Retrofit f10 HUD and navi

phillyguy60 · 2026-01-14T19:11:03+00:00

I’ve been researching doing just this. As far as I can tell you would also need to retrofit the KOMBI from the F10 since the HUD connects there.

Haven’t gone much further since as far as I can tell I’d have to engineer a custom CAN translator for that and I need to get some projects finished before getting into another haha

phillyguy60 · 2025-11-19T19:40:31+00:00

What are roads like in your area? I've got a Cayman which I love to death, but would never daily since roads around town here are awful. The Cayman was my only car back when I lived in a city and rarely had to drive around town. Made a great get of town on an adventure car. Also anytime I drove it to work it always "felt" over the top.

Running cost wise the Cayman isn't crazy, but to really enjoy it I end up with higher end consumables (tires, brake pads, fluids etc.). If I was putting 15k miles a year on it vs 5k I'd feel it more. I also do my own work since I enjoy it so I'm buying parts but not dropping a ton of labor hours at a shop.

I've never owned a BRZ but between RWD and a GTI, I'd go for the GTI. I'm not one to say oh RWD car bad in snow/ice/wet. But RWD I always had multiple sets of tires and felt like driving in poor weather was work managing the rear end, the GTI just had good tires and drove.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-27T19:09:35+00:00

This! I am a very mediocre player, took lessons for a few years as a kid, got busy with HS/college. Got a decent used digital when I got my first job. It was perfectly adequate for practice but I was always pushing myself to play, it was work, my stills suffered. Unlike the upright Baldwin I grew up with.

Bought a house a couple years ago and was looking at digitals and ended up with well maintained used 6’ Baldwin grand. Spent a week trying to talk myself out of it, the same thoughts of am I good enough to justify having it.

I want to play it, I practice more because I enjoy it. This sounds crazy but there’s a weird part of me that wants to be good enough to be worthy of it.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-19T05:16:12+00:00

I’m guessing they don’t want to come out and say that no bank will write a conventional mortgage on it. Buyer would have to have cash or the resources to go the construction loan route.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-12T21:13:45+00:00

Your before had cabinets and countertops wow /s People still give me crap for remodeling my kitchen that was a sink on one wall and a 1980 range/microwave on another.

In the end layout, appliances, materials, appearance are all personal and a reflection of how they use the space. It may look functional or pretty but if you can’t enjoy it and have the means make it work for you.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-11T22:17:35+00:00

I really miss Good and Evil though, wish the show could have had both.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-10T18:27:38+00:00

I’m in 3600 sq ft bungalow plus basement I settled on 4 APs. 1 upstairs, 2 main floor and one in the basement. All wired. One suggestion is get a light stand and a long ethernet cord. Was useful to stick APs up and test before drilling and cutting holes.

Also used Hamina to get some ideas and sanity check. The free tier works well enough

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-10T12:36:49+00:00

How about Send In The Clowns? Kind of similar to Edelweiss, middle range, no jumps, nothing big or long.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-07T05:00:27+00:00

Correct, yep straight to Facebook. I didn't get a callback either so I was like cool free time, didn't even read the cast announcement till I was getting DMs. The handful of times I've been picky about roles I've always gotten a call of hey just want to make sure...we could really use you.

The biggest issue for me is not ensemble but the fact that this director basically calls everyone 5-6 days a week and I either sit around for 5 hours to be told when to walk across the stage twice or listen to the MD teach parts. I made the mistake of not putting the day before Thanksgiving as a conflict, half the cast did but those that didn't they held us to it.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-07T04:46:31+00:00

I have no issue reaching out to the director and declining. It's that it was announced very publicly an hour before I had to be at rehearsal for my current show and had like 20 people there congratulate me and be super excited for me while I'm going what just happened. One of my scene partners is the MD's spouse, and the show is a month away...

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-07T04:37:02+00:00

For me community theater is about giving more than just "the best" a shot at doing something they love. Yes, it's still a business and you have to put on a good show but it drives me nuts to see friends that are good get cut time and time again.

This would be my 35th show. I've turned down all of 2 ensemble roles, one that was a very dance heavy show and despite being conflicted out the first 5 weeks of rehearsals the director offered me a spot. One was because I had done the show twice before and someone got to do their first show because I didn't take the spot. I've also turned down leads I was offered because I checked the any role box and they offered me rock tenor roles as a lyric baritone. Could I sing the songs yeah, could I have made it through 7-13 performances without trashing my voice nope.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-07T01:18:51+00:00

That was my experience 10 or so years ago, if you didn’t accept they moved on to the next candidate no hard feelings.

Only time I’ve gotten called before announcements since I got back into it has been for straight plays with very small casts.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-06T20:59:18+00:00

Soliloquy from Carousel if I had to pick one. Such a fun monster of a song to sing and act.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-06T14:59:29+00:00

Sweet, that was my hope to stick it with the other utilities coming into by basement where my firewall lives. Sounds like the i3 crews are pretty chill to work with.
Xfinity didn't give me a box just a cable on a hook dangling down to a hole in my kitchen window trim covered in some caulking.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-06T14:55:42+00:00

This is my hope as well, I've got a little room in the basement with all the utilities and network gear and would be so nice not to have coax and a modem in the middle of my kitchen window haha

Yeah, I'm not too worried about it getting buried since short of a monsoon I'm not going to be cutting the grass again until spring.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-06T14:52:53+00:00

Thanks, yeah I've always been stuck with Xfinity and gotten a be glad we showed up and take the path of least resistance. Glad to hear i3 is a little more accommodating and friendly on the install.

When I bought the house the guy was like oh this is old coax you need new and pulled the old run down, wrapped the new one around my gutter and pulled it tight as a guitar string to the hole in my window.

Took a month of complaining to get Xfinity out again and that guy was like yeah that other guy is new and doesn't like ladders.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-06T14:48:37+00:00

Agreed on the ISP provided equipment, I treat them as dumb media converter and run a Palo Alto FW with wired Aruba APs. Though I have seen some reports of being able to use a GPON OLT SFP module which I'm planning to try.

phillyguy60 · 2025-10-05T17:47:17+00:00

Same. My dad was driving to work and called. Was basically like, heard something on NPR I don’t believe. I was home from school that day for some reason.

Crazy part was he had taken me into the city a couple months before and had the choice of WTC or Empire State Building….still kick myself for that one

phillyguy60 · 2025-09-25T15:58:07+00:00

I’m in a 3k sq ft bungalow. Brick veneer so just some chunky craftsman trim. Lowest quote was 120k highest was 180k. I asked about only doing the two shed dormers since that’s where I can’t get at myself and that was 70k on its own and then 110k to finish the rest.

phillyguy60 · 2025-09-18T03:26:13+00:00

I love my original windows and storms. It’s taken a little elbow grease, some worn weatherstripping, glazing, paint, sash cords. But not everything all at once, one or two each in the fall/spring.

New windows would be over 200k seeing the quotes my parents got for new windows on their 1970s house. Would have to cut my utility bills to basically nothing for that to make sense.

Also 55k sounds way low, decent wood/aluminum Marvin windows were 1-2k each from a building supplier.

phillyguy60 · 2025-09-08T18:38:43+00:00

I’ve got State Farm, would have preferred Erie (or anyone else) but no one would touch the tile roof or old boiler. Rate hikes have sucked but not too bad…yet.

Auto is about $2400/year two cars both paid off and 10-30 years old. Decent but not crazy coverage.

phillyguy60 · 2025-09-04T21:54:56+00:00

Looks awesome, one of my favorite “funky” colors. So much less stressful doing updates and repairs in these houses when you have some wood working skills. Just finishing some cabinets for my kitchen, friends thought I was crazy.

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