The Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim actually had a Vector W8 on display for a looong time (with a UK registration on it back then, it was a loaner like most cars there). I like it a lot, because they often show used cars, cars that have really been used and not restored, and put them in a historical context. Also, they…

I like your picture of the SAAB museum from Trollhättan. That one is really special, because there are lots of cars exhibited there that are one of a kind. Test mules, showcars etc... and all are parked close to each other with ZERO boundaries to keep people away. Yes, there’s the usual “do-not-touch”-rule, but what…

Not having plumbing is no reason for throwing your trashbag full of poop into bushes.
Not having a trash collector is no reason to just throw it on the ground.
A composting toilet costs next to nothing to build yourself, and if you don’t have one in your van, where you might stay for a longer time, then you planned your…

It is always the same: A spot is found, some idiot puts it into an online-app, it gets recommendations, then a few months later you read “nice spot, but a bit crowded”, a few more months later “usually busy, lots of dirt and junk”, and then after a year “closed off by authorities, frequent visits by law enforcement,…

Cryptomining often even had the cards run at lower voltages so that they would keep boost speeds more consistently.
What is a problem though is overworked, overheated cards - doesn’t matter where they’ve been used, a lot of cards seem to die prematurely because the soldering is not that good anymore and contacts are…

HOW is this a BUDGET graphics card?
BUDGET card would be priced at below 400€, more like 300€. Including VAT.
Even the 3070 blew that at 499€ at launch, and you couldn’t buy it for that price anyway, was all bought up by miners and scalpers because Nvidia just didn’t care.
All of those limited Gundam cards being abused…

Investors without which these companies could not upfront the cost of developing a new game. Also, for every game that comes out, about 5-10 are canceled in stages so early that we don’t get to see anything of them (but nevertheless canceled and written off - those devs and additional costs have to be covered too).
I…

The market has grown, but so has the number of games that this additional revenue is divided upon.
You can look back in time, and 20-30 years ago, there were only a handful of very good games each year, blockbuster titles everybody was waiting for. Now you even have multiple quite good, high-caliber games in each…

Graphics fidelity has gone WAY up. Where previously a handful of artists worked on a title, nowadays there are easily hundreds, sometimes over 1000 people involved in getting a single game out of the door (try to read the credits for any current Forza Horizon title).
Compare that with No Mans Sky which - due to its…

The TÜV isn’t overkill, it is too lenient in a lot of ways, and maybe a tad strict in some where it wouldn’t have to be.
Even so, there are a lot of shady dealers who sell cars with forged TÜV inspections, and in quite a few cases they get away with it because they tend to sell cars “im Kundenauftrag”, or basically…

Sony actually made most of their (over 20) acquisitions in 2020 onward too.
Before that, they relied heavily on timed or full exclusives due to paying other companies a load of money. See Square and the Final Fantasy series, longtime PS staple (though apparently the reason why the PC port of FF7 took so long rested…

nah, absolutely not. They would not even reach parity compared to Sonys acqusitions since the Playstation1-days. Sony is the undisputed king of exclusives, timed exclusives, bonus deals (items only for sony customers) and buying studios outright.

The base 1.8 NC weighed 1155KG, the base 1.6 NA 955KG. Thats 200kg, or 440lbs in my book.
It is closer to the NB, which weighed in at 1090kg (lots of strengthening in the body, p.ex. the double-walled front engine rails, which tend to rust because of the construction :P ) Still, 143pounds less than the NC.
The ND then…

I know that it is a capable car after some mods, seen a race series with just NCs flying around, and it looked like lots of fun.
Drove a stock one though from a coworker, and it was... I don’t know, somewhat mushy? It also felt like the beltline was somehow higher, and you were more sitting in a “tub”.
Again,…

Mazda tried building a bigger Miata with the NC.
It was the worst one by far, and good NAs and even now NBs are costing more than their newer siblings on the used market here. For a reason.
Yes, it was a capable car, but somewhat bloated and mushy.
Thankfully they corrected that with the ND.

See, even in Europe, people add 2-stroke-oil to their Diesels in order to make them burn cleaner and have less wear and noise. And on some it apparently works, according to the discussions in forums that have been going on for decades. YMMV though.

Some SSDs only have one chip on them and the rest is just a blank pcb with no traces apart from a huge ground plane, just so they fit in longer slots of typical motherboards.

replacing the SSD takes 30mins if you are going sloooooow. If you do it before you use the deck for the first time, you just have to install SteamOS anew from a USB stick or something, and you’re good to go, so 1 hour time spent tops.
A 512GB M.2 2230 SSD can be had for a tad over 50€, 1TB SSDs are down to 130€ right…

I am sorry, but the unreachable number one has to be Ridge Racer Full Scale.

My experiences are wildly different, though it may depend on where you live. There are some multi-story car parks where you can’t make the turns with a normal Volvo 850 wagon, you have to back up a bit each story and adjust. The height in that car park was under 2m, closer to 1,90m - this is true for a lot of them. So…