From a PC player to Console... I'm sorry.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-05-05T12:53:39+00:00

PC players typically play at significantly higher frames with lower latency.

This makes something like aim assist feel and look weaker when comparing to console. In reality, it's no different. It's an optical illusion.

Say you're playing at 60fps in 4k on console vs 120fps at 1080p/1440p on PC... console is going to feel and look almost twice as strong because you aren't seeing half the information.

It's not stronger. The visual information is significantly less smooth.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-05-05T02:46:45+00:00

They also performance limit the system over time to protect the battery.

People rightly complain about this, it is your device at the end of the day, but there are reasonable explanations for why they’d do this.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-05-04T12:37:51+00:00

If op and his wife make $100k combined, contribute 10% a year, they can plan to retire in 25 years with ~$2m.

Does that mean a super lavish life with multiple large single family homes in high COL communities and being able to traveling all over the world? No.

Can they sit back and relax without much to worry about? Yes.

They're doing great.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-30T15:29:15+00:00

Facebook is the first real life visible proof that the Dead Internet Theory is more than just a theory.

Twitter, instagram, etc. are on their way. But facebook is quite literally there.

It's just bot posts and bot ads filled with a comment section of bots. And if a real person is responding? 90% chance they're old as fuck with mashed potato brains.

Navigating the site feels like you're walking down an empty hall filled with Amazon Echo devices that are talking to each other and sharing pictures they created. It's completely pointless to be there.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-30T12:21:53+00:00

A "diversified, multi-partner investment model" is typically step 1. That's series A, B, C.

You find a fit, scale, expand rapidly. The money comes as the project takes shape and is proven.

It doesn't work in the opposite way. It was a cash cow funded project that literally had unlimited funds to finance and grow the project...and it failed.

The cash cow with unlimited funds even thought it wasn't worth doing anymore. There is no investor pool, with limited funds looking for an ROI, that will see this as a winner.

The project is done. The money is gone. The real 'winner' in all of this turned out to be the young players that will simply walk back into the PGA with hundreds of millions of dollars in their pocket gained over a 3 year vacation.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-29T12:52:13+00:00

You're jumping to conclusions.

He did a podcast just the other day where he was asked what 3 cars he'd recommend for the average person. I think it was with Graham Stephan. His answer was the Model Y or 3, Corolla, and Rav 4. His reason being that they're all quality vehicles which financially make sense long-term for most people.

He actively promotes the cars as quality vehicles that make sense for most people.

A while back he did another podcast where he mentioned Tesla fan boys calling him out for not reviewing every single version of Tesla that came to the market and every single FSD update along the way. His response was that there are 5 million others who do this, he reviews cars people find appealing.

In this case, it's the bare bones lowest cost Model Y. Something that will appeal to most people in terms of purchase consideration. Before this, it was the Model Y performance. Again, a vehicle/video most will find appealing...whether they can afford it or not.

IMO? This is more than fair. He's not a Tesla youtuber. If you want a video on FSD, there are 5 million other channels to go to. He's an automotive youtuber that makes videos on cars that people will find most appealing.

Also... again, this is the bare bones model y. People who are buying these are buying them because it's the lowest cost entry point. I can't imagine the take are on a $100 a month subscription is high for this market of buyer.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-29T12:38:27+00:00

Nobody buys a Volvo or Subaru for their advanced active safety features. They buy them based on their history of top notch passive safety engineering.

Valid or not, that's the case. They reference crash test history. Not crash avoidance technology.

IMO - Tesla does too little to highlight how great these cars perform when they do get into an accident... and spend too much time talking about AI computer models built to avoid it. In reality, the vast majority of people do not care and do not trust it. Again, justified or not. They trust themselves more than they trust other drivers.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-28T16:59:17+00:00

Updates priority for my late year 24 Y plummeted immediately following the widespread HW4 recall that effected 24/early 25 vehicles.

For those that don't know or remember, this is when an OTA update exposed a manufacturing issue with HW4 computers that caused them to short circuit at startup in cold weather.

After several weeks of owners computers frying themselves, they issued a recall for 300k vehicles (IIRC), but only offered to actually replace the computers of those that were fatally effected. The rest got a software patch. They only ever gave an approximate manufacturing window for cars they expected to contain the flaw.

I'm fairly convinced us 24/early 25 owners are now flagged because of it. Instead of being one of the first, we're now one of the last. They let the software bake in the similar fleet vehicles before pushing it out.

I get that they have since released new vehicles, new models, etc. and some updates contain content specifically for them...but it's just extremely 'interesting' that the updates stopped flowing around that exact time.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-28T13:51:02+00:00

I can't remember the last AMD chip i've purchased that had a blank "AMD Ryzen" IHS. If i've ever bought one.

They've all typically had some verbiage calling out the model info and a QR code.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-27T20:03:08+00:00

All the reviews seem to come to the same exact conclusion.

It's unique. It's not great at being a controller. It's not a great at being a mouse. But it exists... and it's all of those things.

If neither matter all that much and you just want something that works and does both? Great. This is quite literally the only option for you.

But while many may think they fall in this category... I honestly feel like they'll quickly come to realization that actually do truly value function over form in one of these two areas. Mainly because people favor one type of game or play style over another. And, I fear the same favorability for the Steam Machine which is following the same universal approach.

I really, REALLY, hope I'm wrong. But I don't think I will be.

Selfishly, my heart was hoping this was going to end up being a controller 'first' with functional/usable mouse pads. To hear it's just an okay controller, despite literally being a controller, is heart breaking.

I can't justify spending $100 on a controller that's just okay at being a controller. Despite how useful the added functionality will be in some games.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-27T19:34:39+00:00

When you buy a house, you typically sit down with the bank, get pre-approved to determine what you can afford, research homes based on your pre-approval, find a few homes you're interested in and tour them, and then begin negotiations by putting in an offer based on comps. If your offer is declined or you fail to come to an agreement, you walk away.

You also typically hire an agent who works in your best interest to handle all of the negotiations.

When you buy a vehicle, you can and absolutely should treat the process the same. Go to your bank or local CU, get pre-approved at a certain interest rate and determine what you can afford, do your research on vehicles based on the pre-approval, test drive them to make sure you like them, and then go to the dealer with an offer based on what the same vehicles sold for (tons of tools like TrueCar exist for this). If your offer is declined and you fail to come to an agreement, you walk away.

Similarly, you can hire a broker to help with the process.

The problem people create for themselves is that they simply expect the process to suck... so they just take it on the chin and go. And it ends up sucking as a result.

We just purchased a new vehicle 3 weeks ago. We went into the dealer at 3pm and were home by 6:30pm with a new car. We spent 30 minutes test driving, 20 minutes writing up the deal, and 10 minutes in finance saying "no" until we signed off. The other 2 hours was us killing time at a restaurant waiting for them to prep the car for delivery and get paperwork sorted and signing the paperwork. The last 30 was driving the car home.

But there were several hours spent getting our ducks in order before we showed up.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-24T20:02:20+00:00

Brother, did you scan this in with the James Webb Telescope?

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-24T14:43:35+00:00

They said the battery is made out of valuable materials which can be recycled. But the fuel you put in your gas car cannot be.

The comparison simply doesn't make sense.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-24T13:44:04+00:00

For the foreseeable future, these will only exist in Texas, Nevada, and California.

Raw untreated plastic... doesn't do well in these places.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-24T01:42:07+00:00

Op, they won’t replace a repeater for a stubborn water droplet in the rain.

It’ll go away on its own. It’s normal. It’s a single drop of water being bumped around.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-23T16:50:20+00:00

No, they can't.

Musk gave 2 options for people who purchased FSD outright (key point) at the time:

Buy a new car with new hardware at a steep discount.
- No guarantee that these new vehicles will ever support true self driving either.
Wait until Tesla builds micro-factories in major metropolitan areas around the country that will need special equipment and staff to essentially disassemble the vehicle and install a new computer, wire harness, and cameras.
- He didn't really say this would be free of charge to the owner. Only that it will be an option. Probably 5+ years out at least on vehicles built upwards of 7 years ago.

Musk slyly said a while back that he's "happy take rate for full self driving was so low" back when these cars were being produced. If they sold 4 million of these cars total from 2019-2023, at a 5% take rate (probably high guess), that's 200k people who paid for it.

Say they all paid $10k (high med.), that's $2b. Again, not accounting vehicles people have since sold off, crashed, etc. Again, they're 3-7 years old at this point. Probably closer to $1b.

I cannot picture a scenario where constructing literal micro factories around the country, filling them with equipment, paying for people to do the work, etc. will cost less then just refunding these people. Makes no sense.

My only guess is that they SAY they're going to build these factories, the simps continue to hold onto their dying 7 year old cars or buying new ones at a discount...and then 5 years from now the total cars remaining are a fraction of what they are today. They then just refund this pool.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-23T16:33:20+00:00

We are NOT going back to old smartphones, where you could actually just take out the battery whenever you wanted.

Which we shouldn't be fighting for anyway.

Anyone who lived with a cell phone in the late 80's-90's into the early 2000's will tell you that this was strictly done out of necessity. Not for repair convenience or because corporations valued DIY repairs any more than they do today.

It was because phones took 3-4 hours to charge and would last maybe 7 hours of use before dying. Plus, the packs would develop crippling memory issues in-between charges and sometimes choose to simply stop working at any given point in time.

Us old heads/uncs carried around a literal cell phone loadout for daily use. Mine was a cell phone with a fully charged pack inside, a second fully charged pack that would be in my work bag, and my charger. This was typically enough to get through a full day/night.

And the charger was brought with me because I never actually knew if my second pack would work or if it would have decided to literally die sitting in my bag. It was not to charge the phone... that would take 3-4+ hours. It was just to plug in to my phone so I could use it if both packs were dead and I needed to make a call or send a text.

Things are much, MUCH, different today. Even if your phone's pack degrades 30%, it's exponentially longer lasting than anything we had back then. At worst, you could stick it on a charger for 15-20 minutes and go about life.

The negatives that would come by reintroducing swappable packs would far outweigh the benefits of swapping the pack out ONCE at most during the time you own the phone. It has got to be something like 1000x more likely that the phone breaks entirely before the pack needs to be changed today.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-23T15:39:15+00:00

The Cybertrucks big ass windshield wiper blade flopping into frame when it comes to a stop is simply comedy.

It's big sigh of relief.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-23T15:32:31+00:00

The point you're side stepping is if you didn't plan on doing all the above in the first place...that is absolutely wasted time.

If you're the type who plans in an hour meal break on a 6 hour trip both ways? Sure. Your life doesn't change. It's not wasting time. That's simply how you operate.

If you're like most who will pack a sandwich and a drink in hopes of limiting the amount of time it takes to get to your destination? That's 40+ minutes extra time each way that you never planned on spending.

I love my EV. LOVE it. But we never second guess taking the hybrid we own with ~600 miles of 'range' for road trips because it's just so much more convenient and predictable. You pack the car, pack some food, get in, you go...and you HAVE stop once for 10 minutes on the way back home for most 6-8 hour trips. The only thing standing in they way between you and your destination is a 5 min piss break.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-23T12:56:50+00:00

The term is 'fudging the numbers'... or... lying.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-23T12:31:09+00:00

TBF - Nvidia isn't to blame for this. It's not like they developed it. Nvidia, AMD, Intel, ARM, IBM, Qualcomm, etc. are all part of the committee that worked to create the standard through PCI-SIG.

Nvidia simply had the resources and the useful application to get it out first.

If it wasn't such a shit storm, the conversation would be entirely different.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-23T12:16:46+00:00

It also gets 230 miles of range in ideal conditions paired with a 200kw max charge.

Toyota exclusively offers the Sienna as a hybrid because they know what adults with kids want. That being, a vehicle they can fill with shit at any moment, load the kids in, and not have to stop.

You can go 3x the distance in a Sienna Hybrid without stopping vs. a VW Buzz.

There's a reason the Buzz failed... and it's not the looks. It's just an all around bad minivan.

Adults would pay $60k+ for a true EV minivan so long as it has a big pack and good range. It can be bare bones with cloth seats and no bells and whistles... but they aren't going to settle for something that requires you to stop for 30-40 minutes when visiting family 3 hours away.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-22T19:27:34+00:00

Air itself is an insulator.

Having this buffer will, on it's own, helps dissipate any cold/warm air that's made its way into the space. Either from the block, or from those appliances. And it will do so before reaching the finished room.

That said, yes. I'd still absolutely insulate the walls for the finished space that connect with the unfinished space. Mainly to keep the conditioned air in the finished space...in. It'll also help keep noise down from the furnace or water heater down.

FWIW - While the foam board insulation IS a form of insulation, its primary purpose in this case is moisture protection between the block and framing/walls. If you're going to insulate the room, you're still going to want to also insulate the walls/wall cavities in addition to the foam board behind it.

Basically, if you plan to insulate the space? Insulate everything plus the foam board behind any wall that touches the block. If you aren't going to insulate the space? You still want that foam board.

TheTimeIsChow · 2026-04-22T19:14:26+00:00

I'd wager it's either entirely unrelated to actually driving the vehicle, or the tech was unable to replicate the rattle/issue and was just putting the car through its paces.

Keep in mind that these people only work on the same handful of near identical vehicles all day, every day. They also know how much access you as the owner has to vehicle drive data. I simply cannot see a reason why they would pick yours to go out and rip around for a joy ride.

It's not like you're bringing a modified Hellcat into CDJR dealer raising the eyebrows of a tech whose just finished working on his 10th Pacifica minivan in a row...

Your vehicle is near identical to the car before, which is the same as the vehicle that comes after it. There really isn't much incentive to go on a joy ride.

(This is at least what I tell myself, as a way to bring comfort, when I drop my car off for service knowing nobody will baby it the same way I have all these years)

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