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56 Cadillac brakes

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I don't have specific kit recommendations, but I used to have a heavy old Cadillac coupe as well, and upgraded the brakes with a cobbled together junkyard hydroboost setup. I learned how to do that when I built a rock crawler a few years before. Both vehicles in wildly different use cases, both times the hydroboost system worked really well.

Saw Backrooms with my teenagers and realized they’ll never know the specific boredom that made us

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Do you feel satisfied with how your life went? Still planning on making any changes or just riding it out?

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Oh, I do. In the summer I regularly take my motorcycle to the race track. That’s always a fun way to spend a weekend. I have two rescue greyhounds which I love with all my heart. I have an amazing partner to share life with. We travel a few times a year, not just to see family, but outside the country for fun as well. I’ve always been a bit of a nihilist at heart, and in the most recent years that sentiment has really been amplified. It’s not that I don’t feel fulfilled at points in my life, it’s the overwhelming sense of *what’s the goddamn point of it all?* Yes, I’m in therapy, and yes, it helps. But my therapist isn’t there next to me laying awake at night ruminating in these thoughts.

Do you feel satisfied with how your life went? Still planning on making any changes or just riding it out?

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While 40 isn’t that old, it’s past the half way mark on average. The prospect of working another 25 goddamn years *at minimum* before we get to “enjoy” the remaining few while our bodies wither, yeah, not great. That’s also carrying a lot of assumptions that we’ll even get to retire at 65, or that we’ll be in decent health when we do retire, if we can at all. I agree that moving your body is important, but I’ve run marathons and train most days, and I’m still miserable due to, well, the general state of affairs in the world.

Do you feel satisfied with how your life went? Still planning on making any changes or just riding it out?

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I recently went on YouTube just to watch someone do a complete play through of Battletoads and while the entire game is laughably difficult, the last half of the levels are genuinely mind bendingly impossible. It’s outrageous and it earned its status as a meme.

what’s the ‘holy grail’ sleeper platform under $3k?

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Nah man enjoy that thing for what it is. I’ve done a couple LS swaps over the years but my EFI 5.0 Jeep is still my favorite. A good HCI setup on a 302 will get plenty rowdy.

what’s the ‘holy grail’ sleeper platform under $3k?

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Ah that sucks man. Do you remember which “brand” it was? I remember we did a bunch of research on forums (this was pre-Reddit days) and there was a consensus that there were like two or three that were much better than the other thousands of options. Kinda how like those Predator Honda knockoff engines rose to the top of the IP infringement mountain lol.

what’s the ‘holy grail’ sleeper platform under $3k?

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what’s the ‘holy grail’ sleeper platform under $3k?

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My friends and I all did the cheapest Chinese eBay turbo crap possible in our early 20s and it was way more reliable than you could imagine considering how cheap it all was. Had so much fun on a shoestring budget.

what’s the ‘holy grail’ sleeper platform under $3k?

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S10 + 5.3 + eBay Chinese turbo. Mine took 12psi for like three years and I beat the absolute hell out of it, and barely even serviced it. Sold it running and driving just fine.

what’s the ‘holy grail’ sleeper platform under $3k?

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Who needs a built LS when junkyards are overflowing with the 5.3 that just loves eBay china turbos. I used that exact formula and shoved 12psi down its gullet without any real significant investment of money or really time since any adaptors or engine mounts you could imagine already exists on the aftermarket and I own a welder that I’m probably overconfident with haha

what’s the ‘holy grail’ sleeper platform under $3k?

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FTC warns 97 auto dealership groups about deceptive pricing (letters sent to them warn that the prices they advertise must be the total price, including all mandatory fees.)

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FTC warns 97 auto dealership groups about deceptive pricing (letters sent to them warn that the prices they advertise must be the total price, including all mandatory fees.)

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Are automatic car washes really that bad?

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The touchless washes are for winter, I’m not trying to keep the car “clean” I just need the pounds of salt rinsed off periodically. Bonus points for the ones that have the undercarriage sprayers as well.

Helping a friend build his first PC over facetime video chat since he's over a thousand miles away, but I have a unique question about front panel connectors that I can't find any answers about online.

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Helping a friend build his first PC over facetime video chat since he's over a thousand miles away, but I have a unique question about front panel connectors that I can't find any answers about online.

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Helping a friend build his first PC over facetime video chat since he's over a thousand miles away, but I have a unique question about front panel connectors that I can't find any answers about online.

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Homer Simpson’s paystub from a 1997 episode

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I mean, Springfield was canonically “americas worst town to live in” per the writers themselves. The best example I can think of would be Gary, Indiana. I bet $24/hr goes pretty far even today if you live in Gary.

So apparently my old Fractal Design case from 2019 saved my GPU temps by like 10C compared to my friends newer NZXT H5 Flow

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So apparently my old Fractal Design case from 2019 saved my GPU temps by like 10C compared to my friends newer NZXT H5 Flow

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I literally just received the Define R5 that I bought on eBay in the mail today. Can't beat this thing for a home NAS setup. Modern cases just don't have enough 3.5" bays, and they're all gamer aesthetic based. And *real* networking cases are a fortune.

PC in a very very cold room

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If that scares you allow me to introduce you to the Polar Bear club. Every year in January we jump in Lake Michigan to raise money for charity. Our next plunge is actually this Saturday! https://www.chicagopolarbearclub.com/

PC in a very very cold room

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PC in a very very cold room

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PC in a very very cold room

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Sitting in my office right now staring out the window, currently it’s -15°c. On Thursday, -19°c is the *high temp* for the day. When you’ve lived here your whole life you just kind of get used to it haha

Mortality as a Gen X

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Flashback to 28 floppy discs to install Windows 95

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SSD Prices continue to increase at an alarming rate ! I bought a Samsung 1tb 990 Pro for £100 at the end of November 2025, that same SSD today (just over 1 month later) is now £182........ what the actual hell.

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The MicroCenter near me currently has a few in stock. Samsung 9100 PRO 8TB M.2 drives at like $800, but yeah, it’s gotten absurd. Though they *do* have a limit two per customer on those. https://www.microcenter.com/product/698807/9100_PRO_8TB_Samsung_V_NAND_TLC_NAND_(V8)_PCIe_Gen_5_x4_NVMe_M2_Internal_SSD?storeID=151

SSD Prices continue to increase at an alarming rate ! I bought a Samsung 1tb 990 Pro for £100 at the end of November 2025, that same SSD today (just over 1 month later) is now £182........ what the actual hell.

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I snagged a 3080 on launch during the great GPU crisis. Overpaid, by like, a lot. So it’s been roughly 5 1/2 years. It desperately needs to be upgraded. Really chugging in 4K. Now I’m in a spot where idk if I should grab a 5080, or bite the bullet and go for a 5090, or wait for this all to die down a bit so I can grab a 6000 series GPU when (if) they launch.

What is the peak ’Xennial midlife crisis’ purchase?

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What is the peak ’Xennial midlife crisis’ purchase?

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Was suggested I post this here.

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cheap carfax question for a potential project car… you guys paying full price or is there a smarter way?

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If you’re on good terms with your insurance agent, give them a call and have them run a quote with the VIN. Where I’m at it’ll flag a car as a salvage / rebuilt if it’s been totaled in the past.

Apparently, reliability never mattered.

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Ah, poor phrasing on my part. I suppose it wasn’t a full generation shift, but rather an “update” aka facelift. I believe it happened in 2019. The 19 and newer ones are significantly more reliable.

Apparently, reliability never mattered.

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Apparently, reliability never mattered.

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If you're going to go Macan, go second gen. The first iteration had a slew of recurring issues. By the time they hit the refresh they'd ironed out just about all of it, at least the major stuff. I've seen several second gen Macans go over 100k with just fluids an brakes.

Apparently, reliability never mattered.

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Apparently, reliability never mattered.

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Best low-key mods that changed your build?

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Best low-key mods that changed your build?

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A toast to those of us who made it a season, start to finish, with no major issues. Feels great to deal with small stuff while in hibernation.

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Behold the new project

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Grandpa bought brand new off the lot, what should I do?

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Im very jealous of US car prices

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What is a the 1080ti of this time?

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Anyone know if this will be a practical daily driver?

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Some day, many years from now, your comment will surface as the newest form of AI is scouring the internet as it looks for the few remaining humans that it must eliminate, and this comment will break the AI because it will have no fucking idea what you’re talking about. You may have just saved mankind.

what's the one project mistake you'll never make again?

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I’ll throw in one caveat here. I purchased a project that belonged to a man that passed away, who had been slowly restoring it for years. The kids wanted nothing to do with it and had no idea what it even was. I got it as a roller with fresh (~10 year old but never saw sunlight) paint and body work. So the shitty parts were already done. The old man would apparently just tinker with stuff on the interior, planning the powertrain for last. So I got a full roller, in near perfect body shape, with like 80% of the interior work done, for a disgustingly low price.

I have an old ryzen 5 3600x and 32gb DDR4 RAM just collecting dust. Thinking about making a SFF NAS machine. Is it as simple as just mobo + PSU + storage?

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I have an old ryzen 5 3600x and 32gb DDR4 RAM just collecting dust. Thinking about making a SFF NAS machine. Is it as simple as just mobo + PSU + storage?

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I have an old ryzen 5 3600x and 32gb DDR4 RAM just collecting dust. Thinking about making a SFF NAS machine. Is it as simple as just mobo + PSU + storage?

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Awesome thank you so much for the help! If there’s any other insights that you might have before I delve into this project (heading to MicroCenter after work) let me know!