The Soulja Boy Poop Out of Mouth Out - Atari Zombie Inside (or maybe not)

[Slacker Magician]

Messed up .

[deadlegion]

Messed up .

And you cannot avert your eyes

[Ragnar]

Downloaded a 30GB PS4 game. Extract it, and it takes forever, I assume the idiot that uploaded it attempted to add compression to a basically uncompressible file. Look at how big the extracted game is, 29GB. The fool added a 1GB recovery record that I guarantee nobody has ever used. Nobody even used those back in the 2000's when it was a common thing.

On the topic of PS4 stuffs, I stopped using rest mode. Booting up from rest mode it crashed twice on me while I was trying weird things, like connecting/disconnecting external drives and such, so I assumed I was at fault and shouldn't do the weird things I was trying. But since, with normal use it's crashed booting from rest mode, and totally wasn't my fault. The rest mode crash is super annoying, needing me to unplug the PS4, leave it for a couple minutes, boot safe mode and launch the system.
Properly shutting down, starting up, and launching the exploit isn't a problem.
Also in hindsight, I think years ago I had some crashes from rest mode, playing normally. Maybe my PS4 is defective somehow, but I give zero fucks about rest mode anyways.

[deadlegion]

You don't need rest mode.
I never use it and I've never had any crashes, soft locks, kernel panics or error messages on 5.05

When I'm not using my console it's disconnected from power, pretty much like everything electrical I have.
Not only can you save some dollars over the whole year by doing that, but it's all not getting a trickle to caps that just simply reduces lifespan.
Also, most power surge protection devices only really protect from (most) line power surges. You need particular (more expensive) devices to properly protect from lightning strikes... if stuff is isolated it's fully protected, and that's free

[deadlegion]

People that constantly complain about kernel panics etc; I'm guessing they use rest mode all the time plus most would be using 6.xx or 7.xx exploit (idk why people still bother with those shitty exploits tbh).

[deadlegion]

I spend around $750-900aud per year on electricity now. I don't have solar atm but a lot of houses here do.
Pretty much all I have running 24/7 is the fridge (which uses a bit 'cos it's older), one laptop, 2x lan switches, the modem and broadband box.
HWS is electric but I turn that off every second day most of the year. Winter when it's coldest I leave it on every day but winters are mild here... just some frost sometimes but light dusting of snow is very rare.

[Ragnar]

You don't need rest mode.
I never use it and I've never had any crashes, soft locks, kernel panics or error messages on 5.05

Yeah, totally. Just everyone is suggesting it to save a minute on bootup, when crashes cost far far far more. And like you said, why waste power?

[LeftyGuitar]

I used to use rest mode a lot on PS4. I stopped using it after it froze. Its just better to turn it all the way off instead of keep it in rest mode.

[deadlegion]

People using it with exploit are just lazy... or in the case of 6.xx & 7.xx, once they get the exploit actually working they don't want to sit there trying over and over again after cold boot
But as I said, idk why people are still using those shitty exploits It's either 5.05 (if you're lucky enough to have a console with old fw) or just use 9.00 exploit.

[deadlegion]

Just pulled the trigger on Rocksmith bundle for XB1. Saw it nearly half retail from a reputable local business that also sells on ebay.
Pretty much $10-15 more than what people want for just a used Real Tone (aka Hercules) cable

[deadlegion]

Actually, I should make an effort to keep an eye out for more of those cables to see if I can get them cheaper.
A spare for myself and maybe a couple more for my Dad and sister would be cool.
No need to buy more physical games though, it's only my XB1 that can't run backups.
And we all have guitars.

[deadlegion]

[deadlegion]

[Slacker Magician]

Downloaded a 30GB PS4 game. Extract it, and it takes forever, I assume the idiot that uploaded it attempted to add compression to a basically uncompressible file. Look at how big the extracted game is, 29GB. The fool added a 1GB recovery record that I guarantee nobody has ever used. Nobody even used those back in the 2000's when it was a common thing.

On the topic of PS4 stuffs, I stopped using rest mode. Booting up from rest mode it crashed twice on me while I was trying weird things, like connecting/disconnecting external drives and such, so I assumed I was at fault and shouldn't do the weird things I was trying. But since, with normal use it's crashed booting from rest mode, and totally wasn't my fault. The rest mode crash is super annoying, needing me to unplug the PS4, leave it for a couple minutes, boot safe mode and launch the system.
Properly shutting down, starting up, and launching the exploit isn't a problem.
Also in hindsight, I think years ago I had some crashes from rest mode, playing normally. Maybe my PS4 is defective somehow, but I give zero fucks about rest mode anyways.

I used them (and needed to) when I was uploading things years ago because it was unstable .

[Ragnar]

I used them (and needed to) when I was uploading things years ago because it was unstable .

Yeah, intelligent people back in the day would take advantage of them, but 95% of downloaders didn't even notice them. Nowadays, I don't even see the option to use them at all on 7zip.