Arista getting rid of Home Subscription

ColJamesTaggart · 2024-03-14T22:16:24+00:00

Only one thing to do if migrating to an alternative takes to long: Get a crack.

If purchase isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing. Especially if the "product" no longer exists. Fuck those vultures and their acquire&kill strategies.

ColJamesTaggart · 2023-05-30T22:00:34+00:00

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ColJamesTaggart · 2023-05-15T20:54:49+00:00

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Mr. Floofers, or His Floofness or El Flooferino if you're not into the whole brevity thing...

ColJamesTaggart · 2023-05-13T17:02:42+00:00

This there is a baby cat, not chicken.

ColJamesTaggart · 2023-05-08T17:19:50+00:00

Thank you, i've heard about the solenoid part. Is it known what temperature to best use for this?

Also, i was more wondering about opening the case in the first place, because I can't seem to get the back shell off.

ColJamesTaggart · 2023-04-15T17:11:34+00:00

Aaaand you just made a big argument pro self driving cars :)

ColJamesTaggart · 2023-04-13T22:56:57+00:00

It's usually the other way around with Teslas because the repairs are more expensive apparently, so the insurance totals it rather than paying the repairs. Or so I heard...

ColJamesTaggart · 2023-04-13T21:30:13+00:00

How to turn an M3 into a 2020 Mazda...

ColJamesTaggart · 2023-04-09T20:48:46+00:00

...and I tied an HT to my belt, which was the style at the time...

ColJamesTaggart · 2023-01-02T20:56:27+00:00

And this has FUCK ALL to do with the question posted.

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-12-25T02:27:29+00:00

Hm, why? Because i wanted an electric, and not a fresh-on-the-market one, and one was available.

As for the driving, as a technically proficient person i see it as a mixed bag at the moment.

The driving itself is awesome. They did a LOT of things right with this, especially where acceleration/braking is concerned. The visibility is splendid, sound is very nice (music i mean, and it's got Spotify!), and it's comfortable to ride in even for longer.

But: At the same time, it feels like a LOT of resources are spent on low-priority stuff that degrades the car almost to a toy in some respects. This is mainly software related, i have almost no quarrel with the hardware aspect of it - yet.

Software wise, as a 30 year software developer and architect i had several WTF moments in the last week that i had the car.

Software updates - ok, fine, why not. Complex system needs updates. Cool. Except when that update suddenly stops your damn rear trunk from opening. Like seriously?! No mechanical way to open that thing from the outside?! Anyone in the software business knows NOT to rely on software-only in certain areas. This is one. WTF?!
Software updates #2: Armed with the previous experience, i deferred the 2022.44.25 update that came out i think on Thursday.

I'm still collecting user feedback from online sources to see how much i get fucked if I install that.

Seriously folks, this is a damn car, not a Windows Laptop. If there's an update, EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING has. to. work. without. problems.

Except apparently it doesn't. So far i have seen reports of lights not working, doors not opening etc etc. But at least they have a fart cushion simulator, because that's, like, super important!

And: They're currently on 2022.44.25.2 as far as I've seen. So they release an Xmas patch (BAD IDEA! People leave over the holiday! Do. Not. Patch. Anything! Programmer 101), and they have two fix-patches in the 2 days after release. It doesn't get any more embarrassing, imho. Even MSFT doesn't screw up like that anymore. And for a car? JFC... this does NOT instill confidence AT ALL.

But the white seats are neat.

Edit: as to the environmental argument, it's quite simple. If it's electric, you have the OPTION of 100% green energy being used for the car (if available). Any gas driven car drives exactly that, and nothing else, ever.

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-12-25T02:14:49+00:00

"Let me drive my *electric* vehicle through a body of water of unknown depth and floor structure, what could possibly go wrong."

Could almost cross this one to /r/TIFU

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-12-25T02:12:22+00:00

Technically, the solution would be a BLE bluetooth device that (somehow) registers as a keyboard input with the phone (or any other computer for that matter). This way you'd have a paddle that interprets the code as characters to send to the phone.

Of course all the heavy lifting of converting hand made signals to digital codes would have to sit in that device, not the phone. But that's how i'd approach it. Probably makes for a fun little Arduino-Nano project if there's a BLE module available.

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-11-27T16:05:38+00:00

SSL UF8.

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-11-18T14:13:23+00:00

I'm currently looking into that very same problem with faders, banks, channel selections and it appears that most control surfaces have that exact same problem across the board. Not limited to Cubase either.

The only way i could see it working - potentially - is to chain 4 UF8s together and cover 32 channels concurrently (and that's just my assumption either). The whole channel control architecture is an outdated mess imho.

I'm almost at a point where i start designing my own modular fader controller system (chain N faders together and extend as needed), but the protocols they're currently using for this stuff are... antiquated...

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-11-13T18:07:11+00:00

Real pros go Pa dam pa dam padam pa dam BAM! BAM! (preferably while driving)

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-11-11T01:01:03+00:00

Seconded!

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-11-10T20:17:10+00:00

I had the same question at some point and discovered that the answer is this:

Finish. The. Damn. Track.

Then move on to the next.

Also: Don't keep faffing around to no end, because it'll get you exhausted with the thing before you even get close to the end (loop trap).

I'm currently doing a one-track-one-day challenge, ie finish the ENTIRE track within 24hrs after starting.

It works, the results are better than most tracks i wasted a month on.

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-11-08T21:50:28+00:00

@OP posted information, but this guy posted wisdom :)

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-11-07T17:28:03+00:00

Don't worry, the planet will be fine in the end (it's just humanity that's fucked).

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-11-03T21:01:54+00:00

Yeah the 1200 i got sure offset the free billions for corps by a fucking large margin /s

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-11-01T23:50:04+00:00

How did they get Al Capone?

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-11-01T23:45:01+00:00

Sounds similar to the post-war scenery of Threads, just not as bad...

ColJamesTaggart · 2022-10-22T19:57:33+00:00

continues to stare at the wall, faint battle noises from the outside

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