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Andrew

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  1. Yeah, I do think getting advice on how to do things is fine, but not advice on when to buy certain stocks or crytocurrencies or whatever. I did put £200 in some cryptos on the 10th and it's now at £281 so that's neat. I'd also recommend getting a Coinbase account and doing the Learn and Earn thing. You don't get much, but you do at least effectively get free money. I've made like $40 since February with it. And if you do decide to use Coinbase for buying/selling crypto, you really should use the pro version over the regular version. It's incredibly easy to buy/sell using the regular version but that comes at a cost of literal cost. The fees are a lot higher. If you use Pro, the UI is a bit harder to learn how to do certain things but the fees are significantly smaller. For example, buying £100 worth of bitcoin using Coinbase, the fees will be £3.84. Using Coinbase Pro, you're only going to pay £0.50 in fees. EDIT: lol in the 30 minutes of me making this post and this edit, it's gone from £281 to £285. The neat thing about Crypto is just how volatile it is. You can make a lot of money very quickly, but at the same time, you can lose a lot of money very quickly.
  2. Well, giving advice probably isn't a good idea for the same reason why giving medical advice is not a good idea.
  3. I want to take my car to the Nordschleife eventually, I just worked out how much it's going to cost in fuel (just too and from there, excluding laps) and it's going to be about £500. Anyone want to sponsor me? I have terminal lumbago.
  4. There is only 4 types of people. Truck freak, crazy ass, Дpyг or the fighter. I'm Дpyг.
  5. Did you use a rubberized paint?
  6. They just used the USDM ones because cheaper. It doesn't really matter, I think it would look better without any at all. It is legal for me to do that, but it's going to be a pain because I'd have to fill in the hole and do paint matching so I'm just going to leave them there.
  7. Yeah, BMW use ZF gearboxes. Fun fact: If you have an Aston Martin DB11 and the gearbox breaks, don't buy one from Aston Martin, save a bunch of money and get one from Chrysler, specifically for the 300C SRT8. Literally the same gearbox.
  8. Nothing is confirmed about it at all, there's just rumours. There's supposed to be a hydration monitor as well, but rumoured. Apples keynote next month
  9. Alleged Apple Watch Series 7 CAD Renders Reveal New Design With Flat Edges and Larger Display WWW.MACRUMORS.COM The upcoming Apple Watch Series 7 will feature flat edges, a larger display thanks to smaller bezels, and a more prominent speaker... I may actually get one if true. it does seem likely that it will actually look like this given the iPhone 12, iPad Air/Pro and rumoured 2021 MacBook Pro design change to flat edges. But at the same time, it's just a CAD leak. Anyone can make make of those if they know how.
  10. All that is going to do is make the chips more expensive, it's not going to fix the lack of supply.
  11. It is a bit frustrating that I've been having these issues since launch, except now they're worse. I'm using a Microsoft made controller on a Microsoft operating system playing a game made for Microsoft and the controller doesn't work properly. I would get a dedicated joystick for it, but I don't really have the space for one, I have my T300RS permanently set up and I'd rather keep it that way. Even if I did have the space for one, I can't really buy one now, even a cheap used one.
  12. Does anyone else play this with an Xbox controller? I've always had issues with the game where it wouldn't load the controller settings properly and more recently, I could fly a plane once. If I go back to the main menu to get a different plane or flight plan, going back into the game would stop the controller from working. It doesn't unmap the buttons, in the controller settings everything is mapped correctly, but it doesn't actually do anything in game. I've noticed it does this as well if I switch to or from VR mode. In order to get the controls to actually work in VR mode, I have to start the game then immediately press alt+tab to get it in VR mode. If I wait until the menu then go in game, I get the same issue with the controller where it just stops working. Unplugging the controller and plugging it back in doesn't fix it. The only fix is it to restart the game entirely which is just inconvenient. The game loads slow enough as it is going from in game to main menu. Quitting the game entirely and starting it again is painful. It's putting me off playing it.
  13. I don't think there's actually a shortage and there hasn't been for a few months now, I think this is just like the HDD "shortage" after that flood in 2011.
  14. Yeah. Anyone who thinks Musk is against Apple doing this is for the greater good. He's not. He just doesn't wait to pay Apple to host the Tesla app. Nothing more, nothing less.
  15. The only reason he is getting involved in this is because of the Tesla app. Most Tesla owners have iPhones, this means that to make the app available, Tesla has to pay a fee to Apple in order to get it on the store.
  16. You'd need a bit more than a regular soldering iron for modern electronics. You'd need a crazy amount of skill, a microscope and the right type of soldering iron in order to replace broken parts without damaging them or something else. Not only that but legally the Logicboard (and I'm sure the motherboard of non-apple laptops these days) would be one piece, so even though by law, they'd have to sell you the parts directly, they will sell you an entirely new motherboard rather than just the RAM, SSD, CPU or GPU separately.
  17. Too little too late. A lot of consumer electronics these days are not easy to fix at all. The MacBook Pro for example comes in 3 pieces. The screen, the logicboard and the keyboard/trackpad/battery. Everything on the logicboard is soldered on so you can't just replace whatever part breaks. Other hardware manufacturers are either starting to make their hardware similar to this or already are. While this will mean that you can buy the parts directly from the manufacture now, they will be priced to a point where it would be cheaper to just trade in the broken phone/laptop/whatever and just buy a new one.
  18. Microsoft have straight up given up with the App Store. All Microsoft games that are on there are now on Steam as well. As far as Office goes, you can just get access to that on a web browser, at least for most of the Office applications. There is at least one exception to this that I can think of which is Microsoft Access which does require installing on Windows, but the rest of it as far as I know is available on Mac and also web browsers similar to Google Docs.
  19. It might do. I don't think Microsoft makes that much money from regular consumers these days. This is why Windows 8 was 1/4 of the price of pervious versions of Windows, 10 was a free update for 7/8 users and 11 is going to be a free update to 10 users. Most of the money that Microsoft gets these days is from OEMs, enterprise environments and Xbox sales.
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