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  • 3 years helpdesk, just over 10 years now truck driving. Pairs well with selfhosted media at the house, but not working on other people's shit.

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    Whoopsiedoodle!
  • That is a hilarious and practical suggestion. It would confuse and irritate so many people, even though it's no issue like you say.

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  • It would actually be easier to have a float in the wet kit hydraulic tank on the truck side that alarms when the hydraulic fluid is low.

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  • Not just that, but you need a standard to communicate it truck to trailer and retrofit it so it all plays nice.

    Could be done on a dump truck though if there is a way to set a separate governor in the computer that gets enabled by the bed up light somehow.

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  • Not just to spread it, they have to scooch a bit to let the material fall. The tightest end dump pile is still a fat line.

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  • Maintenance would be on the driver since it's his responsibility to shut down the truck. U-Joint failures happen (on the tractor), but should be inspected daily (finger quotes).

    Doesn't matter though, cause he left his bed up. There's no driveshaft on the trailer. If there were, it would take forever to hook a trailer lol.

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    USB Switch for docking station to switch between PC and Desktop
  • You're putting the docking station in the wrong part of this. It is a branch, not the fork.

    Keyboard/mouse/video plug into KVM

    Wires from KVM go to docking station

    Another set go to monitor/desktop

    When you plop the 'top in the dock, hit Win+P or whatever shortcut to change display to external monitor only if you're feeling froggy.

    Either way, you will still have two wires to the docking station at minimum. I'm probably old, but I don't think you're gonna get all 3 through a single USB port.

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  • I'm not a true believer in crypto, but I used to play around with it. I have received a 5-figure USD sum of bitcoin from the MtGox settlement, and I'm considering my options. It is a true windfall. It was worth maybe $100-200 when I used to play daytrader and shop silk road with it.

    We are on track for early retirement as it is, but my "smart money" intuition says pay the long-term capital gains and invest in funds, how we do everything else. More money earlier is always good.

    My gambler side says to withdraw some maybe, but split the rest into a half dozen likely candidates for someday real world crypto use which may take off. I don't stay up to date on them anymore, so this would take some real research.

    The weird Trumpy stuff going on with BTC makes me think it couldn't hurt to hold through the election in case prepper types panic buy it lol.

    My wife says it's unexpected so just leave it as a high-risk part of our whole portfolio, but I worry she underestimates the risk and scamminess of it all.

    Update: I sold the account down to 0.1 BTC today. I may sell more later on. Thanks everyone for your input.

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