surreal1272

Over the last six years or so, I have slowly grown my Vinyl collection. This project was an effort to preserve my vinyl playing ways after the original 50 year amp gave out and I could not find a replacement anywhere on earth lol. Here's some other pics of the progress over the last week or so... After gutting it, I installed some wood slats. For the record, nothing was cut away from the cabinet itself. I steed away all the original components in case I ever come across another OEM amp for it. The only change to the cabinet itself was the paint and stain job. After that, I set did a little "switcharoo" with some old school Sony floor speakers that were put into storage due to a pair of blown passive woofers (top speakers in them were active woofers with the bottom being the passive woofers). I combined the working woofers into a single cabinet and cut out two holes on one end to install the mid and tweeter from "gutted" floor speaker cabinet. Then that was installed through the back of the console and it barely fit lol. Here's the rest of the work.

Sometimes, when the $25 1972 console stereo you bought four years ago finally dies, you have to change it up a bit. Before and after below.

1000% agree! I have not been there since 1994 (after the years of visits there with family). It was tourism trash then and it has not gotten any better since then lol.

Happy Birthday @Drew Dowdell!

Sorry but my last two dogs both chewed on their own a***s daily, like they were being paid to do it and I had to make sure they didn't try to raid my cat's litter box for the freshest special tootsie rolls, followed by trying to give dad dog kisses after consuming said treats. I love both animals, but cats win in the end for me lol.

Me too but it doesn't block their comments when they are a part of an unblocked users comment/quote (replies).

Same. I have no problem with a little auto related politics but most of the last few months here has been basically a bunch of “F America” nonsense with no real substance. Just trolling is all it is and at 52 years old, I have better things to do than to constantly sift through the same nonsense just to read something of actual interest.

That is what my wife has been doing to lose weight. She tracks everything these days lol.

And Transportation Secretary Duffy says that if the shutdown continues for much longer, flights will be shut down just in time for Thanksgiving. Ain't it grand? So glad I have no plans on flying any time soon.

It's not about putting down the fork. It's about changing what that fork picks up.

That second sentence is all me as well. A lot of workshop and creating time instead of engaging in cesspool conversations with the same s*** stirrers around here..

While I agree with your overall position here, you have to accept your role in feeding the troll during all of this.

There used to be less of the childish political back and forth back then too. The increase in these posts has an effect on overall participation here. Sorry it has come to this @Drew Dowdell.

As opposed to the “original” designs from Kia and Hyundai that have borrowed from others for decades now? Make it make sense outside of your obvious anti Toyota bias.

Sure, if you’re drunk and forgot your glasses, then they look the same lol. Otherwise, if there was a Kia badge on that, you’d be praising the design. See the EV3 as an example.

Except for MOST of the old testament, sure, none of those things lol. The old testament contains more murder, rape, and death than many of the books and shows that evangelical freaks want to ban. It is pure irony at its finest. So, sure, Jesus taught love but to say that the bible does not somehow include all the bad stuff is laughable.

Fun fact. No one, and I mean no one, thinks their religion is a cult. They just exhibit “cult like” behaviors.

My mistake. Doesn’t change my core point though. His statement can still be correct overall, regardless of whether the building across from you is like that or not, especially given what I emphasized earlier regarding the location (and political leanings) of said places. ICE is a mess, end of story.

Horse said: ”ICE needs to be closed down, and a new Immigration department built with people who are human” What part of that or what he said before then has anything to do with the state of the building across the street from you? You seem to be missing the point for the difference in the two buildings (and the motives behind that). Both building contain the same problems where ICE is concerned. Or maybe you’re just being deliberately obtuse. Don’t know. Doesn’t matter. Carry on.

Maybe, just maybe, that is because you don't live in a target city or state as designated by the lead moron in D.C. The same mechanisms exist in the Fed building across the street from you as does the one's in Seattle or Portland. Don't let complicity disguise the actually facts.

Saw this interesting little conversion on FB marketplace.

I'm not referring to software. I'm referring to hardware like TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module). Those are things you cannot change after the fact and an example of how a "new" system can outdate itself with the OS because of hardware requirements like that. In principle, yes but see my above response. I am not speaking on overall build quality here (although that obviously factors). It is compatibility factors with Microsoft's ever changing set of rules for hardware makers that comes with every major OS release. And, for the record, you are not the only one with background here. I have worked, side by side, on Mac and Windows machines for the better part of 30 years now. Not a "noob" here lol.

😂😂😂 Not with the way Microsoft updates security hardware requirements with every new OS. There are so many systems less than 10 years old today that can't run Windows 11 for those very reasons. That is a trend that is not likely to improve in the next 10 years, especially with Intel running on Trump bucks these days. Fro the record, my wife's $1100 (at the time of purchase) HP touchscreen laptop was less than five years old when 11 came old and it lacking the newer security chipset killed that update. You can, in now way, assume ten years of use just because of that price and relatively mid-range CPU/GPU specs. The storage is average these days (capacity wise), and only the 32GB RAM extends its overall use. 16GB RAM is bare minimum these days.

@G. David Felt Pugs dude. Pugs. https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/doglovers-body-found-half-eaten-by-beloved-pet-pugs-after-she-mysteriously-died-at-home-101737643699600.html

Are you absolutely SURE about that? That dog might wait an extra day or two, unlike a cat (I own two btw so be careful with how you respond here) but make no mistake. A dog will have some finger food (literally) if they are starving. It is what happened with Gene Hackman and his wife and that was a small dog doing that. Educate yourself before thinking this is only a cat thing. Both cats and dogs are animals and all that "dogs are more loyal" BS doesn't fly come starvation time. That is a fact.