Touch-up paint?

The very edge of the driver's side door has a wee scrape after the wind blew open the door into an adjoining car (my friend's car, which had worse damage!).

I called a Toyota dealer about the cost of repair, and was quoted $60 for a "touch-up". Well, you can get a can of 3rd-party touch-up paint online for about $15. For this color, Toyota sells separate base layer and top layer touch-up paints for about $12 each. Either way, cheaper than the dealer.

Is the 2-layer approach clearly better? Will the dealer give me a better result? Worth fixing at all?

u/psteckler — 1 month ago

iPod Nano to M0 Pura?

I've had an iPod Nano (6th Gen) since 2010, still works fine (battery replaced a couple of years ago, sticky volume button fixed). I really like the form factor and UI.

But there are things I really don't like about the Nano: 16Gb storage limit, no Bluetooth, and the requirement to use iTunes (awkward, slow, and needs Windows).

Would I be happy with the M0 Pura? It looks like a similar form factor to the Nano, and addresses the misgivings I listed. I'd lose the FM radio of the Nano, which I do use on occasion, but can live without.

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u/psteckler — 1 month ago

Reviews of new Lemur Pro?

If there are reviews available of the new Lemur Pro, please link them here. I'm particularly interested in the 16" version.

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u/psteckler — 2 months ago

Best oil change in SE?

Looking for a reasonably-priced oil change in southeast Portland/burbs, where they check fluids, etc.

There's a Jiffy Lube near me, but maybe there's something better.

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u/psteckler — 2 months ago

New Lemur Pro and Adder Pro announced

See System76 home page.

Lemur Pro will have 14" and 16" versions, RAM fixed at 32Gb.

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u/psteckler — 2 months ago

Good sticky hairspray?

Some years ago, I had heard that bike mechanics use hairspray to keep handlebar grips in place. And, sure enough, when I tried that when replacing some grips, they kept their position.

Now, the seat tube extender on my Dahon folder has been slipping recently. So I thought I'd try using hairspray to keep it in place. I bought some White Rain hairspray and applied it to the extender. But the extender keeps slipping. Oh, and I applied the White Rain to the handlebars and reseated the grips, and they're turning pretty freely.

I'm thinking that I just got a brand of hairspray that doesn't work well for this purpose. Is there a better brand? Or is there some other sticky stuff that will help?

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u/psteckler — 2 months ago
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Where to download old vmplayer/workstation to fix XSAVE issue?

I installed the latest version of VMWare Workstation Pro (25H2u1) and installed Windows 11 Pro on an ancient (c. 2010) desktop. The host OS is Linux Mint 22.3.

When I try to power up Windows, I get the dreaded "processor does not support XSAVE" error.

It looks like I can avoid that problem by installing an older version of Workstation, and that this issue started with version 17.5. On the Broadcom website, the oldest version to download is 17.5.2 or so.

Where I can download a bonafide 17.0 version, or if necessary, a 16.x version?

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u/psteckler — 3 months ago

[USA-OR] [H] DDR3 RAM (2 sets), EVGA 550W power supply [W] Paypal/Local cash

https://imgur.com/a/e0doXse

DDR3 RAM for desktop (240-pin) (2 sets):

- 8 Gb (4 x 2 Gb) Corsair 1333 MHz, non-ECC RAM (asking $18). Was working great before upgrading PC.

- 32 Gb (4 x 8 Gb) Timetec 1600 MHz, non-ECC RAM (asking $67). This is a like-new item (after purchase, discovered my old LGA1156 motherboard will only support 16 Gb)

EVGA 550W power supply, model: SuperNOVA 550 GA, 80 Plus Gold (asking $85) (like new; I thought old power supply had failed, but was fine; so box opened, but never installed or used)

u/psteckler — 3 months ago