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Kinda funny the previous 0-400-0 record holder was the koenigsegg regera, also full of rimac’s tech

I like the Jesko myself. That sound is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36LcFTjf--o&ab_channel=F1%26SupercarsChallenge

The jesko will be a very cool car once its done

High expectations but it just didn't click for me. Similar to Green Knight. OTH, I randomly watched a new 'Puss In Boots' movie with my kids a few days ago and it blindsided me. Very well put together.

@jowls the last wish is the best kids’ movie in years.

Puss in Boots is the first Into The Spiderverse inspired film. And it was brilliant.

This will be the third time around I've test drove 911s, the last two times I ended up buying other things, the Supra instead of a 997 and the R8 instead of a 991.1...maybe this will be the 911s moment

@famish99 the Taycan was nice, I may still end up with one instead. My main beef with it is the lack of buttons, the lower screen should all be buttons and knobs like on their other cars. also...its not a 911

Physical buttons ftw. I also thought the Taycan 2-speed trannie was a bit clunky. Curious to see how the eMacan turns out. Enjoyed my test drives of the 992/718 while waiting for my Macan to get serviced. No danger of buying though :P

If you're already an Apple Music or Apple One subscriber it's included automatically, pretty cool.

If only there was a way to losslessly stream Hi-Res Apple Music to devices in the network, I’d at least do a trial period. Or is there meanwhile, and I just didn’t notice?

P.S.: And without the requirement for a mobile device to do the streaming. I want to use a mobile device for control, but it must not do the streaming as WiFi is not reliable enough where I usually sit for a mobile device to receive and send the stream at the same time.

I would say for CPUs no, the benefits aren't really there. its not like back in the day where you could take a 2500k at 3ghz and take it to 4.5ghz for a massive performance boost. Now its like eeking out a few extra 100s of mhz

but often you can still drop temps and power usage through undervolting while maintaining clocks, which is still technically overclocking. that's mostly what I did for my 12700k, dropped voltage, and also boosted all core boost clocks at the same time.

for memory tweaking, it really depends on what you're playing. for some esports type games, where you are very CPU bound and want more frames, or better frame consistency, lowering memory latency can help alot with raising 1% low FPS performance

No one should be treated this way, specially not the guy that composed the Doom 2016 sound track, honestly one of the best parts of the game. They should have been paying him triple to come back, not stealing his work and blaming him for everything>

https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce

Crazy to read this. I love the Doom 2016 OST. I wasn't even aware of this situation.

Likewise unaware, even of the harrassment Gordon was getting. I still listen to the 2016 soundtrack regularly and reading this made me want to puke. Fuck inept management and gaslighting.

The cast iron open baffle seems super interesting

Oma being German for grandma I enjoyed those visits, too. Bill Withers said it all

@Cspirou the Ironic was also very good, just not as good as Imperia or monarch for me. Some of the other guys liked it best though

It’s weird cause all my other speakers have always been spiked. I tried this cause someone suggested it and I’d never done it before. But yeah, the spikes, specially since I’m on a concrete slab are much better

Slab is awesome. Spikes on slab always.

it honestly sounds so much better. everything is more open, but more importantly the bass improved to an honestly crazy degree, much better impact and definition down low. @AdvanTech described it as removing a smear which I mostly agree with.

Some things would improve, like stage depth got a bit better, but I could never get the bass where I liked it. I guess I got lucky with room modes and my original placement

I can think of less enjoyable workouts ;)

lol I am sore today from it, but I would guess its mostly from moving my 77" oled alone multiple times

Perlisten based out of Verona, WI, very near Madison, and you can visit the nearby New Glarus brewery, too. FWIW.

Didn't @spwath work for them one summer?

No I didn't, but I live right by Verona. I've got to check them out

Also finally setup google drive backup for the important bits on the NAS. I'd been meaning to do that for quite a while

Did you have the old one in a RAID? Because if you did that’s really damn slick you were able to do it without a full reset.

I use the synology hybrid raid, which is software raid, with one drive redundancy

That sucks. My Synology NAS died trying to rebuild itself during successive blackouts. I have the replacement connected to a UPS and set to hibernate if power cuts out.

Hope you got everything backed up.

Sad. But a good reminder to those folk who think these things are immortal that --- they are not!

damn you @rlow, you stole my joke

was gonna foolishly post all impressions here as comments, but corrected myself, overly wordy post about the Qutest here https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/chord-dave-revisited-in-2022-vs-wavedream-signature.12197/page-3#post-390778

Freya S was one of my best purchase decisions. Makes all these connections better and for the most part stays out of the way sonically.

I’m kinda wishing I’d waited on a plus now, so that I coulda had the jfet buffer in addition to the passive I intend to use

Man, maybe it's the gear I was using, but the passive in the Freya S is leagues better than I remember the goldpoint I had being. and it has a remote and more steps

I suspect the Dave might be better :)

I like the look tbh. So they no longer use berilium? Maybe that’s for the Grand Utopia? Being slightly facetious.

Lame new look and 5k USD zzzzzzz

Here’s to hoping it “actually sounds better” and it’s not just a side grade

May the force be with you. But not too much force. Don’t rip anything!

I would rent if possible, after ten years I gotten fatter from going into a 34 > 38.

Hopefully it doesn't fit because you've packed on muscle since then. :)

haha it is indeed!

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the designer did a podcast that's not a bad listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tgi7njiRSM if you want a nice overview of all the info

Ultrakill best single player fps gameplay ever IMO

@E_Schaaf I dunno if you've checked it out, but I would highly recommend Prodeus, its more Doom 2016 than Doom Eternal(which is what I hear Ultrakill is more like), but its incredible nonetheless.

Buying some of the old Final Fantasy games. Picked up the VII remake recently and it has reignited my love for the series. Easily best game I have played in some time. Now gonna go back and play the ones I missed.