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Cake day: December 25th, 2024

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  • I did brakes recently, decided to buy new rotors and pads, realize that the slide pins are seized and the little boots are torn on one side and that caliper is probably toast, get everything put back together and it’s working for now. Try to bleed the brakes since the fluid looks like mud and the car has “speed bleeders” with check valves in them instead of little holes. The check valves are also seized because someone left the little rubber caps off so no fluid comes out until the bleeder screw is completely removed. I just let them gravity bleed for a minute and put them back in. I bought new bleeders so I can replace the fluid, probably should have just ordered calipers at this point.







  • Anything made in the past 10-15 years still works great, I have a couple of really old thin clients that I bought for around $20 and dumped my pis when the prices were way up. One runs octoprint and the other one runs Lubuntu out in the garage so I can look up vehicle specs and other things while I’m out there. I have a fifth Gen Intel laptop that still works great. I have a desktop with a Ryzen 3000 series that works just fine both bought used for under $100. Raspberry pi is good for certain tasks, but using it for a desktop makes little sense. Even now I’m working this message on an Android phone that was around $100 with no issues.

    CPU power hasn’t changed much, they’ve added more features over the years, but power hasn’t changed a lot, only Windows has gotten more bloated so you need more ram to run it.