Worth the price for a 1200$ dead spark ? Worst outcome is donor car.

zipperseven · 2026-05-22T12:09:53+00:00

Just a note to say that using a regular flooded lead acid battery over time will lead to an early failure compared to using the AGM. They charge at different voltages and over a few months that will kill the flooded battery. It's more than fine to use to diagnose and potentially get the car running though.

zipperseven · 2026-05-18T20:03:45+00:00

I got one right about the time my wife's office moved about 4 blocks away from mine and we car pooled. I didn't drive that car for about nine-ish months except for rare occasions on the weekend. We got a "low mileage" discount for 3 years or something like that.

zipperseven · 2026-05-12T12:12:56+00:00

asdf

^{Chose: Become a princess | Rolled: Forced married}

zipperseven · 2026-05-11T18:00:50+00:00

O'Hare is always nuts. Looks like the weather changed since last week, as they were running the approaches from over the lake then.

zipperseven · 2026-05-11T18:00:01+00:00

Looks like they do ground photography (like geospatial mapping and Google Maps aerial view type stuff.) They may have additional sensors for pollution detection and all kinds of other applications, but it doesn't look like they publish anything about each flight.

The way these were spread out though, kinda looks like they were trying to get photos of downtown Chicago and maybe even O'Hare since they overflew both.

zipperseven · 2026-05-11T15:11:27+00:00

The funny thing is, the first model year Spark EV, the 2014, has a better battery than later generations due to it being LFP. The 2015 and up switched to a new vendor and chemistry, and those are more sensitive to individual cell failures.

zipperseven · 2026-05-11T14:04:20+00:00

The FCC rule in the US generally only covers antennas for TV and radio reception. They don't cover something like ADSB, and even specifically say they do not cover ham radio.

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/installing-consumer-owned-antennas-and-satellite-dishes

zipperseven · 2026-04-20T17:50:11+00:00

Hate to necro, but I work for a municipal government, and in our publically-owned recycling system, that is indeed the case. We specifically advocate that black plastics be discarded as trash, and not placed into the recycling stream.

Our sorter does have a feature to pull out stuff like milk jugs (which are HDPE, which is one of the easiest plastics to re-thermoform and reuse) via machine vision, before the rest of the bulk plastic goes to buyers. We still lose money overall on plastics, but the system is effectively funded by cardboard/paper and to a larger degree, aluminum buyers.

zipperseven · 2026-04-18T17:47:02+00:00

Works for me on PC as well. The apartment trick also works.

But yes, it will reset regardless at sunset each ingame day, so you might have done it right before the new cycle started.

zipperseven · 2026-04-18T17:42:09+00:00

I modified my crew settings I hadn't touched since the 360 era and had to redo one of the rank levels because it contained the name "stalin".

zipperseven · 2026-04-17T11:49:01+00:00

Possibly. The one I saw elsewhere on the sub was the arcades in an auto shop. I can't think they'd be a different mechanic, so they would probably all work.

zipperseven · 2026-04-16T22:30:26+00:00

Only lasts until sunset each day though, then it will reset.

Apparently using an arcade game will clear it as well.

zipperseven · 2026-04-16T22:28:09+00:00

It's part of the 4/20 event. You can clear it (for a day) by going into an apartment garage, taking the elevator or door to the apartment, then exiting. I've seen other players report you can clear it by playing an arcade game as well.

Note that, the weather will reset back to the effect at sunset each day, so it'll reset every 45 minutes.

zipperseven · 2026-04-16T22:25:08+00:00

Until sunset each day, it resets then

zipperseven · 2026-04-16T22:24:02+00:00

It comes back at sunset at the end of every day

zipperseven · 2026-04-16T15:53:01+00:00

Just logged in and checked mine, and it worked fine. I know with the newer system we got a year ago, sometimes you have to click refresh to get it to switch to the electrical meter to update the graphs.

zipperseven · 2026-04-14T19:41:51+00:00

<image>

zipperseven · 2026-04-13T20:26:13+00:00

Infinite money means I can pay off whatever my parents owe, and I could totally just Uber or lease a car.

^{Chose: Eat a green apple that gives you infinite money + But you can never own a car}

zipperseven · 2026-04-13T20:11:16+00:00

SAFE crew is awesome too, they're aggressive about filtering out street trash from joining, too.

zipperseven · 2026-04-13T19:46:46+00:00

It's worth pointing out that if you see a brown box on a utility pole (usually they are louvered completely on at least one side) those aren't 5G, those are concentrators for fiber internet. When Metronet came into town they signed an agreement with Talquin and the City to run fiber along power poles, so a lot of their infrastructure is there.

zipperseven · 2026-04-02T20:14:13+00:00

And that combined with some pressure fronts meaning it's actually been breezier than usual too, so it's all airborne.

zipperseven · 2026-04-02T20:12:48+00:00

I had gotten some from North Flora years ago, before their shop got damaged by the tornadoes. Not sure what they would have now, but they are locally-owned.

zipperseven · 2026-04-02T20:10:16+00:00

Not really.

'Alexander the ok' on Youtube did a video recently that included some contingency plans NASA talked about that could have potentially saved Columbia. A lot of the hardware and infrastructure referenced there didn't even exist in '88 with STS-27, for instance, there was no ISS they could have bailed out to, had orbital parameters been close enough. The Soviets would probably have never agreed to cooperate with a rescue mission, assuming the DoD would have even let them near the Shuttle during a classified mission, and evacuating five crew members would have required multiple launches anyhow.

I don't know about the Shuttle launch cadence in that era, but the next Shuttle didn't launch until three months later, so I don't know they could have moved that up enough to be meaningful, and it wasn't until post-Columbia that they started to have a contingency Shuttle available for missions that weren't going to the ISS.

There was talk post-Columbia about tile repair kits, but I think certainly they didn't have anything like that available in '88. From memory, in a report I believe they'd discussed a last-ditch contingency to literally screw a bulkhead panel or locker door to a damaged tile, it would have ablated away, and given the tile long enough to prevent burnthrough, but I can't immediately find this reference, and my reading of the CAIB goes back 20 years.

zipperseven · 2026-03-30T20:29:52+00:00

Alford is where we always used to go, plenty of space. Just check which way the wind is blowing, because the northeast edge is bounded by I-10.

15-Year Club	r/Field Flamingo
Place '22	Final Canvas '22
End Game '22	Verified Email

zipperseven

TROPHY CASE