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Old man yells at cloud

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Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by eldenbishop »

Kon-Peki wrote: post #89
bitexploder wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

4runner are still decent.

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.

Yup. I recently bought a 4runner, not top of the line mind you, and it cost the same as my wife's Tesla Model Y. Love that thing though ... specifically bought the non-pro model to get the simple three knob climate controls. Ridiculously overpriced but no direct competition in the current US market.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

bitexploder wrote: post #146
kylehotchkiss wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed! Big rubber controls! Designed to last 20-30 years. If you lean towards “buy things that last to reduce your footprint” and don’t commute a massive distance everyday, it’s a good and reliable car to keep in your driveway

The fuel economy is miserable. Especially if you mod it (heavier). Otherwise they have few flaws for what they are. Toyota has other SUVs if you don’t want body on frame and all that implies. Not to mention 4WD is all controlled physically in some models still, which is nice. It still has a tech package for off roading, but they are simple beasts.

I have one of the physical 4WD knobs, it’s wonderfully analog and sort of shakes with the engine in a way nothing else in the cabin does.

Even the base model has A-Trak. I highly recommend trying it off road if you get the chance. It behaves like an ABS powered diff lock and makes your brake pump sound like a machine gun and can make your 4Runner climb interesting bumpy hills.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Probably a better choice than a bronco for just a few more years as ford irons out the kinks

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by j1elo »

> New cars have everything on a touchscreen — like auto manufacturers noticed a trend from 2007 of phones moving to touchscreens, and decided a decade later that vehicle controls would benefit from the same evolution, never once considering that fumbling through a touchscreen UI in a rainstorm, trying to find the windshield wiper controls is an objectively worse experience than flipping a lever next to a steering wheel.

Well, coincidentally, a couple days ago we had this in the HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34283385

Since 2007 to 2020 when that study was done... one would hope auto makers would realize it too after 13 years

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

eldenbishop wrote: post #181
Kon-Peki wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yup. I recently bought a 4runner, not top of the line mind you, and it cost the same as my wife's Tesla Model Y. Love that thing though ... specifically bought the non-pro model to get the simple three knob climate controls. Ridiculously overpriced but no direct competition in the current US market.

The climate knobs are so great. Try them when going 60MPH in the sand (out one the desert) and it’s incredible how you can still adjust them accurately!

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by adamredwoods »

throw8383833jj wrote: post #56

It's so true: * I can't even install Netflix on my Iphone 7+ anymore (the phone practically brand new, it is less than 6 six years old!) * Screens in cars replacing usable buttons, are a disaster. give me buttons and knobs. * the TV takes 15 seconds to start up??? and takes 10+ seconds to select a youtube video to watch. back when I was a kid, tvs turned on right away and you could change the channel in less than a s…

* One reason i enjoy actual buttons on car devices, is that I can feel them when driving and not looking at them.

* I bought a new Xbox just last Xmas. I bought the physical discs, but still had to download 100GB in data, which took a couple hours, to play the game.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by fomine3 »

flumpcakes wrote: post #85

It might be hardware too… or the software/firmware side: Recently I’ve had every DX12 game crash at start-up, time to RMA my expensive graphics card. I buy an Intel Arc A750 as a cheap stop-gap as my CPU has no iGPU. I completely wipe windows and start from scratch—I can now play DX12 games! Oh, no, they hang after about 1 hour of play time and brick the system. Hard reboot required. Also, if my PC sleeps/hibernates…

Buying very new Intel Arc is wrong choice

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by rnd0 »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #62
extr wrote: post #35

He had me until he started shitting on MS Office. I would disagree, I think O365 kind of crushes it value-wise. And yeah, they added the ribbon in 2007 . The UI hardly changes year to year, and if you know Excel 2013 you will pick up Excel O365 pretty quickly, and you will actually be pretty psyched about some of the new features.

Subscriptions for MS Office is nothing but a money grab. It is not useful to me. Maybe it’s useful for enterprises. But I use word and excel a couple times per YEAR. I don’t fit the subscription model, but there’s no option to buy once and upgrade again in, say, 3 years. So I’ve mostly moved to Libreoffice and Google Docs.

I don't know, for me it's a onedrive subscription with extras -especially since I'm sharing the cost with a friend of mine.

I'm peeved because the friend I share the costs with is using libre office so I may have to pay for the subscription myself. I would, $99/year is worth it to me even without word etc.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by rnd0 »

rektide wrote: post #22

JFC why does "It Takes Two" require 19.13 GB of network to update, but only 10.00 GB of disk? This is like the time I decided to give Battlefield 2042 another try. It took like 2 hours to download, going less fast than my 100mbps connection. Then it sat there for an hour, before I came back to Origin. And then... it told me I needed to update my game. Which went at like ~3 mbps average for another two hours, and hamm…

>This is like the time I decided to give Battlefield 2042 another try. It took like 2 hours to download, going less fast than my 100mbps connection.

That sounds like my experience the last couple of times I've tried playing star trek online. Never actually got it to work, and wasted a lot of time downloading god knows what.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by theshrike79 »

45 minutes of downloading. Bah. Humbug.

We had to transfer a perfectly legal copy of The Need for Speed (1995) from a friend's computer to mine.

It took something like 45 3.5" diskettes when compressed with ARJ and split to multiple diskettes. We owned 15 diskettes in total. And I lived a good 3km away from said friend.

So we biked between the houses and uncompressed the game one by one to my computer, went back to my friend and continued the compression/splitting process.

And yes, there was a checksum error on disk 42 and we had to do it again.

--

Later we I got a summer job where I welded together a zero modem cable and we tried Descent on multiplayer. Tried transferring the game through said cable. Took ages, it was actually faster to do the same ARJ split trick and swap two disks between the computers =)

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