No and no, I’m thinking about working for myself as an independent automotive diagnostician. That would still be somewhat unethical and hard work, but at least I’d face real challenges and be helping people on an individual level. I can’t just quit my day job right off the bat due to health insurance. I’d have to start doing work on the side, but business insurance plus equipment and subscriptions would make it difficult to break even. Plus I haven’t worked on cars professionally in about 12 years so I’m not up to snuff on working on newer cars.

Same, but I live in a small town with few other options, so I have to weigh the cost of driving 30 minutes one way if I need something immediately.

More like Tony I don’t care 😏

Everyone was born at 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970

Thank you for your very detailed response! My goal is to do automotive diagnostics so I’ll be working on the 13v range at the most. It looks like I should have sprung for the 2 channel picoscope which cost around $200. I knew going in that this scope would have limitations, but I didn’t fully understand what they are. Fortunately many sensors used for diagnostics work in the mv range. I’m mostly looking at relative comparisons such as cam and crank sensor correlation, an amp clamp (1mv output per amp), canbus, voltage fluctuations, and pulse sensors.

People forget that emissions reduction isn’t just about global climate change but also local air quality. Sure, it doesn’t matter as much in rural areas where there are fewer cars. However, in large cities it adds up and makes air quality plummet. People have a right to fresh air. Idiots are going to bring back smog and increase lung cancer because of a minor annoyance that most people don’t even notice.

Sometimes I think there are provacateurs on here, saying we should do something about so and so and so forth. Trying to do the old FBI trick of creating terrorism where there isn’t any.

I don’t know if this is still a thing in certain places but they used to physically take your driver’s license if you got a speeding ticket and then give it back to you when you paid the ticket.

They’re posting from an instance that allows open signups without an email. It will have to be defederated or the instance owner needs to fix that.

Their little hats look stupid

They’re going to air strike people on us soil, I guarantee it.

Missed opportunity to make muskys number 88

I’m not entirely sure yet. I’m pretty sure it is, I’m going to check resistance against the other side to see if it’s different. It is a commonly replaced part on these as well.

This is some cringy shit an edgy 13 yr old would do.

Another W for the fediverse.

Stolen valor, larping as military personnel.

Depends on where you live. Usually you can find them on your local municipal website.

You’re not going to kick a taillight and have it fall out like that unless it was already broken or loose also the wiring is stupidly long. The people in the video I saw also move fucky/ unnaturally unless the video I saw was sped up for a few frames here and there. It could be a doctored video where he really did kick the car, but I doubt the taillight would just fall out like that.

That taillight video looks like ai

Awesome! You can also use a router as a wireless bridge/repeater if you can get open wrt on it.