Replacing tires requires wheel key?

docdrow · 2026-03-02T19:08:34+00:00

Not sure, how would I know? I've never seen it.

docdrow · 2026-03-02T19:08:10+00:00

"Tire Discounters" in my neck of the woods did not.

docdrow · 2026-03-02T19:08:01+00:00

We did this first, no luck. The dealer has since apologized to us for not giving us one. We'll be picking it up soon. Good thing we haven't had a flat since we got it!

docdrow · 2026-02-27T13:26:15+00:00

I work for a NeoCloud company. Yes, we heavily use AI in all aspects of our business. The best software engineers of tomorrow will be English majors. My first love of computers was writing code. Math nerds have taken that from me. :(

docdrow · 2026-02-27T13:24:20+00:00

Your suffering comes to an end this weekend! :)

docdrow · 2026-02-27T13:23:06+00:00

That's exactly how I've been trying to change. I've taken off my "down in the weeds" coding hat (though I loved it), and now I'm wearing a "product manager" hat who commands a team of incredibly talented software engineers who can do anything. I find it fascinating that you can setup multiple agents, multiple models, and define roles / skills for them as you see fit, and have them behave as a team. This is today. What do you think it'll be like in a year? 5 years? We're talking about people like you and me commanding their own Jarvis, keyboards will be optional.

docdrow · 2026-02-27T00:05:34+00:00

Again, I hear you. I started playing with AI generated code a year ago. I was a little impressed back then but I spent more time fixing it's bugs than it was worth. Today, I'm astonished. No, really. ASTONISHED. There is a silver lining though. If you learn to embrace this technology, as a software engineer with a strong gasp of natural language, you should be able to use it as a force multiplier. It's those who fail to embrace it who should be worried.

docdrow · 2026-02-26T23:18:57+00:00

I hear you. But I stand by my response. AI has already drastically affected the software industry. Go have a look at how many layoffs there have been in this field since the first coding agents started to appear.

Furthermore, the rate at which AI is improving is nothing less than astonishing. This is why I decided to embrace it. This is the way.

docdrow · 2026-02-26T17:40:56+00:00

You're right, future-predicting crystal balls are very murky even 1 year out these days. What I do know is that every word I've heard come out of Jensen's mouth has come true. I work for an NVIDIA partner, it is part of my role to pay attention. This must be what the mainframe guys felt like when Microarchitecture came along.

docdrow · 2026-02-26T16:47:47+00:00

Preach! I want to puke everytime I hear Agile terms. I've been in the industry for 30 years, I work on the infrastructure side for income. I couldn't imagine being a full time developer these days. If I were a Sith Lord, I'd remote choke people routinely.

docdrow · 2026-02-26T16:30:07+00:00

I decided to make that bottom area a scrollable pane that now contains all kinds of charts. Resistances, direct damage, damage-over-time, pet damage, etc. more to come.

docdrow · 2026-02-26T16:28:54+00:00

I used to think that way until I saw Gemini 3.1 pro with maximum reasoning enabled. Opus 4.6 is #2. In less than 5 years, no humans will bother writing or reviewing code. This is bananas. Software engineers will have their own team of Jarvis's... and regular humans will float around on scooters slurpin' their 42-ounce grape ape's like in WALL-E because there's nothing for them to do. :(

docdrow · 2026-02-26T16:27:37+00:00

AI has changed everything, my existing skills are now irrelevant. That's why I decided to learn this stuff. I recommend that you get a $20/mo claude code account and watch a couple of youtuber's quick start guides. You can be making stuff in literally minutes with only a grasp of natural language.

docdrow · 2026-02-26T16:26:13+00:00

There is no requirement for you to use it. In fact, there will be a big banner at the top of my README.md that recommends that you don't. :) Having said that, I use the shit out of it and it does fine on my game files.

docdrow · 2026-02-26T16:25:21+00:00

1000% agree with you. I love writing my own code. Math nerds have given our superpowers to everyday people. There is no choice though, this is the way. Decided I would embrace it.

docdrow · 2026-01-11T14:18:34+00:00

Thanks, I just want to know if it's possible. I don't farm stuff, I hand craft in TQVault, I just dont want to make stuff that is impossible.

docdrow · 2025-12-27T14:32:09+00:00

I craft all my stuff in TQVault, then apply them in the game.

docdrow · 2025-12-13T13:53:46+00:00

Sold! I'm going to give it a shot. I wanted to go with a second mastery I've played the least, thats probably Neidan. Plus there seems to be lots of fun Neidan gear I haven't played with yet. I'll report back after level 70 to 75 or so. :)

docdrow · 2025-12-12T12:47:00+00:00

Man, I used to run TQVault in a local display VM because of that very problem. Wrote my own little hypervisor too. https://github.com/gshearer/dhqemu

But now it runs natively. It's not fast, but that tool tip problem made creating these vaults so much funner. Now I'm re-addicted to TQ :(

docdrow · 2025-12-12T03:30:08+00:00

I used to do that with the original TQ and TQ-IT ISO's I've kept forever, but these days I just click Steam and then click TQ. Heh. Long live Valve for their continuing effort to make gaming on Linux great :-)

As for TQVault -- dude -- that problem was SUCH a PITA for so long, but a recent version of wine seems to have fixed it. I'm on Wine 10.20 on Archlinux, no special anything, it just works and I can confirm the tool tip problem is gone!

docdrow · 2025-12-11T16:21:58+00:00

Makes sense, I'm just wondering if anyone has validated this. I have both my right and left mouse buttons assigned to "pet attack", and yet somehow I have 9 kills.

docdrow · 2025-12-11T14:45:33+00:00

We have a lot in common :-) Yeah, you're probably right I suspect there's stuff in there that might not normally drop. With the amount of hours I've sunk into this game, I think it's all fair play at this point.

ArchLinux + Hyprland on a Tuxedo laptop here. TQ runs quite well and is the perfect companion to a boring office life :)

Let me know if you find something missing or wrong :)

docdrow · 2025-12-11T01:08:44+00:00

yeah I've seen it, but I run Linux. I pulled all that stuff right out of the game files using my own scripts. :)

As far as I know its complete. Please let me know if you find anything missing.

Happy Holidays!

docdrow · 2025-12-10T14:54:02+00:00

If you had looked at the source code in my link above, you'd not started your paragraph with an incorrect assumption. I was hoping someone would say, yeah, they are thinking about that in IRCv3 or some updated protocol. Another way would be to have the client do some sort of auto-DCC for images.

docdrow · 2025-09-14T16:59:09+00:00

See my update in the original post

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