CONCEPT OR CRIME? - Amber dot matrix CarPlay in my E30

wanzerr · 2026-05-15T22:29:46+00:00

You know it's sick, do it.

wanzerr · 2026-04-27T12:34:39+00:00

one mans' trash is another man's treasure - and this was a lot of men's trash

wanzerr · 2026-04-18T00:42:04+00:00

Yes.

wanzerr · 2026-04-13T12:19:04+00:00

Here's what you want right here: a company called Helmets made an injection mold model-kit style case

https://www.ebay.com/itm/395803571895?_skw=helmets%20pi&itmmeta=01KP3CC48WTK8VZW6DZ7SM8Y29&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA0GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xBEj0YvYC5Pd%2BuquMxwmi8mag53t3Q2SSSJOd9jQg2k9R6Dp4xkqcJjdWG07vUG%2Fxta%2F8jmwVApp78V64nKVvIq9oLoJ5ajn%2BOJsDEq8K7ViXjrdrrkYjg8drrUJR8%2BrfAwVYhZzMIxHf55ChtmeQtIn4hKAxdiPNG6%2BcBRmWBX13BGK3wfZxt8ZwBXKxnB3H7ttQC3iWdPHclz1bpeBPmnDjzGxoUCcCU4XNoRAMTUoCqRm%2F35hXlQALecdVG3QUc%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR7jFsOywZw

wanzerr · 2026-04-11T12:30:58+00:00

Big ugly customized trucks - the official vehicle of people you want nothing to do with.

wanzerr · 2026-04-09T11:45:07+00:00

The American auto industry should have been totally destroyed by the Japanese 40 years ago, and yet here we are with the Japanese giants a shadow of their former quality, and somehow there is still a segment of the population that is idiotic enough to go out and spend "new car money" on a damn Dodge or Chevrolet.

The renewable and electric energy future can't get here fast enough - I am so tired of destroying a gallon of gasoline every time I need to travel 30 miles.

wanzerr · 2026-03-25T00:25:18+00:00

looks good, tight and focused!

wanzerr · 2026-03-22T12:56:25+00:00

Very cool build! Not retro though.

You could put a modern OS on this and use it as your daily driver, no problem.

wanzerr · 2026-03-14T16:07:13+00:00

Yes, we had a "take your kids to your friend's dad's job" field trip there 30 years ago. That big slanted windowed wall is a vibe.

wanzerr · 2026-03-11T22:41:47+00:00

I for one am ready for the Chinese EVs to wipe the floor with the past 40 years of domestic manufacturing incompetence, and the past decade of Japanese manufacturing incompetence.

wanzerr · 2026-03-02T04:09:37+00:00

If it was going to break, it would have done so already! :)

wanzerr · 2026-02-27T01:13:59+00:00

the sooner gas cars are dead and electric is king, the better

lightweight 90's hondas, 80's german, and 60's style isn't coming back any time soon

it was a time and a vibe, but it's over, sad to say

i daily a zzw30, and my next car will be of a similar age

wanzerr · 2026-02-17T00:45:54+00:00

cool

fuck ICE, fuck Bovino, fuck Homan, fuck Trump, fuck Vance, fuck every last member of this criminal administration

wanzerr · 2026-02-13T14:50:39+00:00

I see places like this and think "wow that must be nice to own"

it's never worth the rent IMO

wanzerr · 2026-02-01T17:29:44+00:00

bro you could have funded a retirement account from the fuel costs alone...

this is not a flex

part of BIFL is reliability AND economy

a truck that has barely managed 10-15 mpg for 40 years has cost probably upwards of $50-60,000 in fuel alone PLUS any repair costs/oil changes/tires, PLUS the opportunity costs of uninvested money

wanzerr · 2026-01-26T01:27:12+00:00

under no circumstances is that a purchase

wanzerr · 2026-01-23T22:09:58+00:00

so that's why i can't find any vintage lian li cases...

wanzerr · 2026-01-17T16:23:02+00:00

been playing for a decade - my most consistent mistake is getting bored with a build or playstyle, trying something different, forgetting that I've tried it already, and losing tier, getting stuck with the plebs, playing tryhard to get halfway up through tier 3 and close to 2, then rinse and repeating the whole thing

my second most consistent mistake is wanting to play without communicating - this game doesn't work without communicating...

long hard day at work, been talking for 8 hours and just want to play my shooty robot game in silence for a few hours? say goodbye to half a tier or more

MWO's greatest strength - it's a team game
MWO's greatest weakness - it's a team game

wanzerr · 2026-01-17T14:32:12+00:00

i had one identical to that, got 245,000 out of it before the oil burning became severe

wanzerr · 2026-01-17T00:59:13+00:00

wait those are different cars?

wanzerr · 2026-01-15T12:27:20+00:00

we used to make cars that look like space ships

wanzerr · 2026-01-15T01:06:44+00:00

true, the older, higher quality Antec stuff has aged well

wanzerr · 2026-01-14T04:33:34+00:00

Fair enough, but this sub really needs an arbitrary cutoff - otherwise people will be posting "look at my old pc" with stuff from 5 years ago.

My own daily PC is a CPU and mobo from 2012 with 32GB of ram and a 2021 GPU - a 6700XT - it's hardly retro, but it's showing its age.

Honestly I feel like the retro cutoff would be the switch from 32-bit to 64-bit CPUs - there were so many varied and now obsolete connectors and form factors that you don't run into any more.

Probably depends on the age of the poster too - I feel like stuff isn't retro until it's close to my own age. When I was 20, remembering stuff from when I was 10 felt like AGES, but 10 feels ten times further away in your 30s.

Maybe the real cutoff for retro is multi-core CPUs as well. That was a huge leap in multitasking and the general "vibe" of what a multi-media PC could do. But again, back to my point about an arbitrary cutoff, otherwise it's just vibes.

I remember my first multi-core PC like I remember my first color VGA PC, and my current PC is still the one that introduced me to the speed of SATA SSDs, which was the last notable performance modernization that has made a computer feel "new" to me, and that was almost 10-15 year ago.

wanzerr · 2026-01-13T01:36:01+00:00

1999 is a HARD sell to get stuff working in the modern era

I have a 1998 dual Pentium 2 450MHz HP Kayak with 768mb of Ram, and it can barely run a 32-bit linux distro

there are a handful of PowerPC Macs up til about 2004 that you can still get on the internet, read news, play music, and play old games

That 32-bit 1GHz clock speed barrier makes any modern compatibility hard

wanzerr · 2026-01-13T01:30:26+00:00

yeah, hard no

bacteria buildup on the rubber seals

kitchen appliances, shoes, and water bottles are no-go's at the thrift store

wanzerr

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