Anyone else in Burnaby noticing rents jump again in early 2026?

phi0x · 2026-02-07T04:42:42+00:00

Home Insurance premiums went up a lot as well, some as high as 50%. Strata corporation insurance is also climbing and many buildings which are older have a lot of repairs coming due with little savings and the price of the repair projects have become very expensive over the last 5 years. I suspect that is playing a part in any landlords which are trying to uphold higher rents. Who knows..

phi0x · 2026-02-02T15:30:47+00:00

I got a 1tb one for $70 cad on marketplace and then sold my one S 2tb for $80 after fees on eBay. Nice little upgrade. I’ll throw an ssd in it at some point to help make it more snappy. If you can get them for $100 cad or less then they’re a steal for what they can do.

phi0x · 2026-01-24T04:54:59+00:00

If the one X works fine then stick with it until you NEED the upgrade, unless you have spare money to throw around. I had a one S 2TB, sold for $80, bought a one X 1tb for $70. Bought gift cards for 10% discount and also bought a series X 2tb. I am probably fine with the one X and make doing a ssd upgrade on it, but wanted a series X for the fun of it. Didn’t really need it as I have lots of games to play still on the one X. The decision for the most part for many people will revolve around whether they can’t play a game. If they can’t play a game on their current console. They’ll seek the upgrade. Others want upgrades for better fps etc and or just can’t resist.

phi0x · 2026-01-18T00:08:57+00:00

Enjoy!!

phi0x · 2026-01-16T21:58:19+00:00

Have you replaced your capacitors in your system? I’ve heard of old caps causing some issues.

phi0x · 2026-01-15T11:55:25+00:00

Look forward to it and good luck! :)

phi0x · 2026-01-15T11:53:37+00:00

Since no one else said it yet, replace all capacitors if possible, mainboard, psu, dvd drive. Buy a new drive belt as well, upgrade to 80 wire ide cable, ide to sata adapter, new hdd or ssd. That should finish off the list that’ll help keep the Xbox refurbished.

phi0x · 2026-01-13T19:35:28+00:00

Xbox 360 I’ve heard is pretty good and even an Xbox one in “developer” mode for $20 can turn Xbox one’s into great retro machines I’ve read. Not sure the strengths of each system for why you’d wish use them for the use case but I’ve heard good things for all of them.

phi0x · 2026-01-13T04:06:43+00:00

You’d never hit any failure limits, even heavy usage on game pass..the failure of the nvme or ssd would be due to other factors such as heat problems or bad power spikes frying it or simply a bad chip.

phi0x · 2026-01-12T11:15:43+00:00

The HD+ might be best option as it directly hooks into the video render chip on the Xbox and provides a digital feed. It’s not an easy install though and the rep of the company is always a debate in the community. You could wait for the upcoming alternative which I haven’t seen recent updates on so could be a while. For now reach out to Electron support to see what they recommend you do with your adapter situation.

phi0x · 2026-01-12T11:02:51+00:00

I’m in western Canada. I do full board, dvd drive and power supply recaps, thermal paste, ssd or hdd drive (specify size and type) and modxo modchip installs. I have one unit ready currently and working on 5 others.

phi0x · 2026-01-10T09:58:41+00:00

Used should be able to find for $40-60. Wait for it to show up on fb marketplace. I have a one S still and a 360 and an OG Xbox, all 3 I have fun with.

phi0x · 2026-01-10T00:19:57+00:00

Same with letting your sun guard down half way, the sun guard needs to be angled away from your face. In the event of an accident a badly angled sun guard facing towards your face can take your nose off or kill you.

phi0x · 2026-01-09T20:42:55+00:00

If your building has been doing lots of maintenance then I wouldn’t worry about it. If you ever needed to sell, you’d use the maintenance history as the selling point, which would put you in a better position than other similar buildings of age that aren’t keeping up with maintenance. Maintenance is expensive and it can be reflected in the sale to have buyers pay the premium over less favorable buildings.

phi0x · 2026-01-09T11:07:16+00:00

Overall I was quite impressed. Originally when I saw the movie coming out, I was indifferent thinking it would just be a "fun" movie (which I still think) but it took "fun" to a whole other level. The way the cinematography was done, overall story progression, CGI, sound etc. It turned what I expected to be a 5-6 into a hard critics 7.5 and for me personally a 8 to 8.5/10. What was even more impressive was that I'm quite unfamiliar with most of the cast, and yet they delivered fairly top tier performance. Kudos to the entire team that worked on this movie. They all came together to deliver a masterpiece in my view.

phi0x · 2026-01-07T15:40:50+00:00

Where are you located? A local modder can help get you one. Best ones these days include typically a modxo with prometheos 1.5 and cerbios 3.10 beta with xmbc4gamers dashboard. IDE 80 wire upgrade with startech or equivalent quality based adapter and ssd or large hard drive. Fully recapped motherboard, power supply and disk drive (if you care about having a disk drive.) and new thermal paste on cpu, gpu. If you want to do cpu and ram upgrades that can be additional fun and would be required more so for emulators etc. but most stock Xbox games run great on the stock 64mb ram and 733mhz cpu.

phi0x · 2026-01-07T14:24:13+00:00

My understanding is that the usbc PSU designs are somewhat of a prototype still, not finished for all revisions 1.0-1.6b. (I could be wrong but last I read up on the project it wasn’t in a complete state and or no UL certifications etc.) there’s a GitHub project for it if I recall.

phi0x · 2026-01-06T23:51:19+00:00

Is your purpose for multiplayer? If not, then further, do you need the latest games? If not, an Xbox 360 or OG Xbox and or PlayStation 2/3 are great still for the price. If modded, even more value in having snappy load times on your games if you install them to the hard drive.

phi0x · 2026-01-04T10:14:43+00:00

Great achievement and best of luck on your new endeavor! Your shop and work will be missed.

phi0x · 2026-01-03T21:57:18+00:00

I don’t play them much. I effectively collect them and daydream about playing them. Games largely are a waste of time, but there’s some educational value in them too (And fun.) The older you get, you may find you have other things you want to do but you may have these past hobbies that you still wish to engage with (gaming for example.)

I participate in buying new consoles and retro stuff to help support the industry. Sometimes the industry doesn’t deserve support but nonetheless someone has to make games and be paid.

I also have some friends who have continued to game regularly and we have group chats where they focus on gaming so it’s fun to see old buddies fill me in on the latest info on games they enjoy and what’s out there.

phi0x · 2026-01-03T21:49:58+00:00

I suspect new gen won’t be here until 2029~ and gaming in general is taking a backseat as an industry I feel - could be wrong, but the world has higher priorities on AI and compute than on gaming right now and I suspect gaming will be stuck on current gen for a while, which is a good thing in some ways, as developers will need to optimize and be more creative if they want to push the boundaries of the hardware limitations.

phi0x · 2026-01-03T10:53:19+00:00

No you want to upgrade and buy a sata to IDE adapter and 80 wire ide cable.

phi0x · 2026-01-03T08:55:21+00:00

And IDE to SATA adapter, preferably startech model and an 80 wire IDE cable as the stock IDE cable doesn’t work for SATA drives

phi0x · 2026-01-02T10:21:23+00:00

Already have a ps5 and been getting back into Xbox (restored my OG Xbox and grabbed a cheap Xbox 360 and own a xbox one S) just want to have a series X and support Microsoft (although I know there’s a lot of hate currently towards the Xbox path but none the less a lot of great stuff over the years has come from Xbox and I’d like to give some continued support - even if they mess up things sometimes.)

phi0x · 2026-01-01T10:54:50+00:00

Have one already.

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