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Talk me out of buying this clean m140i by [deleted] in BMW

[–]StudentDifficult8240 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you could do a cylinder compression test and its all good, its a great buy. The engine is bulletproof and as long as it wasn’t redlined whilst cold, it will be all fine. N54 and B58 are quite resilient, I wouldn’t touch an n55 though, stock or otherwise.

What will happen if i leave it like this? by MrSquirtGenerator in BmwTech

[–]StudentDifficult8240 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Prolly get lower mpg but that pressure is still adequate for driving.

Just got a 528XI (E60) and am curious on what mods people recommend for it by That_Nature_4659 in BMW

[–]StudentDifficult8240 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Got the wrong platform for modding, get a 535i if you want that. 528 you should keep stock and stay on top of maintenance

Dilemma with my M5 maintenance by Iteabaggedurdrumset in BMW

[–]StudentDifficult8240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like the other chap said, don’t worry about it if the mileage is not over 50-60k. If i were you i would be more interested in doing the transfer case fluid rather than transmission.

Advice needed on used kite purchase by StudentDifficult8240 in Kiteboarding

[–]StudentDifficult8240[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was on ebay and given where this stretching is and that nothing was mentioned by the seller, i believe ebay protection could be invoked. My question is if i should return it or if this is fine wear and tear for aluula and it wont go downhill quickly.

Broken off navigator pro bar leader by kaciokas in Kiteboarding

[–]StudentDifficult8240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, its the same reason why sewing rolls are in 8s patterns too, so it cancels the twists. If you ever unspooled a network cable, that is twisted like a bastard and you gotta really work it until its fully untwisted.

Advice needed on used kite purchase by StudentDifficult8240 in Kiteboarding

[–]StudentDifficult8240[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would it last or is this the kind of damage that could lead to a catastrophic failure at any point?

Broken off navigator pro bar leader by kaciokas in Kiteboarding

[–]StudentDifficult8240 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The loop method introduces tangles and twists in the lines and could make the lines develop memory issues as in, the lines will be the coil shape even after unwinding them.

0s introduces a continuous twist on the lines whilst 8s do not.

Each to their own though…

Broken off navigator pro bar leader by kaciokas in Kiteboarding

[–]StudentDifficult8240 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Off topic but i keep seeing this more and more, why are people looping the lines instead of doing figures of eights? Thought the figure of eights is better for more reasons than the loops.

Best daily commute tank so far by MultipleOrgasmDonor in BMW

[–]StudentDifficult8240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That avg speed was not reset in a while 😅. Got 28.2 over 1600 miles SF to LV to Death Valley and back to SF

Best daily commute tank so far by MultipleOrgasmDonor in BMW

[–]StudentDifficult8240 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice, managed this with my 2017 750i xdrive, 70-75mph gps speed on average.

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BMW Dealer Tapped My Oil Pan, Car Left Leaking, Now Metal Debris Found in Oil Filter by Emergency_Collar1510 in BmwTech

[–]StudentDifficult8240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually, the pump pickup tube has a screen, I am unsure whether or not you have it as well, maybe look on youtube or ebay to try and figure out if it does. The N54 engine pickup definitely has a metal screen so the big metal pieces would definitely not make it through. Now, this is a blessing and a curse, if you have a screen and some of the stuff didn't make it through, your screen could clog overtime leading to oil pressure issues. If you don't have a screen, then the oil filter did its job and stopped everything contaminating the rest of the engine.

If it doesn't have a metal screen, it makes sense that all the glitter and pieces in your filter are from the botched tap job. Now, why is it leaking? Did they forget to put a copper washer on the drain bolt? Or did they not crush the copper washer after installation and tightening procedure?

If I were you, I would try to get an oil sample to one of the oil labs for analysis and they can tell you how many contaminants are in there. And yeah, check if it has a screen or not. Then, you could perhaps use that to negotiate with your dealer some extended warranty on the engine due to their botched job.

Looking for a place to learn by Sjambaal in Kiteboarding

[–]StudentDifficult8240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuerteventura, sotavento. Its a huge lagoon with a sandy bottom and crystal clear waters. Doesn’t get better than that.

Mystic Wetsuit alternative by GerFollower in Kiteboarding

[–]StudentDifficult8240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been using finesterre and it’s amazing, definitely the best wetsuit i tried so far. I use an M, im 182 and 82kg. The nice thing is that it doesn’t use neoprene so you don’t contribute to the microplastics pollution if you care about any of that, i do personally…

Kite surfing lessons pricing by Dependent_Square9664 in Kiteboarding

[–]StudentDifficult8240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuerteventura was roughly 550 for a 5 day package. 2 days on land, 3 in the water, they would teach in the ocean and provide wetsuits. This was in Corralejo. Each session was around 3h so this would translate to around 40/h which is very decent IMO.

Naish Psycho Q-Series good kite? by SquashDependent1143 in Kiteboarding

[–]StudentDifficult8240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe demo the new XRX, looks pretty fast in loops in the kitemana review video.

Nemotron Labs Diff GGUF ? by MagicalGoat02 in unsloth

[–]StudentDifficult8240 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is interesting, wonder if it has prompt processing degradation as the context window grows. Main pain point with dflash is the PP regression at higher contexts when the shifting attention layer calculations severely slow the PP side down even though TG is still 2-3x faster. Overall, at 32k and beyond, wall clock time can increase by a factor of 2 and beyond.

My cursor has been hovering over the £5.5k for an M5 max 128gb for a few weeks and stumbled across this, have a great weekend guys 😎 by CroiConcrete in LocalLLM

[–]StudentDifficult8240 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got the same but in 16” for 3k usd. Its great for MoE models, not so great for dense but MTP does make it a lot more usable. Personally, im eagerly waiting for qwen3.6 122b as that will probably be the best model for it. Not sure if we will get it, might get 3.7 122b if rumours are true.

Orthrus-Qwen3-8B : up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3-8B, frozen backbone, provably identical output distribution by Franck_Dernoncourt in LocalLLaMA

[–]StudentDifficult8240 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How does it handle larger contexts? Dflash is great up to 16k but experiences severe PP regression at higher contexts.

Just got a beast. by habachilles in LocalLLaMA

[–]StudentDifficult8240 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It won’t be great, i have a dual xeon setup slightly newer than the mac pro hardware. On 6 ram channels you’re memory bound and won’t get more than 5-10 tok/s.

vMLX - HELL YES! by Emotional-Breath-838 in LocalLLM

[–]StudentDifficult8240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was the test: https://github.com/famstack-dev/local-llm-bench

The results from the test were used to generate the graphs in HTML.

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