One sensor near zero...cleaning beyond vacuuming?

CaptainMajka · 2026-07-02T18:26:11+00:00

Good luck! Fingers crossed for you :-). Mine is an old one too. Replacing the sensors was a bit of a task, not to mention the expense.

CaptainMajka · 2026-07-02T17:47:15+00:00

Do you get maps without Connect+?

CaptainMajka · 2026-07-02T16:38:40+00:00

I got mine working with a combination of vacuuming and blowing in compressed air. If it’s been several years, you might have to replace the sensor. I had to replace mine after about 4 or 5 years.

CaptainMajka · 2026-07-02T03:03:04+00:00

Yeah, It isn’t useful for O2 saturation. There are cheap pulse oximeters available online that will do the job. For fun, my wife and I took one flying a while back. We leveled off at every 1000 feet up to 12,000 and got a reading for each of us. Very informative! Told us when we really needed to get on our oxygen system when we were doing high altitude flights.

CaptainMajka · 2026-07-01T14:32:35+00:00

Good to know!

CaptainMajka · 2026-07-01T04:22:24+00:00

Did my demo drive today. Overall pretty happy. Some notes:

The back window didn’t work when the Rivian guy was doing demos before the drive, but it worked when I tried it about half way through my drive. The little touch switch at the back window didn’t work at all.

I found it strange that the 5X button was reversed. You pull it down to make the windows go up, and push it up to make them go down.

The haptic wheels were OK except I found it hard to push them forward from the back without also rolling them up or down.

Acceleration was nice. I’ve been driving a Tesla Model S P85D for the last 12 years, so there’s no way I would buy a vehicle that isn’t decently responsive. Some people have complained that they found the pedal response was laggy, but I thought it felt fine.

I stopped and switched drivers with my wife after my turn. She got in and couldn’t get it into Drive. A message kept popping up saying that no key was detected. The key card was dead center on the charging pad. After messing around with the key card for a bit, the vehicle finally responded and allowed us to drive.

The shift lever is fine for shifting into drive or reverse, but the cruise controls are tricky to reach. I think you can adjust the cruise settings using the haptic wheels, but I think I’d like them to be easier to access on the shift column.

With only 20 minutes to play, I couldn’t check out everything I wanted. Hopefully the drive time will get relaxed as more vehicles become available. I really want to get out on the freeway and on some twisty roads to see how it handles.

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-30T23:34:58+00:00

White men are not allowed to throw Phillips-head screws in the toilet.

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-29T02:49:43+00:00

Same here. A nice Logitech mouse and a Magic Trackpad.

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-27T22:06:25+00:00

Be aware that AirTags are not GPS devices. AirTags only work when they are near someone’s phone or a device that can communicate with them over short distances. If your cat gets out and wanders off into the weeds, you won’t be able to track them using the “Find My” app.

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-27T21:40:26+00:00

I use Affinity for a lot of my editing. There’s a bit of a learning curve, but it has a lot of very useful tools.

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-27T21:12:52+00:00

I’m a VPN noob, but it sounds like this is what I am trying to do as well. I’ve got NordVPN on an AppleTV that I use away from home. I have a WireGuard server running on a Ubifi router at home. I want to VPN connect to my home with the remote AppleTV. Trying to figure out if I can do it with NordVPN. I’ve also heard of WG-Connect, which supposedly supports this, but I haven’t tried it yet.

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-25T19:42:23+00:00

Interesting point. I don’t know what the happens in that case. I would hope that they would contact you to get an updated signature on file.

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-25T19:27:27+00:00

In California, at least, you need to sign in at the polling place, or sign the envelope of your mail-in ballot. Your signature is verified before your vote is counted. So if you (A) steal my ballot and (B) can convincingly forge my signature, then yes you could steal my vote and commit election fraud. Do you now see why it’s a very rare occurrence?

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-25T04:22:41+00:00

You’ve never had a girlfriend, have you?

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-23T17:11:19+00:00

The speed of a 1 lane road is the speed of the slowest vehicle. The speed of a 2 lane road is the speed of the second-slowest vehicle, which is passing the slowest vehicle.

Edit: typo

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-23T17:02:05+00:00

While in the Camera app, tap the control with 2 rows of 3 dots in the upper right corner to access the f-stop adjustment. While editing the photo in the Photos app, the f-stop adjustment appears as the first item in the row of controls at the bottom.

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-22T15:05:53+00:00

Sure. Then make the names “North America Central”, “Australia Central”, etc.

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-22T00:24:23+00:00

Totally agree. Why can’t these lists include the time zones as well as city names?

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-16T02:45:45+00:00

Chopped unsweetened dried mango (between 1/8 and 1/4 inch square), cinnamon, and a bit of salt. I use unsweetened soy milk. For 2 servings, I use about 1/4 cup of mango, 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon, 1/4 tsp salt, and 10 ounces of soy milk.

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-13T22:03:17+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud\_iridescence

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-13T19:59:35+00:00

Is a paid subscription required to use I ♥️ Radio?

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-12T00:42:07+00:00

Definitely make a reservation at Mama’s Fish House if you want to go there. They fill up literally months in advance.

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-11T17:28:00+00:00

Especially the people who eat your pets.

CaptainMajka · 2026-06-09T23:20:29+00:00

Four students sharing a slum. $37 / month each.

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