What?

A 2 liter sleeved and build b18 and a built trans will run 8s without meaningful issues pretty much forever, as long as you don’t launch at 10k rpm every single time. Mine is on it’s 6th season and 30k street miles, albeit on low boost (tuned for 1090whp, but I track it at 840 and street it on 600) and the closest thing it’s had to a rebuild is a head gasket and timing belt replacement because 4 hours is a small price to pay to protect a 6k motor. That and frequent motor oil and trans fluid changes, of course.

I take no problem with telling how much building a really nice car could cost, but you made it sound like 110k is the minimum cost and all I’m saying is not really. That, and the notion that high HP Hondas necessarily can’t hang with the power output are verifiably false

1995 civic shell, ~3k if mint

2000 CRV AWD manual transmission, 1k Upgrade the diffs and gearset for 5k for 6k total

Fully built, sleeved, and bored to 2L b18c motor ~5k easy all day long

If DIY, misc chassis parts (motor mounts, brakes, tires, traction bar, etc.) 3-4k

Turbo setup with a good quality turbo ~4k

Misc supporting mods like injectors, ecu, upgraded rad, etc. ~3-4k

All in you can pull off a 1,000hp b series AWD build (AWD being a luxury in the Honda tuning world) 26k that’ll throw down 8 second miles all day long

I’m sending comment this from a T-Mobile plan using an unlocked OnePlus 9 pro my friend, hence my question.

Your first point seems made up and I couldn’t quickly find a source for it; do you have one that I couldn’t find?

Ah interesting. Mind if I ask where at? Where I’m located, you can find great deals on refurbished pixels (with a 1 year warranty!) on ebay for as little as 100USD.

Hell yeah! Great idea :)

Hmmm… might have to put this one on the back burner D:

Excellent idea! There’s a ton of community gardens near me as well, so this is perfect for my community.

As someone considering a switch to Graphene (shopping for deals on 120hz pixel models as we speak) why is Graphene a non-starter for you?

I was gonna comment this, decided not to, then decided the info should be part of this thread either for OP or future readers, so here goes:

Enterprise Linux distributions are unbeatable for their purpose. To your point, I’ve never in my entire career had even the smallest issue maintaining one, they’re wonderful. They achieve this, though, by being a stable, truly versioned release that will never see anything beyond minor upgrades. The reason why nobody recommends server distros for gaming is because of hardware compatibility and library support, and you end up maintaining more of your own junk anyway. Got the latest gpu? Great, compile your drivers.

Enterprise Linux distros are awesome and the most painless Linux experience imaginable, as well as a great workstation experience too BUT they typically are among the worst options for gaming if you want a simple system.

I’m aware. The post was simply to get a recovery guide out there for a crappy situation.

100% my stack going forward. Thanks!

That’s the move.

Disturbingly effective is definitely the right phrase. It’s actually inspired me to create a script on my desktop that moves folders to ~/Trash, then I have another script that /dev/random’s the files and then /dev/zeros them before deletion. It eliminated risk of an accidental rm, AND make sure that once something is gone, it is GONE.

I’m not denying that stupid stuff didn’t happen nor that this wasn’t entirely preventable. There’s some practical reasons that are unique to large, slow moving orgs that explain why it wasn’t (yet) in version control.