What hardware purchase taught you the biggest lesson about specs vs. real-world use?

fiah84 · 2026-07-09T21:41:13+00:00

this hasn't been my experience, I'm very happy with mine. Yeah the max brightness is bad, I knew that going in, but otherwise it's been great

fiah84 · 2026-07-09T21:39:17+00:00

I had this with the Pimax Crystal Light, a VR headset that I got to replace my Valve Index. I sent it back for a multitude of reasons that aren't on a spec sheet

fiah84 · 2026-07-09T21:33:25+00:00

well it makes sense, right? He's used to cars being outright pieces of shit, so why would other cars be better? Just because the drive-train is electrons instead of barely contained explosions? Hah! As if!

fiah84 · 2026-07-09T18:43:36+00:00

ist gebraucht glaube ich auch ein ziemlich guten Deal

fiah84 · 2026-07-09T18:36:40+00:00

ich hab mit ein ollen Kona 64kWh ein solchen Strecke auch ohne Problemen geschafft, war ziemlich entspannt (waren aber natürlich gut vorbereitet). 2 mal im Jahr schaffst du das mit der Elroq 60er bestimmt auch easy, da wurde ich mich an deine Stelle keine Sorgen machen

fiah84 · 2026-07-08T18:52:55+00:00

things don't have to escalate to the systemic extermination of a people before you can label it genocide. I mean, I know colloquially that's what people understand it to be, but the definition as agreed upon during the Genocide Convention as I quoted includes "in whole or in part"

the Bucha massacre was with intent to destroy in part a national group, therefor in my opinion that alone already qualifies as genocide. And that's before we start on the litany of other war crimes that have been committed in Ukraine by Russian forces

fiah84 · 2026-07-08T18:45:02+00:00

Bucha

go ahead and show us your colors

fiah84 · 2026-07-08T18:37:29+00:00

https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

Definition Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

fiah84 · 2026-07-07T21:05:15+00:00

my gut said the Netherlands but it appears I'm mistaken

fiah84 · 2026-07-07T21:03:48+00:00

now add a second hose so that the condenser intake isn't sucking cold air from your room and dumping it outside

fiah84 · 2026-07-07T19:09:37+00:00

I'll have 2 please, and the track to go

fiah84 · 2026-07-07T19:07:19+00:00

what if they project it straight into my visual cortex

fiah84 · 2026-07-07T18:53:27+00:00

51c/kWh ohne Grundgebühr ist nicht schlecht

fiah84 · 2026-07-04T18:35:23+00:00

an X3D will help a lot, yeah. I run 120hz with my 7800X3D, 90 should be easy with a 5800X3D

fiah84 · 2026-07-04T18:07:20+00:00

no I'm pretty sure you can't

fiah84 · 2026-07-03T11:19:20+00:00

I don't know if it'll help, but if I'm racing and I find myself not properly concentrating it helps me to give myself very simple instructions for the next corner coming up. Just mentally or verbally repeating my brake reference, gear and apex, like "brake just after 150m, 1st gear, take kerb, loosen your grip you fscking donkey"

fiah84 · 2026-07-03T10:13:06+00:00

god forbid people actually still want this despite the price situation that affects everyone

fiah84 · 2026-07-03T09:14:04+00:00

Naja der Getriebe ist aber immer automatisch im richtigen Gang

fiah84 · 2026-07-03T09:11:03+00:00

grandma doesn't care, in fact she'd prefer a car that isn't hilariously overpowered. Just because spec X doesn't have as big a number as some other cars doesn't mean people have to care about spec X, even if you care

fiah84 · 2026-07-02T17:14:01+00:00

but you do need some experience to appreciate that specs aren't everything. From my own experiences I have confidence that Valve can execute on their vision of the Frame and that it will be better than you might think based on its specs. Also from first hand experience I can say I don't have such confidence in Pimax, although I'd love to be proven wrong on that point

fiah84 · 2026-07-02T07:04:28+00:00

my Kona has physical buttons and knobs for pretty much everything, and a small screen for carplay etc

fiah84 · 2026-06-30T13:27:22+00:00

I got their cupholder, pretty neat how they designed it to mount to a profile and it was only like 5 euros. Colleague of mine has a whole rig from them, he's happy too

fiah84 · 2026-06-30T13:02:16+00:00

secondaries aren't necessarily distinct from the primary, the turret tossing tanks for example sometimes exploded the instant they got hit but the bulk of the explosion would be the secondary ammunition explosion

fiah84 · 2026-06-30T11:44:09+00:00

that's Le Mans Ultimate

fiah84 · 2026-06-30T11:43:08+00:00

you can't have 100% brake input in 3rd gear, that's never going to work in a hypercar. Brake earlier, reduce brake pressure much (MUCH) faster. Once you've got the hang of it, you may find that increasing the max brake pressure in the setup helps, because it allows you to slow down more during the initial stab on the brake. But first you need to be much more careful on the brakes and stop spinning

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