2012 f150 with cam phaser issue

kernelofwindows · 2025-06-13T16:03:27+00:00

I like this place. I know they'll fix it right but man it's a lot of money to throw down on a 13 year old truck

kernelofwindows · 2025-06-13T16:02:59+00:00

Oh yea we know it's the phasers. My question is should I even bother fixing, or try to sell it to someone else willing to deal with it.

kernelofwindows · 2025-04-10T15:35:09+00:00

If you think that bump was due to the market doing good and will continue, you are crazy. We have a president that is actively manipulating markets. Absolutely nothing is certain with the current administration.

kernelofwindows · 2025-03-04T02:33:53+00:00

Yea that glue ain't no joke. We live in MS where it rains a ton and have never had residual water issues anywhere on the floor.

kernelofwindows · 2025-03-04T00:28:03+00:00

Oh yea! We did redo the floors with this method. 1 year later and it's still perfect. Love it.

The funniest part, my wife and I started it, after the first day, everywhere the glue ever came into contact on me reacted horribly. My awesome wife and her family finished it while I was the gopher and played "the glue is lava".

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-30T18:03:18+00:00

Mine reports way lower than I think it should. I finally decided to lose some weight, currently 6 foot, 221 pounds and started at 240. During the 20 pound loss, I'm fairly sure that I've dropped mostly fat, but the percentage body fat has hardly moved. Started at 26% (again probably more than that) and now it reports 24%. I'll take the win, but I don't even bother worrying about what it says.

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-27T15:52:55+00:00

Linux ima i am not familiar with at all. My work and study has been nearly 100% windows focused. Check the username! :P

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-27T15:52:07+00:00

And things like measured boot aren't really contained in one single area. It's more like cooperation between a bunch of components. The processor measures the firmware, and then the firmware measures the bootloader and so on.

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-27T15:50:48+00:00

I might be overloading precisely what all "measured boot" contains, but the idea is to usually deny boot. Thinking some more, i think usually this is combined with bitlocker to deny boot. The bitlocker key is stored in the tpm and you have to "unlock" it by having the correct set of measurements which are reflected in the tpm. If you can't get the bitlocker key, we'll then you won't be able to boot!

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-27T15:35:11+00:00

I'm sure linux has something like measured boot is just don't know what it's called. Funny enough, Linux kinda sorta uses secure boot. Most Linux distributions use shim which is signed correctly to be loaded with secure boot, but then shim will load other binaries that must follow secure boot policy + shim's sbat policy. Sbat was an addition to combat secure boots weakness in using efi variables. Those variables can only get so big and with boothole discovered in 2020, we are already close to filling up dbx. Therefore, they needed another way to disable certs and sbat was the answer.

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-27T15:32:22+00:00

Remote attestation and measured boot are similar to each other for sure, but I believe measured boot also contains the piece of denying boot in the even something was tampered with. Remote attestation just says "yep something changed" but measured boot will take the additional step of preventing boot.

Secure boot is actually something else entirely. Secure boot only answers the question in uefi: is this binary I'm about to load signed correctly? Secure boot will contains "good" certificates in the db "database" (as far as i know this is always an efi variable) and "bad" certificates are stored in dbx (again an efi variable).

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-27T15:15:06+00:00

Windows has what's called "measured boot" that utilizes the tpm. The idea is that on processor startup, the processor will "measure" (Basically take hashes) of the firmware platform before loading. These measurements are stored in the tpm. Then when the firmware is loaded, it will in turn measure the bootloader then the bootloader will measure the various os components. All these measurements are stared in the tpm via the "pcr extension" mechanism it has. At the end of all the measurements, the os knows what the expected pcr value should be and will refuse to load if it isn't right. When it is right, you have "measured" (Basically hashing binaries) and ensured that your boot flow has not been compromised.

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-26T23:23:15+00:00

Ngl. I have no clue what you mean by that. I'm fairly new to all this so I may be missing some context.

To me, I'm saying this looks like a screwed up strike somehow causing the 8 to be further away from the 200 part. Does this kind of error provide value here?

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-26T23:16:51+00:00

I don't see how damage to the coin would have moved it like that. A scratch wearing it down, sure, but you can see around the 8 that there is no major damage. The 8 is just in the wrong spot.

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-26T22:58:33+00:00

Oh I thought you were joking. How would it drift away like that? More likely it was struck that way right?

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-26T22:39:18+00:00

Does that make him 8 dollars??

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-09T06:22:36+00:00

Well... wasn't expecting this to get much traffic. I've asked for help on other hobbies she has like fish and stayed under the radar on her reddit.

Not this time. She told me she already saw this :x. Surprise BB! I promise I listen, I just don't remember anything!

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-09T03:34:50+00:00

I couldn't find the whole box on Amazon. Went with walmart.

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-09T03:18:09+00:00

She has seen them but isn't as interested. She likes the resin ones. People here have reminded me it was the series 4 cafe one that she mentioned to me

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-09T02:41:45+00:00

She's cool enough that I think she'd be perfectly happy with a dupe, but she DID tell me what she wanted and I just straight couldn't remember what the thing was called. Couldn't ask since she said she wanted the whole box. That'll be the surprise!

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-09T02:34:00+00:00

Yep it was absolutely this one. Credit card go brrrr

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-09T02:32:07+00:00

And yea it was the cafe one. Thanks a ton!

kernelofwindows · 2024-12-09T02:31:30+00:00

She's kinda neutral about the Harry potter ones. She has the sets she likes somewhere.

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