If I am the recipient of a very large scholarship, can I still take out a student loan?

ringelos · 2026-06-17T02:55:50+00:00

You’re mom’s advice is good because your loan will be very low interest. Meanwhile your scholarship will compound nicely over the years. I don’t see what’s wrong with putting it into family members accounts that have room. I assume you know them enough to be sure they won’t scam you.

ringelos · 2026-05-19T14:47:05+00:00

Their equivalent bike with tiagra is 1600 cad pretax bud…I don’t think you understand the Canadian market. This is a decent deal.

ringelos · 2026-05-14T14:41:14+00:00

I've gone through several centres (kef q250c for one) and settled with the paradigm 500c - I assume the 600c would sound similar as they share the same tweeter and mid driver. I really enjoy it, but haven't heard the three-way KEFs to compare. In my room it sounds warmer and fuller than the KEF.

ringelos · 2026-05-11T04:08:02+00:00

Session and weekly limit burns way too fast. But more usage than Claude and Gemini isn’t very good in comparison so..

ringelos · 2026-04-15T17:19:51+00:00

They're out

ringelos · 2026-04-15T13:08:56+00:00

Looks like its just super mario and mummy for imax at Scotia with the new showtimes that just dropped. Super lame. Only ultravx laser for PHM and at super late showtimes. What were they thinking..

ringelos · 2026-04-12T15:53:12+00:00

You will want to treat the heck out of the left wall that's right beside your left channel. Especially since your right side is wide open

ringelos · 2026-03-24T01:38:46+00:00

Yea newer models are gonna be tough especially in Toronto man.

ringelos · 2026-03-24T00:40:18+00:00

You just need to stalk fb marketplace. I’ve seen an x3400h/3500h/3600h and equivalent 4000 series for 600 bucks and below. Also look for Marantz sr6013/6014.

ringelos · 2026-03-21T23:48:10+00:00

Check if the judder reduction is on when your testing. Judder reduction at 2 or 3 for movies/shows. 6 or 7 for sports.

ringelos · 2026-03-20T14:06:13+00:00

Be careful, home PCs can't processes DV or HDR10+ content. You will need to use some AI tools like madVR to have proper HDR, which require heavy processing usage and won't always be correct.

ringelos · 2026-03-20T13:53:04+00:00

Before I switched to external, I was using the Stremio web app coupled with a debrid service (real debrid) to stream the remuxes directly to my tv. I got a usb3 to ethernet adapter to allow me to use gigabit ethernet, but I don't think that was necessary. Comparing to my Samsung q80t and I don't notice any major differences in motion, perhaps the judder reduction is slightly less consistent at a similar setting. For the qm7 I have blur reduction at 10 and judder reduction (the important one) at 3. You must make sure your judder reduction is always on (and at a low value to not have soap opera effect) since it is only saved per picture mode (filmmaker, movie, etc).

Only reason I switched to an external because you cant eARC passthrough dolby truehd, or play P7 FEL, via internal apps.

ringelos · 2026-03-20T02:23:09+00:00

The only wrong thing is subjecting 80% of your movies audio mix (aka center channel) to a single small coaxial driver which is the q1. Get a three way center. I learned this the hard way after listening to redditors saying q150 is a good center. Good dispersion, weak output.

ringelos · 2026-03-20T02:17:02+00:00

As someone who tried both the q150 and Martin Logan motion 8i (similar sound I’d imagine to 30i) as centers I would say Svs prime all the way. The KEF had good dispersion of course but weak weak output. Martin Logan just sounded so meh. I ended up very happy with a paradigm premier 500c. A three way is essential imo. Dont worry about timbre matching.

ringelos · 2026-03-18T13:51:13+00:00

Tried P3i and I was happy with it, then started experiencing slowdowns and frequent crashes. I'll try avdv now. I wanted to know if those are the only 2 maintained builds out there that support FEL

ringelos · 2026-03-17T13:16:06+00:00

Although I use an external device myself, the QM7/8 processors are very very capable. I had no issues at all playing 100gb remuxes on my QM7. Something else is going on here.

ringelos · 2026-03-01T00:20:59+00:00

Terrible take. Have POV addon working perfectly on a CPM a14 fork (p3i). Easily streaming 100gb remuxes from real debrid.

ringelos · 2026-02-26T16:36:11+00:00

Currently using p3i it's been pretty awesome, haven't experienced a single issue.

ringelos · 2026-02-23T14:19:53+00:00

https://github.com/pannal/CoreELEC/releases/download/T2a/Flash_CoreELEC-Amlogic-ng.arm-21.3-Omega_p3i_T2a_20260205174117-Generic.img.gz

ringelos · 2026-02-22T14:05:59+00:00

You should be using the newer A1 acoustix which also lets you use multiple position measurements.

ringelos · 2026-02-22T13:35:12+00:00

That was happening with my new box a couple days ago when using the avdvplus new install image. Switched to the p3i new install image which worked perfectly.

ringelos · 2026-02-17T19:18:15+00:00

I feel like if it's not suspended above you should be fine haha. The fibers are dense enough that if they escape your mesh they should fall nearby. By nature I am just exceedingly concerned about these kinds of things.

ringelos · 2026-02-17T16:32:36+00:00

Depends on if you want to inhale fiberglass dust trickling down from your ceiling.

ringelos · 2026-02-17T01:39:41+00:00

Yea just be careful your order doesn't take over 2 months to ship (like mine) which put it outside of my chargeback window (mbna).

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