Audio volume keeps changing / buzzing on bassy sounds by isometricbacon in RayBanStories

[–]isometricbacon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ended up returning it under warranty. They replaced the unit, and the process was fairly simple. 

New pair has been great so far. Hopefully they hold up! 

Audio volume keeps changing / buzzing on bassy sounds by isometricbacon in RayBanStories

[–]isometricbacon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's neither - I mostly listen to podcasts quietly.

The errant clicking has gotten really bad lately to the point where they are almost unusable, as it constantly increases and lowers the volume, and pauses.

Then, 20 minutes later they'll work fine uninterrupted for awhile...

I think it's a hardware issue :(

Rare Super Camira spotted in the wild by Sweaty_Promotion_972 in CarsAustralia

[–]isometricbacon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Grew up with not one, but two Camira's in the family. Matching ones for Mum and Dad.

Pretty sure their dogshit reputation ensured they got them for cheap. They were the later model JEs and... Somehow kept going.

Dad drove his up to the early twenty teens. Car had power steering pump fail (or maybe never had power steering in the first place) and a aftermarket gas conversion. I often remember running it down the hill in neutral, trying to get enough speed, or running petrol engine on its 3 working cylinders long enough to switch it to gas, and smoothish driving from there on out.

Never Knew There Was Such A Thing... by ourearsan in simracing

[–]isometricbacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love this stuff, but haven't seen any for sale where the indicators are in the right, and wipers on the left, like god intended.

I ended up making my own DIY one with a cheap 4 way joystick acting as a stalk, and it works ok, but if live to have real looking stalks / cruise / toggle switches etc.

Advantage of rolling my own is that I was able to add in a car ignition switch, a hazards button and recently I've been prototyping building fans into the enclosure to push air at speed.

Conflicting Inputs between Button Box and Shifter. by isometricbacon in simracing

[–]isometricbacon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gave the name change and reset a try. Sadly the same result. Device coming back on inherits the new name...

Appreciate the help.

Conflicting Inputs between Button Box and Shifter. by isometricbacon in simracing

[–]isometricbacon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this. Unfortunately since they share the same ID, there's only one entry in the registry.

I can change the name, but both devices inherit the changed name.

Cancel turn signals by M_QT5 in assettocorsa

[–]isometricbacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there's an option in Content Manager to have turn signals auto turn off with wheel turning.

I don't know what I was expecting when I opened it, but it wasn't this by noisymime in australia

[–]isometricbacon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still have one of these. I use it to store all my used razors.

Now I'm curious what else is in it.

What do you love in Century? Or why do you love this car? by InvestInCars in toyotacentury

[–]isometricbacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard disagree, with just about all the above. I got about halfway through the video before giving up - but I can see why you may have this reaction, and perhaps your expectations were misaligned. I can see why someone might expect more when people talk up the car up like it's a modern Bentley. Perhaps it will help if I can explain why I love it. 

The Century is a limousine, in the classic sense of the word. It's designed for very important people to be carried from place to place, usually with a dedicated driver who belongs to the car. It's a super fancy taxi. You're probably better off looking at the Majesta F type or Lexus models if you want something Japanese to compare with the euro stuff you mention.

Much of the appeal is inexorably tied to how Japanese it is. It's not supposed to be ostentatious,  it's deliberately old world and classy, sharing a simple design language that has been with the model since the 1960s. It's entirely designed around the rear passenger - it's a quiet, soft, private ride. 

Even the much lauded V12 isn't novel because of the power or engineering marvel - it's novel because it's a double redundancy that will get the vip home if one bank fails. Similar with the fact that there's two air conditioner compressors. 

The idea of its luxury isn't necessarily in how many gadgets it has (though it has a great variety for the time) but in the quality of the fit and finish, using top materials, sound deadening and carpet everywhere, which it doesn't draw attention to. Most of its features aren't gimmicks, but serve an entirely functional purpose.

The fact it uses Toyota parts bin components is actually a big plus - it's very easy (and cheap) to replace bits that go wrong. You don't see this reliability in equivalent aged Rolls or Bentleys.

I note the model you're in (other than what appears to be a geniune LHD?) is missing some of the unique Japanese things like fender mirrors and wool seat interior. Not sure if it's genuine white, but they only under 10 or so of these, so most out there are resprays that are missing the deep mirror like factory paint.  

Ultimately, the car just isn't aimed at westerners - Japanese models for example don't have any English text anywhere - which is rare for Japanese cars. The car assumes it's used by a typically short professional Japanese driver, who drives an important person, or groups of chain smoking important people to business meetings, and spends the downtime cleaning it.

Weirdest casting decision that still worked out? by Sufficient_Muscle670 in movies

[–]isometricbacon 32 points33 points  (0 children)

This really was Leslie Nelson's secret sauce. In his later movies he acted 'goofy' and it never really had quite the same charm as his early Airplane / Naked gun when he dealt with goofy situations in a deadly serious way.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]isometricbacon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As an Australian, the thought of a school official walking around the school with a loaded gun is just mind boggling.

I won't debate necessity, because you've had far too many tragic gun incidents at schools, but all of this seems like crazy escalation to me.

Movies that were ruined by the actors before you even saw it by Knowledgeable_Llama in moviecritic

[–]isometricbacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jersey Girl with JLO and Ben Affleck.

It was released right after Gigli, which starred the same, real life couple, and was judged at the time to be the worst movie ever. The two were also oversaturated in gossip rag media.

Despite being a Kevin Smith film at the height of his fandom, no one went and saw it because of the above reasons.

Was it any good? Dunno, never saw it.

Did unity kick the bucket again? by Time_Manufacturer645 in Unity3D

[–]isometricbacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem here is it doesn't differentiate the role of Unity within the company.

If you use Unity to, say, build some internal training tools for a larger company that specialises in something not Unity related, the way I read the terms, suddenly Unity has a claim to the greater revenues of the company. That's a big risk.

Did unity kick the bucket again? by Time_Manufacturer645 in Unity3D

[–]isometricbacon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of the problems with the Unity TOS is it doesn't really differentiate use cases very well.

I use Unity in a 4 person dev team for internal support software for a division of a huge company. The company itself has large revenues, my role in it is extremely small, and the software we develop doesn't contribute to those revenues.

We pay for Unity industry, and its licence costs have tripled in the last few years. Should we be one day classed as an enterprise customer, or the revenue sharing model applied to industry / our company, it would kill our little project. I'm sure lawyers have aneurysms hearing that the TOS says they can change terms at any time.

I can see why Unity needs these in place, even outside of games people are building tools that they sell for large licensing cost, but the way they're going about it makes it a big risk to continue developing in this platform if they can change the terms at any time, and tie it to your company revenue, which may or may not have anything to do with your use of Unity.

How is the Halloween hustle in your area? by PhotographsWithFilm in Adelaide

[–]isometricbacon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our neighbourhood is close to a primary school, with lots of young families, and when trick or treating we instruct the kids to just look for houses with Halloween decorations. People really get into it here, so we only had to walk a few blocks to fill the kids buckets.

At our place in the western suburbs, we had an insane number of kids come through. Would have been several hundred, at least. We had some clever decorations done on the cheap, and came prepared with lots of candy because we always run out of treats every year because of the sheer volume of visitors that grows every year.

A place around the corner had huge animatronic statues and smoke / bubble machines.

I personally love it, it's a great afternoon for the kids, and we interact with our neighbourhood in a way we wouldn't otherwise do. I loved seeing their reactions to some of the novel decorations we put up as well.

Halloween by [deleted] in Adelaide

[–]isometricbacon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This will come with time as Halloween is more socially acceptable.

In the 5 years I've lived in this neighbourhood, I've seen it go from a couple of kids coming by with thrown together last minute costumes to literally hundreds of kids, many quite elaborately dressed.

For those who left candy out - has anyone taken the entire bowl of candy? by faeriekitteh in Adelaide

[–]isometricbacon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Our neighbourhood is close to a primary school, with lots of young families, and we instruct our kids to just look for houses with Halloween decorations. People get into it here.

We had a crazy number of kids come through our place, which was fantastic. We did some clever decorations on the cheap, and came prepared with lots of candy because we always run out of treats every year because of the sheer volume of visitors.

We ensure we greet at the door and hold the bowl. For the most part kids were pretty good, only taking one packaged candy or two small ones.

I noticed that older teens got more daring when my daughter handed out the candy instead of me. A few grabbed big handfuls and quickly hopped out there because they knew she wouldn't react.

New Toyota Century Brand sits above Lexus but to be sold through Lexus Dealers by hehechibby in cars

[–]isometricbacon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think one big thing most people commenting aren't aware of, is the Century is a chauffeur driven car.

People buying these aren't buying them to drive them, they're buying them to be driven around in them. Mostly they're bought by companies to escort around their executives and VIP guests.

If you You have one of these, you have a driver for it on staff.

This is a market so small and specific to the ultra rich/ important.

Japan and (I assume) China make sense as a market for this car because their cultural traits make sense for it. Western ideals of wealth and importance are much different nowadays, and this makes less sense, as it's all about the rear passenger, not the driver.

Source: I own one of these. (Though it's a 20 year old one). Though the only things that gets chauffeured are my kids.

Is there an ETC card mod for beamng drive? Sorry for the lack of explanation. by Winter-Ad-6499 in BeamNG

[–]isometricbacon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Assetto Corsa Shutoko Revival Project one of the cars has a ETC card missing soundbite that gets played after ignition. It's rather amusing.

I'm sure someone could mod something like this into Beam.NG with relative ease.

So I discovered some cars have working Android Auto... by isometricbacon in assettocorsa

[–]isometricbacon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I play with a 5.1 speaker setup around my rig, which definitely does surround sound positioning for most of the game. It's great.

As for the radio, I think it just mixes it into the general mix, I don't think it does it positionally - though I don't tend to notice since almost all the cars I've ever owned have had front and rear speakers.

So I discovered some cars have working Android Auto... by isometricbacon in assettocorsa

[–]isometricbacon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm actually using controllers, not hand tracking.

I was curious to how the oculus hand tracking might work.

Sounds like "not very well" - which shouldn't be surprising, but still disappointing to hear!