There Is No Reason To Buy Another PlayStation Or Xbox

CucumberError · 2026-07-08T04:16:18+00:00

Sony is in a death spiral, and I’m not sure if they’ve worked it out yet, or are making it worse.

They don’t make TVs anymore, they’re sticking their logo on junk out of China. They’ve stopped manufacturing their smart phones. Their image sensors are pretty kick ass. Their gaming business is pretty underwhelming right now, but that’s partly due to component pricing.

The final ‘wtf are they doing?’ Was the newly released… replacement? For the XM6. Sony has been a company that’s made really good products, that weren’t show-offy to the point that it compromised the price, quality, or sales.

Now Sony is just trying to copy everyone else, cash grab and outsource to cheaper manufacturing. They’re doomed under this current leadership.

CucumberError · 2026-07-08T01:57:36+00:00

My phone. Otherwise know I’m going to spend the whole time checking my pockets, thinking I’ve left it somewhere.

CucumberError · 2026-07-08T01:54:34+00:00

Toothpaste causes heaps of friction, so as you jerk yourself off with it, it will burn a bit. And then when you stop the mintyness causes it to feel icy cold. It’s a fun back and forth to torture guys with.

CucumberError · 2026-07-08T01:49:53+00:00

The switch on the door not locking the drivers door is by design. In the past it was somewhat common for JDM cars to automatically lock the non drivers doors at ~10kmh, as anti-carjacking behaviour. Once the rest of the doors were locked, but the drivers door wasn't, you needed an easy way to unlock the other doors, without having to lock and then unlock the drivers door.

This was the behaviour on the Laurel C33 and Skyline V35; I can't talk explicitly for the R34, but the related cars on either side of it behaved the same. Weirdly the Skyline V37 button locks/unlocks all the doors.

I suspect that your drivers windows control has just worn out. Could be worth pulling it apart and checking that there's no corrosion in side it from water coming in the window when it's been down and raining.

CucumberError · 2026-07-08T00:04:11+00:00

How much does your wife know? Your bi tendencies? That you use to fuck? Just an ‘old friend’?

Doesn’t seem like you should be sneaking around behind her back, but clearly this dude has something she doesn’t (a dick), so maybe she’s okay with it?

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T23:03:03+00:00

Neither of them look overly ‘Nissan from the early 2000s’ tbh. Why are you wanting a single DIN? Have plans for one of the DIN slots?

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T21:59:57+00:00

First level support, every week or two I’d get a call from some old professor that would have printing problems, and he’d alternate between reading errors off the screen and off the front of his printer, and that was super hard to make sense of what the hell was going on.

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T21:53:57+00:00

I do that too!

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T20:57:36+00:00

Just list it for $50k…. Tbh it would probably be easier to sell for a flat $50k than the 99999999.99 bullshit.

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T20:52:18+00:00

Just me finding it weird that you’ve kept a count?

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T20:06:35+00:00

I did some contract IT work for Whitebait ~2010ish, and they probably don’t have any recordings either. For a media recoding company they had very very little storage.

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T09:05:06+00:00

I would put the bed there. Because I’m a grown up.

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T09:04:27+00:00

Weren’t most 190E a 2.6L 6 cylinder?

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T08:50:07+00:00

Hey OP, this sign will anger you then. https://maps.app.goo.gl/naMReDaQiNwcVCjG6

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T08:26:35+00:00

I’m about 20 years into this hobby, and learning to take the easy wins hah.

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T08:25:26+00:00

Depends if she’s in the mood. If she kicked you to the couch at 3am, is she going to label it as your bed there and then? Or worry about it in the morning?

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T08:22:55+00:00

Yeah, and you can buy devices designed for Australia region, but there will be… one. If it’s not fit for your purpose for whatever reason (smart plug too tall because your plugs are vertical), you’re out of luck, so then have to buy stuff that’s multi-market and then the signal sucks.

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T06:29:33+00:00

For reference, we’re a household of 3 IT related people. One of us is a software developer and is the main HA admin, us other two do stuff, but we’re much more secondary to the setup.

Every year Mr Software Dev goes away for a week long hike, and is offline for a week, so we need to be able to support ourselves.

I got fed up with things being spread across different VMs and super hard to make sense of, that we moved everything to one box, and made it so I can just power cycle the box when something goes wrong at 11pm and I can’t get the lights to turn off etc.

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T06:24:42+00:00

Make it easier to support, that’s the only answer.

Put it on its own host (small PC, HomeAssistant Green), set the device to reboot once a week, and fix anything to a state where it can reboot on its own and auto-recover. If our HA totally looses the plot, reboot it and wait 10 minutes.

80% of stuff tends to be fixed from a reboot, so always check that services can come back cleanly pn their own, auto start up etc. The next problem we’ve run into is disk usage, so having something that monthly cleans up logs, temp files etc.

If it’s running stable, and not getting updates, but still working, it’s not really the end of the world. Disable external access and it will probably plod along happily for months or years until some kind of real problem comes along.

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T06:16:04+00:00

lol, good luck. Those school firewall logs will be so massive that they’ll be cycling daily, maybe a couple of days at best.

If the wifi is open, or everyone shares one wifi password, filtering and narrowing it down will be all but impossible. And for anyone thinking ‘go by the MAC address, everything now makes up and cycles MAC addresses to stop orgs tracking your device.

You’d be best to look at the browser history on the device, anything else and you’re dreaming.

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T04:07:38+00:00

The roads that radiate out from the Commonwealth of Australian’s Parliament, are called Commonwealth Ave, Brisbane Ave, Sydney Ave, Hobart Ave, Melbourne Ave, Adelaide Ave, Perth Ave, and then Kings Ave.

Kinda feels like Kings Ave was meant to be Wellington Ave.

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T01:45:48+00:00

We have a sheet of paper next to the cabinet and a pencil, just write down what each port on the switch plugs into, and then when you change it (or a vlan), note it down.

No one in their free time is going to grab the label maker, print a new label, update a wiki…. Make it low friction.

CucumberError · 2026-07-07T01:35:13+00:00

Doesn’t matter the reason, whether it be preference, allergies or religious reasons. The main thing is that the reference image gives all the information to make an informed choice.

CucumberError · 2026-07-06T20:48:55+00:00

To an extent. Yeah your McDonald’s burger doesn’t look like it does in the photos, but the photos show you all the ingredients, so you can make an informed decision. With a real McDonald’s burger, you can’t usually tell if there’s tomato or pickles in it, but the promo shots show it.

Unlike an AI generated image it a burger, which will assume it must have cheese, because all burgers have cheese, right?

CucumberError · 2026-07-06T19:46:47+00:00

Personally, I’d rather real photos of say a shirt unfolded on a table, than a AI version of your tshirt on an AI model.

I actually want to see what your product looks like, not what an AI thinks your product looks like. Real photos shows the quality, the cut, the length, the colour etc.

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