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Yeah, despite their low sales I see them constantly. But I live in a really conservative area where most people think Musk isn't far enough to the right. I travel through a lot of rural areas all over the country and I think more rednecks would buy them but it isn't as reliable as a twenty year old diesel truck. Now that they're selling much cheaper than at the beginning they seem to be trickling out.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The Bronco had massive failures as soon as people started getting their hands on them. Sales went crazy at first but then crashed through the floor. There's a Ford dealer across from my work that has like 85 of them on the lot and they barely sell now.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    I suspect it would not have been a huge success, but it would have done significantly better if all the political BS hadn't been involved. Whatever though, it's in the history books now.

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    I don't know, when you're living in Minnesota and it was -40 a couple of weeks ago and it suddenly hits 30F, everyone is in shorts and T-shirts, it feels warm. And if you're in Florida and it hits 30F ever, it feels cold. It's definitely subjective. But it remains true that the US southwest has the record for the hottest weather recorded on earth, so far. That is objective.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    I'm very similar. I have even lived in Europe a couple of times. But I don't even try to think in Celsius anymore, I just don't see a benefit and my brain rejects it. 90% of the time when I'm boiling water it's high up on a mountain and it boils below 100C in elevation. Also who cares if the water is 95C or 200F, it's not as hot as I'd like it to be.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    I have filled out at least a thousand of those little bubbles in my life of voting. To think not one of those power hungry dbags ever raped anyone is wild. Things like the Epstein files show what sex culture is like at the top. I just don't have my head up my ass.

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  • submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
     

    My son has my family's oldest gaming PC, it's an i7 4790 with a 1660 TI and 16GB DDR3. It wasn't booting the last couple of days. I had time to look at it so we disconnected everything and threw it on the table with some good light and connected it to power so I could see what it was doing.

    It was clear his three case fans were all dying, one was completely dead. One was in poor condition and one was starting to make noise. I already had extra case fans brand new in box sitting in my house, but I assumed old fans weren't what was keeping it from booting.

    We removed all three bad fans, and with the case wide open, both sides front and top removed, I blew it out a little bit with canned air. It wasn't that dirty, just a little bit of dust came out. I checked with my fingers to see that the ram seemed seated and that all the connections seemed okay, but I didn't disconnect and reconnect anything, I just touched it.

    I turned on the PC with no case fans (only an old CPU cooler connected) and it booted up. So we installed the three new case fans, and tested it again. It booted up again. We put it all back together and connected all the peripherals and it's working absolutely flawlessly.

    So I am asking a question, but I want you for context to know that I have repaired hundreds of PCs, maybe close to a thousand. I have never fixed a boot issue by replacing case fans. I have read that some 20+ year-old PCs maybe would have that issue, but from what I understand a 12-year-old PC should not have boot impacted by case fans. So here's my question: was this just a ghost in the system, or is this actually possibly a real thing?

    TL:DR We fixed his computer with three new case fans and the tiniest bit of canned air. Help me make it make sense.

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