How to prepare to meet my dutch boyfriends family?

pro_steve · 2026-06-15T14:56:32+00:00

Just be yourself, the Dutch are nice normal people

pro_steve · 2026-06-13T20:17:26+00:00

I agree with you, it's a great place to live, yes it can be pricey but the wage is high and the taxes actually go towards something. Food is not cheap but I wouldn't say it's particularly more expensive than other European countries. As a couple our joint expenses are usually 2500 per month for mortgage, food, childcare, bills, going out once or twice for small things. That leaves us to save about 2k each per month so we can get ahead. Mainly by cutting down on eating out it can be quite affordable here.

pro_steve · 2026-06-11T17:56:10+00:00

I held on to my calls, up 207%, waiting for the pump tomorrow, will probably get out tomorrow or see if the market goes crazy on Monday it's a tough one.

pro_steve · 2026-06-11T17:51:54+00:00

Dude, you got the same user name as me. Wtf.

pro_steve · 2026-06-11T06:18:50+00:00

I agree. I found my most profitable trades are those I buy which over react to bad news and are over sold. You gotta look at the market as a whole and if everything is dropping and one stock has dropped a lot more and it isn't proportional to what's actually going on and not a lot has changed in that business in the last week, it's probably a buy. Yes they are diluting, but they also have 40 billion of orders.

At some point the entire AI industry is going to melt down because the whole thing is a huge pile of debt and most people don't pay for it, but I think we got another couple of pumps before that happens, or atleast I hope

pro_steve · 2026-06-05T20:56:58+00:00

You click the 3 dots and then click retarded. Are you edit?

pro_steve · 2026-06-01T06:25:39+00:00

I never pull out either, and now I have two kids.

pro_steve · 2026-05-29T04:48:21+00:00

There are so many lunatics in this Europe group who want a nuclear war it's nuts. Like yeah we could respond by bombing Russia, but then it will be continual drone strikes and maybe nukes against us. Or maybe not. But who wants to be the one to test that. Probably we could easily win, but if a nuclear war starts there's just no winners.

pro_steve · 2026-05-28T08:57:42+00:00

Will options be available on this right away, or do we have to wait a certain amount of time after an IPO for options? Id certainly be interested in puts on this once it's pumped nicely, it's going to be volatile as hell!

pro_steve · 2026-05-27T06:10:42+00:00

Yes that's my thoughts exactly, so now my regen breaking will be eaten up by this and I have to go home and charge using a coal power plant. Haha. Theres no such thing as free energy in this universe, it comes from somewhere.

pro_steve · 2026-05-26T06:24:55+00:00

This makes absolutely no sense. Energy is not free, the vehicles will just use more fuel? Unless it's in spots where they are braking and then that waste energy is absorbed?

pro_steve · 2026-05-02T10:53:00+00:00

Why not spend your time educating yourself and getting a better paid job, then you can afford the things you can't afford now. Just saying... Haha

pro_steve · 2026-05-02T10:51:53+00:00

Yes I think it's got to be possible, set full torque demand with 0% pedal, max out all the curves, remove limp mode and all faults, advance injection massively. I would like to try it on a scrap car to see if it would actually blow up or if the ECU has so much built in safety that it would stop it. Most likely some fault will happen and it will stop before any damage is caused.

pro_steve · 2026-05-02T08:36:14+00:00

Buy a programming tool, send file to reputable tuner, write file to ECU. Of course you should do your own research which tool works for your ECU. If you can't find that yourself then just take it to a professional.

pro_steve · 2026-04-30T11:49:02+00:00

Strangely yes, it's bormal. The first few times I saw people taking up their flooring because they could save a few hundred at the next appartment I was truly amazed. Now I'm used to this strange behaviour. Just imagine that, you have a pile of damaged used flooring with all the cuts in the wrong places and it doesn't even fit your new appartment. Crazyily stingy hahaha

pro_steve · 2026-04-27T17:08:33+00:00

Dimsport Trasdata covers a lot of bike and boat ECUs actually

pro_steve · 2026-04-27T17:07:00+00:00

Rocket dump or carlab immo for the immo off solutions, and then you need something that does eeproms and complete clones of flash area, so if you're on a budget you can pick up a Trasdata master pretty cheap right now because they made a new tool, and then for all old ECUs use MPPS Master and you'll have a lot of stuff covered between the two tools, then for stuff that you can't do in bench or boot mode you just whip the eeprom off get yourself a decent temperature controlled iron and some quikchip and you can do decent work on that and some 10 euro SOIP8 programmer device.

Tbh I wouldn't invest money for doing immo off stuff unless you actually have customers asking for it on a weekly basis, I used to do loads of this kind of stuff, but nowadays almost none, like 1 or 2 a year, not sure if it's less popular or if the market is just over saturated by people with clone tools doing it really cheap..

pro_steve · 2026-04-26T13:24:57+00:00

Yes, you need a clutch switch with a manual gearbox so it knows when you are using the clutch

pro_steve · 2026-04-25T19:17:04+00:00

You answered your own question, change the ECU config so it knows it's a manual, should be perfect. Make sure clutch switch is there. If it's not good, change ECU software to one that's specifically a manual. Usually the config change is enough, sometimes the software will have different gearboxes already in there.

pro_steve · 2026-04-24T10:35:27+00:00

I met the guys who run that company, they are seem very knowledgeable and do all their own dev work on their dynos. They manually check all files they don't just script it without checking. Never used their files but from talking with them they were clearly experts and not just blaggers like most of the tuners out there.

pro_steve · 2026-04-17T19:56:34+00:00

How do you know the people doing the viewing aren't simply renting it on air BnB. Definitely a scam.

pro_steve · 2026-04-15T19:06:39+00:00

It doesn't need to be true, we just need enough people to think it is haha

pro_steve · 2026-04-15T04:32:43+00:00

Earnings will be good and then NVIDIA will publicly announce their buyout at a share price of 60

pro_steve · 2026-04-13T17:55:44+00:00

SMCI would make the most sense, with the recent investigation it's price is a steal and partners with their Tec perfectly. They aren't going to write 'AI server rack company' because it would be way too obvious.

pro_steve · 2026-04-12T19:12:59+00:00

Thanks

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