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From what I’ve read, it can overclock quite well, because it has a large chunk of aluminium in to act as a heatsink.
I toyed with one for a while, but decided my current Pi was fine for the time being.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Hell yes, The Poco F3. I have the 4G version, as do wife and son, best phone I’ve owned. POCO F3 5G – Smartphone 8+256GB, 6,67” 120Hz AMOLED DotDisplay, Snapdragon 870, 48MP Triple Camera, 4520mAh, Night Black (UK Version + 2 Years Warranty) £250 at Amazon
Jumped up to £350 now, but on sale on the Xiami website for £200.
Have they ironed out the Android Auto issues? I remember the F1 and it was great but it wouldn’t work in my car at all, so ended up getting replaced.
Almost purchased one to play with, but realised that I should dig the Pixel 4a from it’s position as bedside MP3 player and use that. Reviews online state that the 4a is the better photo taker for phones around that price point but lacks some of the other features (performance and screen).
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
April 5, 2022 at 11:08 am in reply to: I need local storage but don’t really know what I’m looking for…. #69376What a load of tosh, especially on RAID. No mention of backup at all, or sharing your files with other devices. It totally misses the point that a Synology or QNap NAS is not just a bit bucket, which is exactly what a USB enclosure is. They aren’t that cheap either! The Sabrent is £200 and why any home user would want a 4 Bay is beyond me. £182 buys you a 12TB WD Elements including the drive if all you want is huge lumps of storage. Biggest loads of bollocks I’ve seen since the last PMQs.
Only reason these days I can see for a multi box like that is a DAS if you need faster speeds, but I would suggest that’s rare for the majority of home users. And if you did, then an external SSD is probably a better bet.
I did consider the QNAP Tr-002 at one point, purely to use some of the drives that I have lying around for more game space, but I ended up getting one of those 12TB drives – and in moving to it, found that the 6TB drive I had would have been fine, had I formatted it with a sensible block size (I blame macOS, as you can’t set the block size and it formatted it with a 2MB block size – meant that game installs were HUGE).
I have debated going down the route the article went down, including Drivepool, as I feel that I don’t use all the features of the NAS, but then I use enough to make it worthwhile still!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
April 2, 2022 at 9:15 am in reply to: I need local storage but don’t really know what I’m looking for…. #69365Does your router have a USB port that would allow you to set that up as a NAS? Simple purchase of a 2.5″ hard drive would then plug in to it and allow you a basic NAS without the extra functions.
The MyCloud devices are also cheaper than a more bells and whistles NAS device and do the job for wireless access inside a network – we used to use one in my old cadet unit.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I suspect the ‘dead-hand’ of marketers have influenced the sensor price. Such sets normally come with a top of the range model and the marketers do not want to give a cheaper way of getting top of the range benefits.
That’s the case – I think they were running of “perks” to include for the extra cash. I think it was front parking sensors and electric closing boot.
When I had my Golf for work, we were adding everything to it to get it up to the monthly lease payments – including things like a suit hanger on the back of the drivers seat!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Okay. Forgot about the automatic limitation. I’m aware that the specs have changed a bit since I got mine, did you get the full driver assistance pack?
We did, as this brought in the adaptive cruise control (ACC). My two requirements for the car were CarPlay and ACC, as these are the two features I really missed when we had to hand my company car back and we got our Yaris. Sounds odd with the CarPlay but the larger screen for sat nav is good and I’ve never successfully used the hands free in the Yaris, so I don’t do anything in the car. ACC was a godsend for driving long distances in my Golf, so wanted that. The auto stop/start for traffic jams is amazing.
Lane assist is disabled in the Yaris – it does disable itself if you’re indicating, but the number of times it goes off normally made me turn it off.
Wife wanted parking sensors, front and rear, and this comes with that. Toyota wanted £3K more to have the front sensors, pulling the cost up to over £28,000, which is why that one was discounted from the running!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
The 1.0L Ford EcoBoost Hybrid (mHEV) 125PS 7 Speed Automatic version – Automatic was limited to just the single engine type.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
The Yaris has lived in Eco since we bought it! I was impressed with the manual that we test drove, but for longer drives, I’ve found automatic more comfortable. I was surprised at how the car seemed to perform with the small engine – my old Fiesta was a 1L and was sluggish, this felt faster than the larger Toyota Cross engine.
She’s on a buggy now, rather than pram and the one we have will fold down to fit to a airline overheard baggage holder, so that’s not really an issue – it fits in the rear seat footwell of the Yaris. But now the bikes and other items start appearing…. Plus side, the Megabox appears to be an ideal size for my Brompton! 😀
The Niro was something that we considered but didn’t go to look at in the end as we felt it looked to big.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I’ve just seen this pop up – we ordered an ST-Line Puma last month. Delivery estimate so far is September! 🙁 Paid extra for the adaptive cruise control (which will have the blind spot checking) and the automatic gearbox version – after driving auto for the last 5 years, I don’t think I’d go back to a manual. We were going for the Titanium, but it worked out cheaper to get the ST-Line based on the PCP payments. Benefit of that as well is we get fully LCD drivers display, so means going to Ireland is a doddle as we can covert the dashboard to KM and kph.
We needed something bigger now we’ve a little one so we test drove this and a Yaris Cross. Wife preferred the Puma and I must admit the boot space won me over.
It’ll be a lower MPG than our existing Yaris, but the bigger boot space will offset that and we shouldn’t need to use a roof box for travels across country to Devon or Ireland to visit grandparents, again probably saving us MPG drops on that distance.
If we didn’t have those long drives, we’d have gone fully electric, but the Irish charging network is worse than here.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I back up Dave’s advice.
We were with Three when we first moved to the hosue and the Three router and SIM card deal did the job, until around lockdown hit and then we ended up going for a landline connection, as it worked better. Not sure if everyone staying at home caused slowdowns but we never used it after that.
I also purchased one the TP-Link ones he linked to for my cadet unit when I was in Manchester and teamed that up with an unlimited SIM card from Smarty and that worked perfectly fine for what we needed to do on squadron in the evening (paperwork etc on the MOD/cadet information systems). Can’t say we streamed video, but it coped with Spotify streams for the office and downloads for the Flight Sim.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Unsure if it’s related, but the new hard drive appears to perform better when opening and downloading Steam updates.
To be honest, the additional space is nice, as I won’t have to worry about updating it now for a considerable period (I would hope). However, when games like COD Warzone are 180GB, it’s no wonder large hard drives are needed!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
For sure thats pretty cool error. Thanks for sharing :), needles to say I jumped to see if my drives are all ntfs.
NTFS won’t necessarily save you, if the same error has been made when formatting! You can select a different allocation unit size on format – I believe the default on NTFS is 4096 B, whereas the smallest possible on exFAT on Windows is 512 KB by looks. Can’t recall if the drive came formatted or whether I formatted it myself but certainly a 2048 KB size seems like overkill! Perhaps fine if I was using it for storing large files like movies or virtual machines.
I’ll see how the new drive performs soon. In fairness, I try and avoid running the more modern games off the hard drive and instead copy them to an SSD and run from there – which is why Steam is superior to other game stores in that regard as it’s dead simple to move games (where as Epic is a right pain in the ass and doesn’t always work). The hard drive is more for storage, as my internet isn’t the fastest and if I want to play games, I often want to play them there and then!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Keith might be referring to the most recent sarcophagus at Chernobyl that has been built by international firms (not sure on who funded it). Still some very nasty radioactive debris within the reactor building. I think it’s mainly to keep it all in one place, as whilst I say it can’t be that bad, as they were running the other reactors until recently and you can visit the control room!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Yeah, Epic and EA are throttled at source now, as well as Battle.net.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
To be honest, the streaming isn’t a problem – though I did have my Teams call the other day pause every time I sent an email.
Biggest issue so far has been Epic and EA downloading updates for games – this slows the entire internet and the solution has been to limit the speed in the app itself. I guess it was an app that I can’t, I’d like the router to do it.
So far though, that will have to do.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I must admit we were one of the ones who deleted the app. In fact, I’ve used it twice when it came out and I deleted it soon after, as I found it would use a huge amount of battery life. And then we both decided to delete it, as we are now currently in Ireland visiting my in laws and we weren’t risking anything stopping us getting here!
We effectively self isolated as much as we could for the two weeks before hand, and we had our tests to get here, so we haven’t felt bad.
I may put it back on the phone when I’m back in the UK at the end of the week, but I’ll see.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Pretty standard government form to be fair – very similar to the HMRC self assessment pages.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Yeah, I had two of these last weekend, and caught me at a time when I had setup a payee, so I sort of ignored it and then looked more closely the next day.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
With my Golf GTE, the brake lights would come on during regen braking, which made it more obvious. Our current Yaris I don’t think does (though it’s engine braking, not regen braking according to the salesperson).
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I’ve got COD installed and that was over 150GB at last check. I’m currently running two 3TB drives in RAID 0 for storage space for games!
My internet speed isn’t the fastest, so downloading games can be a pain when I want to play, so I keep everything installed.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
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