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Cake day: March 20th, 2024

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  • I’ve driven RWD sports cars in the snow with ease. Tires are aboslutely everything. People tend to ignore their tires for WAY too long before getting them replaced, and/or get shitty all seasons that suck in every condition possible.

    The trend of “I need AWD SUV because snow” terrifies me because people are buying bigger, heavier, and worse handling cars when they really just need better tires. A FWD sedan with good tires will do WAY better than an AWD SUV with crappy tires. The only upside is people will tend to put better tires on their SUV because it’s more expensive than their shitty sports car/sedan.



  • Yeah the 2018 got the face lift with a bunch of new features, most important to me was carplay.

    The 2020 Outback with the same engine and a slightly revised transmission design is rated for the same 3500 pound tow rating as the 3.6, and in Europe it’s rated for 3500 pounds. So if I ever get adventurous I might try finding a super light weight trailer and tow my Miata around. The car itself is right at the 2700 pound limit so I need to find a SUPER light trailer and probably go really slow. I have hauled around a few trailers and it did alright.

    But the 4 cylinder just can’t compete with the flat 6 being perfectly balanced. I’ve joked before that if you put in Outback in reverse it’s now a Porsche.


  • 94-97 have the bigger 1.8 motor which I wanted. Coincidentally the 94 was the first year to switch to the new freon for the AC system so if I need to get it recharged (which I do) I don’t have to pay an arm and a leg for ancient AC that won’t even work well.

    The guy I bought it from had 4 Miatas and actually prefers the 1.6 since you have to work harder for the speed, but the car is slow enough as is. It doesn’t need to be any slower.





  • Does Sony provide the ROMs or do you have to find someone else’s ROM?

    I’ve largely given up on custom ROMs because I’m not interested in dealing with the bugs. On a well supported device with a very popular ROM there’s usually not any major bugs after that version has been out for a while. But sometimes it can take a year + for a ROM to truly be bug free and I’m just no longer interested in that. That’s actually the reason I moved to iOS for my main phone.

    That said Sony’s software sucks ass so maybe some random dude XDA dev will do better.