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21 minutes ago“There are three types of lies. Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” - Mark Twain.
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I see 80s 90s era cars and trucks running around my town all day every day.
Try again.
Yeah, meant the input shaft
While true, there are syncro-less racing transmissions as well for a number of the more popular moddable cars.
It is a natural consequence of tighter regulations.
81·2 days agoI’ll just wait until the fitgirl sale…
Uh.
I drove semi trucks in the US for years…
You’d better either double clutch or float those gears, because if you don’t, you’re destroying your clutch brake, which means you’ll have trouble getting it into gear from a dead stop. That applies for both upshifts and downshifts.
Ever sit next to an old truck or bus and hear them grinding gears to get into gear?
That’s due to the clutch brake failing to stop the flywheel.
All semi trucks in the US use synchro-less manual transmissions.
When shifting a syncro-less transmission, YOU are the synchro.
The clutch in these trucks has 2 positions. You either just barely engage the clutch enough to break contact, or you depress it fully to engage the clutch brake and (attempt to) stop the flywheel from spinning.
If you do the second one while shifting a moving vehicle, you’re causing undue wear and tear on the aforementioned clutch brake.
So punish those of us who do know how to make the cheap stuff work in a way we want, by removing the cheap stuff from the market, because other idiots don’t?
Yeah, solid idea.
Here, let me help.
Less than 20 USD.
Like I said. Not willing to even try to look for something appropriate for your use case…
It’s not elitism to say “If you want something done right, do it yourself.”
Elitism?
Dude. I am an almost 50 year old, former truck driver with no formal education on any of this shit, and yet, I managed to figure it out.
If you can’t, then that’s most assuredly a YOU problem.
SURELY you’re smarter than a truck driver?
Only if it’s made too hard for a new company or more options to emerge.
The ones who have hate in their hearts can now shows us all their true colors.
That’s a good thing in my eyes. Let them show us exactly who they are.
Again. That’s a lack of skill. Why is it my problem?
If they can’t be bothered to do 5 minutes of research before buying something, that’s on them.
Caveat emptor.
You can’t buy used on Amazon. I said used
The largest majority of people also can’t be bothered to do a single shred of research before buying something. How is that anyone else’s problem but theirs?
The best consumer protection comes from the consumer. Do a bit of research before you buy something.
If you can’t be bothered to take a few extra minutes to do that, then quite frankly, you deserve to be fucked by scammers.
It means you don’t know how to make it work. Last I checked, a used N100 all in one PC with dual Ethernet is cheaper than even most brand new consumer routers, and also sips watts.
So it’s a skill issue, then? Got it. Any old PC + a $10 pcie network adapter can be turned into a router capable of it.
Easy enough to enforce. Put all your IoT devices into their own subnet/VLAN with no Internet access. Then, you’ll quickly see which devices you need to replace, or just not use as “smart” devices.
I have a ton of smart devices that don’t even connect to wifi at all. None of them have Internet access of any sort.
This myth needs to die. The only parts of BSD that Apple used for iOS/osx, were from bsd4.4 (released in like the 1990s). And even then it was only parts of the user space.
The kernel is a completely different beast.
Apple has always said this about their users. Too stupid to allow choices outside of a few curated options.