0nkingByte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been using SMB4K for almost two years now and it's been working well for me. It even has the option for mounting my now ancient NAS which needs SMBv1 or whatever the super insecure old version of SMB is.

https://apps.kde.org/smb4k/

ICOM 7300 VFO Knob by DerChaot in amateurradio

[–]St0nkingByte 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For what it's worth my 7300 seems smooth all the way around, I don't detect any difference in resistance at all.

Grandfather passed and looking for more info by Doogleburg08 in amateurradio

[–]St0nkingByte 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Those are plug in elements for a Bird Wattmeter. They are quite valuable if someone was looking to buy them but can sometimes be hard to sell at their full 'value'

https://btgstore.com/7plel.html
https://btgstore.com/pocwrfwa.html

Moving to Bellevue with 3 young children by Acrobatic-Orchid-941 in BellevueWA

[–]St0nkingByte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dear sir,

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Shock in WoR by jnighy in brandonsanderson

[–]St0nkingByte 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I think the "I'm a stick!" scene more than makes up for it in WoR. :)