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#14821 Post by Bellhead »

The XP machine has 5 partitions, including one 256 GB drive and a terabyte drive with two partitions totaling almost 900 GB, more than half of which are movies. But, even when playing Quake III at 60 FPS, or the whole way through In Cold Blood, for instance, I've never used the whole 500 MB of RAM installed.

On another note, Nissan Kicks transmission replacements really suck. Don't ever break it. The official service procedure goes something like, "remove everything in front of the firewall, then replace the transmission, then re-install it". Lucky me and my fijangling skills, I was able to do in 2 hours, using a tie-town strap, a crowbar and a block of wood, what a team of Japanese engineers couldn't do with millions of dollars in funding, years of development, and an entire team of designers: make the job WAY easier.

Service manual says, "remove car, replace part". Technician says, "yeah, [censored] that. Eat crowbar", then takes a lunch break.
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#14822 Post by Technic[Bot] »

So did a new test:
Windows with nothing running but the OS and task manager 3.0-3.2 GB of RAM
Windows with two firefox windows and 5 tabs 4.9 GB of RAM
Linux with two firefox windows 6 tabs in total and a terminal: 3.2 GB of RAM

By the way i do not use Chrome if i can help it I only have 16 GB of RAM.

The problem with engineering design is that sometimes they are optimizing for objectives that are not clear for the end user. Sure one can be flabergasted by the assembly and the ridiculous level of complexity that it imposes on routine maintenance. But it if saves the company a couple millions on parts or by cutting down production time then I am sorry but that is the design they are gonna use.
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#14823 Post by Bellhead »

I made a leg rest for my creeper. Now I can sleep with my knees elevated while napping on my creeper hammock 4 feet in the air suspended by tie-down straps when the shop dies down.

I got two reactions to it: "You never cease to amaze me", or "Only you would do something like that." One person gave me both. It was a happy day.
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#14824 Post by Technic[Bot] »

Had a hammock before but never had i read the term creeper hammock.

Tangentially related a lot of tools and mechanical parts have very idiomatic and local names in each different language.
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#14825 Post by Bellhead »

By "creeper hammock", I literally mean that I made a hammock out of a creeper. And hung it from lift arms using tie down straps. And I sleep on it. And now it has a foot rest.

Further side note: putting a foot rest on a creeper is a dangerous idea. I fell asleep underneath a running car for I-don't-know-how-long, without even realizing it.
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#14826 Post by Technic[Bot] »

Creeper like a plant?

Yeah be careful carbon monoxide poisoning is dangerous as it is very hard to tell until too late.
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#14827 Post by Bellhead »

Creeper as in creeper.
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#14828 Post by Tornir »

Bellhead wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 12:32 am Creeper as in creeper.
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Gurgle's giving a 403 forbidden error on that image. are the permissions set for public viewing?

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#14829 Post by Bellhead »

That was an image I found on Google. Hang on...

Try this one. Creeper.
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#14830 Post by Technic[Bot] »

That is called a creeper? The more you know.jpg

I think i have mentioned before, but the amount of vocabulary one needs to communicate is surprisingly small.

Being perfectly honest i did not even knew what those things were named, even in Spanish 😅.
Direct translation from local listings to English is something like "Workshop strecher/trolley"
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#14831 Post by Bellhead »

Sounds very... high-society. Quite proper, Mm, yes, quite indeed good sir. (read in English accent)
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#14832 Post by Technic[Bot] »

Honestly I imagined you reading that drinking tea, with a top hat, monocle and heavy London accent.

Fun related fact. In these lands it is not unusual for mechanics to call the rear axle differential of some truck "pumpkin".
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#14833 Post by Bellhead »

Of course it's not. That's what that is.
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#14834 Post by Technic[Bot] »

Oh do they call it pumpkin over there too?

That explains why we call it that way over here then.
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#14835 Post by Kellard »

I just noticed my last post was made last month. Didn't think it had been that long.
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