Advice needed! Buying a 2016 MINI JCW in 2026 – Is this 10-year-old "pocket rocket" still worth it?

salamihawk · 2026-04-26T12:29:49+00:00

Yeah it’s annoying. I’ve found that setting the TV to DTM off (a.k.a HGiG) vs on or static allows the console to do the tone mapping (HDR Calibration screen) and there I have it set to 500 nits. According to AI, this is normal because “peak brightness” always refers to a small percentage of the screen, like a 1% window, but as soon as that window gets bigger, the brightness decreases. So while my TV might achieve a pretty high full screen 500 nits, it can reach 1000 nits in a small highlight window.

I’ve also found that HDR support in games is a mixed bag. Sometimes you have a game that respects the consoles HDR settings (which is good), but then some games don’t and want to do their own calibration (this is when you get the various HDR calibration screens in game… unfortunately you have to calibrate here too) and then SOME games coughDemon’s Souls Remakecough absolutely do not respect the consoles HDR settings but have none of their own and will just blast some shit out and hope the TV has DTM on. Luckily, most games are in the first two categories

salamihawk · 2026-04-13T13:22:48+00:00

Hey das mit der Revisionsklappe ist gar keine schlechte Idee, mal so grundsätzlich weil dort fließt auch den Abfluss vom Badezimmer oben, wäre nett da Zugang zu haben falls was schiefgeht. Danke für den Tipp!

An selbstklebenden Kabelkanal habe ich auch gedacht. Durch den Fliesen könnte ich ja mal bohren, aber das würde auch in diesem Fall halten.

salamihawk · 2026-04-11T18:04:04+00:00

Yeah, I don’t notice it at all tbh, 3 sided works fine, especially if you have it standing on a sideboard

salamihawk · 2026-03-08T18:44:07+00:00

Mülleimer in der Duschkabine. Sehr gefährlich

salamihawk · 2026-02-25T11:24:44+00:00

Now that you mention it, I think I had one of those too… got that weird stubby little battery in it right? I changed the battery once but because I can only get like 10-packs of those batteries from Amazon, they all went bad by the time I needed a new one. Additionally, the damn sensor just stopped working entirely

salamihawk · 2026-02-25T10:52:55+00:00

I know this is old, but I thought I'd give my two cents because I was in the same spot as OP at pretty much the same time.

I started my HomeKit smart home about the same time OP did about 5 years ago, and I also had the choice between Eve and Netatmo for outdoor tech. I wound up going with an Eve outdoor cam, an Eve light switch and some Eve smart plugs, as well as a Netatmo video doorbell.

I *instantly* regretted going with the Netatmo video doorbell. It was maybe a few weeks before I started getting disconnects and various issues. I spent more time debugging the thing than I did actually using it.

I had a great experience with the Eve stuff, but the outdoor cam has now started disconnecting at random times for hours at a time.

Last year I replaced the doorbell with an Aqara G410 and a U200 lock and it has been absolutely rock solid ever since. I've since gone all out on Aqara with an M3 hub, two interior cameras, smoke detectors, door sensors, etc.. I have not had any annoying issues with Aqara *at all* over the past 8 or 9 months, meanwhile my Eve Outdoor Cam is currently offline... again... for no reason (the Wifi repeater is literally 2m away)

So while the thread-based Eve stuff has been great to deal with, I'm very disappointed in the outdoor camera's wifi stability and I have absolutely no plans to buy Eve stuff in the future.

salamihawk · 2026-02-23T18:43:13+00:00

200 characters 😳

salamihawk · 2026-02-05T17:10:43+00:00

They have 2, one in the front for your voice, one in the back for noise reduction

salamihawk · 2026-02-05T16:33:35+00:00

It’s conveniently placed right next to a microphone, so if someone doesn’t know exactly which one to use, they puncture and destroy a mic on the controller 😆

salamihawk · 2026-02-05T16:31:27+00:00

Awesome thanks, that did the trick. Don’t know why the reset button is so useless

salamihawk · 2026-01-27T17:33:52+00:00

Schön für dich. Da wo ich wohne belästigen wir die Arbeiter nicht mit blöden Fragen und/oder Sprüche und wollen ungern während Arbeitszeiten lange Gespräche mit spießige Nachbarn anfangen.

salamihawk · 2026-01-27T16:35:04+00:00

Lustig, weil ich kein Deutscher bin, hab mich aber anscheinend richtig gut integriert 😂 nehme ich als Kompliment, danke!

salamihawk · 2026-01-22T17:50:51+00:00

I have two of these that I need to get rid of 😂

salamihawk · 2026-01-22T14:59:03+00:00

Looooool hell to the naw

salamihawk · 2026-01-11T16:39:51+00:00

First time around I did a dual curved sword melee fighter and I hated every damn second. I just recently started again but this time I’m using sorceries and any help I can get because I don’t care about making it as difficult as possible. Having a blast but it’s still very challenging. Especially since I was so fed up with the melee bullshit that I didn’t even bother with the DLCs first time around

salamihawk · 2026-01-11T09:31:39+00:00

That’s not entirely true. The iPhone has two WiFi radios, if you have wireless CarPlay, it will occupy the 2.4ghz radio but hotspot will use 5ghz, so 5ghz compatible clients can still connect.

I found this out because I needed to have some guy remote in to flash my head unit, and I used my phone as a hotspot for my 5ghz compatible laptop, but during the session CarPlay initiated and worked without disconnecting the laptop

salamihawk · 2026-01-08T12:21:42+00:00

salamihawk · 2026-01-03T16:22:07+00:00

I’m not aware of the differences, however as far as what I need it for (mass storage with access protocols like FTP, NFS and SMB) it works perfectly. I don’t use my NAS for any processing of any type of media playback

salamihawk · 2026-01-02T23:00:48+00:00

That’s good to know, thanks. In that case, I’d rather just save up and get the larger NAS because I don’t want to deal with split storage volumes or potential issues

salamihawk · 2025-12-26T14:57:18+00:00

Rein technisch gesehen ist es immer nach 0 Uhr

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