Rocketpoweredgorilla
@Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca
Reddit Refugee that moved to lemmy.world
- Comment on Fuel Tank Capacity Upgrade! 1 week ago:
Ouch! I pay 9 cents a kilowatt on my electrickery bill. 60 cents sounds like a total rip off.
- Comment on Life is hard 1 week ago:
Ah ok that would be an option yours didn’t have then. Up here virtually all cars have them.
- Comment on Life is hard 1 week ago:
Sonomas are decent little trucks overall. With a lot of Gm products a lot of shit quits working for no reason (or cheap plastic parts break) and there’s always little gremlins to chase, but they’ll usually get you to where you’re going.
But ya, If everything worked proper, the 96’ Sonoma is supposed to turn the ac compressor on and flip a vent door to redirect the air to your windshield whenever you put the dial to the far right defrost. It’ll still defrost the window anyway if the ac is bust, but with the dry air it works a lot faster. Your defogger button directly under that knob only puts power to the heat lines in your rear window. They’re kinda meh for actual defogging in my opinion, but they’re great for melting ice so you can at least see out the back.
- Comment on Life is hard 1 week ago:
Ok maybe I’m misunderstanding something, because from your comment it sounded like you think the ac doesn’t work in the winter when you use defrost with the heat on. And my point is that most cars are set up to do exactly that because it works better regardless of where the temperature dial is.
Defoggers are a separate thing altogether and has nothing to do with your heat, AC, or blower. Maybe it’s different in some newer cars but traditionally all a defogger is is those heat cables that you see in the back window, nothing else.
Not trying to argue, just trying to clarify things.
- Comment on Life is hard 1 week ago:
I really don’t know what to tell you there, I’m going by the vehicle manufacturer’s labels. The “defrost” mode on your climate controls (typically all the way to the right) that blows air towards your windshield will often use the ac compressor even if you have the heat set to high, because ac drys the air… it doesn’t have to be cold, it can be any temperature. Blowing wet warm air at the windshield isn’t very effective compared to dry warm air. That is especially true in our Canadian winters.
You can try it with virtually any car made from the 1970’s to today (and some in the 1950’s and 60’s) that was equipped with AC. Turn your defrost on, crank your heat, and you will hear/notice the slip clutch on the end of the AC compressor under the hood will kick in, turning on the ac unit. Some cars do come with a dedicated separate defrost button, (as opposed to the defogger button which only operates the heat lines in your back window) they also will use the AC to dry the air.
Defoggers are typically the heat lines you see in back windows, although some old cars (like my old 69 Newport) had blowers for the back window as well, and even a second heater core to feed it.
Long story short, AC is for drying air, not just cooling it.
- Comment on Life is hard 1 week ago:
My 78 Chrysler was designed to use the AC in defrost mode even in a winter blizzard and was much more effective and drying the windshield because of it. Most heating/cooling system in cars were combined much earlier than that to take advantage of dehumidifying the air. It also has the benefit to run the compressor to keep lubrication and stop seals from drying out in the AC system that would otherwise not be used to months at a time.
There are some vehicles with separate heating and AC systems, (mainly cheap or aftermarket units) but the vast majority run together. (At least in North American cars.)
- Comment on The lord has started smiting republicans. 1 week ago:
I don’t think so… it seems a fancy way of saying you smacked it really hard.
Smote is the past tense form of the verb smite, which is most frequently used to mean “to strike sharply or heavily especially with the hand or with something held in the hand,” or “to kill or severely injure by striking in such a way.”
- Comment on Fair is fair 1 week ago:
That one usually gets mopped up after trump leaves a room.
- Comment on Is it just the norm now-a-days for grocery stores to have lots of stuff on the shelves that's past the best-by date? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen anything being sold in my local stores past its date, unless it’s in the discount bin. My daughter works at one of them and regularly gets to bring home stuff that’s past date but still good because it can’t be sold. This is in Canada though, our laws are a bit stiffer than the US.
- Comment on May want to learn how to spell before you have kids 4 weeks ago:
your
- Comment on May want to learn how to spell before you have kids 4 weeks ago:
Thank yew!
- Comment on 10 miles to escape a bill 1 month ago:
Ya STARS is one of those things most people don’t pay much attention to until it’s needed, but they are a really nice thing to have especially considering how large our country is.
My trip with them was about 80 miles to Winnipeg, and took about 18 minutes from the time they stuffed me in the back to the time they put me into the ambulance at the airport. I can’t imagine how long that would have taken by ground.
Honestly I don’t think I needed to get there that fast, but they were worried because I had head trauma and had lost a lot of blood so they erred on the side of caution, which was understandable.
www.stars.ca is their website if anyone is wondering what STARS is.)
- Comment on 10 miles to escape a bill 1 month ago:
here in Canada I had an accident once. Was loaded onto a STARS helicopter, flown 80 miles to the nearest city, unloaded into an ambulance for the rest of the trip to the hospital, x-rayed, stitches, and two surgeries.
Only thing I paid for was a dollar for some really bad coffee from the hospital canteen.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I was tempted to, but I was concerned people would think I’m a chemo patient so I left them alone.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think it was several things, but the reason she gave me was that I looked too young. ( I was in my mid-40’s and only a few years younger than her.)
I suspect that her bi-polar issues played into that though as well. She was a very difficult person to keep happy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I asked my ex gf once if I should shave, her reply was that it didn’t matter to her.
Several weeks later while I was shaving my beard, I had one of those sporadic moments where I thought to myself…why not? So I kept shaving. Shaved my head, chest etc, everything. By the time I was done I was more aerodynamic than a fighter jet.
My gf refused to talk to me after that for two weeks.
- Comment on How can people with ADHD possibly enjoy movies if they daydream and can't focus on the movie? 1 month ago:
Watch it several times. (Not necessarily in a row) Each time it’s like a whole new movie because of all the stuff you didn’t notice before.
I half joke there, but until I was in my 40’s I never could sit still long enough to watch an entire movie from start to finish. Still enjoyed a lot of them, just in bite size pieces.
- Comment on Hey hey hey looks like I am in now 🥳 1 month ago:
Good luck with that.
I found a bit more info that may help on what it’s blocking (or attempting to) in this post. old.lemmy.ca/post/68374360
- Comment on Hey hey hey looks like I am in now 🥳 1 month ago:
I read somewhere it was blocking people who used the word “perchance” among other things.
- Comment on Vaguely remember them 1 month ago:
Not sure, cost probably.
- Comment on Vaguely remember them 1 month ago:
We still use them here in Canada for stuff like canned ham and Klik luncheon meat.
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 1 month ago:
That would have been a 440 engine. General Motors made the 454.
I used to have a 69 Newport. Loved that car.
- Comment on bluesky is officially locked out for age 2 months ago:
I just vpn’ed through Texas and yup, got that too. As soon as I changed back to my normal location and reloaded it was fine. If that ends up happening to me I’m just gonna delete my account, fuck that shit. Nothing there worth fascists keeping an eye on me.
- Comment on She skipped groceries for a week to pay for that Little Caesars. 2 months ago:
… because we learned from them?
- Comment on RAM Trucks ad 2 months ago:
Lol “Nothing stops a ram” except when it eats a thermostat, blows a gasket, worn out lifter roller bearings, the transmission shits the bed (again), you have the fob too close to the truck overnight and it kills the battery, or the countless other weird electrical issues.
But at least you get to watch ads on the laggy infotainment screen while you wait for the tow truck, so there’s that.
- Comment on Keep off the sofa 2 months ago:
They shouldn’t have to wait until he gets off it.
- Comment on Keep off the sofa 2 months ago:
If I were them I would have broken out the plastic lawn furniture so it could be hosed down afterwards.
- Comment on Accepting Cookies 3 months ago:
under settings,privacy and security, under cookies and site data (just above the “Clear cookies and site data every time you close Firefox” box) there’s “manage exceptions” that will exclude your favorites from getting erased every time.
- Comment on How do first time movie writers ensure someone along the way won't get ripped off? Like say Jay in the mail room sees your scripts and develops it himself, what recourse is there against mail clerk? 5 months ago:
I was just trying to find my coffee cup, honest! I was not looking for scripts to steal at all. I thought my cup may have been misplaced in that stack of letters.
- Comment on How do first time movie writers ensure someone along the way won't get ripped off? Like say Jay in the mail room sees your scripts and develops it himself, what recourse is there against mail clerk? 5 months ago:
I’m curious too. I have done nothing.