Pluses (+) and minuses (−) of this day

[The Jonster]

+ Happy New Year everyone!

[Greengoop]

- Jonster has been snorting too much again

[lyndo64]

+ Christmas!
+ bought the Shining book by Taschen
+ won the grand prize for the advent calender somehow?

- no snow

[The Jonster]

- Jonster has been snorting too much again

Yes I stole it from you.

+ Gots money! Wooooooooo
+ Dont have to go to a party on Friday! Woooooooo!
*/- might come up with present for mom even though Christmas is over already….

[Greengoop]

+ ordered a PS3!!!
- slightly scratchy throat, doubt it’ll lead into anything
+/- my cousins are coming later

[Fifo]

– I still don’t have a working PS3
+ I got an M4 MacBook Pro tho

[Greengoop]

– I still don’t have a working PS3

Did your super slim break?

[Fifo]

Did your super slim break?

the BT/WiFi module died and, not knowing, I ran a firmware update on it, which makes the system check all the hardware and if anything’s not right it shows an error message. There’s no way past it short of replacing the WiFi/BT module, which is a BGA board and replacing it requires advanced soldering skills and equipment that I don’t have.

[Greengoop]

- Started overthinking a lot today and yesterday, but might’ve managed to put my feelings down
- Noticed my phone has been a bit unresponsive. I’m not gonna trash apple products but I’m not gonna say they’re notorious for lasting long either. I’ve had mine for 3 years, which is good in terms of a modern phone lifespan
+/- still waiting for my PS3 to arrive. On one hand I’m getting quite impatient, but on the other I’m enjoying watching a lot of PlayStation videos lately

[Master]

Honestly 3 years is what I'd expect as bare minimum from an Apple product, I'll concede I'm somewhat surprised it's starting to falter. Though I suspect it might vary depending on workload, these days I don't tend to do anything particularly stressing for a smartphone so I wonder if the issue would have been as pronounced if I were in your shoes.

Out of curiosity, what PS3 model have you gotten? I've been mulling over nosing about CEX and seeing if I can get an original PS3 phat. I'd like to be able to play the first three gens of Playstation with physical copies, as I've got a few games still from when I was growing up.

+ Had a pretty lazy week
- I've not done as much tidying up as I wanted. I was hoping to take advantage of the holiday period to do some spring (or I suppose winter) cleaning, but unforeseen events meant I couldn't get as much done

[Greengoop]

Out of curiosity, what PS3 model have you gotten? I've been mulling over nosing about CEX and seeing if I can get an original PS3 phat. I'd like to be able to play the first three gens of Playstation with physical copies, as I've got a few games still from when I was growing up.

Slim, 500 Gigabytes. Figured it’d suit me the best since I can’t be bothered to maintain an original model, as well as the backwards compatible ones costing an entire arm and a snickers bar. I got the most storage available because I’m quite a big screenshotter

[Master]

Ahh makes sense, to be fair though, I'm not too fussed about storage size on PS3s as their hard drives are just standard 2.5" SATA drives. You can easily just get a 1TB HDD or even SSD and swap it in without much issue.

I'm not sure if the PS3 had built in capture capabilities, that wasn't really a thing until the PS4, unless there's some functionality I've missed?

[Greengoop]

Ahh makes sense, to be fair though, I'm not too fussed about storage size on PS3s as their hard drives are just standard 2.5" SATA drives. You can easily just get a 1TB HDD or even SSD and swap it in without much issue.

I’m not too fond on console modding myself, so I might as well just have gotten the maximum size storage for only £5 extra (I probably sounded like an absolute moron saying that )

I'm not sure if the PS3 had built in capture capabilities, that wasn't really a thing until the PS4, unless there's some functionality I've missed?

Screenshotting did exist on the PS3, though you need a button combination instead of just a handy little button on the side

[Master]

I wouldn't necessarily class it as modding considering it's user serviceable (i.e. it's been designed to be removed and replaced, you're not actively changing the console or its hardware)

Didn't know about the screenshot function, kinda miffed cause that'd been pretty useful back in the day.

[Steo]

the BT/WiFi module died and, not knowing, I ran a firmware update on it, which makes the system check all the hardware and if anything’s not right it shows an error message. There’s no way past it short of replacing the WiFi/BT module, which is a BGA board and replacing it requires advanced soldering skills and equipment that I don’t have.

Sorry to hear this, this sounds really annoying. I like when devices can still just function when something is broken, minus what's actually broken of course.

[Greengoop]

I wouldn't necessarily class it as modding considering it's user serviceable (i.e. it's been designed to be removed and replaced, you're not actively changing the console or its hardware)

Well, I was right about me sounding a bit stupid! I probably could do something like that if I ever feel as if I need more storage. Does it add to your already existing storage or does it replace the storage?

[Fifo]

Well, I was right about me sounding a bit stupid! I probably could do something like that if I ever feel as if I need more storage. Does it add to your already existing storage or does it replace the storage?

The latter; it replaces the existing storage in the system.

Sorry to hear this, this sounds really annoying. I like when devices can still just function when something is broken, minus what's actually broken of course.

Yeah same, it’s a pain when something becomes a pricey paperweight just because of a single non-functioning part.

[Game Ze 2]

+ I am eating hotpot.

[WPTheModder]

+ Got new paint markers
+ Not really dependent on social media anymore
+ Put up some shelves for my nerdy rayman stuff
- Sleeping has been hard recently
- Been bored more often
- My youtube recommended is fucked and doesn't give me stuff I'd actually like to watch
- Not motivated to make any art/finish anything
- Also not motivated to actually make my story

Maybe this day will be better, since all of my pluses and minuses are for yesterday

[Fifo]

+ I had pizza

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I’ll just quote WPTheModder’s post so that it doesn’t get missed, seeing as we’re on a new page…

+ Got new paint markers
+ Not really dependent on social media anymore
+ Put up some shelves for my nerdy rayman stuff
- Sleeping has been hard recently
- Been bored more often
- My youtube recommended is fucked and doesn't give me stuff I'd actually like to watch
- Not motivated to make any art/finish anything
- Also not motivated to actually make my story

Maybe this day will be better, since all of my pluses and minuses are for yesterday