It doesn’t say the screenshot must be full resolution and it doesn’t say the screenshot is immediately uploaded. A couple seconds to downscale and compress would work the same as far as content identification is concerned

You say you don’t care for Porsche IRL. If you have any interest in driving performance vehicles and have an opportunity to drive one, try to not pass it up. 10 years ago, I drove a 10-year-old 911 and it remains the best driver’s car I’ve ever driven. So precise, so confident. It’s what they’re known for. I knocked them before because they always looked so understated and the owners seem pompous. While both can be true, it’s still an excellent sports car. I’m out of the car scene and can’t talk about modern hybrids/electrics/SUVs and wouldn’t recommend a Panamera as the basis for your opinion.

FH4 just went semi-offline (no more seasonal or promotional content, still has online play/free roam randos). I wonder if that played a role in that pricing inversion. Last minute cash squeeze? Maybe it ushered the market away from 4 and into 5?

I do enjoy the FH titles. I wish there were more normal cars, but that’s probably partly due to not keeping up with the latest hypercars. With limited time to play, I spend a ton of time cruising in semi-normal cars across the open world. One of the unusual activities is 4th+ gear highway pulls in some blundering V8. Just hear it wind out from idle to redline. FH1 remains my favorite story because it actually had a story, it felt. It was shallow, but it had a clear progression of races, rivalry, and all the world building for the horizon festival. The rest have just too many races, tournaments, and events thrown at you at once. Every race unlocks 4 more. FH2 did an amazing job introducing the open world, drive anywhere style although I found the European map to be bland. FH3’s Australia was more diverse, but I was further overwhelmed by the number of map icons. I’m currently in FH4 and I suppose have finally accepted there’s never going to be another “campaign” style title. I guess that’s really the gaming industry as a whole with all the battle Royales and similar arcade-style games.

I guess I should hurry up and get FH5 before all the time-sensitively content runs out there, too, right? Damn consumer cyclism.

If it doesn’t go round, how can I tell it’s working? Turns out, if the fan doesn’t work, I don’t beleive it’s working either. Listen there’s a set of rules for microwaves, ok?

Pretty sure my polling place is open for more than 12 hours. Maybe it varies by state, but that should be a reasonable amount of time for over 99% of the population to get there. Obviously, some places are massively overrun and understaffed, especially in the “unfavorable” districts, but I’ve had no issues making it out in less than 10 minutes by leaving for work 20 minutes early.

It’s hard to read the right context. There’s plenty of misinformation and incorrect beliefs out there so that’s why I opted to just dive into explanation regardless

Your dad and mine somehow don’t remember how atrocious the old supply is and all the spill disasters are past mitigated events. Even when their own cars leak oil in the streets, make pretty rainbows, and gave them something else to tell their kids to not touch, it’s all… Normal. Inconsequential. It came from a factory they didn’t see leak and it does down a sewer into a system they can’t see. But, EV mines? We’ll if yours beleives the mines are dirtier than petrol cars, I assume it’s the same as mine: the belief that their crusty “old school” cars are being targeted for removal and that their way of life is at stake and that some elite progressive group wants to make them poor by way of expensive EVs. Just ignore the part where mine brags about affording ever-in creasing gas prices in a gas guzzler personal vehicle.

And we’re too dumb so we try to respond with facts but it’s 100% about their feelings.

Bedbugs are pretty easy to spot. While yes, they’re very good at hiding, they don’t really make it into those hiding spots until the easy spots are overpopulated. Sure, someone could have an infestation and could be vacuuming the easy spots weekly, but I doubt someone would clean their marks excessively without also addressing the problem. Sure, maybe this comment was a joke, maybe you’re serious, but either way, I accidentally became very fucking knowledgeable on bed bugs and what I’ve found ever since then is that people don’t actually know anything about bed bugs. Here I am. Of note, they’re not common near me, probably due to a mix of economic wealth and cold winters preventing outdoor survival.

If you can read text on your phone at the stock zoom level, you can see bed bugs because the adults are almost 1/4" long. Young bugs are pretty small, but you don’t get babies without adults and eggs. Eggs look like white/beige grains of salt stuck to edges. Their feces are brown or black (sometimes red) and look like what a fine-tip marker or thick pen would leave on paper. Individually, hard to see. Realistically, you’ll see clusters. They’ll hide in both crevices close to dormant humans (sheet seams, couch cracks) and higher places in shadow where they can see humans (picture frame edges, headboard corners). They live a long time. Even without feeding, they can survive a year.

There are currently a few pesticides with great results such ass Crossfire. They are certainly becoming resistant, but the more we eradicate wholly in a place, the less we have to worry - just like taking the full prescription of an antibiotic. If you do catch them, you’ll need to be very thorough. Bag your clothes and work through them. Pesticides have a residual effect, but the better you handle the ones you can find, the faster you can end the nightmare.

To wrap it up, just peel back the cushions of that furniture. If you don’t see stains in the easy-to-use but hard-to-clean cracks, you’re probably fine. No one I know has ever had them in dorms, just travel through hostels.

-Franz Kafka, or something

Price is dependent on area. I’m close enough to a major coastal US city to commute (not California) and I can find those $3k civics. They’re just 2005ish not 1995ish now. I bought a not-dead-yet 99 ranger for $2k this year which WA impossible in 2021 for “work” trucks. $3k is a healthy goal, imo. The bottom of the market has come down in the last year.

As for browsing fb marketplace, I can’t get any to work. I try browse at work and it often doesn’t work. I refuse to sign in there. The tips and hacks are outdated, as far as I can tell. If you have recommendations, I’m all for it.

As for a motorcycle, maybe I’m just fortunate to afford a cheap 00s one for fun, but the weather really literally rains on my parade. Commuting on one means your locked for ~9 hours into that vehicle as your ride home. Weather can change. We get 30%+ afternoon summer thunderstorms here all summer and it sucks. Yeah, there’s rain gear that works well, but even if you ignore the higher crash risk in rain, you have to bring the gear with you (cargo bag) or wear it (sweat like hell) so that’s a compromise. If the climate is drier, the winters warmer, the summers not so humid, and in a more bike-friendly region, that all of course improves viability. I couldn’t beleive the number of bikes I saw in Mexico. Obviously, people make it work, but it’s tough. Different countries have different views on hear, too - that’s a big expense potentially

Not sure what country your ein, but if it’s one with a non-graduated license program (basic test lets you ride any size bike) please do at least a 2-3 day basic course. In America, they allow you to skip the permit stage but give a proper explanation of controls. It’s so worth it. Please don’t learn from your uncle first.

Slightly different. The alternator on a car has a very variable frequency due to change in engine speed and it’s fed into the car’s regulator/rectifier, so the typical power supplied is stable. However, many cars will use the high beams at half-power to function as daytime running lights (DRLs). This is usually done by pulse width modulation (PWM) meaning it’s chopping up the power supplied at a nearly imperceptible speed. An incandescent bulb will have so much fade time that the choppy power will go unnoticed. From there, theses two possibilities that cause the bulb to flicker. Very cheap bulbs will show their choppy power supply directly by flickering, making them noticeable as the move across your vision. Some mid-range bulbs will have cheap smoothing circuits (since vehicle power is “dirty”) so there will be charge time and discharge time as the capacitors charge up and down, allowing and disallowing the emitter to light, creating a slower flash pattern. Higher end bulbs (ignoring the part where their beam pattern is still usually trash) should be able to accommodate the chopped power and run dimmer.

You may also notice a similar flicker on LED tail lights where the brake light is a brighter tail light instead of a dedicated element. Such cars will use PWM for dimming and may flicker as they move across your view as well. Some of my car’s dash uses LEDs for backlighting and dimming the dash is done via PWM. If I glance across the steering wheel from side to side, it looks like “cruise” gets stamped across the view

recital carrots

And I suddenly really want to play piano

I usually can’t tell the difference in a single oncoming car if they’re auto or manual high beams. So, given how often I know they’re older cars with the manual high beams locked on, maybe I’m not noticing slow autos. Sometimes I can see high beams flicking on and off more frequently than the average driver would, so I assume they auto and have seemed OK. Maybe I’m just too pessimistic about the average driver though and give autos a pass. The few times I’ve driven a Ford with them, they were OK. I beleive I’m very conscientious about high beam use so they were a little delayed for my liking, but I wouldn’t say 3 seconds. Like I’ll watch for light coming over hills and predict the car is coming and be prepared to drop as soon as they appear

Exactly this. If you need more light, fog lights (a wide but flat beam) do wonders in neighborhoods, especially around corners. Sure, I can see some benefit of illuminating the whole body of a person, but their lower half should be sufficient. Quite frankly, if someone can’t see them with low beams, they weren’t going to meaningfully react any faster with high beams. They’re either driving too fast, the pedestrian is stepping out too fast, or the road is too narrow.

It’s wild how this whole post is about the good of other people but my opinion of respecting non-driving people at the same time isn’t as well-received.

I had a 3a and thought I loved the rear reader, but apparently I have my phone flat on a desk or in a stand often enough that I really do prefer the front reader

M. A. D.

A driving factor is the US requirement to place low beams above (and outward) of high beams. Couple that with traditional design goals of “my eyes are up here” faces (see: not the juke), you get normal low beams blinding every car with lows higher than mirrors. Then couple that with the factory aiming the lights to the max heigh with an empty tank and no cargo and sending that off to the gen pop, which is clueless about the ability to aim them.

Ironically, the low/hi arrangement requirement went against the original RX350 headlight design. It caused the creation of one of the greatest dual-beam xenon projectors of all time because the original high beam location was noncompliant. It got used as a big DRL I believe. Those “rx350” projectors were very popular in the retrofit headlight community, a hobbyist group dedicated to improving lighting without blinding others

Auto high beams have done a pretty OK job at detecting oncoming cars, in my experience. People blasting every fucking house in the neighborhood with high beams at 25mph, on the other hand, is where my ange lies. High beams are for high speed or aggressive slop change, not low speeds.

I don’t buy that this is the last market. The current major one, yes, but calling it the last one is, not to be rude, short-sighted and unimaginative. AI/LLMs/advance algorithms will continue and some advanced technology will be built off of those. We didn’t stop with plain electricity, we didn’t stop with physical memory, we didn’t stop with plain programs, so why would we stop now?

There are plenty of markets outside this one niche of “tech”. And I get it, I’m the outsider in the fediverse as I don’t work in IT, don’t code, and don’t even use Linux.

I work in American rail transportation (a notably hot topic here!) and it’s incredibly outdated. Freight has such unimaginable interchangeability of individual cars between trains (consists) and rail lines that any kind of change has to overcome massive, disconnected lethargy of multiple groups. Aside from the shear volume of cars, it has to pass through multiple parties to operate on “interchange”: all involved railroads, the car owners, the car leasees, sometimes the good owner, and the locomotive owner (not always the rail owner). Freight cars have no mandatory/universal electronics on board. Brakes are applied via manual air pressure logic from a single signal hose and can take several minutes to reach the end of the train. Certainly, wireless electronic communication would improve this but imagine trying to pair 250 cars to the locomotive. We can say just add a plug like a truck trailer plug, but changing a 100 year old hookup procedure is a task, so say the least. Improvement is coming, but adoption must be rolled out and it must be free of tamper risk. There’s also essentially no tracking on rail cars. Services offered are atrocious. For maintenance, the latest thing is massive photobooths capturing every single car passing through. They’re pretty effective. And, despite all this sounding ancient, hostile takeovers, planted execs, pleasing shareholders, and running logistics into the ground for a short profit return to shares is just as present.

Side note: the only “unit trains” around, the only ones that stay as one single consist and don’t exchange between locomotives or rail lines, are coal trains. And they’re on their way out.

Passenger trains leave much to be desired and while there’s plenty of tech left to import from other continents, there’s not much incentive. The USA is huge and the populations centers are far apart. We like to look at Germany, the UK, France, and the like as examples but their physical size is comparable to the US regions already served by transit. The US population is much more coastal than Europe (Atlantic, pacific, golf of Mexico, great lakes) and, on many topics really, Americans tend to forget about eastern Europe. That’s our Midwest/rust belt/flyover states.

Road vehicles are ever-Improving but all I see here on lemmy is treating the privacy element as a crisis. I agree, and I can see why it’s important, but the physical advances are blatantly ignored. Hybrid and bev have large hurdles ahead of them to continue mass adoption. Aerodynamics and other rolling resistance elements are always improved. Who knows what the next paradigm shift in cars will be.

Similar things apply to planes.

Building infrastructure is always advancing. Better insulation, faster construction techniques, stronger materials, longer spans, less foundation intrusion, and greater durability.

And yes, we can talk about the continuous enshittification of all these industries, but, just like tech, that’s enshittification of the final product, not of the actual tech behind it. The tech has always been improving.

And I thought I was dramatic for always playing that one sad song on the crank-string instrument as everyone logs out

What’s the plagiarism machine, AI/LLM chatbots?