u/aroundincircles

and before anybody says anything, no, it's not anywhere close to using a box scraper. But for small quick jobs, especially after the rain storms to smooth out the driveway, and regrade where the water likes to flow, having a sleeve hitch with a little scraper makes quick work. I share a tractor with my dad, so we have to move it back and forth, I'll be using it for a big job here soon, but this job was done in the time it would have taken to go load up the tractor on the trailer and haul it over to my house.

this was a 2003.5 Mazda Mazdaspeed Protege I had (#2750/2750) It was a fun car, but it was a constant headache and needed something, and the parts that made it special were unobtainium.

I currently have all three in my hands, and being that these were released at the same time, have the same generation of CPU, and I feel like all have hit that price/performance level that makes them very attractive, I thought people might be interested in the differences between them. Let me know what questions you may have about them.

If people want to know about performance: The ryzen 5 is about 40% faster than an i7 in benchmarks, but the i7 iGPU is about 20% faster than the ryzen. I've tested a lot of laptops with this gen of CPU and that's the average I get.

I have a Royal Enfield 350 I’m selling for $3500. Someone offered to trade me for an Electra Glide with 75k miles. I don’t know anything else about it, but with that many miles, even with half decent maintenance, would I be taking on a project?

I’m selling the 350 because I need something to commute to my office 1-2 times a month that gets better gas mileage than my F-150, as the drive is 120 miles one way. I was planning on buying a smaller sedan for the drive.

I live in a rural area and the 350 is great to putt around town on and gets 90+ mpg, but doesn’t do highways. I have a bigger bike but it’s not comfortable on the 2+ hour drive.

Just wondering if I should entertain this trade offer.

Edit: it’s a 2003, maroon red. I’ll post the pictures he sent below.

I know people don't really consider them "jeeps" gut I loved the heck out of my patriot, and beat on it pretty hard. I eventually sold it after it was in an accident that it was never right after (was rear ended). But the CVT was pretty trash and the 2.4l had 0 power and got terrible fuel economy.

Smartphones are superior in every way, but I feel like these were a better tool, and less distracting than modern phones.

Guy I know has a dealer’s license, so trying to get a car bought at an auction. Got this video clip of the engine start up.

These are the best thinkpads, in my opinion.

From left to right -
X31 - one of the last IBM designed machines. The keyboard is fantastic, no trackpad, track point only. I use it as my journal machine.
P1 gen7 - I got to review one for my YouTube channel, fell in love so hard sold a whole collection of laptops, including my X270 and 25th anniversary to be able to buy it. No regrets. I like it more than the P1 gen 8 I reviewed recently.
T14 gen 2 AMD - the best bang for your buck right now. Unless you get an insane deal on something else, you can get one of these cheap and their performance is awesome. Mine cost me $50, but it needed and ssd and battery. I also added another 8gb of ram to make it 16.
W530 - still one of the best desktop replacement laptops I’ve worked on. It was the model that my first big boy job in IT as a system admin job came with. It was a sign that I had made it, despite the world (and my parents) acting like I was a failure because I didn’t go to college.

Honorable mentions:
X270 - one of my absolute favorite laptops period. It was far from faultless, but for a compact light do everything machine, I loved it.
25th anniversary - I know to be a 25th anniversary system, it couldn’t be released with the 8th gen cpus, and so it suffered greatly performance wise. I loved mine, but I do a lot of video editing, and time is money and it was costing me too much. If I could get that exact system today, with the bridge battery, Face ID, touch screen, 7 row keyboard, just with a modern mobo with a modern cpu, I would be all over it.

A while back I decided to start stacking 1/10th oz coins. I have several full oz bars (and 5 and 10 gram bars) but really like the variety I get with these. I had to slow down because my YouTube channel started earning a lot less ad revenue when they started pushing shorts at the same time gold started spiking in price, I set aside 1/4th my YouTube revenue to add to my stack. My goal is a full 50 1/10th oz coins before I go back to bars.

It’s not damage to the paint like a scratch, but corrosion under the paint…

It’s hard, soft, you sink into it, it throws you around, even when going slow. Any tips for riding on it? I usually go really slow (like 5mph) with my feet out to steady me.

Normally I avoid these roads, but it’s becoming more common around me for people to gravel the roads in front of their house (rural area, lots of dirt roads).

Edit: I mean the actual road surface. not ice on top of the pavement, or sand, or gavel on top of pavement. Where the actual road is just.. gravel. Like they went out and paid money to have this be the road.

Wondering if anybody else has got any confirmation yet. been an hour or so.

Wish me luck.