Interesting. I ended up buying a 65” Sony Bravia X900H TV which has HDMI 2.1 and will be one of the “PS5 Ready” TVs and it also doesn’t support 1440p input. I wonder if the teams had any discussions during development.

I had some friends who hated playing Goldeneye with me. Evidently, using the radar was cheating in their eyes.

It really is horrible that this is such a divisive political issue (and it only is political because the large corporations who make money dumping CO2 into our atmosphere made it one). Even if we scaled our CO2 production back to pre-industrial revolution levels today, most of us here are going to live long enough to…

I do take them off in the car at some point mainly because I have a huge nose and the mask give me this Bruce Willis effect which kind of hurts. I always put it on before I get to the drive-through window or before someone brings food to my car, though. I’m not a child, I can deal with discomfort and pain when…

Here’s hoping PCIe 4.0 SSDs mature pretty quick in the few years. 2.5 inch platter drive capacity exploded during the 360's lifespan. That system launched with a top capacity of 20GB and by the end it was up to 500GB. The One only went from 500GB to 2TB, but external USB 3.0 drives had comparable performance and made…

You know, I knew I had something for cars at a pretty young age. I really liked the Lamborghini Countach and the Ferrari Testarossa. Then later the Diablo, F40, and the F1, but all those cars were easy to like, they were some of the best cars on the market. They were supercars and I viewed them as super heroes,…

I think the real damage happened with the 2000 election. The combination of Bush losing the popular vote and the election ultimately being decided (whether people agreed or not) by the Supreme Court left (at least subconsciously) a lot of Democrats feeling like something was stolen from them and a lot of Republicans…

Well, for the most part, probably not. I can’t say, for sure, that there are no vehicles that can be hacked over the air, but I would think that would be a SUPER rare thing, if at all. It’s not like our cars have every single system fully connected to the open internet using standard protocols. If they do/did, that’s…

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So much for the next gen consoles being more storage efficient. The theory was that a lot of assets could stay on disk highly compressed since reading and decompressing would still be much faster than last gen just reading uncompressed assets. The other savings were to come from not storing redundant assets in…

Thank goodness. The ads, for and against, sounded like they were talking about two completely different things. The “No on Question 1” ads had the flimsiest arguments saying that it would lead to people getting stalked and raped and that it would allow Autozone and other parts stores to sell your data. First of all,…

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For me it’s purely cost and options. Most of the time, EVs only have plusses, not minuses. My daily commute is about 46 miles, so even in the dead of winter here in New England, I should still be able to go several days without having to plug it in. I have a garage, so plugging it in at home isn’t a problem and, even…

Another issue with a lot of these cameras is the quality. So many of them are low resolution and feed the screen via a composite (single analog, so the yellow jack on TVs) feed. The front facing camera on a 10 year old smartphone is higher resolution and much sharper than most backup cameras today! When my driveway is…

Yup...ish. I’ve been driving for over 20 years and have only had a backup camera for over 5 of them now. It has undeniably become a valuable member of my backup toolbox. Would I only use the camera for backup up? HELL NO! Nor would I only use the review mirror, nor would I only just turn my head. For the most part, I…

None of my previous cars I loved enough to want them back, but there was one that got away and I absolutely should have bought. It was a mint condition mid-90s (I forgot the year) low miles, blue, MR2 Turbo. It was 2001 and the asking price was $5,000. It was my freshman year of college and my car knowledge at the…

Well, I can’t say I’m a fan of watching/following auto racing. It’s not something I can watch for more than a few minutes, but that also goes for baseball, hockey, basketball, or soccer, all sports I do enjoy playing. Likewise, I LOVE actually racing, more than any other competitive activity. I haven’t been on the…

Well, if an AI is on the table, I would rather it be trained to draw in the “missing” sections. Still not the original content or the director’s original vision, but at least the original stuff is still there.

You know, the other day the QOTD was “What car would you overpay for?” and I honestly couldn’t think of anything. Now I know the answer is a 1993 BMW 850ci. It’s...obscure. It was rare in its time and much more-so now, mostly because people just didn’t care about it. You pretty much never see these anywhere. I love…