GM Canyon 2008 bad sun visors

The GMC Canyon 2008 has been a pain, in that there are many little things that are broke or worse just falling apart .  One of these things has been the "sun visors"  .  The construction of this things is plastic and the plastic is just cracking and falling apart right at where the visor swings .

Though most would say just replace it , but at over $100 for the replacement part for 1 , I refuse .  Both driver side and passenger side cracked in the same place after 2-3 years and then the drive side wouldn't stay up any more so I fixed the connector first by glue and then a total re-design .  Here is the connector :

As you can see the damage is to the connector that holds the visor , besides the crack there should be a tube to hold the pipe from the visor , that has fallen apart, IE broken into many small pieces.  Glue will not fix this because the parts are gone.  So I created a piece of metal to replace this with a tube inside for the visor to sit on and rotate.

It now holds the visor on the roof with no problems , the passenger side still needs fixing so here is the driver side fixed :

And the passenger side still broke and getting worse each day:

It seems the vibrations from the truck normal use cause this and the fact that the plastic design is just crap .   Seems to me this should be a recall but in the last 10 years very few things get recalled any more so I guess I will be creating yet another metal part to fix this .

Chromcast chromium Linux not connecting

Just a short post on problems connecting Chromium to a Chromcast device

Much confusion on this problem, people go into great detail on obvious answers with setting up Chromcast but of course this is a bit more detailed then simple setup problem. The first problem is to see that chromium supports casting nativity no need for extensions for apps etc. Go into settings and you will see a cast label, select the label and something should popup like cast tab ? If your Chromcast device pops up your are all set, if not read on. Chromcast is not firewalls friendly , IE once found a udp flow from Chromcast comes to your machine/IP that is NOT related . So in order to connect to your Chromcast device you must open your machine FW a bit. Since Chromcast works best if you are on the same wireless device you can put up a rule that just's allows the Chromcast device IP in your INPUT rules: "iptables -I INPUT 7 -s Chromcast-IP -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment "chromcast cast device" , where Chromcast-IP is the IP of the device. I found a much more complicated set of rules like this:

export CHROMECAST_IP=10.1.2.3 # Adjust to the Chromecast IP in your local network
iptables -A INPUT -s ${CHROMECAST_IP}/32 -p udp -m multiport --sports 32768:61000 -m multiport --dports 32768:61000 -m comment --comment "Allow Chromecast UDP data (inbound)" -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -d ${CHROMECAST_IP}/32 -p udp -m multiport --sports 32768:61000 -m multiport --dports 32768:61000 -m comment --comment "Allow Chromecast UDP data (outbound)" -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -d ${CHROMECAST_IP}/32 -p tcp -m multiport --dports 8008:8009 -m comment --comment "Allow Chromecast TCP data (outbound)" -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -d 239.255.255.250/32 -p udp --dport 1900 -m comment --comment "Allow Chromecast SSDP" -j ACCEPT

That said my simple rule is a bit simpler and assumes you all ready have rules that allows outbound connection like this: INPUT/OUTPUT ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED , that allows outbound connections to flow . I think the complicated above should work but is a bit complicated so I didn't try it . Once I had the one rule for the Chromcast IP in INPUT everthing worked from Chromium without issues . Most problems are simple and most solutions are also simple why get complicated .