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Post by Kon-Peki »

bitexploder wrote: post #123
Kon-Peki wrote: post #89

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The current generation 4Runner went on sale in mid-2009. The engine was first introduced in 2002 and the transmission in 2005. It should be half the price, but people will apparently pay Toyota just about anything for it.

Relative to the market it is still a good deal, especially if you actually off road and camp with it. There is a reason there are so many here in Colorado.

> it is still a good deal

In my mind that is debatable, unless you sell it after a few years to take advantage of the market price for used ones.

There is no doubt at all that it is a durable and dependable vehicle. But you're discounting how good everything else has become, with lower operating and repair costs. My parents used to be die-hard Camry fans and just wouldn't consider anything else. I totally understand how this fandom comes about :)

The Land Cruiser moved to an 8-speed transmission 6 or 7 years ago. Lexus is chock full of reliable, highly-advanced engines and hybrid drive systems. With your Colorado elevation and joke 85 octane gas, you really need the modern tech in your cars. You'd have much improved performance and dramatically lower running costs.

Toyota is taking advantage of you.

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Post by subradios »

k_sze wrote: post #195
subradios wrote: post #142

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There's an element that all the silliness of the LAN party was technically necessary for the production, and as a grassroots thing the hardship added to the buyin and culture.

Part of the reason this was all acceptable in the LAN party era was that you were having fun together with friends while dealing with the annoyances. You could curse, you could laugh, and you could eat pizza together while you were wrestling with the faulty ethernet hub (remember those?) or whatnot. I remember I once accidentally blew a transformer at my friend's home while getting set up, and we all had a good laugh…

More than that, people knew that they were going to have to do technology stuff, and tech stuff was oriented more at semi technical users.

So people actually learned how to do stuff, and that in itself was fun. Whereas the current low friction set up is so difficult to fix that if the first three Google results don't work, there's nothing you can do.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by subradios »

k_sze wrote: post #195
subradios wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's an element that all the silliness of the LAN party was technically necessary for the production, and as a grassroots thing the hardship added to the buyin and culture.

Part of the reason this was all acceptable in the LAN party era was that you were having fun together with friends while dealing with the annoyances. You could curse, you could laugh, and you could eat pizza together while you were wrestling with the faulty ethernet hub (remember those?) or whatnot. I remember I once accidentally blew a transformer at my friend's home while getting set up, and we all had a good laugh…

More than that, people knew that they were going to have to do technology stuff, and tech stuff was oriented more at semi technical users.

So people actually learned how to do stuff, and that in itself was fun. Whereas the current low friction set up is so difficult to fix that if the first three Google results don't work, there's nothing you can do.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by greedo »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #220
greedo wrote: post #121

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I remember playing WoW on my brand new Mac Pro (circa 2005) and a month later the GPU was burned out. Replaced the GPU under warranty, a month later it burned out again. Replaced it a third time (with a lot of side eye from the Genius Bar), and decided to stop playing WoW. Never had any more issues with the GPU. Was it WoW's fault? I would think that a GPU would prevent any application from damaging it, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯…

Macs in that era were notorious for overheating under any real load. I had a 2011 MacBook Pro for a while that I later found was keeping a constant 100c without even spinning the fan at 100%! After a while, its cd drive failed, and I learned how to install Linux from a partition made in OSX... Eventually the whole thing became a brick. I also worked with an iMac that would get strange video errors and freeze until I…

Yeah, but the Mac Pro was designed around huge fans. I think there were two huge 120mm fans in the front blowing through it.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by acdha »

root_axis wrote: post #219
acdha wrote: post #211

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I don’t think defining “time to play” is an unfair metric to judge a gaming system on, and it’s certainly not isolated.

Again, it's not "unfair", it's myopic cherry-picking. It's also wrong to label the time it takes to download a 20gig patch "time to play", an honest accounting would recognize that "time to play" is typically a couple seconds.

If you go to start the game and it blocks you on an update, it counts in time to play.

Consider why every holiday gift guide tells parents to put their kids new console online the night before Christmas so it can patch and ask whether it’s really unfair.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by prakashn27 »

Totoally relate to most of the things he tells,

Why would my oven need wifi?

Watching movies which I enjoy the most is now game of guessing which service has it. I am preferring theatre nowadays like old times.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by greatgib »

jonas21 wrote: post #32

If you showed someone from 30 years ago a modern video game, a Tesla, or even TikTok, it would absolutely blow their mind. So the author comes up with some nitpicks and declares "technology has gotten objectively worse". I guess the title checks out.

I don't see exactly what will blow their mind about TikTok.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by thomastjeffery »

greedo wrote: post #224
thomastjeffery wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Macs in that era were notorious for overheating under any real load. I had a 2011 MacBook Pro for a while that I later found was keeping a constant 100c without even spinning the fan at 100%! After a while, its cd drive failed, and I learned how to install Linux from a partition made in OSX... Eventually the whole thing became a brick. I also worked with an iMac that would get strange video errors and freeze until I…

Yeah, but the Mac Pro was designed around huge fans. I think there were two huge 120mm fans in the front blowing through it.

I still suspect that the fan curve written into OSX still prioritized silence/efficiency over cooling performance.

No amount of fans can overcome a setting that refuses to spin them up.

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Post by crtasm »

greatgib wrote: post #227
jonas21 wrote: post #32

If you showed someone from 30 years ago a modern video game, a Tesla, or even TikTok, it would absolutely blow their mind. So the author comes up with some nitpicks and declares "technology has gotten objectively worse". I guess the title checks out.

I don't see exactly what will blow their mind about TikTok.

Filming then quickly sharing high quality video to a global audience, with a device that fits in your pocket?

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Post by brigade »

goosedragons wrote: post #207
brigade wrote: post #139

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That "trend" isn't shipping incomplete builds, but rather that the engineering work to minimize delta update sizes simply isn't a priority for games with infrequent patches, and YouTubers can't tell the difference.

Uh no. I'm not talking about updates. I'm talking about the game medium literally not containing the entire game because the publisher is too fucking cheap to spring for extra discs or a bigger cart. Some examples include L.A Noire, Spyro Trilogy, GTA trilogy, Tony Hawk 1+2 on Switch, PC games like Doom 2016 or MGSV or CoD:MW II on Series X.

LA Noire is an excellent example of my point - people just assumed the disc didn't have the game because the day-one patch was 3/4 of the installed size, but no, the delta update from the GM version on disc was just that bad.
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