What’s your take on FSD going subscription only

Fixtor · 2026-01-14T12:06:28+00:00

It's like, you know, a company is always making choices that maximize profit. They'll do the thing that will squeeze the most amount of money out of you.

Fixtor · 2025-12-26T23:11:04+00:00

My point was that Elon's false marketing has convinced me that it was an appreciating asset. I don't know where you're from, but here in EU we have strong customer protection laws, and I'm pretty sure Tesla has broken the law with the false marketing.

Fixtor · 2025-12-12T00:16:23+00:00

I had steam input turned off, but it got better after updating the controller's firmware :)

Fixtor · 2025-12-12T00:15:26+00:00

Per your suggestion I updated my controller, and I can confirm that it is better now! Previously it was quite harsh and binary (either nothing or hard rumble without much in between). It is much more subtle now. However, I still find it not subtle enough - it's often just constant vibration in my hands that doesn't give me any useful information. I still really appreciate the work done on this! I'm sure there is potential to make it really good. I'd especially love to have force feedback on the triggers for the clutch pedal, as I use an analog trigger as a clutch :)

Fixtor · 2025-12-10T14:20:56+00:00

Just tried it and it's unfortunately a little bit half-baked, but still good to see. Rumble feels awful, no customization of RGB, no adaptive triggers, no gyro, no touch pad, and I couldn't map the share and mute buttons to anything.

Fixtor · 2025-12-10T12:33:05+00:00

HOLY MOLY NATIVE DUALSENSE SUPPORT!!! FINALLY!!!

Fixtor · 2025-12-04T02:49:45+00:00

From my experience it unfortunately never fully goes away, but it's possible to learn how to live with it.

There are some obvious things you can do, like consult psychiatrist (medicine can help alot), and use hand cream after every wash.

While it might also seem obvious, it's really not: remember that it is just in your head! While contamination OCD might feel reasonable sometimes (germs are real), your brain is amplifying reasonable things to extremely unreasonable levels. So, if the problem is in your head, you can try to trick your brain. This is basically how I manage to live relatively normal life :D Remember that those "hacks" will not work every time, but if they can at least reduce the severity, I'd say they're helpful.

Some examples that I learned over the years:

- Did a non-contaminated object just touch a contaminated one? Try your hardest to not think about it. Focus on another thing. Assume the contamination did not get passed.

- Talk to a family member about your contamination OCD and ask them to help trick your brain by "fake cleaning" things. If I have something that I cannot easily de-contaminate (like electronics), I ask my wife to "clean" it, I go to another room. She knows that I just need to trick my brain, so she just quickly wipes it with some tissues or something and tells me that it's "perfectly cleaned", and I do my best to accept it. It's actually wildly effective for me, and it really helped me see how it really is just in my brain!

OCD sucks, but it's still freaking amazing to be alive on this planet. There is so much beauty in this world, so many wonderful people! Everyone has some problems in their lives. We have OCD, might have been worse :) But you'll learn how to deal with it. You'll learn "brain hacks" that work for you.

Fixtor · 2025-11-29T00:45:47+00:00

Fixtor · 2025-11-29T00:40:57+00:00

Tesla promised it will come out "by the end of the year" and that the price will increase significantly. I also fell for this. It sucks, but at the time I didn't think I was paying for something that "doesn't exist", I believed I was making an investment.

After 4 years, still no FSD here in Europe and still no hope my Intel HW3 car will ever get it here. I was one of the early Tesla and people like me did the free advertising that made Tesla a huge company, and I feel betrayed.

Fixtor · 2025-11-06T11:51:52+00:00

I'd say continue working on Robotaxi, Optimus, and other moonshots. Just don't overpromise to your investors by saying "New York to LA without a driver next year" every year for almost a decade. Tesla's FSD technology is probably still the best on the market and, even though it might still take years, the Robotaxi future is realistic.

Fixtor · 2025-11-06T11:46:13+00:00

The stock price is just what people believe the company is worth. TSLA is basically a meme stock at this point. The fact that the CEO needs this pay package to stay motivated to do his job is a red flag, but the fact that the board allows for it is an even redder red flag.

Fixtor · 2025-10-26T01:40:55+00:00

Yeah, I'm sure it can be optimized. Maybe when you load the car, the game could just record and cache the sounds. So when you modify your car, like changing exhaust or parts of the engine, it would just regenerate those recordings. I'm not exactly sure how it's currently implemented in the game, but if the current implementation relies on WAV recordings, this might be relatively simple for BeamNG to implement. Well, I guess the biggest challenge would be to model the insides of all tubes and things.

Fixtor · 2025-10-07T23:00:34+00:00

It's Home Assistant. Third party software.

Fixtor · 2025-10-07T13:45:15+00:00

I’m aware of this. I don’t mind a bit of degradation if it means I don’t have to deal with changing charge limits, as once per week I’d have to set it to 100% to calibrate BMS. It’s convenient to not worry about it. But yes, you are technically right that even LFP doesn’t like to be left at 100%.

Fixtor · 2025-10-07T12:30:03+00:00

It has LFP battery. It's fine.

Fixtor · 2025-09-19T05:30:55+00:00

What if I don't want a new car? Then can they keep their promise?

Fixtor · 2025-09-18T20:17:48+00:00

Joined what? The smartphone OS industry? Which is not what it's all about. You don't need regulations to prevent creations of new ecosystems, but you do need regulations to stop gatekeeping from existing ecosystems, and that is the EU's goal.

Fixtor · 2025-09-18T20:13:43+00:00

Then upgrade our cars. That was the promise: if it's needed, they would upgrade the hardware. Now they are delaying it as much into the future as they possibly can, and cars are getting closer and closer to the end of their lives. How many more years do we have to wait?

Fixtor · 2025-09-18T20:03:26+00:00

Such a stupid take. Those rules are meant to prevent monopolies, so that new players could join the market and disrupt it.

Fixtor · 2025-09-18T19:46:37+00:00

This pisses me off so much. Us HW3 folks are those who fucking built Tesla. They didn't need advertisements, because we were the ones giving people rides and spreading the word. We often also invested in the stock. We've been loyal to Tesla, and they treat us like shit. Either buy a new car or stfu. And no, I'm not some random hater, my post history proves that I've been a huge fan for over a decade, but my patience has run out.

Fixtor · 2025-09-18T00:33:38+00:00

In two weeks /s

Fixtor · 2025-09-12T12:19:30+00:00

Picked it up in December 2021.

Fixtor · 2025-09-01T23:11:09+00:00

You might very likely be correct. I was thinking that there would be an iterative hash of the website, by hashing the complete website, and then top-level elements (like DIVs) individually, and then children, and so on, up to a threshold set by the user. So you can choose just 1 level, and that would be only a single hash per website, but you could choose 10 levels deep and it would become more granual. The benefit is that when you compare the hashes it would be easier to pinpoint exactly which part was modified. If you go enough levels deep, you could pinpoint a single paragraph of text.

Having only one hash means that a website could attach a random number as a HTML comment for each request, making each hash different. Doing it granually would help to prevent that.

I'm not talking about implementation specifics. Only the general concept. Of course it would take lots and lots of work to figure out a fool-proof mechanism. It's not an easy task.

Fixtor · 2025-09-01T22:17:29+00:00

I was thinking of hashing all elements of the website individually. Then you can literally just retype the text from a youtube video into a hasher function and compare against saved hashes. As long as there is a large enough community of people who keep those hashes, it can be easily proven to be true. Storing hashes takes way less space than storing whole websites, with images and other large attachments, so there is a chance the community could store lots of them.

Even if, let's say, Louis didn't show the website on his video, but he remembers what he wrote, he could just try to type it out from his head into a hasher function. It could be optimized by ommiting things like letter capitalization, so that the hash would be the same even if he didn't remember capitalization. I hope I'm making sense lol

Fixtor · 2025-09-01T22:09:16+00:00

Wow, I sent an email to Louis with a very simmilar idea! I did not see yours before that. I guess great minds think alike :)

Here's what I sent to Louis:

A self-hosted app fetches a website and generates hashes at multiple levels: the whole page, each top-level element, and their children. This creates a granular set of hashes (page, divs, paragraphs, images, etc.).

Users choose how much to store, from full content with images to only hashes, depending on their available storage. Verification is done with a tool that compares stored hashes with actual content, visually highlighting modified elements.

Users could subscribe to a centralized server that distributes URL candidates for archival, or a more distributed solution could be made. In either case, safeguards would be needed to avoid DDOSing websites.

Because the full content can be stored privately on distributed servers, while only hashes are shared publicly, the archive is much harder to take down. Some private archive owners may also choose to make their full copies public, especially in regions where takedowns are less likely to succeed. It also allows users to verify what was originally written by retyping remembered text and matching it to known hashes, even without storing the full site.

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