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Now that I've been driving my '91 more often, the utterly worn and collapsed seat foam has been annoying me more and more. From research there seems to be plenty of seat covers, but not really any options for replacement foam outside of buying used and hoping for the best or going with a custom auto upholsterer shop to custom make it. Or replace the seats entirely with a few options (I actually daily drive an FR-S and like its seats fine, so that's an option, but I'd prefer keep the originals.)

Anyone done anything interesting to replace the foam? Carved their own out of something? Some secret vendor out there that does it for a price that'd be better than a custom shop? Done something to r

Long story short, I had a random no-crank issue for a couple or three weeks on my 2014 FR-S. Push start button, I'd hear the hum of the relay, but nothing else. Dash lights all responded like you'd expect, clicky clacky relays coming and going, but no crank. It'd be fine for days, then would randomly do it again. Usually it'd refire after a roll-start and I got where I was going, sometimes after a battery disconnect/reconnect. I had a lot going on so I hadn't had a chance to really dig in (including a week out of town for work where I wasn't driving anyway). I'd been looking up wiring diagrams, searching electrical issues and relays and BCM functions and all that, even doing a bit of car sho

Hello Knoxvillians! This might be a kind of weird request but I'm hoping I can connect with someone willing to do this. When my sister and I were very young kids in the early 80s, the apartment complex we lived in redid one panel in the sidewalk outside our building. Our mom drew a flower with our names and birthdays in the panel and it was a fun reminder every time we walked past it.

We've all since moved well out of state and haven't been back in a long time. It was still there at least as late as 2010 or so, but that's the last time any of us personally put eyes on it. From Google Street View/Earth it looks like it should still be there, but the angles are weird and not clear enough.

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I keep seeing news articles that say the Artemis II crew are the first humans to travel to or to see the far side of the Moon. Some of them are kind of awkwardly worded like "human eyes", but as far as I can tell it's well-known that the Apollo missions did loops around the moon and they were perfectly able to see it themselves.

Is this just some kind of mass mistake that keeps getting repeated by "journalists" not doing their research or is there some quirk to it that I'm missing?

Had this discussion with my partner the other day while we were building something and neither of us were sure. Do you consider LEGO sets to be puzzles?

Arguments for:

1. You had to find the correct pieces

2. You have to put it together correctly

3. Sometimes you have to be careful to match up colors and similar pieces to not screw it up.

Arguments against:

1. You have detailed instructions on how to put it together

2. It's usually hard to screw up entirely since it's usually clear how to put it together

3. There's usually several angles of the finished product showing every piece and detail, unlike something like a jigsaw puzzle box picture that's just what it's supposed to look li

After a couple years of fits and starts doing a bit here and there, I decided to go whole-hog on my T430 and refresh/mod it as far as it could go (more or less). I've done the quadcore upgrade, 1080p IPS screen upgrade, AX wifi card upgrade, swapped for multiple SSDs including an NVME one in the expresscard slot, etc. But thanks to some luck and missteps I've ended up with nearly a whole other T430.

I pinched one of the speaker wires working on it, and it was cheaper (and cheap) to get a whole lower case with speakers than speakers alone and turned out to be a little nicer than my original. Ended up fixing the speakers anyway.

I found a super cheap motherboard that was listed as having a d

Hey folks,

Just did the IPS FHD mod on my T430, which turned out great - at first. Fired it up and it came right up and worked great. A couple days later I felt like I noticed a hiss on the left channel, maybe both, when it played audio that stopped after a moment. After another day or so of using it, I stopped getting audio all together.

It doesn't seem to be a driver problem - the mixer still works, volume goes up and down, mute button and lights works as expected, etc, but nothing. I do get audio on 3.5mm jack as well, so the base sound system is working. It also happens in both Linux and Windows, including a Linux live USB boot just in case there's somehow something broken with the sof

Finally pulled my T430 out of mothballs awhile ago and for no real good reason I'm working on maxxing it out. Between stuff already in it and stuff on the way I'm getting close to everything it can do. But, one thing I haven't seen is anyone talking about adding a touchscreen. I know they're controversial but I kind of like having it available now and then on the couple other laptops I have with one, plus beyond potential brightness limitations there's sort of a "why not?" aspect.

As near as I can tell the main difference is 30-pin eDP for regular screens and 40 pins for eDP + touchscreen with adapters available that leave the touchscreen pins unconnected. I have a random spare touchscreen