You gotta be careful when making love to a circus clown.

Because you have to be prepared to do it...

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Anybody got any reasonably good ideas/sources on how to troubleshoot an intermittent issue where the rear running lights (and license plate light) don't light up while the headlights are turned on during times of day when it is cool/cold and damp? Which, coincidently is when it is dark outside making this issue very inconvienient.

Breaklights work, blinkers work, hazards work. Bulbs are okay.

Checked all the fuses and replaced the headlight control switch. Things worked yesterday afternoon when it was sunny and hot but not today in the early AM while its cool and damp.

I've never "tested the grounding" and haven't had the time to skim through every "how to" video to weed out all the ones that just say to check fuses/bulbs and then take it to a mechanic.

One of the rear light covers is cracked. Would there be a chance that condensation in there would be enough to short out the running light circuit but not all the other light circuits?

Remember folks, always carry your epibeanis pen.

My promotional plan NordVPN service is about due for renewal.

I was wondering if any tech support hexbears had any suggestions. The basic plan for Nord is going to run about 150$ US at its full price.

So far I've stumbled across some favorable mentions of Mullvad and the price seems better at about 60$ a year. I'm going to assume that all VPN services are going to make it difficult to seed anything, but if there still some around that dont block all the porta I would like to know more.

Mostly i just fart around on the hexbear at home or with my cell phone. I'm not serious about torrenting but there are things I'm interested in and I've notived are hard to find and don't have many seeds, wouldn't mind helping out without having to figure out how to set up a whole other server to do the thing.

Edit:

Survey says!

-AirVPN

So far its been okay. Bit of a slog getting it on my phone but seems to work okay.

Also a bit of a slog getting things set up to actually seed the occassional thing but that's just because I know about 25% of what I think I know.

Actually got one of those online coupon things to knock a few bucks off as well.

Thanks everbody, you're all swell.

... and the water pump system installed in the 70's suffers a critical failure that the plumbers no longer know how to fix.

Working on Day 2: Without Running Water.

Horay!

Why, the jock strap, of course.

Business in the front, party in the back.

Can anybody speak with confidence about the ending letters in a Manufacturer Part Number (MPN?)

The instrument cluster seems to have half way died in an old Jeep. I can find eBay listings for old instrument clusters for the same make and model. The pictures look the same as mine but there are differences in the MPNs listed and what my dead cluster has.

eBay examples:

• 56009727AC
• 56009727AD
• 56009727L

Current borked cluster: 56009727J

Would these all be interchangeable? Does the letter mean anything important when it comes to finding a replacement?

So, in my recent transition from an ancient Windows OS to a Linux distribution I installed Transmission for torrenting. I had a decent experience as a user who isn't super nerdy about this stuff with the Windows version I was using.

Using it with Linux has been similarly easy but for one thing. When trying to seed torrents, after about 10ish minutes, the torrents in the list will turn red and with the word "Stalled". I can pause and restart the seeding and it clears the "Stalled" from the item on the list but it will come back after a short while.

This never happened when I was using the Windows version and I haven't been able to find an answer about what this is supposed to mean in this context online.

Anybody have any ideas what this means and what I should do to fix this if its a problem on my end?

Edit: NordVPN is blocking the ports. Weird thing is, earlier this year before switching this PC to Linux, my ancient Windows OS was running Transmission and leeching/seeding just fine through NordVPN.

For whatever reason my brain has decided to think about this.

VLC will record the Desktop and Space Rangers but not Transformers: Devastation Though the game screen it captures for is a different size than what is captured with the Desktop while either game is running. Seeing what happens when Transformers runs results in a white screen being recorded while the game window is in focus.

My ancient Radeon graphics card and Windows 7 operating system (don't at me Linux folks, I know I know) has some screen recording stuff build into it. Will record the Desktop just fine, records only a black screen while the game is running and its window is focused for one game but records the other game just fine and at an appropriate size.

For curiosity's sake what would I be looking for as reasons or solutions to this?

Edit:

Running everything as Administrator seems to help in OBS. Who knew?

OBS seems to play nice with Transformers: Devastation now, lets me draw the bounding box in the Game Source instead of trying to use the Display source.

Still haven't figured out why OBS is being wonky with Space Rangers not recording in "Game Source" but did get a lead on why the size is wonky in the recording of "Display Source". The max resolution for the CD version (the one I've got) is 1024x768 and my monitor is 1920x1080. (Unsure why there's a difference between what I see playing the game and what the software is recording.) And the only resolution patch I've found doesn't work on the CD version... :whomp-whomp:

... but I finally did it.

For whatever silly reason, I decided to play the 2005 version of Space Rangers ( a kinda difficult game on its easy mode) on its hardest difficulty setting and after a handful of bad starts and one very loooonnnng good run I managed to finish.

To celebrate I will use this emoji

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And as penance I will start reading Capital Volume 1 as linked by comrade Vampire in their "get in nerds we're reading all volumes of Capital" reading group.