Andrew

Oh no, someone has Taycan my favourite parking spot.

No, illegal.

Alfa buddy

Cheating is against the rules. I might have to do something about that.

I'm annoyed at this now. I selected store pickup for £4.99 thinking I could go get it next day instead of having to pay £12 for next day home delivery. Turns out, £4.99 store pick up takes 7 days. You know what else takes 7 days? The £4.99 home delivery. It didn't tell me this until after I bought them, and I can't cancel the order. To cancel the order, I have to wait until I have the package, then take it into a store for a refund. I paid £4.99 to inconvenience myself.

5x sweat pants. Pretty big savings at the moment and I need some.

European cars usually these

The front brakes on this are B E E G for such a small car (AA battery for scale) Also, when it did an MOT in October, the handbrake barely passed. I tested it out by trying to do a handbrake turn and now it doesn't work at all now for some reason. I'm guessing and hoping something is seized rather than being completely broken. Seized is "easy" to fix. Replacing parts is also "easy" but that costs money.

I made an torque wrenches. I need a set of 1/4. 3/8 and 1/2 torque wrench. Buying them is going to cost me £140 for a cheapish set, so I just made my own using my 1/4 ratchet, 3/8 ratchet and 1/2 breaker bar combined with a digital luggage scale. The white line is where the strap goes, followed by the Nm to kg conversion. For example with that photo, if I have to tighten something to 87Nm, it's 87x0.102 which is 8.984, then x2 because the white line is at 50cm to make it 17.74kg that I have to reach on the scale. With a 18.5kg weight, it reads 18.7kg so the scale is accurate to +/-1%

They factory reset a mouse.

4.9kg weight saving from a non-titanium exhaust is pretty good.

Internet contract expired. Was on 500Mbps, now on this for £10/month cheaper.

32GB does make a surprising difference over 16GB. I'd recommend 16GB as minimum. VRAM depends on resolution. I've got 8GB at 4K and it seems fine, but more would be better.

That is true, but horse armour.

Alternative headline: MSI just invented a new form of piracy. This is such a stupid decision. Especially for monitors that are that expensive.

What the dog doin?

If you keep doing this kind of work on your car, soon you'll be exhausted.

I don't have FS2020 installed anymore because of how much storage it takes up, but that new aircraft does look really fun to fly.

If we're now going on 15 years + OG PS4 and Xbone, I guess I can rule out my PS4 Pro and copy of Gran Turismo 7 then (I wasn't actually going to count GT7 as a retro game, it just came out 2 years ago) I do occasionally still play GT3 (2001) and GT4 (2004) on an emulator though, but on modern hardware. My non-Mac sigrig to be specific.

Pizza.

If the 10 year rule is what this thread is going on, doesn't that now make the PS4 and Xbox One retro gaming consoles?

I forgot to put this in here the other day. I made some hot chocolate. Someone told me it looks like there's mold in there, but I can assure you it's not, it's the seasoning.

My Alfa has a turbo, but it doesn't really do turbo noises. The internet told me this is because it doesn't have a blow off valve, and it turns out the internet is wrong. It does have one as shown by this video of someone else with a stock Mito, only change was the air filter. This is what the intake system is like stock, because of the airbox and sound deadening properties of the stock airfilter, you don't hear that sound at all. It gets drowned out by the engine sound. To make it do the turbo sounds, I have two options. Option one is this. The pros is that it's cheaper, the turbo sound is going to be louder. The cons is that because the pressurized air doesn't go back into the turbo, the spool time will increase slightly. I'll still have the same power and torque though. Option two is doing this. The pro is that it's going to be much easier to do and the spool time won't be reduced that much but the cons are it's going to be more expensive (by a significant amount actually) and the turbo sounds won't be quite as loud.