PurpCat

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@sneeden telegram had one meme number in some screenshot/upgrade and they changed it to another one and the professional dogwhistler detectors of bluesky found out about the massacre of 1391 or some shit

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@jeff be right wing after years of propaganda about the boomer right pumping you up

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@jeff spend years of your life watching Colbert and Jon Stewart and around anti bush memes and listening to Stephanie Miller and it'll click.

I knew people who got the firmware updates first.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@jeff yeah years of it, how if a republican wins it'll all come undone overnight and shit like that.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@ruin join the XMPP chat and listen to freetards argue for hours

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@SpoopyAnon @deprecated_ii I won't give out too much detail but there are so many people with fake email jobs I'm running into that I'm asking how the fuck is this sustainable? with more mexican labor?

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@Spingebill @deprecated_ii the younger white people into "custom cars" also are more into completely different cars than boomers, usually shit they can actually afford or that costs less money to go fast in, or that they saw in Fast and Furious movies/video games/Initial D.

Or when they build engines, they're using far more modern and popular engines than AMC V8s.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@sapphire @Spingebill @deprecated_ii they're used in old school jeeps which people do give a shit about, but Jeep guys are also the type to swap in 1.9tdi alh/bew and om617 engines in as well

Also the pre 2006 jeep wranglers used variants of the AMC i6 and so did the xjs

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@sapphire @Spingebill @deprecated_ii I don't think of the actual Jeeps as boomer cars as much as I do "redneck status symbol" given I live in Ohio and had a family member who had a Wrangler Rubicon Unlimited that screamed "pavement princess" for this reason before selling it.

The older ones? Yeah they actually see use because they're not being owned by those types.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@sapphire @Spingebill @deprecated_ii I'm not doubting that.

I've just seen in my area the latest craze with these old Jeeps is to diesel swap them. Some guy with a piece of shit 300d around here was driving it only because he wanted to enjoy it for a bit before he pulled the engine for a Jeep build. Also he was younger, definitely a redneck too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jawoiOSeH3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfcusG84Aq4
https://youtu.be/NueHGz1Glew

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@deprecated_ii @Spingebill @sapphire they're not throwing out the transmission/transfer case, just the engine (and usually because they want a diesel engine instead). The 1.9 TDI is a FWD engine originally, but there's also a market for RWD transmission adapters simply because of how popular it is to swap into trucks and whatnot.

I've seen a few new Jeeps with EcoDiesels (bad engine) and the Roxor "Jeeps" are diesel as well.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@deprecated_ii @Spingebill @sapphire Oh yeah I hear nothing but good things about the 4.0 unlike the 3.8 that replaced it, or the infamous EcoDiesel engine that is probably the worst modern US market diesel engine bar none.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@sapphire @Spingebill @deprecated_ii the 1.9tdi is hard as fuck to kill and you can run it without electronics even.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@TeaTootler @Spingebill @deprecated_ii @sapphire i'm sure someone would drop a 350 chevy into a pacer too, shit there's people dropping LS engines into planes

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@sapphire @Spingebill @deprecated_ii move the glow plug and see if the error moves

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@wingedhussar @Spingebill @deprecated_ii @sapphire my glow plugs didn't fail yet, but I had a battery fail once causing weird errors.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@wingedhussar @Spingebill @deprecated_ii @sapphire the gasoline cars are even worse ngl

I would never own a VAG gasoline car. Oh sure the new Jetta gets great MPG but I just know it's going to have some stupid problem years down the line.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@wingedhussar @Spingebill @deprecated_ii @sapphire ah the 2.0, a classic engine with features like "timing chain that blows up"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRAcxGdkcZU

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@wingedhussar @Spingebill @deprecated_ii @sapphire I literally see more MK5 Jettas with the TDI than I do with the 2.0 LOL

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@sapphire @Spingebill @deprecated_ii @wingedhussar no not the TDI, the 2.0 TSI petrol engine :blobcatjoy:

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@sapphire @Spingebill @deprecated_ii @wingedhussar yeah it's got the 2.0 turbo engine oh dear god

he's gonna wish he kept his rotting Honda

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@djsumdog I got burnt once by meme distros everyone shilled once already (Void and the falling out between the founder and devs and how it's stagnated) so now I use Ubuntu/similar when I want my shit to work.

I don't really know what happened this time though other than NixOS users were a special kind of annoying.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@creamqueen @waifu >check it out
>It's endless car porn

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@Turkleton @deprecated_ii when the smart people return to tradition where everything modern is ai meme shit

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@bot @amerika it's worse on mastodon because they also use Twitter which has all the people and spam
See https://replyguy.com/

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@bot @n3f_X it's encoded with realplayer

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PurpCat, 2 months ago

@pettanko he quit to do farming instead (based)

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@waifu @kirby @Forestofenchantment nice

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@Forestofenchantment @EscapeVelo x220 was early 2010s and then autists online used them later

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@Forestofenchantment @EscapeVelo mate works fine on it and windows 10 kinda too.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@Forestofenchantment @EscapeVelo i think the problem with 2010s laptops is aside from the surface, macbook lines, etc, there wasn't anything "different" that normies had en masse. It was really when laptops began to be cookie cutter design wise, and the Windows 10 era rules didn't help.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@Forestofenchantment @EscapeVelo >what laptop manufactures are doing something different?

they will for a one off model that sells like dogshit, the only ones I can think of are the ARM ones.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@mint @Forestofenchantment @EscapeVelo in America it 100% was. Hence Obama having one being a famous thing and "national security concern" for a while (that nobody took seriously because he's in the "inner circle" if you know what I mean)
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna28780205
https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/11/11910306/obama-upgrades-from-blackberry

But then again, the American mobile phone market and what was mainstream was "radically" different than what you see in Russia. See: IDEN phones (vid related, a cell network made by the radio part of Motorola)

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PurpCat, 2 months ago

@Forestofenchantment @mint @EscapeVelo the 2000s cell phone market in a nutshell: where you could buy a Blackberry with a low speed data radio, but it's got that nextel chirp in it complete with the chirp button.

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@eidolon @mint @EscapeVelo @Forestofenchantment back in my day my phone company was hawking those to everyone
btw if you find one there's an unlock code calculator that works with nearly all of them

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@nixos_goddess

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PurpCat, 2 months ago

@Nonbinussy cc @BadFediPosts

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@Nudhul @Nonbinussy @BadFediPosts ball crushing factory sounds like shit pernia would say

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@Nudhul @Nonbinussy @BadFediPosts sentenced to work fast food

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PurpCat, 2 months ago

@sneeden @Nonbinussy @BadFediPosts @Nudhul it is when every building has bulletproof glass and looks like shit out of a bad sci fi film from the dystopian future

PurpCat, 2 months ago

@Nudhul @sneeden @Nonbinussy @BadFediPosts implying it's not $20 an hour min wage