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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [M] to c/justpost@lemmy.world
 
 

With six yeas and one nay, and, uh, 1193 abstainers, I'm calling it.

Since it seems to be what most of us want, or at least what most of everyone who took the time to comment wants (I carefully left my own opinions out of this one, you will notice), AI generated content is no longer allowed in Just Post.

No hard feelings to anybody who posted it previously, intentionally or otherwise, and I will leave existing posts alone. Going forward, however, if you spot something that is AI slop and can make a credible case for it, flag it and I will remove it.

Note that "I disagree with this person or their post" is not grounds for you to blithely call it AI.

Be kind to each other, be honest, and always remember that at the end of the day we're all people behind the screen.

Except for the bots, which aren't people. They can go in the wood chipper.

Previous content:That would be feel out, not feel-up, unless you're into that kind of thing in which case I can't help you right now.

Some people aspire to greatness and others have it thrust upon them; so it was for me as well when the lemmy.world admins outright insisted I take over this sub as moderator in the absence of the other listed mod, @suns3t@lemmy.world, who has been inactive for almost two years. So far I've left this place as I found it, including leaving that sidebar rather forlorn and barren. The community so far just implicitly inherits the lemmy.world sitewide rules, which we can do nothing about, and that's it.

I'm making a rare appearance here because I noticed the wailing and gnashing of teeth over AI content with the recent Die Hard Lego set post. At the moment I handle moderation based entirely on user reports. If a bunch of people flag something, or just one person who makes a decently compelling case, I'll remove the offending post or comment. A sidenote also to that one guy from the other week who sent me a report over a post they simply disagreed with and did not provide a reason: That one didn't meet my threshold.

Anyhoo, I'm getting the feeling there's a rather strong sentiment around here that people don't like AI generated content. So here's the question:

Should we prohibit posting AI generated stuff here an actual rule? Yea or nay.

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I remember when I still lived at home - the home I grew up in where my old man lives with his new family. But, this memory is from before I joined the cult but after I started training with the CIA. I began my healing thirteen years ago with the start of my educational art project while guided by the aliens that lived on my laptop at the time, and this was about eleven-and-a-half years back, I believe. I wanted to start reconnecting with my father, as we lived in two seperate worlds in the same house. At the same time, I wanted to teach him something that I had learned from God; that being how systems evolve over time. So, I sheepishly asked him one night if he would like to play a game with me: Civilization V.

This is one of my favorite games, along with the Binding of Isaac and Minecraft, but I chose it because board games, particularly chess and stratego, were big staples of my childhood, having many happy and sad moments with him in these times. He agreed after I explained the concept of a grand strategy game. Things went pretty well for a minute there, bonding as he learned the game. We were on a team versus individual easy computer opponents, so victory was guaranteed just by the fact that we were going to produce twice as much science as these idiot clankers. He chose America, and I chose the Aztecs because I quietly knew I was going to have to protect him from barbarians at the beginning of the game, so free culture for me.

Obviously, we didn't complete a game in a night, passing my laptop back and forth on the couch in the living room for an hour or so. But we kept it up for a few nights, with me bearing his sarcasm that makes up the bulk of how he chooses to socialize just like his mother and just like I've been doing my due diligence in trying to heal from these last thirteen years. Then he accuses me of cheating; that I was playing away from him, to get an advantage...despite how we played on a team in a game I sunk over a thousand hours in. His argument was each time we started up the game, it was on me even though the turns, y'know, progress as Player 1>2>3>4 - whatever that option is called for playing on the same computer. He didn't understand that when we ended after I took my turn, then he took his turn, then I'd save the game after the computer players went.

I even showed him how I was saving it after he hit "end turn." No, I'm just a conniving fiend in his eyes and he can't see the world any other way. Senile is one word, but no, it's really prejudice my father has for me, whose audacious act of coming into this world ultimately coincidenced with his wife being taken from him. Truly, the relationship between Tywin and Tyrion Lannister mimics how my father treats me. In every God damn scenario of me interacting with this man since we've reconnected in the past few years has been accusations and snide comments and ultimately just treating me like I'm garbage that can do no good. And I was garbage at one point: I WAS RAISED AND TRAUMATIZED BY HIM TO LEAVE HOME FOR COLLEGE AS A COMPLETELY BROKEN SPECIMEN OF A HUMAN BEING!

Thank Christ almighty I had my mother and she taught me what love is. It's what compels me to amend these traits I inherited from him in my spiritual work and help others on whatever similar quest they're incarnated here for. Because, y'know, I've asked for some money here and there these past two or three years; y'know, for milk when things aren't working out, helping with emergencies, plus he sent me the money for a bike. And throughout this time I sent several gifts to him and my brother (>$500) while offering to do work online to help sell my stepmom's quilts. But y'know, looking through CashApp, he sent me $3,900 over three and a half years in the midst of recovering from the homelessness he caused when he first threw me away for the emotional dysregulation he also caused, and that's enough to throw a person his son away, obviously.

...meanwhile, I'm over $100k in debt to my life partner's father I have never met or spoken to. But then again, I imagine you have a lot more money to spare when you aren't forced to throw away so much on fixing shit your Karma breaks on you. Like, this is something that many people won't understand, because most people are stuck in the same loop/cycle of karmic rebirth in this illusion of a world and never experience life the way it can be lived. Growing up and living with my dad? Every week it was something new! The garbage disposal broke. The fridge started leaking. The truck's transmission died, again. Fender bender. Pipes bursting. Mold. Toilet backs up. Missed opportunity at work, lost a contract. Friend pissed him off too much, he said something that lost him that friend.

That's, y'know, what life is like when you shoot out your neighbor's kiddie pool in all three inflatable sections with your pellet gun in a stealth commando mission at midnight that you bragged about because their kid was too loud. If you destroy everything your son's deceased mother ever made him because he forgot to take out the trash, your life gets real shitty, y'know? When you make family cry because you stubbed your toe and said the most cruel thing ever, bro, all I can say is I pity you with what's coming your way.

Cuz, shit is wonderful now. Y'know, I had no money just yesterday, but I know I had maybe five dollars in points at the weed store to get a preroll. So, I call and ask what my balance is to be told I only have thirty-five cents. What? That can't be right! I fuss a second to be told that apparently they accidentally made a second account for me that had over twenty dollars in points. It was the account from my old ID...the one I already went through this exact scenario before, to combine the only two accounts I've had on a completely seperate occasion about a year ago to thus gain free money from an account I'm pretty positive had nothing in it. And this is just one of dozens of types of stories I have for when I have magicked weed with no money.

This one time, just after Christmas, they were selling those fruitcake candies for twenty-five cents a tin at Safeway. I bought a big bag of those and dropped them off at every one of the bus stops in the area. On this trip, I found an abandoned, completely unopened gallon of olive oil. Weird how the more you give, the more you get, y'know? Yet, Karma is even more miraculous. See, I had a slight cavity in a back molar around the time I met my life partner. It was super achy and annoying. Then I started taking care of this man who is much farther on the path of enlightenment than me. A few days later, my tooth stopped hurting. Since then, this tooth has sheared in half multiple times, leaving 1/16 of a very dead tooth exposed in my mouth. No pain.

Well, there's been literally a couple moments. The only time I ever feel anything from it is when I do something regretful, like how I started defaming my father with egregious lies in ways that could disrupt his personal and professional life. It turned into a real dull, burning pain, like all the way into the gums. Did not like that. I stopped. The pain went away. And I do so find it funny how it doesn't hurt telling the truth.

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At the very least, I can't believe the person who posted this model didn't realize it looks exactly like female genitals.

But now I'm like , so our lady of Guadalupe has been a subliminal vagina this whole time.

This whole time and no one noticed ?!?

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Therapist appointment earlier today. It's part of my title IX deferment, but I think therapy would be a smart thing for me anyways, y'know. We went over my insane explosive rage recently, mainly catalyzed by my drinking, but y'know, like Chernobyl was ultimately caused by the graphite tips of the uranium rods (amongst a long series of things going wrong) - because graphite accelerates nuclear reactions - there wouldn't be a big boom if there wasn't the uranium there.

…y'know, I hear some of the shit my therapist said in response to what I said made me a bit aware of how people ain't not doing a damn to piece together nonfamiliar verbiage. Y'know, the thing I have to do with all of you all the time because the average person is highly privileged to, as a joke I'll say, you all exist within the central finite curve of culture. You can relate to the people around you, right?

My therapist asked me what things I think about often, first bringing up my mom, and it's like no, you just blind-sided me with thinking about it, so I lost energy in my composure and deflated, which is why I don't think about her directly often. But I think of my dad a lot. Maybe that's why I'm angry so often. But y'know, really, I was kinda censoring myself, cuz what do I say?

“Oh, late at night, in a completely non-sexual way, genuinely because I have already masturbated at this point, but when my mania mind is going crazy, I think about, y'know, the mass wide-scaled terrorism I could enact and what is the best (re: worst) way to torture a child that would leave them most scarred for a very long life, as two small, insignificant examples of things that calm me down in a meditative way.”

Cuz, like, fuck. Back to what I was saying about the graphite and the uranium. Like, ain't none of these fucking problems I have would exist if it wasn't for my father's gross ineptitude. But, it is the child's mind that blames others for present circumstances. I take responsibility for my present circumstances despite the objective causality of what made me this way because this gives me the greatest power to make changes in my life to get to where I want to be.

We went over this concept where I ended up replying with how mindfulness is the most important part of this process because that is what allows you to notice those moments where change can happen; that each moment is a juncture that defines what future junctures we can take. The idea is to notice those times you cross the passage in the labyrinth or come across those moves in a Rubik's Cube that take you to those future moves that solve everything for you.

And as I left, he did a fun thought-reversal technique, where I had said I was happy I abstained from drinking, where on the way out, he flipped it to say “weren't you happy that you had a beer waiting for you, or what was that?” Y'know, he got my executive mind to go over what I said made me happy. But that wasn't actually what made me happy. I do that all the time, abstaining from substances. What happened on the way in, I biked past a man who wasn't flying a sign, was sitting out of the way, in my peripheral, but was very disheveled. God has been presenting these moments where I definitely do see a homeless person in my unconscious mind, but it's always a moment too late for me to make the decision to stop and hand them some money or food. It's 💯% God conditioning me to keep my lanterns trimmed; to be mindful and ready to spring at that split-second moment to be a good Samaritan.

As I blessed the man and took back off, I passed a man outside a restaurant on the phone. As I passed, he said, “Don't worry, forget about it. It's all good.” At the moment I heard it, I thought it was about the rage episode I had, and that helped me talk about it, y'know? But there's a message across time, too. On my way back, I passed an absurd number of lottery tickets on the ground, like two hundred. This was a reminder of a moment years ago when I got mugged in Miami while following the whispers of God. This was critical for my development and because of it, I had no problem eating out of garbage cans with my now life partner and I first met while homeless together. If I wasn't mugged, I would not have been in the place of my development to be ready to meet this man I love so dearly.

There are times God scolds me for drinking through synchronicity. But then there are times God tells me to drink, and has made it clear by unlocking my bike lock in the most peculiar way one time, magickally, to convey the message that He is disentangling myself from my “self.” For some reason, I'm reminded of my first conversation with Vince. We get pushed together when God says it's time.

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Wrath of the lamb (thelemmy.club)
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Alright, I need to write something. It's 7:30am, a day after the episode where I lost my mind temporarily and did an insane anger, a big one where I used a kitchen knife to carve out letters from my totally real and definitely does exist life partner because I assaulted him (...for some reason I was reminded of my first fight with Tyler...) and was arrested for this crime I apparently committed...where tf was I going with that...? Oh yea (sry have to fake stoopid), but I used a knife that could kill a man to rip up keys of this DVORAK keyboard I purchased with my own money on my singular debit card in my birth name that I alone used because my absolutely corporeal and living, breathing, existing life partner who definitely interned with the CIA whom I met in the strangest, most perfect circumstances when I was homeless to thus then acquire >$100k in tax-free finances to thus live indoors for these two-going-on-three years, that real human being has taken vows never to handle any money ever again.

...was that word salad to you people? Must be too complex of an idea. But no seriously, I've just about had it with this life. I had an awful realization, that if I kill my life partner, then I can die in peace, cuz then I don't got to worry about this lovable idiot going through decades of Hell without me. And I, the me I think I am, has literally negative intent to make that ish a reality. I want a good story, dammit! But y'know, I'm looking at the door I ripped off the hinges and punched straight fucking through to scrape a part of my arm around the elbow when taking it out of the door, and I say to myself, "Shiiii....I'm not in control of this fucking choice garbagoo..."

And y'know, free will is a skill, as my one handler in the CIA (Jux) hammered into my head early on, and it really comes down do "Did I drink and do offbrand, over-priced CVS Benadryl?" Cuz if I don't do that, this shit never happens. But if I don't wank it to the thought of utterly reprehensible and unfathomably depraved sexual fantasies with the legal porn on Reddit that doesn't need an ID for some reason here in Joe Arpagio's state he owns, how am I going to prevent myself from asking the cute 40-yo crackwhore flying a sign if I can nut in her behind the Dairy Queen?

...there was actually this very pleasant woman missing her front teeth who had what I might dare to call the beginning stages of that arousing-type of wrinkly boobs in a completely braless tank top that I went out of my way to give the five dollars I had that absolutely would love to rawdog and have been thinking about, but y'know, isn't it great my actually real life partner is still a virgin? But y'know, this rabid frustration I feel from my life partner who has, for literally the majority of our time living indoors together, actively and consciously tried to trigger me by doing things my father would do out of complete compassion to help cure me of my anger...

...because, y'know, when your father is the type of guy to jump on an eighteen year old two months after his whore AIDS wife died (my mom, whom he informed me I would die just like her for being irresponsible after he destroyed everything my mother ever made me (I forgot to take the garbage out; age eleven)), or get a fridge magnet that said "No ifs, ands, or..." and the joke being it's a buncha sexy women in thongs and you tell your son that's the meaning of life, or use your dead wife's life insurance money in conjunction with your son's social security money to buy a Jaguar to one-up your own mother who followed you to buy a Cadillac you already had, well, y'know, when you have a father like mine, it's only natural to have your entire life ruined by the emotional dysregulation caused by the hell realms you suffered in childhood.

But y'know, I just wish my dad cared about me. I mean, he cared a lot when I ran track and I was not allowed to be slow to the point where I was doing three practices a day and incurred some bulimia symptoms in my insane desire for bodily perfection. But now that I only do art and education and he doesn't get to be the cool dad anymore, he's thrown me away.

...like my literally real life partner has done with his mother, and it pisses me the fuck off that the most caring man I know is this heartless to his family. And yea, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHY he has cast his mom out of his life; she is literally identical to my grandma in terms of narcissistic domineering. She told me on the way to court for assaulting her genetic and memetic product she shit out her pussy that the clothes I was wearing were the type she does gardening in. It didn't phase me because I'm an autistic tard and didn't realize she was insulting me until days later, but I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHY my father cut contact with his parents to thus subsequently make me lose all five of my grandparents in the shitstorm of losing my mother over and over and over again (he told me once women are like kleenex; age 12ish), but y'know, you can cut me some slack if I rage a bit, y'know? This is why I drink, and likewise sympathize with Jesus. I understand the mother fucker, and if you don't understand what I just said, do you even know what the North Star is?

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Snakes are cats (thelemmy.club)
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My partner bought this duck statue for Revy's terrarium.


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Just emailed my states two democratic senators that leadership change is needed and Schumer and Jeffries must go. My house rep is a republican so no use on this issue.

If you have a democratic representative at the federal level, please take the time to email them.

Stand up and be heard, our democracy still depends on it.

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Requiring the imported electric vehicles to:

  • Use the NACS charging standard.

  • Use an open-source Linux base that allows consumers to modify their vehicle’s software if they choose, giving owners more control over their cars. Verified control over the entire software and data lifecycle.

Does this proposal make sense? Any additions?

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Not here to sell a damned thing. But seeing such rescues made me realize that I needed a water knife. Got a Morakniv (sp?) water knife for $20 a few years ago. Looks like they're $45 now (fuck inflation and tariffs!)

https://us.morakniv.com/products/flytande-kniv-s?_pos=1&_psq=water&_psid=822972814&_ss=e

Go go Swedish knife!

No point, slips under rope without hurting the animal, which may be YOU or a friend, weighs nothing. How about if a loose rope is dragging someone down?

It's just a cheap seeming blade, buy mine's stayed plenty sharp for 5-years. I've abused hell out of it, no particular care, take it on every water trip, cut hundreds of bits of fishing gear out the rivers, creeks and swamps. Also beat it up digging common plants out the sand and muck for my native ponds at home.

Was up against a log on a creek one day, ready to head out, there's my knife bobbing right next to my kayak, like it's supposed to. The cork grip has stayed tough despite being left outside way to much.

Anyway, you need something that's not pointy and able to saw rope quickly on the water. The life you save may depend on such a light, bright, non-pointy knife. Maybe there's a cheaper version of such a knife now?

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Victims of climate change.

Rice Krispies and Coco Pops are no longer being made with whole rice grains, with the tiny toasted puffs being made using corn flour and rice flour instead.

. . . Kellogg's said it had adapted the recipes due to "changing weather conditions" that have disrupted supplies of some grains and cereals.

. . .Some expressed dismay that the taste and texture were "totally different" and dubbed the change "grim" and "disgusting".

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My life-partner got drunk then spontaneously enraged again last night. Result: needing to walk barefoot around the neighborhood for a while, a damaged laptop, and needing to replace a computer screen. He apologized this morning. I think alcohol is consistent with times people become violent toward me, and isn't something I generally want to be around. I like the old Russian film Stalker (1979), and am reminded of when he pours the alcohol onto the ground, because it isn't an appropriate place for that. Though small skirmishes of violence still break out anyway, which fade into a sort of mutual exhaustion. It can be challenging finding people to watch Stalker with. Cigarettes are another subtle vice in the film. I'm happy my life-partner's been off nicotine for a while at least. I've also heard of the higher heavens free from strife in the Buddhist cosmology; want to be an influence in that direction & beyond.

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I don't even know where to start but I guess a introduction to the topic: I wanted to see if AI video generation from your own PC has reached a usable state, and yes it has and it's sort of ignored by most bot AI slop dispencers and artist.

In this post I want to talk about the programs internals and all different AI all open source. Mainly for long form AI videos

The programs: A best way to start is introduce the open source programs used and what they are used for and how.

ComfyUI: Most widelly know, hated and accept mostlly as the best alternative to writing your own code. It's Scratch code for ai except 100 times more complicated breaks all the time and is slow cause it runs on Python. Their is no good tutorial no guide and because AI has become a tabu not a lot of usefull advice.

it can genrate everything except you need to instruct it manualy

Example: You set up the loaders Val- audio Val-Video The model Crop for what video clip generation. Ksamplers, Text promp Plus and minus boxes, Image refernce or a make a entire Image generator form text that transfers the Image to the Image reference that then gets transfered to the video that then uses references from the training the model you picked was trained on to make a video as accurate to the video text prompt instruction given.

This is a very very simple ComfyUI Text to Video explanation. It would take about a hour to set it up if you knew what you were doing.

Mago.Studios: A studio for the industry it uses referenes like poses videos already recorded blender animations and stuff like that. To use it you already need to be able to animate in blender it's basically a cote of paint on top of gray figures.I haven't seen impressive things be done with it cause it's hard to use set up etc. And it's not made for the common person. it shows with all the options.

And it's obviuslly a subscription service reverse engineered to be Open source

LTX Desktop: Simple to use limited just basic stuff. Comerial.

Maestro on Pinokio - It's probably the best because it dosen't melt your PC it has clear UI that you can understand. Can use all the AI models like ComfyUI but it's way way simpler.

Takes a long time. A lot of options for a lot of things complicated. it can do everything. A good middle option between comfyUi and the others

The AIs: Different AIs do different things almost all open source are chinese.

Main LLm to write with you is Qwen3.8 27B for this. Does the job best it's the most modern open source option. Gemma 4 31B.

Their is also Underdog Saluki that is a distilled Qwen 3.8 version making it faster and 7.8 GB from the 54GB it is. It makes it 20% lower quality when scored but that depends for what you will be using it for.

(I understand most people don't understand wht the B means what a distilled AI is or what I am talking about the basic is B is like procesing power. Different AIs have different processors so bigger isn't better if the AI you have with 1 Trillion Bs is made for cooking. Distilled is a guy grabbed the AI and quantified it and that is a whole rabbit hole. Best i can say bigger isn't better here. It depends how it's used)

MiniMax H3 - The big boy of open source video generation it compares to all the big boys you usually pay a subscription for. It's open source it's a good over all option.

LTX- focused on cynematics and more profesional videos. It's consistent and made for cynematics

Wan - it's alibaba's video generator and they use a shotgun aproach on Ai from tinny ais to big models. It depends best describes it.

You will be using Minimax for everything.

Images:

Flux or Moss

Moss is really good if writing is involved

Flux is the basic do stuff model.

Their is also qwen but it's really just there. For images their is a lot of models I can't really explain all of them.

Requirements: Most just need a minimum of 8GB of Vram. It's gonna take a long time no mater what you use. It's gonna break no mater what you use. It's gonna take you knowing the basics of animation writing and all that no mater who said otherwise.

A lot of the options are set up to work with reference not make stuff up.

My opinion of AI: It's alright. People who talk about it don't use it to understand it. Even the AI bros just google browser generators that existed way before all this. The bottom line is I ain't paying for your subscription.

If you want to know more. Brows Hugging face. This is a tech that is from the 80s we have been using it for a long time and their is a lot of things.

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My car has been in and out of the shop since May. Mostly for stupid reasons. From a mechanic too "busy" to get around to it, from a completely incompetent series of shops that told me my car had one problem when it wasn't and I was right about it.

The car is a 99 Opel Astra SW. Diesel engine. Of a series fitted with a very finecky fuel pump. The GM engine is very efficient but also very delicate; the injection system resembles a petrol one and requires precise timing. After breaking the third accessories belt in less than six months, the car started knocking, badly, and the iginition failed.

When I bought it, it came out of timing, and it struggled with starting, having the fuel injection out of synch with the pump, due to a faulty engine cranckshaft sensor. It was fixed and the engine purred.

I told this to the shop when the accessories belt broke again but they ignored me and pointed the problem to the fuel pump. They did fix a broken rocker in the injection system but the engine still knocked and loudly. I asked if they had checked the engine timing and was insisted I had to replace the fuel pump, which is a 1500€ expense.

I called to a couple of diesel labs and they were in agreement: this particular pump is finecky but it has a virtue, as it does not have partial issues. If the electronics fail, the pump is done. If the mechanics fail, it shows. If the car was starting after insisting and running, the issue was somewhere else.

I found another mechanic. A crazy one. Of the good kind. Run the entire story through him. And he agrees something is off.

The issues list start to pile after a careful check. A faulty head gasket, leaking, barely, but nonetheless. A wobbling engine pully, the one that actuates the accessories belt, which is the cause for the constantly failing belts. Leaking injector rings. Small things but that do pile up and tell a story of poor service. And then is the fuel pump. Two bare wires that connect the pump control unit to the regulator. Two wires that are shorting each other. Two wires that when put apart allow the engine to start on the first try.

I trust my car to this guy. I order parts, as per his request, and he puts his hands to the work. And the bad news keep pilling.

The knocking was the fuel valves hitting the piston heads. The engine was not properly timed and was in fact two teeth ahead. The timing that was assured by three different mechanics when the rocker was replaced was moot. These engines are very demanding when it comes to be timed and require a special tool, an imobilizer, fitted through the vacuum pump housing, to keep everything in place. The timing had been attemped my marking relative positions on the outside of the engine. Not good.

The engine head was so beat up it risked cracking. Surfacing it was pointless. My mechanic found another, aluminium welded a small defect on it that was bothering him, had it rectified and fitted it. Mechanically, the engine was sound again.

But what about that cursed fuel pump?

Well, it so happens those damned wires were the downfall of the pump. Circuits don't enjoy being shorted. The mechanic took it out to check those wires and the board they connected to was in bad shape. It was technically a miracle how it still fired. But it was its dying breath and ended there. Mechanically, it was faultless. Very little wear, negligible. But the board was fried. We tried to get a used control unit but it proved to not be in good condition as well; on idle, the third cylinder would not get any fuel.

The pump was sent to a lab for diagnosis. Which promptly dismissed it as faulty and needing of replacement. I had to personally call the lab to find out if the problem was mechanical or circuit bound and after a short exchange they reluctantly told me the issue was the circuit board. 1500€, 12 month warranty, if installed at their shop.

No.

I called a few other places and the least I could get was around 1000€. Then I took the plunge and went online. And struck strong. I found the unit, abroad, for a third of the price. 36 months warranty. And a deposit return with the handover of the old fuel pump. And the shop that sold me the used control unit is open to receive it back for testing and if it proves faulty, they are willing to return that value as well.

The carrier order is already open, so it is just the waiting game now.

This just shows how precious investing a bit of our own personal time can be. I had to personally interfere in this whole process to things through and save some money, that I otherwise would hurt for.

After this, it is off to work in my side job to recoup the investment.

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I remember during the pandemic a lot of people were saying "I got COVID and I was fine!" while completely neglecting how they may have spread it to others. Obviously no one really knew how many others they spread COVID to, it's not something anyone likes thinking about.

Now with AI, every time I read someone saying at work they're now required to use AI and how they're working harder than ever, it's a similar feeling. Basically they're not realizing that their company no longer needs to hire anyone else because they're using AI and being overworked. So the company has effectively gained from not needing to hire anyone new, while getting employees to use AI to increase their productivity. It's fascinating how many people who have admitted to this without realizing that they're basically saying how fucked the job market is.

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that's more than double Michelin.

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A few days ago I watched this video by wired about the pyramids in Egypt
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMPLaB1oEo), and something interesting that the expert talks about is that they know exactly where the stones come from- not only is there clear evidence of quarrying in the immediate vicinity, but the dimensions match and they even have contemporary records describing the movement of stone blocks from quarries across the river to the construction site. (2 day round trip.)

Granted it's a Wired video so she didn't go into an overly extraordinary level of detail, but in any case it reminded me of a lecture I attended about 15 years ago when I went a prospective students/parents night at a prestigious university that I was looking to attend.

As part of the presentation, they had this guy give a lecture on his groundbreaking new theory that the pyramids were actually cast in place, rather than quarried. I thought it was interesting at the time, so when I heard about this quarry stuff in the Wired video, I assumed it must be a relatively recent discovery.

Nope! People have literally known about these quarries since ancient times, and they were confirmed by modern methods in the 1980s. This 'prestigious university' literally just had some crackpot give us his pet theory as an example of the kind of fine, high caliber academics that we could look forward to as part of our education at this institution. 😂

(Btw I did end up attending that university for Computer Science, and the lead professor there taught us that we should try to avoid using if statements.) Anyway there's no point or anything just thought I'd share.

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I know it's a limited sample size - but based on fetterman, and now haley stevens, it seems like all troll-people are closeted Republicans.

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this post turned into a bunch of rambling about random things with little connection so I'ma spoiler stuff into different categories of yappin'

Tally CounterI used to have one on my old phone in highschool never kept up with it when I graduated.
Something about my brain enjoys small numbers slowly getting larger. I bought one of those tally counter toys and clicked it all the way to 99,999 before

and I think it'll be kinda funny to see "pills taken" eventually be at like 1,000 and I'm still not any better lmao

DailyYou (selfie every day app)I only missed 2 days on my DailyYou (on F-Droid, would recommend) last month. The 29th is me, I just remembered at like 11pm and didn't wanna turn on the light

It has a notes section and 😀😑☹️ emojis for each day, but I don't do that. probably would be good for me to do it though.

College (kinda vent)anyways, I think im dropping out of community college for mental health... again. Thought I was ready after ~8 months, I was not. Doesn't help that the 2 classes I have are literally just math that's just a bunch of factoring (my autistic brain CANNOT factor to save my life) and a class about childhood and emotional development... with childhood trauma that makes the topic really difficult to write about.

I had some scholarships from highschool that pay for tuition and I don't really know how that's going to turn out, but I'm genuinely going to fry my brain with all the stress of constantly having stuff to do but breaking down crying any time I try to work on it. I haven't been able to go to class without crying in like 2 weeks. There's just so many people and I just get so worked up about nothing.

The worst part is that it's so doable too, I know I can work through it and get it done if I really tried. I feel like such a letdown but it's tearing me apart to keep doing it

Catsanyways my brothers cat got into a fight with mine so I'm going to return him 😁

jk, he's too good of a snuggler for that. He's 18lbs of fluff fat and love. We tried to put him on a diet by getting an auto feeder, but he just comes into my cats room and eats her food and sometimes they beef :/

heres a photo where I accidentally had the flash on

I've started dming peopleI've started dming people on Lemmy which is cool but I'm not very good at holding a conversation over text, i have a hard time trying to be related and actually convert my emotions into actual conversations instead of just posting an image that's related to what im trying to say. whenever I text my brother we always revert to just sending memes back and forth.

out of weed, T-breakAlso I'm out of weed but I think I wanna go a while without it. I've been smoking too much recently and I think it's doing more harm than good. at the very least I'll lower my tolerance before buying more. the way I consume it is by using a "dry herb vaporizer" which you put the ground flower in a little metal capsule and then put it in and turn it on. That's what the "weed capsules" in the tally counter are. I used to smoke one capsule a day, but recently it's been more like 3, one before work, one after, and one before bed. which raises my tolerance a lot so probably not a good thing, especially since I have so many mental health issues with isolating myself 🤷‍♀️

FPV drone hobbyI bought a bunch of little $5-15 accessories for my drone and I'm going to give a review

  • stick extenders
    work pretty well, they make the small gymbals a lot more controllable.
  • 3d printed stick ends

These are really good for pinch grip (which is what I use) but you really should get stick extenders if you use them, they're shorter than the default sticks. Also you can somewhat fit it into the back stick holders in the radiomaster pocket, but it's kinda tight.

  • better strap for goggles
    it feels a lot better, but I don't think it was made to hold the battery for my goggles, I'm going to try with my new analog goggles once they get delivered later today.
  • propellor remover
    eh. It kinda works but it requires that the propellors are kinda removed from the motor which isn't what happens when they're on all the way. better than nothing but not great.

yeah that's my yap/vent sesh, thanks for listening 😚

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