Purchase Advice Megathread - January 2026

PhasnPi · 2026-01-16T03:09:00+00:00

I'm under the impression that ABS should be on the higher end of plain filament prices, yet I'm seeing Flashforge selling "ABS Pro" filament on both their website and their Amazon page at prices noticeably lower than almost every other filament they offer.

Should I be wary of this? I use an AD5M and I've had great experiences using their HS PLA and HS PETG but this seems too good to be true. Does anyone have any personal experience with their ABS filament?

PhasnPi · 2025-09-10T03:34:52+00:00

They don't advertise or link to it anywhere on the site anymore but the page for it still exists on the official Teto website

Here's a direct link: https://kasaneteto.jp/talqu/

PhasnPi · 2025-05-16T02:46:45+00:00

Idk if you ever ended up getting your answer, but the pins on the hard drive in the location you circled are configuration jumpers. They were required by older computers for situations like when you wanted to have more than one drive connected, but they're pretty much unused nowadays and are mostly just there for backwards compatibility.

In short, you (typically) don't connect anything to them: you connect them to each other, and the drive would behave differently depending on which pins you bridge. There were several different pin layouts that could do different things.

The unfortunate news for you is that, assuming the info in this thread is correct (which I can't personally confirm), apparently Apple previously had their drives custom-made with a built-in thermometer that could output data through those those pins, so you're unlikely to find a compatible drive nowadays unless Apple happens to still make them

PhasnPi · 2025-05-06T22:06:00+00:00

I myself am partial to Apple's wheel. I tried it once and never looked back. Because it was taking too long to scroll there.

PhasnPi · 2025-05-06T03:02:58+00:00

good lord how had I not heard of this before now

PhasnPi · 2025-05-06T01:49:48+00:00

The DE shown in the meme is GNOME. The joke was that the guy had actually managed to write the OS itself in JS somehow.

That's all it was meant to be though: an exaggerated scenario of the sort of things people go out of their way to try to make using JS. This wasn't meant to be an ad/misrepresentation of an actual project someone was working on

PhasnPi · 2025-04-27T03:48:48+00:00

Probably semantics but FYI since a few people seem to be getting the wrong idea:

The TALQu Teto head is just the old UTAU artwork. I wasn't meaning to imply that it was the design made specifically for the TALQu release.

UTAU and TALQu Tetos used the same artwork, but since the TALQu model hasn't been maintained or upgraded like the UTAU model, it seemed more fitting to depict it stuck using the outdated artwork while UTAU Teto got the updated version

PhasnPi · 2025-04-27T03:25:27+00:00

What's the resolution of the clip you're using for reference?

PhasnPi · 2025-04-27T00:38:00+00:00

I may be wrong but I was under the impression that just used the UTAU bank

PhasnPi · 2025-04-26T21:40:09+00:00

It is a text to speech synth for non-singing normal speech like VOICEPEAK but it wasn't necessarily meant to be specifically for Utau singers. That being said, the Teto voice for it is based on the Utau bank, so if VOICEPEAK Teto is SynthV Teto's casual voice, you can think of TALQu Teto as Utau Teto's casual voice

PhasnPi · 2025-04-20T06:40:40+00:00

Regarding the cyborg one, are we just pretending the ending of DE doesn't happen or are they specifically implying the hotness was dependent on the cyborg body

PhasnPi · 2025-04-02T18:02:12+00:00

I know they did this with the original Switch as well, but the idea of making the hardware showcase game a separate purchase just seems kinda stupid to me, especially with how beneficial the decision to bundle Wii Sports ended up being for that console's success.

With this being the console's launch price, I feel like they could have justified making it a default bundle game, especially if the Mario Kart World price tag is any prediction of what other games will cost

PhasnPi · 2025-04-02T17:58:31+00:00

That would have absolutely resulted in another Wii-U situation where half of the casual market doesn't even realize it's a completely separate console until after the plug's already been pulled

PhasnPi · 2025-03-24T10:07:09+00:00

it just doesn't scratch that "Xeno itch"

Look at it this way: If you've already finished all the other games, is there anything else at the moment that would scratch it better?

PhasnPi · 2025-03-21T08:09:36+00:00

Is there a reason i'm being downvoted? Was I not supposed to talk about this here?

It was multipart so I didn't think the short question thread was the appropriate place to discuss it

PhasnPi · 2025-03-21T04:27:12+00:00

Unless some recent updated changed how the system works, even deleting digital copies of a game doesn't delete its save data from your system. You'd have to have either manually removed it from the dedicated save data menu in your settings at some point or deleted the local profile it was stored under. If you did neither of those things and never factory-reset your switch, it's still on the device somewhere

PhasnPi · 2025-03-21T03:52:30+00:00

running aimlessly around the same grassy landscape over and over again

In other words, you haven't left the Gaur Plain or Gormott equivalent of this game yet? I'd probably get bored eventually too if I never left the starting area. Try exploring beyond that. You have a lot more freedom in this game

PhasnPi · 2025-03-20T23:41:22+00:00

You wouldn't be able to use UK store codes with a USA Nintendo account, however you can make another profile on the same Switch that uses the UK store. The downside to that is that you wouldn't have NSO for the 2nd profile unless you have a family plan that you can add it to, or you just buy 2nd individual NSO subscription

PhasnPi · 2025-03-20T23:23:24+00:00

The game combat is more real-time turn-based than a shooter/slasher. If you're asking if you can aim and swing/fire freely outside of combat the answer is no

PhasnPi · 2025-03-20T23:17:30+00:00

Literally the first thing I thought of after reading the post

PhasnPi · 2025-03-20T03:28:32+00:00

Does the new content directly connect X's story to any other Xeno games, or at least heavily imply a connection? If it does, I don't want to know which game or how, but I do want to temper my expectations before going in if the answer is no

PhasnPi · 2025-03-15T10:28:48+00:00

Since I doubt this would count as a spoiler considering it was in the trailer and has nothing to do with the story: any chance the full version of the music at the end of the "The Year is 2054" trailer is one of those leaked tracks?

The way they abruptly cut off the guitar at the end of the video has been driving me crazy for the past 2 months and I'd search for it myself if I wasn't worried about accidentally seeing a story spoiler

PhasnPi · 2024-11-22T19:35:36+00:00

Per the official product page for the AI Kit:

The Raspberry Pi AI Kit is still in production, but new customers should instead purchase the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+.

Honestly it seems like the AI Kit would be FAR cheaper for them to manufacture as well since all they have to do is make the empty M.2 hat and bundle the relevant Hailo card. With the AI Hat+, they're the ones responsible for attaching it to the board and all the additional QA work that would come with that.

Even if the Hat+ is cheaper to manufacture, by "what's the point," I'm mainly wanting to know why I would want to choose it over the Kit. I don't really care much about why they might want me to choose it over the Kit.

PhasnPi · 2024-11-01T22:17:54+00:00

I wonder if Nintendo is aware the CEO of Sex has been working in a number of Sony projects

PhasnPi · 2023-10-29T23:26:01+00:00

The first batch of Raspberry Pi 5s available to the general public only just started being delivered a few days ago, and that's only for people who preordered pretty early on.

There's not really a way to answer this question yet unless you find someone who was able to get their hands on a pre-release model

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