Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: -hh Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux-hating Dimdows concern trolls, listen up Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:07:55 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:07:56 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6f4f5ca73100dcdd085e218f4ca0c44f"; logging-data="3179090"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19J3oN8L6JcpdxTP0jTiIlebsm630Zt8r8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:lE2uj1GZzN6ElRkb2LfXzJjGLTc= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3667 On 12/19/24 8:48 AM, CrudeSausage wrote: > Le 2024-12-18 à 23:41, chrisv a écrit : >> -hh wrote: >> >>> chrisv wrote: >>>> chrisv wrote: >>>> >>>>> I tend to agree, that the TPMS requirement for Win11 is not such a bad >>>>> thing. >>>> >>>> s/TPMS/TPM/ >>>> >>>> Can you tell that I recently bought some new tires for my car? >>> >>> Should have said you were in the market, for I have a set of dedicated >>> snows on four rims that I'm looking to sell: 18” x 8" BBS SR's (bolt >>> pattern 5 x 112mm), complete with TPMS sensors & 235/60R18 Continental >>> Viking Contact 7 snow tires w/good tread. >> >> Shipping those would be expensive...  The wheels would fit, I think, >> but the the 60 profile is taller than my 45's.  From an SUV, I would >> assume. Shipping could be costly, but you're in FIOS land, so it geographically wouldn't necessarily be too far of a drive, especially if we split it. And yes, these are SUV; I'd moved along the sedan set a few years back. >> I went with Michelin X-Ice tires, breaking from many years of running >> Dunlop Winter Sports. > > My previous QX60 had Michelin X-Ice and they were wonderful. For the > longest time, they were the top-rated winter tires and have only > recently been surpassed by Toyo's offering. I wanted the same thing on > my new vehicle but they only had a choice of either Continental or > Yokohama. Since Continental is the absolute worst garbage I've ever > owned (bubbles form on the side of the tires after about 15,000km), you > can imagine what I purchased. My preferences for winter snows has long been Vredstein, but the family shop that I'd been using for decades couldn't get them in stock during CoVid when I last needed to buy a replacement set, so I settled on the Continentals. Conti is an okay provider...given sufficient years, one can probably find some complaint about most any of them - - case in point, I've had good success with Michelin, but ten years ago, I had a horrible time with a set which had a loud harmonic vibration which occurred only at my preferred long distance highway cruising speed. -hh