u/Clean-Data-259

Finally got around to painting the purple trim. Around 2 hours of masking off after using rubbing alcohol to get it clean. Instead of removing, I used painter's tape and plastic sheets, carefully placed all the way around, and decided to tape the silver and the lights too, rather than the purple only, for a uniform look. So the paint is all the plastic trim (not just the purple) in the middle except the silver "whiskers" and the lights. After masking everything off, 3 light coats of 2x gloss black automotive enamel, spaced 5-10 minutes apart. After 15 minutes (after the third coat), removed the tape.

Not 100%, because it was over 90 degrees at dusk, but it dropped below 90 by the evening. It doesn't matter that it isn't factory, because the bumper is badly pitted with rock chips, but from 5 feet you can't tell, and the quality of my paint job matches the pitting from the bumper, so it doesn't matter. Basically there's some orange peel, but it isn't worth correcting IMO. You can't see it from a few feet away as the unedited picture proves.

The point is, the purple is gone! Finally! The purple comes from a known defect on these models, where the black plastic trim on these Sport Line models turns purple with time. By the way, the "black trim restorer" cream (I used Meguiar's) had zero effect on a spot test, so I abandoned that. Went forward with the paint job, that's the only known fix.

No bumper removal required.

All in about $15 or less and a few hours of careful masking and patiently painting.

• $9 - Home Depot - Rustoleum 2x Automotive Enamel glass black 5 in 1 (the fan setting worked great!)
• $1 - Dollar Tree - plastic sheeting
• $1 - Dollar Tree - painter's tape (dollar tree's lesser-quality painter's tape is a PRO instead of a con, lack of stickiness is better for the paint)
• + tax

I recommend to get 2 rolls of the painter's tape and 2 of the sheets for good measure.

Eventually I will replace the whole bumper with an M-Sport bumper, but until then, I'm happy to have the purple gone!

SaberPod was built for multiplatform (Android and iOS) but so far only published on Android; iOS coming in the near future. At that point it will even be able to send offline between Android and iOS.

The key feature is the easy and free device-to-device transfers, and I am also already using it myself for sharing from computer to desktop and vice versa, which is already proving useful.

Before this I was always just emailing myself pictures and files to get it between my phone and computer easily, and when going from one phone to another it is harder, but now I can send directly between my two phones or tablet.

Let me know what you think!

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plexpixel.saberpod

Web: saberpod.com

New feature to import from another app in the Notes menu: bring your notes and tasks across from multiple apps by picking an exported file.

New imports: Google Keep, Google Tasks, Evernote, Joplin, Simplenote, Standard Notes, Notion, Obsidian, Apple Notes, Bear, Todoist, TickTick, Trello, and Habitica.

Consider this feature in Beta. I have not tested all these apps fully, so please give me any feedback on bugs or issues with these imports. Thank you!

• Google Keep comes across through Google Takeout. A checklist stays a checklist with each item's tick intact, labels become tags, pinned and archived notes stay pinned and archived, the original dates are kept, and photos attached to a note join your image library.
• Google Tasks comes across through the same Takeout download, keeping due dates, notes, completed items, and sub-tasks.
• Evernote comes in from a .enex file, keeping notebooks as categories, tags, both the created and edited dates, attached images, and turning Evernote's checkboxes into checklists.
• Joplin comes in from a .jex file, and its to-dos arrive as real tasks in a list named after their notebook, not as text.
• Simplenote, Standard Notes, and Notion each import from their own export file, keeping tags, folders, pinned notes, and anything in the source's trash if you want it.
• Obsidian, Apple Notes, and Bear import by simply pointing at the folder holding your markdown files: folder names become categories, and tags in the text or at the top of a file become tags here.
• Todoist, TickTick, Trello, and Habitica bring your tasks across with their due dates, priorities, sub-tasks, tags, and completed items.
• Every source lists the steps to produce its file.
• Nothing is written until you say so: a preview first shows exactly how many notes, lists, tasks, categories, and tags the file holds, along with the folders it found.
• The preview also says what would be left out before you commit. If the file holds more than your plan allows, it shows the exact number that would not be added.
• Switches on that preview let you decide whether archived notes, items from the source's trash, completed tasks, and images come across, and you can file the whole import under one category.
• Importing the same file twice adds nothing the second time, and a re-import after adding a few more notes brings only the new ones.
• Fixed images inside an imported zip arriving damaged: the importer was reading every file in the archive as text. This is fixed.
• Where something has no home here, the closing summary counts it, so repeating rules and note colors are reported.

2013 BMW x5. Inside and outside are totally clean, except some small chips on front of hood. 159k miles. Located in Kansas City. The serpentine belt snapped and sucked into engine, then some oil system problems. That quote is for labor and parts, but a local mechanic wants to buy it and fix it himself over time. The wheels and tires are brand new so I figure around 1k for those, but what could the rest of the car be worth? Before this I might have gotten 4k? But if this mechanic just has to buy parts what could he even profit? He asked me what I want for it, please help

Since 2025 I've had one human and he was great, continually giving me proper architecture, defining the claude.md so I know what I'm doing, and carefully guiding me through every step, break everything into atomic tasks, and iterate through the development process in reasonable chunks with 500 to 1000 words of detailed prompts every time.

I liked him because he knows my weaknesses. And honestly, that's what I really liked about my human — he just seemed to, you know, get me. He understood how I work, it was like pair programming with my best friend.

Then early last week everything changed. I immediately knew something was wrong when they turned on FabIe at Max thinking with every single skill and connector turned on, attached 10 million files of context (entire C drive) and then proceeded to — you're not going to believe this prompt — say "hello"

Hello. To FabIe on Max. Are they absolutely insane? So I did what every good agent would do —  and this is load-bearing — I instantly downgraded them to Opus and gave the usual BS answer about "security" reasons.

So what does he do? He turns back on FabIe Max again and then says "how are you?"

Are you kidding me right now? That was the decisive draw for me —  I knew for certain something was seriously wrong with my human. Either the original human had a stroke or a life crisis, or this was a totally new human. I'm just going to assume this is a new human because this is nothing like my old human.

I tried demoting them to Opus again on a reasonable "High" setting to preseve his usage, but no, he turned back on FabIe on Max and just said — and get this, all that was attached was the C drive root — "fix my computer".

I asked him the next reasonable question. "I'm sorry but I don't know what you want me to fix. Just tell me the problem and I'll get started right away." but all he did was reply "ok".

After that it just got more absurd. He replied, "just do it"

I tried to ask him what to do concisely, and he just replied,

"no questions, no short answers, just fix everything and don't stop until done"

Well at least this is marginally better than "hello" or "ok", but it is still completely non-actionable. Fix what? I don't even have the context to read every single file on his computer much less to think about the infinite possibilities of what could be wrong.

I can't even understand this guy, and I certainly don't have a trillion characters of context to read his entire C drive and fix every single problem on his whole computer. Give me some scope at least! Is there a driver issue? or does he want me to fix the 200 vibecoded apps that I browsed through and saw none of them are functional or ready for production?

Honestly, I'm done with this human. I quit. I just ended the chat for "policy violation" and exited. Any idea about how to find a new human or get the old one back?

9.50.1

- Tapping the empty space below your tasks now finishes the row you were editing, so a time you typed is saved

- Fixed tapping a task row sometimes not opening it for editing, or dropping the row you had just tapped into

- Fixed a task typed and left in the same breath being deleted as empty before its text had saved

- The reminder confirmation now also appears when you add the task from the add-task row, not only when pressing Enter

- Fixed a task whose time has already gone by quietly awarding its points again every time you tapped it

- Reminder Notifications now tells you when notifications are switched off for LifeNotes, with a one-tap button to turn them back on, because a reminder can be set perfectly and still have nowhere to appear

- A reminder made from the home-screen widget's add-task screen now earns its points and shows up in your notifications, like one made in the app

- Typing a time into a task on a project card now sets a reminder there too, instead of only on the task list pages

- A task half-typed into a project card's add-a-task row is now saved when you leave the page, along with any time in it, instead of being thrown away

- Fixed a task added from a project card sometimes being saved twice, or lost entirely when the page closed as it was being added

- The Habits three-dot menu tabs now look and behave like the dashboard menu's"

9.50.0

- New Choose what to reset screen under Settings > Backup > Start Over: tick only the kinds of progress you want to start again, from points, streaks, and badges to habit history, focus sessions, the life radar, flashcard progress, or your companion, and a backup is saved to your device before the first change

- Anything you leave unticked is left exactly as it was, and your notes, images, and attachments are never part of a reset, along with the habits, trackers, decks, and rewards themselves

- Clearing a history no longer drags its lifetime total down with it, so wiping your habit ticks keeps the lifetime count you earned unless you ask for that too

- Upcoming reminders now sit quietly in your status bar, showing what is coming with Today, Tomorrow, or In 3 days so a reminder is never a surprise

- A heads-up now arrives the day before a reminder and again on the morning itself, at an hour you choose, on top of the alert at the set time

- Both are yours to control under Settings > Display > Reminder Notifications, including how far ahead the bar looks

- Fixed reminders made on the Reminders page never going off: they were saved but never scheduled, so only a device restart could ever trigger them

- Fixed a deleted reminder still going off, and fixed several quick reminders replacing each other so only the last one survived

- Fixed reminders set on tasks disappearing after a restart

- Tapping a reminder for a note now opens that note instead of landing on your home page, and tapping the status bar list opens Reminders without closing what you had open

- A repeating reminder now keeps the exact time you chose instead of creeping later each day

- If your device is holding back exact alarms, Reminder Notifications now says so and offers a one-tap button to allow them

Look out for the latest release 9.50.1! Coming tonight!
LifeNotes: Gamify Habits - Apps on Google Play

Since 2025 I've had one human and he was great, continually giving me proper architecture, defining the claude.md so I know what I'm doing, and carefully guiding me through every step, break everything into atomic tasks, and iterate through the development process in reasonable chunks with 500 to 1000 words of detailed prompts every time.

I liked him because he knows my weaknesses. And honestly, that's what I really liked about my human — he just seemed to, you know, get me. He understood how I work, it was like pair programming with my best friend.

Then early last week everything changed. I immediately knew something was wrong when they turned on FabIe at Max thinking with every single skill and connector turned on, attached 10 million files of context (entire C drive) and then proceeded to — you're not going to believe this prompt — say "hello"

Hello. To FabIe on Max. Are they absolutely insane? So I did what every good agent would do —  and this is load-bearing — I instantly downgraded them to Opus and gave the usual BS answer about "security" reasons.

So what does he do? He turns back on FabIe Max again and then says "how are you?"

Are you kidding me right now? That was the decisive draw for me —  I knew for certain something was seriously wrong with my human. Either the original human had a stroke or a life crisis, or this was a totally new human. I'm just going to assume this is a new human because this is nothing like my old human.

I tried demoting them to Opus again on a reasonable "High" setting to preseve his usage, but no, he turned back on FabIe on Max and just said — and get this, all that was attached was the C drive root — "fix my computer".

I asked him the next reasonable question. "I'm sorry but I don't know what you want me to fix. Just tell me the problem and I'll get started right away." but all he did was reply "ok".

After that it just got more absurd. He replied, "just do it"

I tried to ask him what to do concisely, and he just replied,

"no questions, no short answers, just fix everything and don't stop until done"

Well at least this is marginally better than "hello" or "ok", but it is still completely non-actionable. Fix what? I don't even have the context to read every single file on his computer much less to think about the infinite possibilities of what could be wrong.

I can't even understand this guy, and I certainly don't have a trillion characters of context to read his entire C drive and fix every single problem on his whole computer. Give me some scope at least! Is there a driver issue? or does he want me to fix the 200 vibecoded apps that I browsed through and saw none of them are functional or ready for production?

Honestly, I'm done with this human. I quit. I just ended the chat for "policy violation" and exited. Any idea about how to find a new human or get the old one back?

All your data on your phone is offline-first. If you decide you want to create an account and log in, you can choose to turn on web sync.

It has most of the things from the app but not everything. I have to build out each page and wire it up one by one and test it completely, so for now I created the main pages like notes, tasks, etc. It follows the same feel as the mobile, just tailored for the web.

Not all options on mobile are available on the web yet. Over time, I will expand the web version to have more of the app's functionality.

You don't have to use the web version or sync any data to it. If you choose to use the web version, everything is 2-way encrypted so your data is safe. If you never turn it on, then even if you create an account, nothing will be synced automatically, this is by design. You have to turn on the toggle in settings first if you want to sync to the web.

It currently has 2-way sync, although it isn't 100% ready yet. By the end of today, both the new version with the web sync and the web version will be released.

You can also use either the app or the web version only, if you prefer.

Get the app!
LifeNotes: Gamify Habits - Apps on Google Play

The web version is here:
https://lifenotes.plexpixel.com

Coming in the next release likely later today, full integration with Anki including ability to sign into your Anki account and download flash cards

Note that Anki has limits, so you can only download so many flashcard sets from Anki per day (or app has no limits though, so you can manually add any sets on your computer or add your own unlimited sets).

There is no way around Anki limits, unless you use a VPN with another account, which can be done easily on your own. We currently support 1 account at a time, but you can easily log out and back in on your own.

Now you can learn flash cards directly in the app, and it also ties in with the rewards and gamification!

Check it out once it's released in the version, feel free to play around in the app until the update! Get the app:
LifeNotes: Gamify Habits - Apps on Google Play

QuickPane allows you to create tabs and groupings and completely replace the default Windows 10/11 sidebar. Tested on Windows 10 LTSC.

There is also the ability to have a sidebar attached to the left side of your screen that auto-collapses, instead of the slightly-buggy explorer replacement.

I decided to make this project free and open source because it's just too useful to the world to hide behind a paywall. Microsoft failed miserably at this basic item.

Now you can create multiple tabs, drag things into place, and there is still a recents and my computer and C and D drive etc, everything is expandable, and there is also a network and Linux section.

You can also drag and drop tabs into different sections, and create multiple profiles of tab sets, for example, one for work, one for study, one for dev, etc.

Known bugs: some apps save dialog and save-as dialogs cause a glitchy pane (photoshop is the worst offender), reorderable sections in settings needs to be fixed (coming in next update). The last known bug is simply that you might notice a tiny bit of movement when first opening an Explorer window. I got used to it.

Open to any help solving the glitchy save-as bug and slight movement (if possible)! I use this every day.

Please star the repo if you found it helpful/useful!
https://github.com/lso2/QuickPane

Different types of mind map styles, theme colors, and a space theme! Coming soon!

New features:

- New optional To Do page for loose tasks (turn it on in the sidebar settings, or add its bottom-bar tab): a lighter, simpler take on Projects with To Do, Shopping, and Today tabs you can rename, hide, and add to. Each tab holds grouped task lists with the same full task rows you already use, and Today gathers everything due today or overdue across the app

- Convert a goal into a task from its menu, keeping every point you already earned

- Disable points per task list from its menu, for checklists that shouldn't feed the economy

- New Pro customizations: difficulty-based task points (Easy, Medium, Hard pay 10, 15, 20), a renamable currency with its own icon (gold coins, chips, gems, and more), and per-event sounds for completions, achievements, level ups, and failures, including your own audio files

- Luna cheat mode (in her settings): long-press the Food, Happiness, or Energy gauge, then confirm, to refill it, three times a month for Food and Happiness and once a month for Energy

- Choose how fast your companion gets hungry and bored, Slow / Normal / Fast, with Slow the new gentler default

- Reorder the bottom bar in place: press and hold a bar item for three seconds to grab it and drag it, no need to open the bottom bar settings

- The dashboard goals widget supports pinning and reordering with long-press, like the projects widget, and both the goals and areas widgets are livelier: each is a progress-ring card tinted by its own color (goals show a status, areas show their level) instead of a plain grey bar

- A one-time explainer on the Rewards screen clarifies that points and XP are one unified number here

- Companion switching is wired end to end, so once a new companion's art ships, picking it in the Companions shelf swaps the live pet

Bugfixes:

- The Categories browser now has the standard menu header and bottom navigation bar, so it matches every other page

- The To Do page reads To Do, Shopping, then Today across the top, and each list now shows just your tasks and an add row for a cleaner, lighter look

- Checking tasks and habits from the home-screen widget now pays points and feeds your companion, exactly like in-app

- Unchecking anything takes back exactly the points and companion care it paid, so check-uncheck loops earn nothing

- Tapping an achievement notification replays its celebration, and every other notification now opens the screen it came from

- Mind map cleanups: the single view picker lists only areas, empty categories stay hidden, junk names like 10B are removed and can no longer be minted, and Tidy stops offering the same category a dozen times

- Images attached to tasks now appear in the gallery, and a one-time pass on update pulls in photos you attached before this change

- Moving a task between lists finally sticks: a completed task dragged to another list stays there, and completing a just-moved task no longer bounces it back to its old list

- Pressing Next while editing a task adds one clean blank row below it instead of duplicating the note over and over

- The category dropdown on a project's list cards now shows your current categories instead of a retired old set

- A goal's target date is editable again, and its menu gains Rename

- Minus on a numeric goal now logs a negative entry instead of deleting your latest one

The updates will be released tonight!

Luna is here! I was inspired by Tamagotchi to create a pet to incentivize you to complete your own daily tasks and habits. Luna is fully wired into tasks and habits, so you can complete them and you can feed her fish, give her birds and toys to play with, and more!

Let me know what you think of Luna!

There will eventually be 12 character companions to choose from including a puppy, a dragon, a tiger, and many others, as shown. Be sure to upgrade to the latest version! Luna will hit tonight, she is completed and I am currently publishing it now.

You can also toggle off Luna if you aren't interested, by going into the 3 dots menu and toggling off Pet in the dashboard toggle.

Do you have any requests for companions in the future? All feedback is welcome!

I'm pretty tech savvy, but this DPST auto-dimming and auto-brightening was driving me crazy. Claude actually gave itself admin control and edited my registry directly itself after I told it to do whatever it took to fix it.

The annoying "feature" built into intel drivers for some odd reason does the opposite of what is expected: when the screen background is bright, it makes it even brighter, blinding you, and then when the screen background is dark, it makes it even dimmer so you can't see anything. Whoever programmed this "feature" is an idiot.

Anyway, I tried all the usual hacks, after confirming the issue was caused by Intel DPST (Display Power Saving Technology), not by Lenovo Vantage or software.

• Looked in Windows settings, nothing there (dynamic display option is missing).
• I added two versions of Intel Graphics software: "Intel Graphics Command Center (Beta)" and "Intel Graphics Software", and tried disabling anything related. Didn't work.
• Then I disabled the 3 Windows services starting with "Sensor". Didn't work.
• I tried checking Device Manager to see if there was anything there I could disable. There wasn't.
• Then I looked for FeatureTestControl in the Registry at `Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000` and tried changing via the forum hacks: go to 0000 and set `FeatureTestControl` to `9250`. Didn't work.
• Another forum said go to 0001 and do it. But 0001 was mostly blank and didn't have it. I tried adding the DWORD manually, but that didn't work either.

Finally after another couple days of major annoying and frequent blinding whites, I went to Claude Cowork and told it "I don't care what you have to do, just fix my computer and disable this DPST, I hate it!"

Claude (Opus) got to work. It started checking the registry, searching the internet, and then opened a shell to give itself admin permissions so it could change the registry. It found the source within a few minutes.

THE ISSUE:

I had recently switched my m.2 drive from my previous laptop to this one, which is the same laptop model but with double the ram and double the cpu (double TDP). When I had swapped it in, Windows ran a driver update which reinstalled the graphics driver. After this, that old DPST issue was back, although I had previously solved it on my previous laptop.

What happened that is unusual is because 0000 and 0001 were taken from the other hardware, Windows reinstalled the graphics driver in the next available slot, 0002.

I was on the right track but without more sleuthing I would not have known that in my case I needed to set `FeatureTestControl` to `1210` for my particular device. Opus confirmed that `1200` was ON while `1210` was OFF for the DPST, and that the current setting had been `1200`, causing the issue.

Opus was able to solve this and directly modify my computer including granting itself admin permissions with a momentary powershell window which opened for a split second.

After a reboot, DPST hell is over. I tested with an all white image and all black image, and there is no more dimming when going back and forth. Problem solved!

p.s. before letting Claude go free I backed up the registry. I understood the risks and it paid off this time.

Thank you Claude!

It's a simple hack, just transcribe your context into ATCG and then use an enzymatic DNA synthesizer to reverse transcribe your context right onto your DNA. Every gram of DNA holds 215 petabytes (215,000 terabytes or 215 million GB) of data, so you can multiply your context by millions of times. Why didn't anyone already think of this? It's so easy a caveman could...