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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • For sim, I utilize iRacing to practice and learn tracks before real life amateur endurance races in champcar and lemons as well as track days.

    IMO iRacing physics are so good and the tracks are so well modeled that it’s a very effective learning tool. It’s the first sim since Live For Speed that really feels close enough to real life for me to forget I’m playing a sim.

    Plus traffic management and race craft are so crucially important in wheel to wheel racing & I simply don’t get any other opportunity to practice those.


  • Oh yeah for sure. I’m just a home gamer and I can’t stand jumpsuits, so any axle grease or bearing grease turns me into a spec ops camouflage expert.

    I’ll re-shill tub-o-towels here. Seriously fucking awesome for getting the even most sticky grime off your hands before you touch any doorknobs (or to clean your hands when there’s no faucet around).


  • Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s for rotating the inner tie rod when adjusting toe, not for replacing the inner - though I do love purpose made tools.

    I do a lot of track days and racing, so my toolkit is usually pretty minimal since I don’t own a semi to haul my tools over. My rule is usually “make do with what you have twice. If you’re still swearing the second time, go buy a quality dedicated tool and find room in the mobile tool box”.





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    Not sure what the problem is. Keep doing it.

    This is how I operate in most traffic jams, since I only own manual cars & it’s much easier on my leg.

    I genuinely don’t even remember any specific scenarios where somebody merging in caused me to have to come to a full stop (where I wouldn’t have had to stop if they didn’t merge). Not saying it never happened, but it was so rare and unnotable that I don’t remember.

    I do live in the northeast US, so maybe that has something to do with it, but I don’t usually feel like I spend meaningfully more time in traffic because I let a few people in front of me.

    Bonus benefit: my life is measurably better since I stopped getting pissed about people being in front of me. Road rage had such a broad impact on me, even after I got out of the car.



  • I’ve had some pretty great experience with my Brother multifunction printer / scanner on my Ubuntu server, but never played with Arch.

    Best part about Brother’s scanner driver is that it literally just runs a shell script you can modify. I have it set up such that I can scan to PDF from the printer & it will programmatically drop it into my samba share, despite the fact that my printer is not expensive enough to come with the “scan to nas” feature in firmware.










  • It certainly looks like packages are scheduled to go out today - that lines up with the “12th-13th” estimate google gave me for ground shipping. Maybe they delay shipping for Expedited customers, though.

    I don’t have a trade in, so I only have the one package (and my Google store page says it’s all arriving in one package). My FedEx account updated almost exactly the same time I got my email, so I got no advanced notice either.

    I suspect you’ll have to wait for Google to send you the “shipped” email in order to confirm your package is actually scheduled to be shipped.


  • FedEx doesn’t have my package yet, so still no definitive delivery date.

    Google appears to use FedEx Standard Overnight shipping for Expedited orders (at least to my region), so that should be next day shipping once FedEx gets the package.

    I’m gonna guess maybe they’ll release the package to FedEx tomorrow so I can get it on the 12th? If they ship it today, I’ll have it tomorrow on the 11th.

    I hate FedEx, but at least their Express delivery drivers and logistics seem less prone to theft and delay than FedEx ground.