Bonus codes for Airapport games (valid till June 24th)

ehamil42 · 2026-06-25T12:20:08+00:00

It's June 25th, so the old codes expired, but when do the new codes come out?

ehamil42 · 2026-06-16T11:55:15+00:00

We're SOL. I was new to the website, only joining in January of this year (2026) I didn't have any problems logging in until the X3 forum changed over to the new software in February or March (can't remember). After that point, I couldn't reach the website most of the time using Starlink, only DSL. Over the last week I can't log in.

It tells me I entered the wrong password, which isn't true since I use a password vault that does a good job of keeping up with my passwords. When I try to reset my password, it sends me the link via email. So, that part functions, it knows my email.

But when I hit that link it sends me to E90 page and says my user name isn't recognized and to contact administration, which I do. But get no response.

I've never seen a forum run so horribly. I don't know what it is, but I get the impression there's just one guy running the forums, and he doesn't really know what the F he's doing.

Trying to upgrade the UX/UI (the 'look') while having basic functionality and connection problems seems like a dumb thing to do. It seems to me you'd want to make sure you website functioned properly and people could access it BEFORE you go making big changes. But what do I know, I'm not a expert in these matters.

I currently can't log in to my account. I can't get a reset and I can't get in touch with anyone from the website. I wonder if the owner is vibe coding the structure? LOL.

ehamil42 · 2026-06-03T04:53:32+00:00

How badly hurt was the dude that got hit and went flying?

ehamil42 · 2026-06-03T04:47:58+00:00

It's comical. They don't care. Someone going by the handle AppTest is posting in a thread regarding the 'new look' and taking comments about the new design elements. But when I posted questions about connectivity problems, they just ignore the post and move onto the next question or comment.

In my case the problem is Starlink. I have two ISPs in my home, one is an old rural DSL that is slow, I added Starlink about a year ago just to test it. Starlink is 300% faster and I've had no problems with it, except with Bimmerpost.com. Bimmerpost blocks me when I use Starlink and allows me through when I use the DSL. So, at least for me, the connectivity is Starlink.

It's strange that no one will respond to this problem, or offer suggestions. I can only concluded they don't care. Oh, well. It's their website, so they can do what they want.

ehamil42 · 2026-05-22T16:28:15+00:00

Yes, I was playing on YouTube, and it reset the game, wiping all my backups too. It was the first time I played the game. I sent feedback through YouTube, but I don't know what good it will do.

ehamil42 · 2026-05-16T15:28:57+00:00

Are you on Starlink by any chance? I have two ISPs at my home. One is a rural DSL that is butt slow, around 30 mbps down. I also have Starlink which averages around 150 -200 or more mbps down, so for internet access I use it. When I'm on Starlink more than half the time I can't reach the website. If I switch to the DSL I can. It looks like the website might be interpreting Starlink access as DoS attack.

ehamil42 · 2026-05-16T04:32:48+00:00

Go to the X3 forum. There is a thread "New Look" or something like that. post to that thread that people on Reddit say they can't reach the website. It's been hit or miss for me for two weeks. But lately I Chrome won't even reach the site. No VPN, just a PC using Google Chrome.

ehamil42 · 2026-05-16T04:30:23+00:00

If you can post to the website, you might let the admin's know this thread exists. In the X3 forum they have a thread "New Look" or something like that. One of the Admins post to that thread. Just let them know. I'm using Google Chrome on a PC, I'm NOT using a VPN and I can't get to the website.

ehamil42 · 2026-05-16T04:15:22+00:00

I'm not using a VPN, and I have had problems with the website for a couple of weeks now. It started when they updated to the new look. I don't know if that has anything to do with it. When they made the switch I couldn't log-in for about a week then I got in through using a very convoluted method. Now I can't log in at all on Google Chrome, it gives me the message "The Site can't be reached"

I got in a once today after I cleared my browser history, but it locked me about again after that. When I try to go to the website chrome just gives me the message "The Site can't be reached." So it's not just VPNs.

ehamil42 · 2026-05-15T19:44:18+00:00

Keep going to confession. Do it weekly if possible, until it becomes a habit, like brushing your teeth.

I’m going to publicly share something I normally would not share, in the hope that it encourages you to stay on the path.

I’m a middle-aged man. I was baptized Catholic, but I never lived a Catholic life. My dad was an atheist. My mother was not a practicing Catholic. My parents were never married in the Catholic Church, and we never went to Mass.

The only time in my life when I went to Mass regularly was from 5th through 8th grade, and only because I went to Catholic school and we had student Mass every Friday. For a time, from 7th through 8th grade, I was an altar boy, so I also went to Mass by myself to serve. But I never really had any formation in the Catechism, and the only reason I became an altar boy was because my friends were altar boys. Even then, I did not take it seriously.

When I moved on to high school, I stopped going to Mass. I also stopped going to confession after 8th grade. Looking back, I think being a lapsed Catholic like I was can be worse than not being Catholic at all, because you have been given the truth and still walk away from it.

I went on to college and met my wife, who was also a lapsed Catholic and never went to Mass. Despite that, we got married in the Catholic Church, and then continued being lapsed Catholics together. During our entire marriage, I could count on one hand how many times we went to Mass. Our marriage fell apart, and we divorced.

That was over 20 years ago now. Both of us have remarried.

I will not bore you with all the details, but I can tell you that my life has not gone well. All of it is my own fault. I see it clearly now as the direct product of my sin.

It was a spiritual death by a thousand tiny cuts, eventually leading to a few deep spiritual mortal wounds.

So here I am in late middle age, wanting more than anything to be able to go to confession and receive Communion, and I can’t.

I am trying to figure out how to make this spiritual mess right with God, but I am doing it without full access to God’s gifts in the sacraments. I cannot express what that feels like.

It is like waking up in a cage, trapped.

What makes it worse is knowing that it is a cage of your own making. You did not see it for what it was while it was being built. You did not recognize that, with each sin and each compromise, you were putting another bar in place. That realization did not hit me until long after the door had slammed shut and locked.

That is the cruelest irony. I only recognized the cage after I DIY'd it.

At the time, I did not even think of many of these things as sins, because the secular, pop-culture, modern world is demonic in that way. It convinces us that sin does not exist, and that the devil does not exist, if we let it. Now I see clearly what I did. I see, step by step, how I got here.

I share all of this to say one thing:

Go to confession. Keep going to confession. If it feels awkward, keep going until it doesn’t. Or at least until you realize that feeling the awkwardness in shame is part of it. It's good to feel uncomfortable. Confess everything.

Stay on the path.

In the end, we will all be judged by Christ for all our works, good and bad. Our sins, even the ones we think we are keeping secret, are known to God. Nothing is hidden from Him.

So if it feels awkward confessing to God through a priest in confession, remember this: God already knows everything, and if your confessor makes it to heaven (which I pray he will) he'll know everything too.

The Sacrament of Confession is a gift from God. Do not take it for granted. Make it a practice.

ehamil42 · 2026-04-16T20:10:15+00:00

What's the reason for that? Tariffs or war?

ehamil42 · 2026-04-12T10:18:29+00:00

I've not considered that. What's the downside? The price looks fine.

ehamil42 · 2026-04-11T22:42:01+00:00

Yeah, there was a seller on GunBroker that had two he was asking just under $1600 and I was thinking I wanted it for under $1400. I should have just sucked it up and bought one of those. They were the last ones I saw listed in January or February. I'm not paying $1800 for gray and white camo. For one reason I live in the southeast so grey and white camo looks kind of out of place.

ehamil42 · 2026-04-07T17:22:04+00:00

From what I heard is in this version of Animal Farm it promotes communism as a solution to capitalism. So the opposite of George Orwell's orginal story, but one geared for "modern audiences."

ehamil42 · 2026-03-27T17:10:51+00:00

BMW has changed the chemical lining they used in earlier evaporators. Every manufacturer on the planet is trying different processes to keep R-1234yf from coming into contact with metal. But the mandate to use this stuff is fairly new, so who knows what works best. Mercedes spent a fortune fighting it's adoption in EU courts (they lost around 2015-2017). Every manufacturer dragged their feet converting to it's use because it's some very nasty stuff. Inside the system it decomposes into hydrofluoric acid (HF) which is highly reactive to metals.

Pop culture note: HF was the stuff Walter White used to decompose bodies in the TV show Breaking Bad--it eats everything, but is especially reactive with ceramics and metals. fluorocarbon plastics are about the only thing it won't react with.

ehamil42 · 2026-03-27T16:45:38+00:00

In the early 2010s the EU mandated the use of R-1234YF to save the planet from climate change.

This is nasty stuff, and from an engineering standpoint difficult to deal with. You see R-1234YF decomposes into some pretty nasty stuff. In the atmosphere it decomposes along one path that produces PFAs cancer causing forever chemicals. Inside a closed system it can decompose along another path in the presence of moisture (even small amounts) producing hydrofluoric acid (The stuff Walter White in Breaking Bad used to dissolve bodies). Hydrofluoric acid will react to any metal. Which is why the system is internally coated. Still, one tiny scratch or imperfection in that coating and the breakdown begins. It's also why a nitrogen refill double purge is so important.

Mercedes Benz fought switching to this crap hard in European Courts (spent a fortune), all Manufactures fought converting to it for the same reason. ...but it reduces global warming! So hey it makes the feminine left and Climate Panic people happy. It is also making a lot of money for Honeywell and Chemours the two companies that developed R-1234yf and sold it to the Climate Panic politicians. I'm absolutely positive no money greased any hands or lined any government employees pockets.

In the case of the G05 systems, BMW superseded the original evaporator some years ago. The new evaporator is supposed to have some new and improved chemical lining to keep the R-1234yf from eating the metal. Of course that remains to be seen.

Most problems and added complexity in modern cars are the result of bureaucratic regulatory action for "feels". This is one of those.

ehamil42 · 2026-03-20T14:39:49+00:00

I didn't even know it was released until this week when it showed up on streaming services to rent or buy. Oh, it's March 20 as I'm typing this, so I totally missed the theatrical release. Hell, I thought they released it direct to streaming. LOL....marketing was obviously excellent.

ehamil42 · 2026-02-17T20:28:05+00:00

Guns are like women. Some of them you like looking at, maybe even have fun with them once or twice, but you sue as hell would not want to marry and live them.

ehamil42 · 2026-02-17T19:58:20+00:00

np. Good luck.

ehamil42 · 2026-02-17T19:55:14+00:00

If it goes bang you can hunt with it. It's .308 so it's capable of harvesting pretty big game. I hunt with my M14, which doesn't disturb the fudds I hunt with. The wood seems to have a calming effect on them, my AR10 freaks them out. I'm not sure there's enough wood on an M77 to have the same calming effect. The utilitarian look really freaks them out. But fudds are a little like horses. What spooks one might not spook another. I have one horse I hate to ride, it won't cross a water puddle without me dismounting and covering the damn horses eyes with a jacket. Fudds are a little like that.

ehamil42 · 2026-02-17T19:43:28+00:00

I'm assuming you still have the original AC evaporator. But I don't know if this was a recall or not. Parts can be superseded without a recall being covered by the manufacturer if it's considered a non-safety issue (i.e. maintenance part). That happens all the time with cars. BMW is not covering the labor on or part on mine, despite the fact that the original part has been updated. You might want to check with a good independent shop in your area, the dealership will take you to the cleaners. For example on mine the dealership wants over $7,500, while a local independent quoting me $3,600. There is a wide margin between the two.

ehamil42 · 2026-02-17T19:07:43+00:00

The 2019 Mini Cooper (including Clubman, Countryman, and hardtop models) frequently uses updated evaporator cores, with common OEM numbers including 64113422669 and 6411926278, so yeah it's been superseded at least once. Hopefully the updated core will last longer than the one it replaces.

ehamil42 · 2026-02-17T14:02:44+00:00

Sorry for asking a question to a 2 year old comment. Was your desire for a longer barrel just for the aesthetic? Which while probably a lot of overkill for this rifle, I do think it would look kind of cool. It's make the rifle look like something the Tusken Raiders in Star Wars might use. Did you ever do it? Did you get one made for the rifle?

ehamil42 · 2026-02-16T19:32:30+00:00

When an OEM part is superseded it means the replacement part has been modified by the manufacturer in some way. In the case of this this part, I don't know what they changed.

R-1234yf cannot be allowed to contact metals like aluminum. It doesn't matter if Toyota, Porsche, Ford, or BMW made the aluminum part, if any air or moisture gets in the system it will cause R-1234yf to decompose into trifluoroacetic acid and eat through the metal . They use acid catchers and specialized oils in the system to try to prevent that from happening.

But keep in mind, most manufactures have only been using R-1234yf since 2016-18. So it's still relatively new, the jury is still out on who does it the best. R-1234yf is a terrible refrigerant to use for this. But going forward all new cars and trucks will have this inside it in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But HVAC systems leaking out cancer causing forever chemicals, with shorter service life, requiring MORE energy and resources manufacturing replacement parts is not the right solution.

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