getting lightly obsolete stuff like that in Canada is basically impossible, there’s no market for it, order it to the US and I’ll pick it up for you at some point
I would also recommend a retrotink ultimate if they ever do another run of those
oh also I have a decent HDMI → Composite converter that I like that’s USB powered and works fine if you need sth like that
it was this
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worst part is it shipped from the US lmao
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does this thing handle HDCP? I mean my main goal is Plex but Netflix or w/e would be a nice bonus too
it works with my cable box that I get free with my internet and is the main reason I bought it so I assume so
we used our tax refund to upgrade to an LG G1 OLED and it arrived today and I am excited to fuck around with VRR and proper HDR
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they also make CRT shaders sing!
not that you’re in need of a CRT, but it’s quite good
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I got a CX and you have to fuck with the settings way too much but I have a very hard time imagining a prettier display
I wish it wasn’t such a pain in the ass to actually enable BFI though! You can’t use it with any of the internal apps(???), and if “instant game response” turns on its disabled and the new game consoles turn it on. For some(?) of the media apps on the XSX it seems to turn off and let you actually have a nice picture but not youtube or prime. IDK, I’d get an apple tv or something but with only 4 HDMI I’m out of inputs. The current gen of 4k receivers have major problems with hdmi 2.1 so you can’t expand the ports that way, and having all that share the same tv input (and settings, by extension) kinda sucks anyway
Extremely niche/riche problems
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there are so goddamned many settings on this thing lmao you need a phd from nasa etc etc
but I’m enjoying it so far
also we have an Apple TV 4K and it immediately recognised it and turned on Dolby Vision so I think we’re sorted from that end
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How is that I have literally never owned a smart phone with a GPS that seems to work even remotely competently. I’ve always owned flagship phones from major brands. And still. The arrow will often be pointing in a blatantly wrong direction. How hard is it to put a working compass, a piece of technology which has been understood for centuries, in a phone?
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lmao never mind apparently you need a 16 series or newer to do this
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this is going to sound silly but do you use a case with a magnetic clasp?
Most phone compasses work OK if you provide them enough data to correlate magnetic field with orientation. A trick when I need to rely on the compass is to do a couple of figure-8 motions. It sounds like an urban legend and I look weird when I do it in public but it’s actually official Google advice:
The 2022 equivalent of blowing on NES cartridges (that worked too BTW. the real urban legend is the smartasses who claim these proven tricks don’t work)
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I do the figure 8 thing all the time, it barely ever seems to work for me. If I want truly accurate reasons I need to do the thing where I orient Google with my camera. At which point, what is the compass even doing?
Uhhh… Ummm… Hrm… Well then
I’ll save some face by saying I’ve had this problem before in other phones with other cases, but I guess that’s definitely not helping the situation here.
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We learned this the hard way too, cute cases from booth with the magnetic clasp seem to have magnets strong enough to completely confuse smartphone compasses, so, yeah 
I haven’t been to NYC in a decade now but I recall NYC and Tokyo would both wreck my iPhone 4S’s compass that had no issue in lower density. Totally anecdotal but those are the only two places I’ve had issues
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iirc tall buildings also screw with the wifi triangulation used for more precise location sensing. i’ve had difficulties using my phone for directions on foot in nyc, sf, portland, and parts of downtown vancouver. i do have an older phone tho so maybe it’s better on newer models?
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Struggling to confirm it now but I could’ve sworn they made the compass work much more reliably on the 5/5S with a hardware change, but either way it’s fallible
if it’s really struggling you can always pick a direction and walk a block and work it out from where GPS puts you
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Other way around; tall buildings will block sky line of sight for unassisted GPS lock (you need to be able to “see” three or more satellites), Wi-Fi stuff is supposed to help alleviate that
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