kalpol
kalpol t1_j9otlkj wrote
Reply to comment by dnuohxof-1 in 5 die in small airplane crash in Little Rock by QJnWo4Life
I used to drive to the airport from downtown Little Rock through this area. The airport is like, right there next to downtown, maybe 5 miles away? It's weirdly close. In between are a lot of scrapyards/metal recycling and industrial stuff. I remember one always had this mountainous pile of metal shavings, 30 feet high, like a mountain of tinsel.
kalpol t1_j9jjg7q wrote
Reply to Sharp EL-2607 my Dad has been using to do his income taxes since the mid-80s. by AnalogFeelGood
I used one of these up until about 2010 or so. It was still really excellent for showing work in recalculating someone else's work in audits.
kalpol t1_ivq4mf6 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in My 17 year old IBM Thinkpad T43 connecting to the internet at 800+Mbit/s by edwardianpug
I'm still flogging an Acer Aspire One, running Mint. Its slow but the form factor is really nice.
kalpol t1_iu0xwj2 wrote
Reply to comment by Mars-For-The-Rich in Just throwing it out there: Peugeot pepper and salt mills by Alb1rdy
yeah all my crappy ones work both ways.
kalpol t1_iu0xor2 wrote
Reply to comment by Peas63 in Just throwing it out there: Peugeot pepper and salt mills by Alb1rdy
Same. Mine was terrible. Not only did it not blast out pepper like i really need, it broke super quickly. I've been pondering one of these as I have actually had a ton of trouble and expense finding a good pepper mill.
https://mannkitchen.com/products/the-original-pepper-cannon-pepper-mill
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Reply to comment by kstinfo in Nissan recalling more than 700,000 SUVs that can accidentally shut off while driving by jeetah
A lot of cars from the 80s and 90s did it. The solder formulae used less lead after about the mid-80s, the solder joints would crack, and when the engine computers got old they would intermittently cause stalls. Or ignition switches get worn, that's been happening forever to all kinds of cars from all makes. Or any number of other reasons. I can count five or six off the top of my head that I've owned that had a random stalling on the highway problem when they were old. My old Jeep blew the muffler off once when it stalled and then dumped a bunch of gas into the exhaust - when it restarted there was an earth-shattering kaboom that exploded the muffler.