Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Small Practical Usenet-Related Question - Keep Thunderbird From Dropping Out Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:10:02 +0100 Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <10p8v64$1vi0v$12@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net B+1se+fiEiwV0SlW2Lg1Swr9N6oMGqJMWOlJxgvSZby26zklRU X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:ib3iWySEGSOwCTwN3/GGAeossZw= sha256:0bdq/7tL6PV8H8pLhbItWvLV+kT4PuVrEDhBx6v/m38= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:83142 On 2026-03-16 21:04, rbowman wrote: > On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:05:08 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 16/03/2026 04:51, c186282 wrote: >>> I've explained why I won't go fiber - it would be THE >>>   excuse to zap my great old landline phone forever. >> >> I bless the last day I ever had to have a carburettor in my daily >> drive... > > Two of my bikes still have carbs. No problem. When a friend got a real job > he bought a Volvo. We'd spent our college years keeping old junk running > and knew our way around engines. > > This was the early '70s and the Volvo had a primitive ECU under the > passenger seat and I managed to kick a cable loose getting in. The car > wouldn't start, so we got out and popped the hood. We realize we were in a > brave new world when the damn thing didn't even have a carb. > > Years later when I bought a Toyota I assumed the ignition wires were under > the plastic shroud. Wrong again. Each plug has its own coil. I can't say I > miss the wires. I had a first generation Audi with a computer that decided > the ignition wires were bad every 15,000 miles and wouldn't start. I > carried a spare set. Replace the wires, and I was good for another 15k. > There wasn't any misfiring or other symptoms, it just decided it needed > new wires. > > I can't wait for AI automotive control systems making random decisions. Ha! My car has a canister with coal (graphite?) absorbing the vapours from the gasoline tank. Then a valve allows those gases in the intake to be burned. That valve is computer activated several times per second (has a name that I forget). It broke. As a result, the computer could not regulate gasoline flow correctly and the idle varied, probably fuel expenditure was worse. Then the display said "engine failure", yellow alarm. As a result, the computer decided the engine was not reliable and disabled the anti-skid system. As a result, another alarm went up, and the car would refuse to accelerate to 120 Km/h. And no, the computer log did not say exactly what was wrong. The boss (older than the other chaps) in the garage recognized the symptoms when I said that idle varied. He had another car recently with the same problem. Two visits. In the first one they blamed the economic gasoline I was buying. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;