Pull all codes, (all of them), lookup EACH one.

One will be the root cause.

There’s a $5 code reader that works over Bluetooth with the free app Torque. I’ve used it for years. Do NOT leave it connected to the OBDII on a Toyota - it’ll cause spurious codes. Throw it in the glove box when not pulling codes.

https://www.amazon.com/NYTKL-ELM327-OBDII-Diagnostic-Scanner/dp/B0F62RX7YV

Toyota’s are staggeringly reliable, especially a 2009 Corolla - it’s the same engine they’ve used forever, but updated with a modern ignition system. It probably didn’t need coils or plugs (plugs maybe). When a coil is bad you’ll get a code for that specific coil.

I’d be more inclined toward a vacuum leak in the intake downstream from the MAF sensor. Check the hose, see if there’s a crack. A simple trick is to start the engine and spray anything along the intake hose - WD40, carb cleaner, brake clean, etc. If it sucks it in the engine will stumble and you’ve found the vacuum leak.

These are very simple engine setups, little to go sideways. And codes are pretty accurate on these engines.

Hahaha, well played sir, well played

Hahahaha

Proper winter tires in the worst of conditions are 99% what you need.

Studs come in to play in rare situations.

Source: grew up driving on ice all winter. Not “snow”, just ice. Eventually found Nokian Haakapaliita tires (Finnish), even the worst over-powered, open-diff, FWD car suddenly goes (and turns, and stops) in the worst conditions.

I refuse to use any other tire for winter.

Come on now, you can’t say that and not give the link!

(Stil upvoted you though)

So do I… Because it"is accurate when I’m not eating right! Haha 😮

“Healthy snacks” are an edge concern - I snack on whatever the fuck I want, because that’s not the prime driver.

Every meal is the prime mover. Balance that for you, and you’ll be closer to where you want to be, and less interested in bad snacks.

When I’m eating right I’m not interested in the bad-for-me stuff nearly as much.

LLM qualifying LD50 drives me nuts.

LD50 gives us a scope and yet these things pontificate that “scientists” don’t rely on LD50 these days.

BS.

I recently asked how to disable Windows Defender - it told me exactly how, but then balked at writing a script to do it as it can’t help with that, yet it had already done it.

The bubble-wrap nonsense is insane.

Haha, perfect title!

OP needs to see Fiddler on the Roof, multiple times.

And it’s labelled right on them.

Seems pretty obvious

Its a reporter thing - they’ll grasp at any “novel” way to say something.

Not much of a shower thought.

That’s like saying the color green is green

Haha, good old Dumb Ways to Die.

So stupidly silly and entertaining.

None of those are a problem to me, and enough people that there are now at least 2 phones with keyboards out.

Screen keyboards are FUCKING AWFUL. I could type 10x faster on my 2005 Palm Treo, without looking at the phone than I can with a brand new phone, even with autoincorrect.

Hey, a real keyboard is a massive change.

SD isn’t needed like it used to be, my current phone (old Pixel) is 128gb, all my personal data is synced to home automatically. Anything extra I need I can grab via Resilio Sync.

An SD slot would be nice to have, but since you can’t do things like change them on the fly they have their own limitations.

Removable battery is less of an issue too. Batteries have gotten better, and OS efficiency has improved tremendously. Replacing a battery is pretty straightforward anymore, I haven’t broken a screen doing it in years.

I don’t (yet) know what those words mean, but I’m confident I’m going to like looking them up!

Hahaha, really? How, pray tell?

VPN can be run (and is run) such that it can’t be detected (more accurately, is incredibly difficult to detect).

Yep.

I run Tailscale on every device that can run it, and have a TS router in one device at home for devices that can’t run it.

Its my fallback if Syncthing ever has a Discovery server failure.

It’s a fantastic app, but doesn’t do sync like SyncThing or Resilio Sync.

It can do things similarly if you work at configuring it, but it can never monitor a remote and sync based on file changes there. That’s not a criticism, it’s a function of the file system approach it takes - it can sync with many different file systems, but it doesn’t have a client at the other end - it simply interfaces with that file system. Fantastic actually.

I’ve used it since about 2010, it was my solution for moving files back and forth for a long time. I still use it for specific things, but I’ve put more effort into ST and Resilio Sync config and management because they’re full-on sync suites.