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Courtesy cars are a different matter, but for one's own cars:
1. have easy to use tire pressure gauge which I use regularly.
2. have ready to use AC powered (when near my garage) air pump plugged into extension cord in garage.
3. about every 2 months (or sooner if tires don't look right) check and refill if necessary.
4. many moons ago filling stations made all of this really handy to do at the gas pump, but not any more, so I attempt to have it in or near my garage.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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60 psi is 50% over the max tire pressure on my car. Normal pressure is 32 psi.
I'm amazed that the tire hasn't blown up on you.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Installing VS 2022 on my laptop. 35GB package.
1Gbit fiber Internet.
32GB of RAM @ 5600MHz
Samsung 990 Pro (fastest consumer NVMe on the market)
i9-13900HX
And it still feels like waiting in line at the DMV.
I think the unwritten rule of Microsoft software is it expands to consume all available resources. 
Let's make your $3000+ laptop behave like an old i5.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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I have a fairly average Dell i7 + 8Gb, with a medium speed internet. I cannot recall exactly how long the download and install took, but I think it was in the realm of minutes rather than hours.
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It heavily depends on what packages you install. I installed quite a few and the install took significantly longer than the download - about 10 minutes.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Here in England 10 minutes is considered time for a cup of tea. Speaking of which ... 
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I paid for a laptop like this specifically to avoid the coffee breaks.
It makes installing MS bloatware disappointing.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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The problem with selecting lots of options is that not all of those come from Microsoft servers. Many of them are open source or come from other organizations. You are therefore limited to the bandwidth supported by all those different sources.
I did a fairly comprehensive install of VS2019 once, and it took several hours to download all the bits and pieces. There were over 100 sites involved in the process.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My download was actually quicker than the install. It does them in tandem, but even after the download was complete, the rest took much longer.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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That's the problem with writing installers. Once you've spent all your effort to ensure that the proper bits and pieces get put into the proper places, it's rough making sure it happens quickly or not at all if unnecessary.
For good or for ill, our customer base insists on being able to install previous versions if a new one doesn't work the way they want. This means many of our installers are forced to uninstall things and put others in place with no discretion to ensure this requirement is met.
Software Zen: delete this;
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reduce your caffeine level ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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This brings to mind the definitions of a gigabyte way back when:
"An amount of storage so large that no programmer could fill it in less than a week."
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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 famous last words comes to mind.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Microsoft invented bloatware; I feel your pain.
Last night I bought ArcGIS from ESRI - talk about obscene downloads! I got a two-page download site for all the individual items I need to install to make it work! Just to keep it interesting, there is no Help available to assist me in deciding what all these modules do, or whether I even need them!
Will Rogers never met me.
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My car is in for a service, and while I'm impressed by the professional approach of the garage so far, I hate the courtesy car: a Citroen C3. There's about a foot of clutch travel, but only the top one inch actually bites, the suspension is way to hard and bouncy at low speed but goes too soft and "floaty" at speed. It's noisy, the engine feels willing but rough and gutless. and the steering wheel isn't in front of me - it's slightly to the right.
Oh and you can't see a car behind you at all because the window is so small and the middle headrest at the back covers a car completely. Fortunately it does have a good reversing cam / sensor setup so parking isn't too bad. It's also got a tire warning light, but my pump is in the boot of my car and all four look inflated. I'll borrow my neighbours one later and check 'em.
The nicest thing I can say about it is ... um ... it's very French. And for today, it's free.
If I'd paid money for it, I'd probably be parking it somewhere that it will almost certainly be stolen from.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's weird, in the past Citroens were renowned for their suspension.
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Some years ago I swapped cars with a work colleague for a weekend. Mine was a Peugeot 405, his a big Citroen estate (can't recall the actual model). Driving it felt like being on a small boat in a big ocean, which I found quite weird. Switching on the "sport suspension" was much more like driving an actual car.
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That sounds like a Citroen CX with hydropneumatic suspension.
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That's the one. 
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I remember through the mists of a very long time, owning a Citroen as a student. Decided to change the plugs one day and it took half a day and what seemed like half the engine lying on the floor to get access to them. Left me with a "never again" feeling ...
Brings back another memory though. My mate was parked near me and working on his Ford Escort which he spent many, many years tweaking and replacing just about every part of until it was rally capable.
One day he left it in a parking space on a main road which was opposite a T junction at the bottom of a steep hill. When he came back to the car, he found it inside what remained of the shop he had parked in front of. I know I shouldn't laugh, but nobody was hurt ... 
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Not just Citroens - my first car was a Lancia Beta HPE 2000, and to get at one of the spark plugs you had to dismantle part of the cooling system ... Plus if you needed a part you had best take the old one with you as they fitted what came to hand. I found this out when I needed to replace a cracked distributor cap which took several journeys to get teh right one.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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A friend who runs his own repair shop tells me, to change the plugs on a Range Rover you need to take the body off - he refuses to work on them, he also employs an ex Land Rover factory mechanic who also refuses to work on them.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Never had problems like that with an Allegro. Although to be fair, it did keep at least two North Sea oilrigs in business. One gallon of engine oil leaked per 100 miles, but at least it was predictable!
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Or the "All agro" as it was known.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Sad but true. Mine had the sporty 5th gear but turning on the air blowers did make a sound like a mass of wailing banshees that would make every pedestrian stop and look around.  But, despite being single-handedly responsible for a fair proportion of climate change damage, it never actually broke down on me in several years.
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