I check this board daily,, beginning to resemble a morgue..>>>D
It comes and goes. Its spring - time to be outside.
I've been busy working on some of my other rolling scrap heaps. Unfortunately I'm a Mopar guy so there is always wiring to be repaired... I'll be back to starting new threads with newbie questions soon enough.
There is a Facebook place that some here use also.
Funny, see many posts here for a month, then nothing for a few days, then just a few for a couple of weeks.
Hate facebook won't touch it even with your pole.>>>D
Spring fever everyone is busy cleaning and servicing their rigs,F/B is alright you don't need to post your life there though.There are some sharp guys on the bus pages that have worked in the factories that know every inch of the GM,MCI,Eagle,Vanhool and Prevost buses.Good 2 strokes guys on the Detroit pages to most of those will post a little videio or send a PM showing you how to check and repair a 2 stroke and it is free
the info and help here is chump change compared to all the facebook sites. thousands of them covering every subject under the sun. Some sites wont allow you to join unless you are approved. Usually a coupke of general subject related questions. Many users are under their wifes facebook page. And Marketplace is much more than craigslist or others ever were.
Quote from: chessie4905 on April 07, 2021, 08:51:10 AM
And Marketplace is much more than craigslist or others ever were.
It can also hit or miss.
I've had things sell on Marketplace before I've even finished writing ad copy for the second item I wanted to sell.
I've also had things on Marketplace for six weeks that still haven't sold - in this case, a brand new Selmer Bari Sax mouthpiece, listed on several of the saxophone pages.
Regardless, the best thing about Marketplace is that it's FREE!
FWIW & HTH. . . ;)
Never understood listing an item for sale on a platform that was members-only. Seems like one would want a marketplace open to all.
I don't do Facebook and have no plans to. None of my family either, so it never even crosses our minds to look there for something we're looking to buy.
Millions are on there. But many are concerned about their privacy as is normal. Anybody can see our posts here and over time can glean info about most of us.How many here don't feel comfortable listing even the state they reside in.
Even good sites for solar, ev's and any subject under the sun that you may have an interest in. Detroit Diesels, Vintage buses, Bus Conversions, Railroads, Drones, Camping, etc.
Nothing is free. If it looks like it is you just haven't dug up the hidden cost yet.
Jim
People do You Tube and Goggle tracks you like a hunting dog after a rabbit ,politics suck on F/B I just block that crap out,you can cut the comments off from anything you posted on F/B if it starts to get nasty
Quote from: richard5933 on April 08, 2021, 05:34:14 AM
Never understood listing an item for sale on a platform that was members-only. Seems like one would want a marketplace open to all.
I don't do Facebook and have no plans to. None of my family either, so it never even crosses our minds to look there for something we're looking to buy.
Ditto
Any thing posted on the internet is open season,that is why I don't do Google or anything they control,friggn electric meters track you now,plus the smart TV's it's hard to hide from Goggle
And if you have a Harley, you put it on HOG website I guess. We all have old buses. And the viewership of this....old buses. Perhaps the greatest place to market?
Quote from: luvrbus on April 08, 2021, 08:46:41 AM
Any thing posted on the internet is open season,that is why I don't do Google or anything they control,friggn electric meters track you now,plus the smart TV's it's hard to hide from Goggle
I don't think smart TVs require you to connect them to the Internet. You should be able to hook up just HDMI or other connection to the TV.
Quote from: belfert on April 12, 2021, 07:17:32 AM
I don't think smart TVs require you to connect them to the Internet. You should be able to hook up just HDMI or other connection to the TV.
That's how mine work - we only connect them occasionally to update the firmware.
You dont have Roku?
Some folks just can't live with out being in everbody's business..>>>D
Unfortunately unless you are technically savvy it is hard to keep the tracking away. I'm sure some of you have heard this joke somewhere:
"As someone that works in tech my house has no Alexa, Google Home, smart refrigerator, smart tv, or smart locks. I have manual locks, a manual thermostat and my router runs openWrt. I have a printer from 2004 and a shotgun ready in case it makes any funny noises."
Almost all of this is accurate for me. Pretty much any consumer grade gear with a network connection has tracking built in now. Anything I buy that "has to be connected" gets connected for just long enough to get it running then pulled back off the network. I had a roommate buy some "smart lights" he could change the color of from his phone. I found that they were pulling data from my network and uploading it to a remote server every day. They happened to stop working a few days later.