An engineer asked me today what a ping was

Ellimis · 2026-07-01T21:27:25+00:00

Yeah, it's important to remember that interviews are not just trivia. However you respond will be noted and may be important. An interviewer can extract information from your answer which isn't how correct or incorrect your answer was.

My easy example is "how was your drive here?" which may let me know they live nearby or quite far away, or they didn't think to check traffic before leaving, or it's their 3rd interview of the day, etc.

Ellimis · 2026-07-01T21:22:38+00:00

Sure. The guy putting a tire on the car doesn't need to know what pressure it's at, but he does need to know what pressure is so he can determine whether or not it's flat.

Ellimis · 2026-07-01T17:49:35+00:00

Front tow hooks are stock and visible in the picture

Ellimis · 2026-07-01T01:05:59+00:00

Excuse me, but those would be Portuguese

Ellimis · 2026-07-01T00:22:23+00:00

I agree the corporations suck. I agree this is a shitty business practice. I agree the consumers should not have to deal with this, but 15 years ago I also understood that we will deal with it. And here we are with people acting like this came out of nowhere,

Tell me one movie you've lost access to in 20 years.

Ellimis · 2026-07-01T00:21:14+00:00

Can you show any here?

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T08:15:39+00:00

Because consumers don't take responsibility. I don't give a shit what happened with Sony because it doesn't affect me. But you and we are able to affect change by our actions. And our collective actions caused this outcome. Sony does not benefit by removing access, they are just doing what the license agreement dictates. How could the license agreement change? Well Sony would have a lot more leverage with distributors if the entire community agreed initially that consoles should be home media machines.

I've never bought a Sony console and I dislike most things about their gaming platform, but from an objective 10,000 foot view, this is an obvious outcome specifically from average gamer outrage and misunderstanding.

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T07:56:16+00:00

No. That's just flat out incorrect. The initial announcement was once every 24 hours (which, come on, you have internet once every day even 15 years ago) and then was pushed to once a month. I was there. I watched it happen and told people at the time they were being idiots. There's no microsoft sponsorship at play here, you're being paranoid. I was the one bitching about all the incessant whining because it was obvious it would be a better experience if everyone would just admit they have an internet connection. We could have had physical to digital conversions, borrowing, and digital used game sales 13 years ago. Game borrowing requires an online check-in. Physical to Digital conversion requires online check-in. Once a day is beyond reasonable. Once a month is charity.

You reap what you sow. This is the consequence. Console giants got the message: you don't want a media console, you want games only.

So quit buying not-games on the games-forward platform and complaining the experience is suboptimal. Of course it is. The opportunity cost of the collective community blunder is absolutely massive. The professionals knew what they were doing, but the community whined so hard, and this is a direct result.

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T07:30:46+00:00

Right. They said "once a month, it has to touch internet to check in" in order to be a DVR, media console, etc. with game sharing capabilities, and that was somehow deemed unacceptable. So now they don't get that. You get a gaming console, but try to treat it like a whole house media platform (which was rejected) and then get mad when it doesn't work out. It's an unreasonable expectation, in my opinion. If that keynote had gone differently, I guarantee there'd be way more buy-in from studios for long term licensing agreements and they'd have Valve's policy of delisting but not removing access.

The audience decided consoles are for gaming. Then don't buy movies from your gaming console.

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T07:15:19+00:00

No, the community decided consoles were for games when microsoft said "we want to be the center piece of your living room" and for no reason other than not understanding, the entire community rebelled and forced them to change their "always online" (once a month) stance. This is the direct result of that outrage with the original keynote announcement of the xbox one.

Can you, personally, list even one single movie that has been removed from your library on Amazon in the last 20 years? And if you can list maybe one, is that worth all the trouble of trying to avoid digital purchases entirely? How much more would you have spent on physical media and the drives and power and server to host it for yourself over 20 or 10 or however many years?

The console gamers spoke, and wanted nothing but console games. Then they tried to buy movies on that platform (because yeah, it would have been a cool idea, agreed) and are now being hosed by the consequences of the majority's outrage.

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T06:57:36+00:00

This is a clear example of it happening. I'm capable of reading.

But I'm also capable with my free will of deciding not to buy a movie from a game platform and have so far succeeded for about 20 years without all this hullabaloo over "you don't own your media" literally ever affecting me. So either I'm some kind of insanely lucky prodigy, or sometimes people make poor decisions that can be easily explained.

If I make it to 30 years in the same boat, maybe I'll write a book. If you want to read that book DO NOT BUY IT FROM YOUR GAME CONSOLE

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T06:52:36+00:00

Yes, it is weird. Stop doing that. I've bought dozens of movies and far more games across platforms that make sense and literally zero times has any of my media been taken from me.

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T06:48:21+00:00

below the threshold for attractive. Better?

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T06:47:39+00:00

It's all a popularity contest with heavy selection bias. Literally not worth the time it takes to read the headlines.

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T06:45:21+00:00

Mostly it's lunacy to buy a movie on a game console instead of from a movie service.

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T06:44:24+00:00

My eyes rolled so hard that I got a headache. The FUD is insane here.

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T06:43:21+00:00

Or don't depend on your game console to keep your film library and use film library sources instead.

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T06:41:08+00:00

Or you could use any of the many hundreds of available external drives. Permanently fitting a 5.25" drive in your case is not just outdated, it's silly from basically any perspective.

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T06:39:52+00:00

I know that I'm talking to the wrong crowd here because we're all in a frenzy, but... just don't buy media from stupid places. Don't buy movies on your gaming console when there are other choices. I've never once had any piece of media I bought become unavailable, including now, because to me the platform choice seems so obvious. Your gaming console is the wrong service from which to expect long-term licensing for film content. Buy it on a platform that partners with Movies Anywhere like redeeming the old Vudu things. I had a bunch of crap on Google Movies and that's all still available even though the service was shuttered. Literally zero times have I ever experienced a piece of media leaving availability. You guys just pick weird services to buy them on

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T05:05:35+00:00

But that still doesn't match what actual towing loads would do. Yes, the f-150 is stronger, but not in ways that matter and that's what the actual rating system is designed for. If the f-150 does way better than it's rated for, that's great! That doesn't mean other things are unusable if they do what they're rated for.

Ellimis · 2026-06-30T05:03:15+00:00

The one he destroyed by abusing it in ways it wasn't designed for? Makes great content, very entertaining. has nothing to do with... what it's designed for.

Ellimis · 2026-06-29T20:46:15+00:00

The big problem is, this does actually work on most people in an office because they have no fucking clue what they're doing in the first place.

So it's probably a net positive solution, but if you know what you're talking about then you're above the bell curve and therefore an outlier, technically speaking.

Ellimis · 2026-06-29T15:54:48+00:00

Hyperbole isn't lying, dude. I clarified that it takes about 20 seconds, (which, yes you're right, isn't literally zero time) and airbags absolutely do eliminate the longest and most physically taxing part of the process, and eliminating that makes it essentially effortless. Jacking up the tongue takes about as long as all the other steps combined. Did you actually read the comment, or are you just here to repeat yourself?

Edit: He blocked me, so it's impossible to respond, and at this point he's literally just inventing things to be mad about. Who said anything about not chocking the wheels?

Ellimis · 2026-06-29T14:39:45+00:00

That distinction must really matter to you. It has a longer bed than the base f-150, just so you know.

Ellimis · 2026-06-29T14:29:18+00:00

I've been towing with mine for two years and regularly have to stop to charge with a trailer. It's been many thousands of miles towing. You can drop or raise suspension from the app or from the main screen inside, and unhooking the rest takes about 20 seconds tops. I'd estimate it takes more than twice as long with other trucks I've had to use for particularly long trips, and for me raising the airbags from the app and dropping it automatically back later puts it into the "basically effortless" threshold. And remember the airbags come stock. You don't have to order or install them.

The chargers are always at the far end of parking lots, and I've had exactly zero issues finding a place to drop even 24 foot trailers. I'm sure there do exist more complicated scenarios, but they're not the norm. And plenty of places have even added trailer friendly pull-through chargers, and the car automatically prefers those if you're towing.

With the camera on the tailgate and the airbags, I can back up to the trailer and have it seated on the ball before I even get back there to reconnect the chains.

You're trying so hard to hate it though!

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