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> The shop is getting 200/hr. Techs aren't getting that as far as I know.
Yes but shop rates were under $100/hr only 4-5 years ago. Rising tide is what Im suggesting. So tech protest because they know they can't be fired.
Yeah, but every jobs has those things. Almost all blue collar breaks their body down in exchange for money. For some that's all they have to exchange.
Our shop was performance/boutique. So we get away with higher prices and a better balance at work, but it's specialty. You have to be _really_ talented, motivated, and valuable. For me, it was engineering and diagnostics. For others, they could gut and rebuild a $7,000 transmission in 3 hours. Some could have an engine in out before lunch.
A lot of risk for a potential reward if the shop succeeds. It's forever hanging in risk. Dealerships don't have that risk/reward structure, they prioritize consistency like most 9/5s. In exchange are able to take on less talented techs, or those fresh out of school, or generally unmotivated. We didn't have the space or budged for those guys for example.
You know what’s great though? It’s not our fucking problem
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I hope you do not really belief this...
a good choice as well, everything on top runs debian anyway
I like the additional VM isolation, though I use containers for the nodes to benefit from ZFS compression.
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Just waiting to get back to pc to throw my paynym in there.
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Kind of fair given how fucking connected they are now. I think it's a national security threat personally.
Not that I like the boots kicking. And I'm not sure that's their motivation, but it should be. Either way, it won't stop bad actors. I'd like to see FOSS vehicles.
Bro I got it running with mtp. It's suuuuuuper fast now 🚤
Prometheus is the prequel to Alien (1979). Covenant is part two of the Prometheus story
Is there anyone using Payment Targets?
Yeah. This is the original one. Absolute banger of a tweet
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The shop is getting 200/hr. Techs aren't getting that as far as I know. The last I heard from a tech it was like 19%. Considering taxes, buying your own shit, complexity (and garbage products as you point out), the fact that manufacturers have consistently fucked them on book times for warranty), the absolute brutal effect it has on the body (muscular, bone, and organ), internal politics that tend to develop because of the sales side, and the negative return on advancing within the shop (I've heard that a lot of the more complex work is losing money for master techs because of misaligned times with modern complexity - sounds like a good incentive)... Sounds like a shit career. To be clear, this is coming from dealership techs. Private shops wouldn't have some of those problems necessarily.
But anyway, you're right. If I did this professionally, it would either be industrial or fleet work.
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Someone raised a great question. Does he put on the makeup every morning, or does he remove it to look serious in order to scam people ? 🤔
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I migrated my node to Proxmox 2 days ago.
I recommend you do the same, and throw out Start9 or Umbrel or whatever you are using
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Even VAG cars were easy to modify up to ~05-06. After that same issue.
There has been a TON of improvement over the last 1-2 years in open car hacking, but there is only so much you can do before the government comes kicking.
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Sometimes he needs a refresher
And even then, automotive security people are weird
I am still trying to find one time where I preferred using anything else when Lightning was available.
We all have our years. I think that was advancement/refinement before the enshitification started to happen. But as far as good enough without the locking down (for performance and modifications) US domestic brands before 2008 is a sweet spot. In just about 2008 the computer parts started becoming a locked environment. Rom encryption, CANbus accelerator pedals, throttle bodies, hell even HVAC controls. They started going wild with Siemens control systems,
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That's why theyre getting $200/hr now and set their own schedules. It aint like it use to be. The shop I was at hat the highest rates in the state at $120/hr in 2020. In 2025 they raised well over $200.
$200/hr is considered "cheap" in most areas. Techs are in high enough demand that my buddies set the rules in their shops. The work sucks so bad though. The tech isn't the hard part, its the 1000 clips, and plastics and breaking every plastic hose adapter and oring and the 1000 different tool bits you need and knowing exactly where to swing the hammer without causing the plastic oil pan to leak or break one of 200 sensors in the bumpers.
Id go back to diesel. Probably big diesel if I could. Fuck consumer products.
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That's been my experience as an amateur mechanic. I'd actually say late 90s, early 2000s. It started going downhill for most brands by 2010. However, some of the brands like tended to be a little behind were still solid and had a good balance of tech/mechs. My Nissan Frontier is a 13 and it's pretty solid. I prefer it to the newer one. Even our old Altima is still running great at almost 160k. The guys at the Nissan shop get a kick out of it and always tell us we better get something else (it's a beater, we already have others but don't tell them). They apparently rarely see them with much over 100. But I drove a 2025 loaner and even my meticulous maintenance can't get those pieces of shit that high. It sounded like it was dying at under 10k miles lol Our 2018 RAV4 is okay, but Toyota is a brand that's notoriously behind (I like that) so it basically falls into that 2013ish timeline.
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First Alien came out in 79. A classic to this day. Aged super well. Prometheus and Covenant are my favourites of the series. Very philosophical.
Why is he reading his own book?
I don’t think there is a reason to be happy regardless of the temperature if you are forced to use Fahrenheit.
The cigarette companies bought up fast food and put the same addiction engineers on it.
Fat from a burger would make you feel full by coating your mouth in fat. Except of course that you are swigging an acidic soda that keeps stripping the fat away so you feel less full and buy more food.