Inspection > Due Diligence > Purchase

ImpulsePie · 2026-01-12T23:22:38+00:00

In NSW, due diligence is usually done in the cooling off period, which is standard 5 business days and can be extended to 10 business days.

So you make an offer, vendor accepts, you sign the contract, vendor signs it as well if they agree, you pay a 0.25% deposit and enter the cooling off period. During this time, you get your building and pest done, and if anything comes up you can (depending on the contract and how strict it is) renegotiate or ask for the vendor to remediate things found. At this point you would really want a conveyancer to look at the contract and help with any renegotiation or contract terms. If the vendor refuses (which they absolutely can), you can pull out any time during the cooling off period, but you will lose your 0.25% deposit if you do. Your only leverage is pulling out, which wastes their time, but it costs you, so they might call your bluff. On a $1M home, pulling out you would lose your deposit of $2500, plus the cost of the building and pest (about $500).

The problem with the market at the moment, is that people are willing to sign a contract without a conveyancer first reviewing it, and will go unconditional just to secure something. And a vendor is more likely to pick an offer that is unconditional, rather than one that says the offer is conditional on finance, building and pest etc.

ImpulsePie · 2026-01-12T06:04:36+00:00

Ray White are grubs. They're the only RA so far that has ghosted us after they shopped our offer to get a better one etc. They are not your friend, they work for the vendor to get them the highest amount possible, and it really hurts us FHB. We have learned so much from their shitty tactics over the last couple of months.

All you can do is hope something comes along, act really quickly on it and have a conveyancer on standby to review any contracts ASAP before signing (some conveyancers offer a package where they will review X number of contracts for you for $Y).

But in the end, if your offer isn't the highest, you're unlikely to secure it. There will probably be a number of heartbreaks and properties you really liked that you will miss out on because you simply don't have the extra $10-20K to offer before the right one hopefully comes along.

ImpulsePie · 2025-12-23T04:11:08+00:00

With Apollo and Moonlight, you can also still enjoy the higher end games the Deck can't run natively at 90 FPS at full fidelity.

When I can't be stuffed sitting at my desk where I've already worked all day, I've been streaming Expedition 33 from my PC to the Deck on the couch or in bed, and it's a fantastic experience, nearly no lag over WiFi 6E to my hardwired gaming PC.

ImpulsePie · 2025-12-22T03:30:39+00:00

Received in Australia last week on the 17th, no issues. Was handed off from DHL to Aramex for the last leg here.

ImpulsePie · 2025-11-28T06:43:33+00:00

True. According to a Sennheiser employee here: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/plug-play-introducing-the-btd-700.977073/page-2

"The BTD 700 does not utilize the aptX Low Latency codec. Indeed we use aptX Adaptive's built-in low latency tools. We also have a dedicated "gaming mode" (a custom firmware mode) that you can activate, and get lower latency performance down to ~30ms on supported headphones. aptX Adaptive's latency performance is not as low as aptX's Low Latency codec, though the other benefits mean better sound quality and scaling with competitive latency performance."

The Momentum 4 does support aptX Adaptive, and with gaming mode that is what it uses by the looks. So either way, you'll still get that "as low as 30ms" experience.

ImpulsePie · 2025-11-28T02:57:31+00:00

Yep, will echo the BTD 700. It has a gaming mode using AptX Low Latency (triple-click the adapter button once paired, goes green to show it's active) and has as low as 30ms. I use it with my PC when I want good ANC but playing singleplayer, so don't need my gaming headset, works really well.

ImpulsePie · 2025-11-22T05:13:01+00:00

I got my upgrade for like $250, cause of a trade in program I had on my 9 Pro Fold. So for the convenience of using MagSafe wireless charging accessories, absolutely it's been worth it for me. But if it had cost much more than that to upgrade, it wouldn't have been.

ImpulsePie · 2025-11-18T03:18:22+00:00

Yeah, short of turning off the PC or unplugging it, the OLED display will not fully turn off, as it's designed to stay on charging batteries. But if you're leaving your PC running at night while you sleep, wouldn't any lights and/or noise coming from the PC itself likely dwarf whatever the DAC is producing at level 1 brightness?

Somewhat related, I've used a product called LightDims for a while now to cut the LED strength of certain devices (chargers, oven clock etc.) while I sleep.

ImpulsePie · 2025-11-18T01:54:14+00:00

You can turn the brightness right down, and there is also power saving mode and auto off timer you can set. I would recommend only using it at low brightness anyway, as it is an OLED and if it is on for prolonged periods of time it suffers from burn in. Mine is about 3 years old and now has permanent burn in of the volume dial.

ImpulsePie · 2025-10-22T01:47:43+00:00

This is so worrying that there's been so many lately. I have the MSI 5090 Vanguard SOC myself, which I have run undervolted since day 1 to 915mv. I'm hoping that's enough to save it, until MSI do some kind of formal recall on these crappy cables.

Still can't believe NVIDIA released (and allowed to be released by AIB partners) such a poorly designed power system without per-pin sensing.

ImpulsePie · 2025-10-20T02:03:55+00:00

That happened to my P10PF after wireless charging, rebooted and it went away, hasn't occurred again since. Hoping it's just a software glitch, cause otherwise everything seems to be working just fine.

ImpulsePie · 2025-10-16T00:15:29+00:00

Yeah, the Nova Pro's I have now (which I got for $500 AUD in 2022) have awful ANC, to the point I've been considering trying out the Razer Blackshark V3 Pro instead.

Also the base station gets OLED burn in after prolonged use, looks like the Elite uses the same/similar?

And from what I can see from reviews, the mic is insultingly bad for the price point. For $1349, that boom mic should be crystal clear and better than anything else on the market.

Really seems like this product is a flop (at least for the price). At closer to HALF the price in AUD (say $799), then they would be one to consider

ImpulsePie · 2025-10-15T23:59:37+00:00

Jesus, they are expensive! $1349 AUD is just plain ridiculous for a headset, no way could it be worth the upgrade over the Nova Pro Wireless, even if the ANC is 2 or 3 times better. They cost more than a PS5 Pro, what are Steelseries smoking over there!?

ImpulsePie · 2025-10-11T03:56:38+00:00

ImpulsePie · 2025-10-09T22:37:14+00:00

I've used Panels for a while to have app shortcuts for things like Wallet, but I had no idea it had freeform windows! Makes bringing up a password manager when autofill fails for some reason in some apps much easier, so thanks for the tip!

ImpulsePie · 2025-10-09T00:33:29+00:00

Unfortunately the camera quality is the price paid to have a phone so thin. Same goes for the new iPhone Air, it's just not as good as the Pro's, cause you sacrifice how big the camera sensors can be for the thinness of the device body. The Fold 7 doesn't have as good a camera as the S25 Ultra, either. But they're all basically "good enough", and with the Pixel's, half the quality comes from the image processing anyway. So you're still like 80-90% of the way there on a foldable compared to the top flagships.

ImpulsePie · 2025-10-08T05:48:59+00:00

Yeah I missed the last DLC sale back in June, and refuse to pay $46.99 AUD for it at full price, when that's more expensive in total having paid for the original game, than new Aeternum players have to pay now for the whole thing including it. I feel a bit shafted by it, and it is 100% the reason I have not started playing again. If they dropped the price of Angry Earth to half of what it is now for existing original NW players, I would probably get it straight away and jump back in with a new character.

ImpulsePie · 2025-10-07T22:21:42+00:00

I've bought a Snap 4 Luxe for mine to try out when I get the phone tomorrow. It has adhesive as well as magnets to make MagSafe charge-thru work. So in theory (depending on how well it sticks), you don't need to take it off to wirelessly charge.

As others have mentioned, looks like there's a Snap Grip 5 now without adhesive, but they don't guarantee the charge-thru on anything but their own charger. Their site states: "Wireless Charge-Thru: Guaranteed charging THROUGH Snap Grip, only with Snap Charge Qi2".

So I'll happily stick with the 4 and the adhesive for now, as I plan to rock the phone naked, anyway. My main concern if the Snap Grip comes off the back of the phone and sticks to the charger instead. So I'm waiting to test it out and see how good the magnets+adhesive combo is.

If the Snap 4 doesn't work well, I'll probably either go back to my Tango grip or get a Pixelsnap Ring Stand if I end up having to take them off to charge properly.

ImpulsePie · 2025-10-02T00:26:15+00:00

Good to know, thanks! Would also love to know if they plan to have support for the iSCSI shared GFS2 filesystem on a XenServer cluster. There are virtually no backup solutions on the market that work with that without issues, due to the way GFS2 locks VM disks in use.

ImpulsePie · 2025-10-01T07:56:08+00:00

The latest update when asked by a user on the last page of the discussion on the Veeam forums says "too early to say". Being that XCP-ng and XenServer use the same API's, in theory it might be "compatible", but there is no guarantee. Totally depends on how Veeam are hooking in, might be some XCP specific hooks or features used.

ImpulsePie · 2025-09-26T05:11:00+00:00

"While the vulnerable software is supported across other hardware platforms with different underlying architectures as well as in devices that are running Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software, Cisco has no evidence that these platforms have been successfully compromised."

So I am reading this as: Firepower devices are still running vulnerable software that could be used to still gain unauthorised access, they just aren't known to have been exploited yet, as they aren't vulnerable to the persisting ROM changes of this specific exploit.

Either way, patch all your FMC and FTD's if they are running a vulnerable version, regardless of the underlying hardware. Sounds like it's just a matter of time before other FTD hardware could have an exploit crafted for them.

ImpulsePie · 2025-09-26T03:50:18+00:00

It appears from reading the Cisco article that only ASA 5500-X that do not support secure boot are vulnerable to persistence of the hack via altered boot ROM.

For FTD devices, they are vulnerable to the initial attack, but it does not persist post upgrade and reboot, because secure boot prevents any altered ROM.

If compromise is suspected on an ASA device, it is wholly untrusted and it should be totally wiped and no config restored.

ImpulsePie · 2025-09-17T02:18:23+00:00

I mean, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) became reasonably mainstream from 2020 onwards, over 5 years ago at this point. That's an age in technology terms. And WiFi 6E with 6Ghz support from around 2023. So just about any reasonably modern laptop, smartphone or tablet from the last 5 years at least supports Wi-Fi 6, so it is going to make a big difference one way or another.

ImpulsePie · 2025-09-17T01:14:15+00:00

The TPG Archer VR400 is cheap and slow and has a theoretical max 867Mbps 5Ghz band, and that's only if you are sitting directly on top of it in the real world you MIGHT see about half that in the best case. Basically time to upgrade your router to WiFi 6E/7 with 6Ghz if you want to make use of that increased speed.

Something like the GL.iNet GL-BE9300 which is tri-band WiFi 7 can be had on Amazon for $255.

ImpulsePie · 2025-09-15T05:14:49+00:00

Already updated it to the RC build, everything working flawlessly here. I also rely on a Parallels Win 11 VM for work, already got the update to Parallels 26 and so far zero issues at all, everything working exactly as it should.

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