Alex

A new headphone stand:

Finally decided to properly redo my network: Ubiquiti WAP 6 Lite, 802.3af PoE injector plus a crimping tool, RJ45 connectors, CAT6 cabling and it's almost all coming from different places so things are arriving bit-by-bit. Had the WAP for awhile now but the PoE injector was sold out almost everywhere... ended up spending $30 to just get it from another store despite it being only $10 on Ubiquiti's website

What alternatives do we have, mem-ex?

Lol Newegg, I have gone through 3 defective Z390 motherboards from them. Each having a different issue (dead PCIE slots, dead secondary BIOS (which was the biggest PITA to refund), dead USB ports) with them. I hate to support Amazon but honestly with their nearly no-fuss return policy it's more appealing than Newegg... and Canada Computers is basically in-store only now since the pandemic for things I actually want (CPU, motherboard, RAM, GPUs).

Y'all need some Marie Kondo

There's a lot to go through in this thread but I want to add some key points: Sound cards are useless these days, go stand-alone DAC, Amp or DAC+Amp. Schiit has been behind the curve for awhile, they are overpriced and have poor quality and QC. They are making strides in fixing this but for now avoid them. Go for something from Topping (DX3 Pro is very, very good if you want SE out and don't care about balanced) or SMSL. EQ Apo is great, but use the Peace GUI for it as it makes it a much easier to use tool. Not to gate-keep or anything but the Z-5500 is really not great. If I were to off the top of my head build out a quick 2.1 budget system it would be: Subwoofer: Elac SUB1010 or Dayton Audio SUB-1500 Speakers: KEF Q150 Receiver: Onkyo TX-8220 or something second hand from Onkyo, Yamaha, etc. Usually people off-load these really cheap second-hand.

3D NAND and only I think a week's worth of supply - but no doubt storage manufs. will use this to jack up prices for years to come like they have done in the past... really not regretting spending the money meant for upgrading my PC on other things just because of how constantly screwed over PC enthusiasts are.

That's how I bought my PS1, PS2 and PS3.

After having used HD650s for nearly a decade, finally an upgrade.

I've been enjoying it a lot, especially the new UI and overhaul of settings. TPM2.0 is why they're seeing the low numbers.

Went to look at the 11th gen the other day, really nice car. Love the inside. Only downsides are the complete lack of steering feel, very touchy brakes despite having a lot of travel after the initial bite and the accelerator felt like it had 1000ms of input latency and then on a rubber band. Probably going to buy one in Spring regardless, have to go CVT because my partner can't drive manual. Hopefully she can learn in my S2000 and we can trade it up for a manual one down the road though

I'm still gonna do summers/winters when we get around to actually getting a car we can drive all year round... Still thinking 2022 (with a manual I hope) Civic LX in white.

As someone with a relatively low car that makes me sad. I mean you probably don't leave it on all the time but it is annoying how many lights cut-off zones are way above my car. Speaking of my car, although it's in storage. Still getting parts for it, should have a Recaro Pole Position seat and a new clutch soon.

I'm really glad my stock lights are really good, no need to worry or fuss about going aftermarket anything. My CL9 Accord lights absolutely sucked and it wasn't fun at all.

That's weird, I thought BC doesn't get nearly as cold. Guess it's the same as here where they apply salt even if the weather report says 1% chance of snow for 1 second during 1 of the days of the month when it should really only be used to prevent black ice / ice.

Sadly they are already putting salt brine on the roads here... and that means: At least the Science of Speed car cover is really nice.

Sadly they are already putting salt brine on the roads here... and that means: At least the Science of Speed car cover is really nice.

It's why the most popular boost application is to supercharge it actually, that plus it is a lot less complex than turbos. I don't want to do that though, it's plenty fast enough for me as is and I want to keep it OEM+ really.

I recently took my fully functional car out on a road trip, how has your fully functional car been?

I still have around 0% return given my losses/gains lol. I did the dumb and bought $BB when it was too high and that's really skewing my portfolio (which is only like $700 total anyway). The stocks I really didn't think would do well have done well... such is life.

The level of detail of the new cars compared to what they were in the one I know the best (GT4) is astounding. I really can't wait to try this game out.

Oh yeah in hindsight, thing is I had never driven on those roads before and I was never sure if coming up over blind hills or corners if there would be wildlife (had to do a few emergency stops during this trip for deer, squirrels, chipmunks, etc), massive potholes or people in the roads (very popular hiking spot). So I didn't want to go too quick or anything.

Also a video I took of the roads out in Muskoka, they were horribly bumpy, uneven and rough as well as it being 0c with really bad tyres (I suspect they were too low PSI too) made it rather sketchy and I just didn't push the car at all. The footage is from my dashcam, hence the beeps each time it thinks we had an accident (the bumps were that bad). Also at 1:57 you can hear the car bottom out. And at 3:20 you can hear the clutch delay valve, 22lb flywheel and the clutch starting to die cause an effect on shifting:

Also a video I took of the roads out in Muskoka, they were horribly bumpy, uneven and rough as well as it being 0c with really bad tyres (I suspect they were too low PSI too) made it rather sketchy and I just didn't push the car at all. The footage is from my dashcam, hence the beeps each time it thinks we had an accident (the bumps were that bad). Also at 1:57 you can hear the car bottom out. And at 3:20 you can hear the clutch delay valve, 22lb flywheel and the clutch starting to die cause an effect on shifting:

Actually went through Orillia, up to Gravenhurt to Port Carling and around to Bracebridge. We went hiking at multiple trails there and the Cranberry farm. It was a bit chilly this time of year and kinda scary to drive on the roads with bad summer tires on, but really beautiful. Live around Markham now! Used to live in Port Credit, gotta say I'm not a fan of Brampton nor the drivers there though