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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Skimping on batteries on golf cars. I work as a mechanic for them. We've had literally 10 people bring in dead carts that had those stupidly cheap ($50 each) Rural King batteries (meant for starting a McCormick Farmall, not sustained EV usage!) and they end up doing far more expensive damage than they assumed they'd save by spending $40 less per battery. I'm talking they blow their motor, controller and various other electrical parts since low voltage = heat. Those crappy Rural King batts can't carry the load of an electric golf cart. What happens is parts get hot and melt or bake because they're low AH batteries intended to be starting batteries, not sustained use batteries.

It's a royal PITA to replace all the parts they burn out, and they get angry because they can't imagine why a $50 battery can't replace a $150 battery. The phrase 'you get what you pay for' seems unheard of to most folks today. If it's an EZGO Marathon cart from the ltae 1980s, you can bet it's got Rural Kings under the seat.
 
I wish I had the same luck with the Lottery that I have with jury duty given I got the second summons a few weeks ago. The first time was in 2008.
 
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olbriar said:
I didn't win the mega millions drawing today... and I was so prepared to buy some new socks.
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I didn't win millions on either the Sports or the Walfare today.

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Milo Williamson said:
How come each build on every android is different, why not just put in everything on one cell, and copy that ?
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That's what can happen with open source operating systems. everyone wants to do their own things with it. Android itself is an open source operating system. Similar with the GNU/Linux operating systems.Then you got manufacturers like Huawei that do forks of Android, HarmonyOS, and that can be very different again.

With proprietary OSs, like Microsoft Windows, all computers regardless of manufacturer all tend to work the same way.
 
mikedt said:
That's what can happen with open source operating systems. everyone wants to do their own things with it. Android itself is an open source operating system. Similar with the GNU/Linux operating systems.Then you got manufacturers like Huawei that do forks of Android, HarmonyOS, and that can be very different again.

With proprietary OSs, like Microsoft Windows, all computers regardless of manufacturer all tend to work the same way.
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Ahhhhh thanks for the heads up, so everything you can really edit for about the prices the apps do come with, thanks.
 
This one is getting more and more common and I'm certain it stems from a practice in Europe since we're getting more UK-ified in the USA lately like with Fiats and Ford Transit vans (Ford in name only I'm sure, much like the so-called Cadillac Catera)


Bike riders with flashing strobes for headlights. That stuff hurts my eyes and infuriates me. It's like a trigger to induce anger. Look, you're in the middle of nowhere, on a bike path, wearing bright yellow clothes on a bright sunny day. You are NOT invisible! Why do you need to annoy folks with flashing lights?!

If you're that paranoid or fearful of not being seen, then stay home. Being outdoors is scary.
 
nickdalzell said:
This one is getting more and more common and I'm certain it stems from a practice in Europe since we're getting more UK-ified in the USA lately like with Fiats and Ford Transit vans (Ford in name only I'm sure, much like the so-called Cadillac Catera)


Bike riders with flashing strobes for headlights. That stuff hurts my eyes and infuriates me. It's like a trigger to induce anger. Look, you're in the middle of nowhere, on a bike path, wearing bright yellow clothes. You are NOT invisible! Why do you need to annoy folks with flashing lights?!

If you're that paranoid or fearful of not being seen, then stay home. Being outdoors is scary.
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Always scary out side.. Bewere of crows.
 
Well shoot off my mother's brainwaves of waking me up about an hour early, I just fell asleep throughout the day, around six p.m., took a nap before eating and now I feel okay.
 
Et Ted ="Milo Willamson, post: 7983781, member: 2048666"]That when welted down, my soul ultimately heals by thy hand, and no one else to touch it free though, even by the hands upon different types of collectiveness, and still where is the time with one another?

I feel even more ill with that phantomless vacant lot of her own, her ghost of a thought still lingered on and on, but I need a break from her.
Everything feels so Iphone vs. what I want her to feel to me, like as of an android...
Milo Willamson said:
That when welted down, my soul ultimately heals by thy hand, and no one else to touch it free though, even by the hands upon different types of collectiveness, and still where is the time with one another?

I feel even more ill with that phantomless vacant lot of her own, her ghost of a thought still lingered on and on, but I need a break from her.
Everything feels so Iphone vs. what I want her to feel to me, like as of an android device..
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Milo Willamson said:
That when welted down, my soul ultimately heals by thy hand, and no one else to touch it free though, even by the hands upon different types of collectiveness, and still where is the time with one another?

I feel even more ill with that phantomless vacant lot of her own, her ghost of a thought still lingered on and on, but I need a break from her.
Everything feels so Iphone vs. what I want her to feel to me, like as of an android device..
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Oh, boy.

Your lit’ry prose notwithstanding, I’m’2,:2,:,2:2,2:,:,2

The link between an Android device & -,2:,2:,2,-2,:2,
Man, my hope of the day is this:

I hope that your posts, within AF, help you in the way o
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Oh no. LW is back for a visit. Yes, I still have my love for the Android of old, but I'm living an Apple life now. It's funny, because my entire tech experience had begun in '79-'80 on an Apple II (well, there was Basic and stick-the-card-in Fortran before that). I even used Mac computers beginning with System 7, owned the FIRST MacBook (huge, with a LITTLE LCD display that you could barely read), rode the wave until early OS X. I lived a Mac life. After my love affair with Apple had ended after OS 9.3, it was what led me to Android. Back then, the Google idealism was hardcore, very much AOSP, and the Google community was far more inclusive and willing to share; it reminded me of how the two Steves laid the groundwork for Apple in the early days, before Apple got burned and became the "Wall of Propriety."

I stopped using Android when I had a phone with a locked bootloader, and the only way to stop the data bleed through unused apps from social media was to disable the apps. I got myself set up with a non-Google server, went to the F boys and other developers for apps, and while I may have had a lot more privacy - the phone performed poorly, and I wasn't in any financial shape to get another one at that time - so, my partner got two iPhones (series 3 iPhone 7s with XR chips). The phone worked well, though I would have to squint a lot to see icons on the small screen.

Got a new, out-of-the-box iPhone X for a present last Christmas. Turned in my 'leased' iPhone 7 (yep, I saved a few duckies), and I had a OtterBox Defender Pro case to protect the iPhone X. Well... it got dropped a month ago (my partner) (!)...

I now have an iPhone 13 with 256 gB of memory. I can use VPNs. I can use TOR-related apps (hell, I've got the Snowflake TOR extension in Safari). The screen is much nicer, and dammit, it's blue. A medium/dark blue that is metallic, so the light plays off of it like a '70 Chevelle SS. I love the color blue (my favorite).

I do have an Android goal. My intent is to get a popular Android smartphone just to @#*! with. Shoot for the usual suspects, etc.
 
LOveWerks said:
Oh no. LW is back for a visit. Yes, I still have my love for the Android of old, but I'm living an Apple life now. It's funny, because my entire tech experience had begun in '79-'80 on an Apple II (well, there was Basic and stick-the-card-in Fortran before that). I even used Mac computers beginning with System 7, owned the FIRST MacBook (huge, with a LITTLE LCD display that you could barely read), rode the wave until early OS X. I lived a Mac life. After my love affair with Apple had ended after OS 9.3, it was what led me to Android. Back then, the Google idealism was hardcore, very much AOSP, and the Google community was far more inclusive and willing to share; it reminded me of how the two Steves laid the groundwork for Apple in the early days, before Apple got burned and became the "Wall of Propriety."

I stopped using Android when I had a phone with a locked bootloader, and the only way to stop the data bleed through unused apps from social media was to disable the apps. I got myself set up with a non-Google server, went to the F boys and other developers for apps, and while I may have had a lot more privacy - the phone performed poorly, and I wasn't in any financial shape to get another one at that time - so, my partner got two iPhones (series 3 iPhone 7s with XR chips). The phone worked well, though I would have to squint a lot to see icons on the small screen.

Got a new, out-of-the-box iPhone X for a present last Christmas. Turned in my 'leased' iPhone 7 (yep, I saved a few duckies), and I had a OtterBox Defender Pro case to protect the iPhone X. Well... it got dropped a month ago (my partner) (!)...

I now have an iPhone 13 with 256 gB of memory. I can use VPNs. I can use TOR-related apps (hell, I've got the Snowflake TOR extension in Safari). The screen is much nicer, and dammit, it's blue. A medium/dark blue that is metallic, so the light plays off of it like a '70 Chevelle SS. I love the color blue (my favorite).

I do have an Android goal. My intent is to get a popular Android smartphone just to @#*! with. Shoot for the usual suspects, etc.
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I am going to the f boys even more and more, for some wicked photograph apps and everything underneath the sun.

I feel alright for the time being, hahaha, I was thinking "What did LW mean by that above posts?" I double read it hahaa, yeah sometimes the HH is worth it though, throughout just the benifactors of the grave though, I just kept dissapearing when she did show up at the store, I keep getting super nervous though, somewhat in her mind "We are perfect etc. Until the doom taketh away." I call it pan fried ham on it! :)
 
Again why does the age old question for me ringing in my head?
"Hey Milo, how come you have not tied the slipknot yet?"

"Well sorry I have moved away from heavy metal, I am more into classic jazz."
 
So recently I came across a note 3 that had been sitting in a box for God knows how long. In the gallery folder I found photos going back to 2007/2008. I figured that my wife has taken them with an older device (her first Samsung Galaxy phone and saved it to the SD card. I was going to go and upload the pictures to my Google photos. However I got side tracked and the next day when I went to upload them, presto all goneo_O:maskeddroid::thumbsdowndroid::maddroid:
I open every single folder scroll through sittings, search everywhere on that device and couldn't find them. Thankfully we have hard copies somewhere
 
What really rants is packing up for vacation, yeah I did brought more undies than socks lol :)
I blame that on myself hahaaa, I do not wear them around the cottage as much as back my home,
ontopic I thought it was going to be "Stay in town" type of days, so I panick and packed up my mask and money with my usb charger, nooooo, we decided to come back home after the dump :)

Safe and sound :)
 
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