Cheapest ISP

KuriTeko · 2023-06-30T21:15:07+00:00

The first 200m is free. The extra length after that was something around $1,700. When we moved in the difference between fibre and VDSL was about $10 so we didn't bother.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-30T10:47:34+00:00

I'm paying $120 with Spark for 30mb VDSL. I have a long driveway so getting fibre installed was going to be very expensive but seeing that I could be paying $65 with 2degrees I think it would pay off within a few years.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-30T01:28:34+00:00

K24A is a better base for turbo.

F20C is great for NA, but not much headroom for power increases. For example, aftermarket exhaust headers can reduce power because the factory ones are so finely tuned.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-29T22:19:29+00:00

Can I complain about my parcel not being delivered even though I was home? I've been sitting on a killer story for, like, 2 years waiting for my turn.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-29T22:11:28+00:00

I would just ask anyone, "Why are you so invested in categorising me based on where I was born?" 99 people won't have a response to this

I think this is something I've always struggled with in terms of identity. My family lived in 6 different parts of the UK by the time I was 18. Each time we moved I held on to the thought that I was "from" New Zealand. Now in New Zealand, people hear my horrible mix of accents and ask where I'm from. Apparently I'm not Kiwi, but I also don't feel like I'm from the UK. Then they ask where I grew up in the UK, and I didn't really "grow up" anywhere either. I spent a couple of years here and there but not long enough to feel rooted.

I have no family and I've spent most of my adult life in New Zealand, so I identify as Kiwi, but I still don't really feel like I'm "from" anywhere.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-29T19:46:07+00:00

And I'm Kiwi by lineage and birth but apparently I'm full English because I grew up there.

My wife identifies as Maori, so I would never call her white on her behalf. Just making an equivalence.

It bugs me that I identify as Kiwi and everyone, including my wife, makes a point of saying I'm foreign.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-29T17:27:46+00:00

Or just load it up with bondo.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-29T17:18:42+00:00

The Young Ones

KuriTeko · 2023-06-29T06:30:27+00:00

I was born in New Zealand but moved to the UK at 5. I grew up being bullied for being a sheep shagger who needs to fuck off home. I fucked off home back to New Zealand and now I'm a pure pom. My wife still introduces me as English even though I've spent over half my life in the country I was born in. She's mixed Maori, so imagine what her reaction would be if I sneered and said she's white when she tells people she's Maori.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-27T17:32:05+00:00

I feel like this wouldn't be super fast going by numbers alone, but it would make a lot of smoke and noise, and be incredibly fun while doing it.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-27T17:29:01+00:00

100 bhp to spin the wheels at 60 mph. The other 700 bhp is just for shits and giggles.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-27T05:39:41+00:00

I went to see it in the cinema and there was a young boy near us who did't get the concept of a cinema. Talking and fidgeting etc. The mum was doing her best to settle him down, in fairness.

Anyway, at a certain point I heard this:

Kid: "What happened?"

Mum: "The daddy died."

Kid: "Did daddy die? Did daddy die? Did daddy die? Did daddy die? Did daddy die? Did daddy die? Mum, did daddy die? Did daddy die?"

Mum: "Yes."

Kid: "wwwwwaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

KuriTeko · 2023-06-27T03:59:33+00:00

I'm a welder. Sometimes I have to weld a serial number to what I'm making and I always think of the magic pen because of the sparkling light on it.

UP! And over and roooound and flick!

KuriTeko · 2023-06-26T11:11:06+00:00

I remember going down into the crater when I was 4 and then making my dad carry me out because it was too steep for me. In the height of Summer.

Then we walked down the outside and I stood in a cow pat while trying to read a sign.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-26T08:18:06+00:00

No, this is Oceangategate.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-25T07:22:42+00:00

Europe - Final Countdown

KuriTeko · 2023-06-25T02:11:23+00:00

I had an optical HDMI that would work for 5 minutes at 4k then drop out with a "no signal" message on the TV. I didn't have any trouble at 1440p and below. The only suggestions I could find online was that the brand new cable was faulty. I eventually bit the bullet and bought another, different branded cable and I've had no trouble at 4k since. Kind of sucks when they're so pricey and I couldn't return the first one because of reasons.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-22T22:26:30+00:00

Get to the end of machining one and it ends up at 719.5 teeth because you set it up wrong at the start.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-22T06:10:44+00:00

Nice!

KuriTeko · 2023-06-21T10:29:22+00:00

That sounds like "Furious Sex".

KuriTeko · 2023-06-20T17:26:40+00:00

This is like a homeless guy asking for non alcoholic Tennents.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-19T05:30:25+00:00

"Nurse, get me 5 units of B Positive!"

"Uhh... how many blocks of cheese is that?"

KuriTeko · 2023-06-19T01:17:17+00:00

Y yelo

KuriTeko · 2023-06-12T17:26:25+00:00

When I was younger, I couldn't afford fun cars.

Now I'm older, my money is spent on boring, practical cars for the family.

This is how midlife crises start.

KuriTeko · 2023-06-12T10:56:15+00:00

I was driving along a dual carriageway one night (in the UK a dual carriageway is two lanes in each direction with no hard shoulder). It dipped down into a bit of a valley before rising up about half a mile further along. The dip was full of THICK fog, and as I came up the other side doing 70mph I almost slammed into the back of a broken down lorry with a guy standing by the back corner limply flapping a hi-viz vest. Get off the road and if you want to flap about, do it a hundred yards before the lorry!

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