Andrew

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. If the mechanic can't fix the alternator, I'll likely end up with one of these. It's the only place I can find a trustworthy third party one. There are a bunch on ebay for like £100, but I don't trust them to not catch on fire. I'd also like to buy one locally for warranty reasons. If it does need to be replaced and my mechanic can't find one, I'll send you a DM.

I've been on an emotional roller coaster recently for several reasons. One of them being this car. I booked it in for an MOT expecting a laundry list of dangerous MOT failures, which I don't care about because I'm not selling it anyway. It failed on headlights and wipers. That's it. They replaced the wipers and bulbs and it passed. The mechanic said "this car is incredible. When you told me it has been sitting in your back yard for 10 years, I thought it would fail on a lot of things." Nothing mentioned about chassis or sub frame rust, which is fantastic news. However: Alternator is most likely dead. If that is the issue, I'm hoping it can be repaired because a replacement one from Lexus is £1050. A decent third party one is £250, but it's out of stock and I'll have to wait several weeks to actually get it. Also when it broke down,it was at the side of the road for about 1.5 hours. 5 people stopped offering help and one of them even wanted to buy it. The recovery guy also offered to buy it. It's going back in next week Thursday for an alignment and ride height adjustment, getting the aux belt and timing belt fitted as well as literally every fluid getting replaced. This car did absolutely hemorrhage my bank account on Monday. I spent near a months worth of wages on the MOT, tax, insurance, recovery and battery charger.

Price is okay when you compare it to previous console releases adjusted for inflation. PS1 - $611 PS2 - $546 PS3 - $778 PS4 - $583 PS4 Pro - $522 PS5 - $606 PS5 Pro - $699 It's not the cheapest, in fact it's the second most expensive, but it's in line with previous releases. What is a deal breaker is the lack of disc drive. Sony have removed DLC that I paid for. They've also removed content that people paid for pretty recently too. I don't trust them to go fully digital with games. I was looking forward to the PS5 Pro for Gran Turismo 7 and GTA 6. I can't trust Sony to allow me to buy those from the Sony store and then still have access to it 10 years later when the licenses expire. Or in the case of the DLC I bought for Gran Turismo 5, 5 years.

Wagyu burger Cajun onion rings The burger consists of: Toasted brioche bun Wagyu burger Not very good cheese Homemade burger sauce (1 mayonnaise, 1 ketchup, 1 pickle juice, 1 smoked paprika, 1 blacked peppers, 1 yellow, 6 tabasco, 1 green) Fried onions The cajun onion rings consists of: Onion Cajun Ring

AdGuard on iOS with Safari. I've been using it since the iPhone 11 came out and I've never had an issue with it.

A lot of this isn't down to Google though. These days, there's three choices of web browsers. Safari (why you'd use this on anything other than Mac is beyond me), Firefox or Chrome. Because basically every web browser now is pretty much just Chrome with a skin, web developers are focusing way more on Chrome support I occasionally have issues with compatibility with Firefox because of that. Even Edge, the default MS browser, is Chrome with a skin. It's not Googles fault that web browser developers abandoned their own software in favour of a Chrome or that web developers now focus pretty much exclusively on Chrome now. As far as search engines go, I can kind of see this with Apple. Google is paying Apple quite a lot of money for Google to be the default search engine on both iOS/iPadOS and macOS. But other than that, practically everyone defaults go Google anyway. Like, to a point where "Google it" is a very common phrase. To a point where "Google" is now a catch-all phrase for a web browser. Similar to Frisbee, Band-Aid, Velcro or Jacuzzi. That is beyond Googles control.

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You don't really have a choice anymore. Back in 2013 when I bought a Crosshair V, I bought it because I wanted to do some overclocking beyond what cheap motherboards could handle. I paid £180 (£243 adjusted for inflation) new for it and it was pretty high end at the time/ These days, if you want four RAM slots and two m.2 slots, you pretty much have to go high end because the cheaper motherboards that are perfectly fine for gamers in theory, only have two RAM slots and maybe one m.2 slot. A mid-range motherboard these days is around £180-£220. The closest equivalent to a modern Crosshair V has a RRP of £385 and it's selling for £300.

Even if they are older models, that's still obscenely cheap for what they are.

That must be a pricing error, no? Those seem way too cheap.

Time to put a stop to this.