Whatever you get, avoid running it at 100% brightness. This will likely extend its lifespan.
Whatever you get, avoid running it at 100% brightness. This will likely extend its lifespan.
I rarely have mine on, but that’s because a mate snapped the antenna off. It’s got one Slim Dusty tape in it, and most of the time only the left speaker works.
The Bluetooth speaker on the dash plays the poddies, and holding the volume button on the phone skips any ads.
Someone should make Sponsorblock for poddies.
Good point!
Not sure what I got blocked from. Might poke around later and see. Guess I upset a bot by using a colon or something.
Downloaded it. Signed up. Replied to a post about rechargeable batteries. Account got restricted. Left.
Don’t run them at full brightness and you should be ok.
… and suddenly Netflix disappears from it.
Up next: mouse cartridges.
Used to run it on my z80 back in the day, before moving on to WordPerfect 5.1.
TIL. Thanks.
Hehe you forgot ABS :) It’s up to me to pulse the brakes to keep steering, learned that in a defensive driving course.
I have a newer 2003 Verada as well but it’s decided it no longer can find TDC (code 22, 23) so I’m saving up for the diagnostics and possible repair or replacement.
I agree a newer car is safer, and am hanging out for an EV when I can afford one. In the mean time the simple reliability of the Magna is a trade off I must make.
As for repairability, I’m aware that I will soon need to replace the capacitors in the ECU and TCU on the Magna since they die of old age. It’s a failure mode for older cars that people might not anticipate - same as how all electionics die eventually.
Maybe a USB DVB-T adapter plugged into a laptop or phone is about as close as you can get now.
Or an older set top box, but not so old that it can’t handle MP4.
I didn’t know. Maybe it’s not a law in Australia or I just haven’t been paying attention as my '96 Magna is still going fine.
Hehe. Ok. Add an inverter and an electric blaket under the seat cover :)
Is that a new rule? For all cars?
Hehe. I’ve just got a Sony Bluetooth speaker sitting on the dash. For poddies it’s good enough.
What’s wrong with just a pot box, a motor and some batteries?
Still using comskip.exe today although it seems to be having more trouble than it used to.
Sounds good, but can you trust an OS partition not to store things in %programdata% etc that should be encrypted?
Motorola has ⅔ of that on many models.
Removable battery not an option though.