Andrew

Yesterday, I had the realization that my Lexus has 2.5x Alfa Mito fuel tanks worth of fuel in it that I put in about 8 months ago. It's basically £145 worth of fuel that last year I paid £110 for. So time to yeet that into the Alfa. Side note: Petrol tastes like brain damage

Sometimes I have to go back to the classics of the 1980s.

This is not surprising tbh, the sale of all luxury goods is in massive decline recently.

There aren't really any on the market that I would go for. A good step up in theory is the Apple Vision Pro, but instead of Apple letting it be compatible with Windows, they decided to not do that because they're Apple. The only other VR headset I'd recommend is a Valve Index, but that's going to be a mostly sidegrade or downgrade in some aspects such as resolution.

Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localised entirely within EHW?

After exclusively using snow mode for 323.6 miles, I am no longer going to use it. Snow mode reduces throttle response and is supposed to give the car slightly less power, which means less fuel used. Turns out, it doesn't, so back to normal mode.

Nice image

Nah, that's just the reflection of his shirt.

Doing 50-60 is illegal and is possible in theory, but then I'd have to cut the corner and end up in the loose gravel which would give me far less grip. It's pretty clean in that screenshot, but that screenshot is is from 2017 Street View. I stick in this blue bit because that's where the most grip is

I always yeet around here at 35-40mph. I sometimes get a very small amount of oversteer when doing that. Usually, people who are following me take this corner at the same speed because they can't think for themselves. They think because I do it, it's safe for them to do it as well. One day, I imagine someone is going to take that corner at the same speed as me with worse tyres and/or they freak out and slam on the brakes which will cause them to crash. I also do that to save fuel. It's a 40mph road that goes into a 50mph road. My average mpg went up by 5 since I started doing that. I used to slow down to 20-25mph for this corner. Hypermiling doesn't have to be boring.

Oh no, someone has Taycan my favourite parking spot.

No, illegal.

Alfa buddy

Cheating is against the rules. I might have to do something about that.

I'm annoyed at this now. I selected store pickup for £4.99 thinking I could go get it next day instead of having to pay £12 for next day home delivery. Turns out, £4.99 store pick up takes 7 days. You know what else takes 7 days? The £4.99 home delivery. It didn't tell me this until after I bought them, and I can't cancel the order. To cancel the order, I have to wait until I have the package, then take it into a store for a refund. I paid £4.99 to inconvenience myself.

5x sweat pants. Pretty big savings at the moment and I need some.

European cars usually these

The front brakes on this are B E E G for such a small car (AA battery for scale) Also, when it did an MOT in October, the handbrake barely passed. I tested it out by trying to do a handbrake turn and now it doesn't work at all now for some reason. I'm guessing and hoping something is seized rather than being completely broken. Seized is "easy" to fix. Replacing parts is also "easy" but that costs money.

I made an torque wrenches. I need a set of 1/4. 3/8 and 1/2 torque wrench. Buying them is going to cost me £140 for a cheapish set, so I just made my own using my 1/4 ratchet, 3/8 ratchet and 1/2 breaker bar combined with a digital luggage scale. The white line is where the strap goes, followed by the Nm to kg conversion. For example with that photo, if I have to tighten something to 87Nm, it's 87x0.102 which is 8.984, then x2 because the white line is at 50cm to make it 17.74kg that I have to reach on the scale. With a 18.5kg weight, it reads 18.7kg so the scale is accurate to +/-1%

They factory reset a mouse.

4.9kg weight saving from a non-titanium exhaust is pretty good.

Internet contract expired. Was on 500Mbps, now on this for £10/month cheaper.