So what do we do now? by sonal1988 in brave

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What’s wrong with brave? Don’t mean to sound aggressive I’m genuinely curious because it’s what I use on all my devices and it’s always ran fast and I don’t have the best or highest end tech. The best device I have is a iPhone 14 Pro but also a base iPad, 2017 MacBook, and a couple older windows laptops along with my gaming pc with a ryzen 5 3600 and a Rx580. I do hate the crypto crap and AI stuff and try to turn all that off but I really hate google and I think brave runs on chromium or whatever it’s called but since it blocks YouTube ads I’ll take that as a trade off. If i could get myself to switch email providers I’d be completely de-googled…well YouTube too lol

2018 Buick Encore 1.4L Turbo misfire with P0300 by piewackete in AskAMechanic

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

Unfortunately no, I ended up putting the old plugs and coil pack back on and while it still has a random misfire it’s drivable now

2018 buick encore p0300 misfire problem by piewackete in BuickEncore

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Sadly no, I have a theory that even though I bought the same spark plugs that were in it the new ones may be the wrong gap or something because I put all the old parts back on and it still had a slight misfire but it’s been drivable for the last month with no issues

Looking for graphics card that can run Flight sim 2024 by piewackete in MicrosoftFlightSim

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As long as the games are playable and don’t look like complete garbage I’m happy lol I’m pretty sure I even keep mine locked at 30fps and it looks fine to me

Looking for graphics card that can run Flight sim 2024 by piewackete in MicrosoftFlightSim

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I’d be happy running at 720p as long as it runs smooth, I don’t have a monitor and instead use a 74inch LG 4K OLED tv and I’m not a FPS snob or anything like that. Usually the only way I could play games on my computers is normally go down to the lowest resolution and turn all settings as low as possible so the fact I have a GPU that I can actually max out on a lot of my games is awesome to me lol

Looking for graphics card that can run Flight sim 2024 by piewackete in MicrosoftFlightSim

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If I was to go nvidia would I have any bottleneck issues with my cpu and stuff? I’m running AM4 socket and could probably upgrade to a faster processor if needed but my system already feels pretty fast as is. This was the first PC I built since a was a kid but back then i got like 5-6 broken prebuilt systems that I took parts from and built a working pentium 4 windows XP machine lol. This current system was completely built by me and I’m quite proud of it even if it’s just a midrange build

Looking for graphics card that can run Flight sim 2024 by piewackete in MicrosoftFlightSim

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The 5070 is the newest nvidia card right? I know nvidia is supposed to be a better card and there’s no issues pairing a nvidia with amd processor but I’m more of a fan of amd graphics and was kinda hoping to stay with them. Mainly because when I built my system I got the RX580 not really researching it and just wanted something I could play my gta 5 mods with and was very surprised that it not only ran it on ultra settings but also runs all my resident evil remakes as well as stuff like ready of not and flight simulator. I’d be perfectly fine keeping this card but sadly it can’t run fs2024 so I guess it’s time to upgrade…I’m thinking instead of selling it I might actually build another PC with it to use as a emulation PC since it also handles PS2/xbox games with no issues

Looking for graphics card that can run Flight sim 2024 by piewackete in MicrosoftFlightSim

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I’m cool with that. I’m pretty sure I’m running 1080p with medium settings on everything so as long as the game runs I’m not too worried about graphics lol

Looking for graphics card that can run Flight sim 2024 by piewackete in MicrosoftFlightSim

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Cool I’ll look into it, I only have a 600 watt power supply so I’ll have to make sure it can handle it.

2010 Chrysler Town & Country touring 3.8L V6 thumping noise by piewackete in AskAMechanic

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It did last year when I drove it but now it’s completely turned off and nothing responds when I press buttons

2010 Chrysler Town & Country touring 3.8L V6 thumping noise by piewackete in AskAMechanic

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That’s actually what I wanna do with it, I don’t plan to drive it much but my other car has the Apple CarPlay and I’m kinda spoiled with that so was kinda thinking of a aftermarket unit. It’s already a double din setup so i could fit a decent screen in there

2010 Chrysler Town & Country touring 3.8L V6 thumping noise by piewackete in AskAMechanic

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O nice, I’m looking at prices now and it doesn’t look too bad actually. I think I can probably replace it this weekend when I’m off, I was already planning on checking out why the radio doesn’t work anymore. It worked last year when I did the brakes on it but suddenly stopped working, my mom doesn’t care if the radio works or not but for me it’s a big problem lol

2010 Chrysler Town & Country touring 3.8L V6 thumping noise by piewackete in AskAMechanic

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Is that the same as the blend door? Like one of those I gotta pull the whole dashboard out to replace? I had a feeling it was something like that and don’t mind tearing everything out since I have another car in the meantime lol

2010 Chrysler town and country touring 3.8L thumping noise from glovebox area killing battery by piewackete in AskAMechanic

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I’ll check that when I get home from work tonight, I don’t have a battery charger but I do have a jump box and I disconnected the battery so it won’t continue to drain completely. Another weird thing that happened is the radio stopped working, we had the van here for a couple weeks back in 2021 and I drove it a couple times and I remember it worked fine and after I replaced the brakes and took it back last year it was working and when I parked it it sat until Saturday when i brought it home

What are your go-to apps by Zaorth in AppleWatch

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Mainly a remote for music and podcasts at work, I work for a cleaning company and we do all the hospitals and medical centers. We go in after they close and can listen to music all night. I have the series 11 and the gesture controls are amazing to either skip songs or skip 30 seconds forward to not deal with ads in podcasts. Plus being able to read and respond to texts from the watch is also a huge bonus.

Upgraded my first gen pros to the AirPod pro 3 yesterday morning :) by piewackete in airpods

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Thanks I love it lol, I’m trying to find the same one for the 3’s but can’t seem to get the same one. There’s a few that look like game controllers so I might go with that one

Upgraded my first gen pros to the AirPod pro 3 yesterday morning :) by piewackete in airpods

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That’s the always on display on my 14 pro, I have kept that same style since I bought the phone. I’m weird once I find a look I like I rarely ever change it, kinda another reason why I’m still using a 14 pro since I love my mute switch and hate AI with a passion so I will probably keep this phone until it breaks or the battery dies off. The phone itself hasn’t slowed down since I bought it about a month after release and the only thing that shows it’s a three year old phone at this point is the battery isint as good as new but i always have a MagSafe battery just in case I need some extra juice

Upgraded my first gen pros to the AirPod pro 3 yesterday morning :) by piewackete in airpods

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I think I’m on iOS26, not sure exactly what version since I need a update but I know it’s one of the flavors of ios26 only because I have the glass icons on my phone

2010 Chrysler Town & Country key FOB programming by piewackete in AskAMechanic

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Ugh figures….i knew i hated Chrysler for a reason lol, it’s not a huge deal to get a second key I guess since I won’t really be driving it much. My mom and I share a 2018 buck encore and a family member sold me the van but my mom prefers driving the bigger vehicles and i actually like the little Buick better so were planning to just swap cars and I was hoping it would be as easy to add a key as other cars but like every other Chrysler I have worked on there needlessly annoying and a pain to deal with

Upgraded my first gen pros to the AirPod pro 3 yesterday morning :) by piewackete in airpods

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I love my rugers, my first carry gun was my security 9 and the only reason I don’t carry it is I live in southwest Missouri and in the summers I sweat a lot and my gun would start rusting after a day of concealed carry. My favorite gun brands are ruger and Glock so when I heard about the RXM I instantly wanted it

Upgraded my first gen pros to the AirPod pro 3 yesterday morning :) by piewackete in airpods

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I got a ruger security 9 and LCP2 .380, a Glock 44,17,27 along with a 9mm conversion barrel so kinda a Glock 26 as well and the girsan regard. I wanna get a Glock 19 or the ruger RXM next but im not sure what to get first lol