Telstarado

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nah, I loved that movie. Great music and a lot of fun lines here and there. Definitely not an academy award contender, but still pretty fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Could be - tbh it's been a minute since I looked into those. Either way, a low mileage pull is an excellent option and will last the life of the car if well maintained..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Meant to mention those and forgot! As long as it's got some kind of decent guarantee that's a great way to go. Should be plenty of them out there, as I'd imagine most of those vehicles end up getting totaled in accidents of varying severities rather than dying from engine problems. I do believe the Japanese engines are available as a result of their having stricter emissions requirements, BTW..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

As someone who is seemingly constantly working on computers and has done a ton of engine building and other deep car stuff, in addition to the garage mentioned previously, I'd recommend buying a buildable engine core for your subaru, getting that built (either do it yourself - recommended, or by a machine shop - will probably work well, but will cost a lot of $$) and having it ready to install rather than trying to pull the existing engine out and rebuilding it - especially if the current engine still runs.

Unless your plan is to make a hobby of having exploded cars in the yard, this'll go a long way towards putting an end in sight for an engine rebuilding venture.

Also fuck all car subscriptions - that's some gross profiteering right there...

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

A) I applaud you for your masterful continuation of the pelagic theme of this discussion about Elon porpoisely allowing this project to flounder into Davy Jone's locker.

B) TIL that an anglerfish lure is called an esca and that a sufficiently literate person can seamlessly weave such an unusual word into this net of fishy discourse.. Bravo!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Back in the day I used to love many of the fantasy novels by David Eddings (e.g. Belgariad, Mallorean) but after learning about the terrible child abuse he and his wife were prosecuted for, I can't look at them the same way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Personally, unless you really love the house or location I'd walk away. I'd also be super surprised if issues found by a structural engineer can be fixed, particularly if you have to hire someone for a significant amount of that work, for just 15k, as after the structure is correct there's a bunch of other aspects of the building's construction that will have been disrupted and need fixing. If you need to hire a contractor for repairs it'd probably be more realistic to budget 50-80k for repairs.

If nearby homes exist in turnkey condition for 100k that's your better bet. Not being willing to turn the electricity on in order to help a prospective buyer check out the place is a huge red flag with sirens attached as well. Structural problems can be very bad, electrical problems can burn the place down and kill everyone inside.

Walk away would be my suggestion.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This is the way. Win is already activated, no need to pirate anything. Just get a >= 8gb flash drive, download the installer creator app from Microsoft, and reinstall Windows. It will activate based on the licensing level the machine came with, minus the crapware, which is from the manufacturer's OS image, not Microsoft's.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Same. I love my Plex server - I rip all of my physical media audio and video to it and can watch/listen on all of my devices. Music is especially fun on Plex, as it pulls in great bio info for most of the artists, which makes organizing my decent sized music library a fun bit of zen..