Kolgeirr

@Kolgeirr@sh.itjust.works
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Any chance your partner uses the heater and you don't? Many cars have a heater core bypass valve that only allows coolant into the heater core when the heat is on in the cabin.

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Because the magnet is attached to the truck bed, so the bumper is being pulled forward and the bed pushed back, and the forces cancel out to 0.

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Awesome! I claim victory for this thread. One more notch carved into the 1/2" ratchet.

People be jumping straight to head gaskets way too much when coolant issues arise.

I could happen here! Four 12-hour days..

Phantasy Star Online. They've tried to release sequels over the years - Universe, PSO2 - and failed miserably at capturing what made Episodes 1 and 2 great. There's no way they would be able to just update the graphics without trying to "improve" something in the gameplay, or changing the loot system, or adding MTX, and would just fuck it up again.

PSO is so good that even now, 23 years after it launched on Dreamcast, there's still hundreds if not thousands of people like me that still play regularly. Whether that's offline on their GameCube or online in Blue Burst on PC on a server like Ephinea.

Nah. My older 1080p stuff remains, but I just do 4k only now. Media server is powerful enough to transcode to 1080 on the fly for any device that can't handle 4k, or for slower network conditions.

When I bought my PS5 a few months ago I considered waiting for a PS5 Slim in the hopes that it would be less fuckin ugly. Glad I didn't wait, because they managed to make it worse by basically slapping the disc drive to the side.

5123 on the numpad is the lefty WASD

Phantasy Star Online (PSO). I have thousands of hours in that game across Dreamcast, GameCube and PC over the decades and I'm still not tired of it. It absolutely nailed the loot system and you're always looking to get another rare box drop. BlueBurst on PC still has multiple active and populated servers, but I feel like it doesn't get much discussion in gaming communities in general despite being one of the pioneers of online gaming on consoles.

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Vampire Survivors is basically mandatory at this point.

I like SearXNG

Well cool, about time. If they put offline mode in it'll finally make sense to put it on my Steam deck. Been wanting to play it portable since I got the deck but always use it away from home and setting up a hotspot connection to play an ARPG solo isn't great.

Assuming you have a PC, come join us on the Ephinea PSOBB server: https://ephinea.pioneer2.net/

I'm not that guy, but I don't think so. The trend will likely be that we get to the point where we render and display in such a high resolution that you can't even see pixels anymore. We're getting there already with smaller 4k displays where turning on AA doesn't have an appreciable difference in 4k native rendering.

I've been playing Sea of Stars on it lately, a great modern take on the classic JRPG format which works great on the deck.

Sup.

It'll be primed but not pressurized. Some leaks, especially in older rubber hoses, only leak under pressure when the swelling of the hose opens the split.

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I use NoMachine between windows and Linux and I'm happy with it. According to their site they support MacOS.

For a second there I felt called out, but my gas guzzling burnout truck is from the 90s 👍

Dang, still no co-op. Back to waiting I go.

Dunno if it's been delisted since, but I installed it on all my Rokus and Roku TVs a few weeks back without issue.

It works, but deck needs to be on. I just pulled a Grim Dawn install from my deck to my desktop PC on Tuesday.

Huh, didn't know that. Most of my wrenching has been done on older GM trucks and they used a vacuum actuated valve that cut the heater core out entirely by closing the loop under the hood, so coolant still flows by a shortened path. I'm just glad ops problem was found there. Thanks for the info!

I got an aftermarket 9 cell battery on Amazon for like $30, mine has 8 hours of battery life at idle now in Mint with the brightness all the way up. Highly recommended. Three SSDs, 16GB of RAM, but otherwise stock T420.

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Hell yeah it does. I just replayed it on my Steam Deck the other day after previously playing it on PS2 and PSP. My favorite rhythm game by far.

Considering they learned nothing from their mistakes with Global Agenda and went on to fuck up Ascend, I'm expecting them to fuck this up in new and exciting ways all over again.

I also try and ignore energy costs and prevent ewaste: my home server is my three builds back gaming PC with a lower power GPU shoved into it. Whenever I build a new main gaming PC my old one becomes my wife's gaming PC, and her old PC is rebuilt into the home server.

I use Linux Mint, mostly because I'm familiar with it. If I was to redo it, I would likely just run Debian.

Agreed. To me, the ringing is just what silence sounds like now after 15 years of the ringing. Mine isn't very bad, so I only really hear it in quiet spaces, but I protect my hearing as much as possible now to prevent it from getting worse.

So.. the force engine with Remastered cutscenes? Hopefully this remaster is like the Quake II one and just comes as a free patch.

Currently a 1996 2 door Tahoe. Picked it up last week, no rust on the thing, but a few mechanical issues I've been working through. Just put on an alternator, belt/tensioner/idler, power steering pump and steering gearbox today. Tomorrow is new headlight and transfer case switches, nerf bars and a third brake light.

If you want some variety, I played a ton of PowerWash Simulator when I had COVID and it was fantastic. Just chill, not much thought required, and clean stuff with a pressure washer progression system.

NoMachine has Android and Windows clients.