My shop carries 0w8 oil now! It has statements that it can't be sold in Canada, I assume they have consumer protection laws up there and this stuff is just too thin.

My @hiddenstash.bsky.social shirt and print came in! The glow in the dark is super cool, though I can't find a practical way to photograph it with my phone 😅

Plastic engine mount in one of the current Honda SUVs Uhhhh I guess Honda is off the list now, idk.

On one hand, it's cool that ford notes the composition of the alloys on the parts sometimes. On the other hand, GOOD LORD THATS THE LOWER CONTROL ARM, PLEASE JUST BUILD IT OUT OF SOMETHING WITH SOME DURABILITY, THIS THING SHOULD NOT NEED CHASSIS STIFFENING RODS.

Oh, good.

AND my water pump is bad again. Thank you, German automotive parts.

~aesthetic~

Ah, so THAT'S why they call it a "shade tree mechanic" and not a "direct sunlight mechanic"

I'm assuming the windows 12 rumors are a hoax. I've been boycotting Microsoft for about a decade due to their breathtaking incompetence, sure. But I can't imagine they'd be back on the "AI FIRST!!!" Train after they had to make changes to windows 11 to let users remove copilot.

Wow, the new Minis are deplorable.

I... have not seen that warning before in this game. This engine may not be a winner

Boss gifted me a single stick of DDR1 ram. Or... I guess it was just DDR back then. Well, I found it when I was trying to find something for him, and he said "I don't want that, you can have it" Still, a very kind gesture.

MICROSOFT get your NUTS off of my POINT OF SALE SYSTEM.

Please do not join any of these automotive fleet things that they're doing commercials about now. They're all scumbags.

Beast

"! The clearance on the side of the engine is getting narrow. This can increase service costs." Brother, that is intersecting in places.

I found some kind of gas detector that's been hit by one or more cars

Hey Subaru, you could just... make the BRAT again. Like, while car-chassis pickups are popular in the US. Look, see, I did it. It took like an hour.

I'm so glad Automation lets me design horrible cars for BeamNG.Drive. This is a "muscle car" with a biturbo boxer engine (transverse mounted at the front) and front wheel drive. It's actually pretty stable and quick, but MAN the computer didn't like trying to fit that engine in there.

Gotta be left running for a while...

Not to nitpick, but none of the letters of that acronym are correct

I guess my car has gotten mad at me? This boi has some problems, but oil/coolant intermix was NOT on my bingo card.

The local VW dealership has been sending me stuff about a recall for over a year, like a couple of fliers per week. Gave in today, put my vin in on their website, and it said "no open recalls!" Motherfucker. Who dares?

How cold is YOUR workplace? Mine is so cold that we've put an incandescent lamp next to the POS computer to keep it warm in its little cabinet.

Got my Tankhead artbook and it's super cool so far! @tankhead-mecha.bsky.social

Chat, I hope they make these tires in the right size for my Passat.

I bought a painting of a happy dog!

The starship HLS renders coming out are really giving me "musk is actually a 12-year-old" vibes

I like that this panic-buying season, it's all about like... bananas, celery, and zucchini. What are people intending to make?

Got a sweet bandana and some cool buttons from @hiddenstash.bsky.social ! Also got jump scared by these Nicholas Cage stickers lol.

Apparently a carrier can have an outage for JUST E-SIM phones?

That... is not an eagle. It least it's ddr3, so it isn't expensive.

I love a good hard drive. Volume up!

I think I color matched my filter signature with the paint pretty well

I have a cold, but at least this thing is in bloom so I have flowers to look at. Side note: I love to buy orchids off the discount cart at hardware stores and the like, then give them a chance at life.

I accidentally put heavy whipping cream on my cereal. It was amazing, I'm pretty sure I know how kings, queens, and popes eat their lucky charms now.

"Oh how's your day off going?" "Great! I made a black pepper infusion that I can make into a syrup, so that I can make better black pepper icecream!"

This is gonna be dumb and weird, but I really want a modern Subaru equivalent to the Honda Fit. Just The Littlest Guy™, but with all wheel drive for no reason and like... a 1-liter boxer engine. Hell, it can be a 1.25 liter boxer twin made on the 2.5 liter tooling.

Huh.

I was playing my resonator guitar for the first time in too long, marveling to myself about how freaking loud they can go. Then the thing happened... I forgot about that... Resonators are mean to picks, don't forget.

I bought ram during the ram shortage because I'm an idiot. Will report how that goes.

I think, for my midlife crisis, I'm going to get really excited about conifers. I just think they're neat.

Point-and-click dog loot. Yes.

Toilet=fixed. The internet was not consulted. The POWER coursing through my veins.

A customer of Questionable Sobriety asked me where I was from, saying "you're not from around here" I've lived here since I was six months old, so I just said "television"

At what point is it hail

It's not quite snowing, not quite sleeting. They look like insecticide pellets my shop uses on fire ants.

Corrupting the boot drive in my main Linux machine was not how I wanted to start the day. Buuuuut I was putting off upgrading it because I didn't want to start from scratch... now I'm starting from scratch anyway, so a bigger one is on the way!

This ornament from @hiddenstash.bsky.social is so cute! Also the sparkly stickers are excellent.

IT CAME BACK!!!