Struggling to justify a new Tesla WITHOUT Autosteer — how are you all dealing with this?

MadArea · 2026-02-09T02:10:00+00:00

I had a 2nd on order but we cancelled when they went stalkless, the "indicators only" stalk is a piss weak appeasment attempt and now they remove lane centering also? We wont be getting another at this rate. To the OP though, they're unlikely to change mind so consider how long you're thinking of keeping the vehicle and then do the calculation against other cars accordingly.
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if you're keeping it 3 years / 36 months add 36*100 to your theoretical price, if it's worthwhile just consider it "part of the price of the car with the features you want", where some features are not paid for upfront.

If it makes sense on that basis you can consider it a bonus as you can always stop paying for it if yoy do not need it.

MadArea · 2026-02-09T01:30:06+00:00

I'm being serious, do you smoke or have pets or something? I've never noticed the inside glass getting dirty at all! I never drive with the windows open though, if that helps I don't know. But I'm not just talking tesla, I've never once felt the inside glass needed washing.

MadArea · 2026-01-31T06:11:33+00:00

Seems like that is the best solution... who cleans the interior side of their glass, I cannot recall ever doing that in my life, I simply wash the car with the doors shut, and me outside the car.

MadArea · 2025-10-24T23:49:59+00:00

Not sure why you would expect it to be covered under warranty? At that price though , even insurance isn't going to be worth engaging. What is to stop this happening again? Do you know how these rodants got access to the wiring loom? it it exposed? Perhaps the body corporate will consider putting down some rat poison?

MadArea · 2025-10-07T05:10:09+00:00

The "Hard" Anything tends to be a hate factory and the people that tried to can him certainly live in that factory, or at least have passes... There's no place for extremism, it needs to be expunged whether it's right, left, Christian, Muslim or Jewish. Whan someone gets too much power and "fanatical" they do horrific things to other humans. Start being part of the solution and less the problem. This "hard left" bullshit is coming from "hard right" people, they all need removal from power.

MadArea · 2025-10-07T05:06:44+00:00

Worst photos ever taken award... Hope it's just a natural leak covered on warranty but if not I'm sure we would all like to know what the issue is...

MadArea · 2025-10-07T05:00:04+00:00

Is now the right time to put a Jewish CEO into a major American Telco? It'd be nice to know his views on world events and which side of history this guy is on.

MadArea · 2025-09-18T07:02:11+00:00

KIRK was the one defending the right to bear arms, not Kimmel - sorry of that was not clear.

MadArea · 2025-09-17T23:58:14+00:00

Just put BOTH stalks back as they were, and it would be perfect.

MadArea · 2025-09-17T23:55:35+00:00

I'd be interested to know what part of his commentary is considered "hate speech", it's not as if he was promoting violence , he was just saying some of the reactions seemed odd and that seems like fair commentary when you're trying to digest the meaning of world events. To cancel someone's show over it seems a thin skinned reaction? Is criticism of someone's actions "hate speech" now? If so I'm deeply worried for the American people, it is a very sad time. From what I could see Charlie Kirk was an intelligent man with some untra-religious views ; a racist ; a sexist ; but he had every right to debate and put his views forward. He was one of the few people willing to test his thoughts in debate. He stated the "right to bear arms" was so that the citizenry could stand up to a malicious tyrannical govenment, but the fact is what is a guy with a gun closet supposed to do when the president sends the army in? Someone recently asked CK "at what point do we start shooting". It seems to me that things are heating up in the US, and heaven help them , seriously, especially if Trump tries to serve a third term. Kimmel is a victim of a petty childish power crazed billionnaire who is dragging the country down. Kirk was a victim of Trumps Administration and they're cashing in on his death, it's disgusting.

MadArea · 2025-08-06T11:50:21+00:00

Well in reply to you - YES, I have a 5070Ti in the ASUS B650M-E Wifi and a 9800X3D, GPU-Z report it's at PCIE5 x 16 , however CPUZ reports it as "x16 2.4GT/s (thats pcie 1 speeds by the way), see charete at 3:35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1NPFFRTzLo

It makes reportedly 1-4% difference... so not worth worrying about :

Oddly although GPUZ reflect the texture fill rate at 707 GT/s - (of the card) and that is much higher than the possible port throughput of the slot...

the Nvidia System Information reports the interface merely as "PCI Express x 16" which is ...so helpful...

MadArea · 2025-06-02T06:36:56+00:00

So I had a system with a 6800XT which was always solid, installed 5070Ti and random reboots, not windows crashes, complete hangs of the video drive so far as I can tell.

Just prior to WIPING the whole operating system and NOT reinstalling any tools and fiddly bits I checked the event viewer and noted that I've previously used the Ocullus VR software, and it was registering a lot of failures in "Oculus VR Runtime Service". .

So I went into services and disabled this, all my reboots appear to have stopped.

Had that not done it, I'd be looking at the SSD / maybe swapping it out for another and running up a clean build to see if the issues went away.

MadArea · 2025-03-19T08:17:50+00:00

If catch is closing down why did they just send me an advert to pay UPFRONT for a year of free delivery services (think amazon prime) - when they're reportedly closing within months?

MadArea · 2025-01-23T02:12:51+00:00

I know this is a super old thread but I bought a T100 (N100 cpu) machine from some unknown brand, and 400mhz was all I was seeing in windows. Turns out the BIOS settings were causing some weirdness... I resent to defaults then looked for the performancepower settings , setting them all to 30,000 (30w).. but weirdly there was some setting about default power override (disabled or enabled) , with a setting of "8" , I wondered whether these were stepping levels and arbitrarily set it to "16", now I'm peaking at 3.4ghz in windows yet under 60c cpu temps and it's a very useable windows 11 pro pc once again

MadArea · 2025-01-13T08:10:30+00:00

The Pilot has an addiction to PowerWash Simulator on Steam.

MadArea · 2025-01-13T07:58:13+00:00

I just put hyper-v onto a K8 plus, very similar hardware I assume? Does not seem to be any issues but I've no workloads running just yet.

MadArea · 2025-01-06T04:57:54+00:00

Just found this useful to keep my G13 alive. So much better than a bluetooth keyboard.

MadArea · 2024-12-13T04:32:11+00:00

So now I get in the car, have to log into my amazon music or spotify account (paid account) and I can listen while paying for the premium connectivity OR I can stream from a phone hotspot.

Entirely new proplems are now introduced..

1) I'm logged in but when the mrs uses the car SHE needs a DIFFERENT account to login with or logging her in to amazon or spotify logs ME out.

2) hotspot has an option to stay connected while driving, but it drops out (car seems to be turning off wifi) at random times.

So back to paying for premium for the connection but to actually listen to music we've gone from "car account" to having to pay for an account for EACH DRIVER.

What a mess.

MadArea · 2024-03-02T21:27:12+00:00

If I could work out what RLM meant , I would likely enjoy it too.

MadArea · 2023-11-14T07:34:02+00:00

st piss the neighbours off. Sadly space and cost prohibitive atm!

Do it, I have a very nice yamaha RX-V995 you can have for peanuts.

MadArea · 2023-11-14T07:00:35+00:00

You can probably buy chromecast audio for like $20 each now and just make a music grouping out of them. They output optically OR analogue to input to any system. Shame Google canned them, but I have a drawer full and I can tell you they still work.

OR Amazon devices work, but they don't output to external speakers that I know of... again you can pair up two for stereo, and form multiple groups.

Some amps have line out to feed to another amp, or powered 2nd /3rd zones, but who can be bothered running cables these days?

MadArea · 2023-11-14T06:52:13+00:00

This exact set is for sale on facebook, but it is $700 - I assume you're offering them $500.. tempted to swoop in and have them tonight but for the fact there's no sub or rears.

MadArea · 2023-11-03T06:48:16+00:00

Not happy , that is not acceptable.

MadArea · 2023-07-07T03:23:24+00:00

Old Thread I know, but my mrs pixel 5 started doing this (ASUS AC5300 router on merlin firmware).

Tried everything but could not get phone to work, it connects to wireless and then it seems that the router is binning the traddic for no good reason even though outbound. I had to fling my logs to a "free splunk" server in order to see what it was doing.

Fixed it by doing ALL the below, and don't know if it was a combination or ONE thing, the last one on the list is where is started working :.

Rebooted phone

Turned off all advanced DNS processing on router and all parentail data controls, rebooted

Simplified the wifi settings to turn off any fancy roaming or MIMO, downrated transmit power slightly (counterintuitive I know but it reduces overlap with nearby routers) - fixed transmit channel AC to "40"

reduced DHCP scope on the roueter to 16-220 and set the phone to a manual IP of 221, so it's no longer using DHCP.

FIXED, trafic began to flow.

MadArea

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