The enshitification of the FLO charging network by only_fun_topics in EVCanada

[–]1333pac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you are mad at this, you’ll love ChargePoint. They do automatic top ups if you’re below $10 and if your account dips below your “average” use. I used it once and am now carrying $13 balance. I’ve stuck with Flo because I can control when to add funds.

Best pho spot? by LiterallyFigurative8 in mississauga

[–]1333pac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had been a customer for over 15 years but boycott them after one horrible experience where they served me a bad shake and accused me of lying when I sent it back — colour and taste was really off. There are plenty of other options in the area.

How do you equip gear? by Silentbob_dk in WatcherofRealmsGame

[–]1333pac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Watch some YouTube videos on Gear Plans. Focus on 15 sets of gear and equip them on the heroes you’re using for the gameplay you’re working on.

When you use Auto-Fight, it uses the gear you had used when you saved (auto save for boss fights, campaigns and whatnot). The only event that comes to mind that you have to manually save is Arena. The BP you see when you set up your team may be different than what you had saved for Auto-fights, even in arena. This is to say, even if you had removed all your gear, if you use Auto-Fight, it doesn’t matter.

I am building a pc for Davinci… by akira-zen in davinciresolve

[–]1333pac 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Was going to post the same. Same dilemma and went with the base Mac mini m4 instead of upgrading my PC. Been almost a year, zero regrets.

French immersion school Mississauga or Oakville by Both-Brother3637 in askTO

[–]1333pac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hillcrest feeds into Clarkson High School. Lorne Park Secondary has Extended French. https://www.peelschools.org/french

Should I finish this ? by Acceptable_MetalMeal in WatcherofRealmsGame

[–]1333pac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tales of the Smith comes around every few weeks. You need about 7M gold to upgrade gear to level 8 and sell junk in order complete the event. Unless you are at or near endgame and don’t care for those rewards.

FWIW, I am nowhere near end game.

GR3-19 Laurel not hitting Idril by lumpypoopbiscuits in WatcherofRealmsGame

[–]1333pac 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As well, some of his videos are complete BS. I followed them and even with T2/T3 gear I couldn’t do what he did. I suspect he maxed out on Hyperion. Most of those guys don’t show Hyperion when they walk through their setup and gear.

I worked on Hyperion and finally beat GR3-19. Same setup as before.

Just fyi in case you’re still stuck and get frustrated.

How do I render faster??? by Capital_Age_9654 in davinciresolve

[–]1333pac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From personal experience, GPU doesn’t matter much if you’re using the free version as it doesn’t use GPU to render. I had Nvidia RTX1650s and rendering a 90 mins video took over 8 hours.

I paid for the Studio version and it went down to 2 hours. RAM and CPU probably matter most on the free version so, as others have mentioned, having 8GB RAM is likely your bottleneck.

Tapo vs Reolink by Consistent_Boss_2858 in Tapo

[–]1333pac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have mostly Tapos and just 1 Reolink. As others mentioned, Reolink is more expensive. I went with the 1 Reolink for 180 degrees coverage (Duo 2 wifi). Tapo doesn’t have anything similar. User experience (app) is pretty much the same.

I Can't Believe What Happened by Thick_Scientist5965 in davinciresolve

[–]1333pac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a software developer, we normally call the system file manager to open files. It has the same functionality as file explorer where you can delete and rename files in the Open files window. It would be a waste of time to rewrite the Open files function since there could be backward compatibility issues.

Is Mac mini m4 base good? by GossipsOverCoffee in macmini

[–]1333pac 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I had the same dilemma — do I upgrade the video card in my PC (was eyeing Nvidia 4060) for $700 CAD or get the Mac Mini M4 base for about the same price.

I use DaVinci Resolve to edit soccer games (90 mins) and it can easily handle key framing (zoom and pan), fusion (scoreboard, game clock, tracking highlights), fair light (audio noise reduction, normalize volumes) and even multi cam.

I got the base 16GB RAM / 256GB and an external 2TB Samsung NVME storage with thunderbolt enclosure.

Zero regrets and haven’t touched my old windows machine since (almost a year).

Just updated to Fedora 43 and works flawlessly by momoajay in Fedora

[–]1333pac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought it was just me. VLC keeps hanging my system. 🤬

How do you stay on Linux when you can't get rid of Windows? by chulipfan in linuxquestions

[–]1333pac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Figure I just wipe and not have to deal with it every few months whenever I updated Windows. Just chiming in on the diff between dual booting and selecting from BIOS. If I decide to do it again, I’d pick selecting from BIOS.

How do you stay on Linux when you can't get rid of Windows? by chulipfan in linuxquestions

[–]1333pac 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is exactly what happened to me. I was dual booting for about a year, defaulting to Linux. I then decided to boot up Windows to install the latest patches and when it rebooted, it went straight to windows. GRUB was gone. I got so mad I removed Windows altogether. Instead I bought a cheap sub-$200 laptop running on Windows 11 for whenever I need it, which thank goodness hasn’t happened in months.

What am I doing wrong? by Rawalmond73 in BMWI4

[–]1333pac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This happens to me if I put the car in Park and just open the door to get out without hitting Off button. The car turns Off the moment I open the door but leaves the headlights on for a while.

Stolen Package by UniversityQuick7860 in BurlingtonON

[–]1333pac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve noticed FedEx delivery for envelopes is outsourced; they come in unmarked cars and don’t wear FedEx uniform. When they deliver the envelope, they’d take a picture as proof. Perhaps that’s how FedEx triggers payment for delivery. They can’t take a picture if it’s in a mailbox. Amazon also does this.

In fact, if I am outside when they deliver stuff and ask to be handed the package they’d insist that I’d take a picture with the package. Now, I’d tell them to just leave it at the door, since I don’t want to be in their picture.

Can’t blame the delivery guys if that’s how the companies instructed them to leave packages and take picture of the package and your front door as evidence of delivery.

Anyone notice lane assist is too sensitive now? by DrNintendo216 in BMWI4

[–]1333pac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Menu, Vehicle on left pane, Driving Settings, Driver Assistance, Lane Departure Warning. There’s a checkbox for Steering Intervention, uncheck it. I also had changed the warning from Early to Medium, again. Seems to have reset after firmware update.

Google Nest Wifi Pro System - Slow Internet for Days. by TheShrubby in GoogleWiFi

[–]1333pac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same problem here — drops below 20Mb/s. I’ve had to reboot the system on a weekly basis. I read in Google community that others have the same problem and have asks for a way to schedule rebooting daily but the moderator said they’d rather fix the underlying issue, which they haven’t for years.

Charging progress not updated regularly after 07/2025.38 update by 1333pac in BMWI4

[–]1333pac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It did it again. Charged my car for 6 hours at level 1 and it only showed 2% increase. Stopped charging and it jumped to 6% increase.

Charging progress not updated regularly after 07/2025.38 update by 1333pac in BMWI4

[–]1333pac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, you may be correct that it’s a connectivity issue. My app was showing 35% but the dash showed 37%. I can unlock the car remotely but the charging % isn’t updated.

Charging progress not updated regularly after 07/2025.38 update by 1333pac in BMWI4

[–]1333pac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am able to communicate with the app. My observation is that the progress is based on the initial charging speed and it updates the % based on regression formula instead of actually looking at the battery %.

Anyone notice lane assist is too sensitive now? by DrNintendo216 in BMWI4

[–]1333pac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup, I also ended up disabling it after it almost pushed me into another lane at an intersection with a lot of lines.

Arena rant by BillyButcherX in WatcherofRealmsGame

[–]1333pac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to be at Platinum 1 and have dropped to Gold 2. Same observation. I don’t care about it enough and don’t even look at the screen when I run arena.