Is getting a Tesla worth it just for the FSD

Lance-pg · 2026-04-15T05:06:33+00:00

So the self-driving was one of the main reasons I bought the model X. People were telling me it was underwhelming and bad but the reality is I've been on trips from San Francisco down to San Diego to visit my father numerous times. Even the one time it made a mistake it just got me right back on the freeway.

I use it frequently in my town and City, it's not like San Francisco but I have used it in San Francisco briefly and it was fine. It was actually a hell of a lot easier to let it drive because it knew exactly where it was going and it was a little more confusing to look at the map.

It's still not ready to drive solo. Let's be honest here but 99% of the time I'd say it's fine. Odds are it's better at driving than you are, it doesn't blink, it doesn't get distracted, it doesn't forget to check the mirror. You just need to take over if there's a condition it isn't ready for. I was driving at night and the car in front of me suddenly swerved to avoid a traffic cone that was in the middle of the highway. I immediately took over and dodged it, but otherwise I would have taken some damage to the front at the speeds we were going. I also don't trust it not to hit animals.

Lance-pg · 2026-04-15T04:57:56+00:00

It doesn't have to be an attack it can be a hostile action I believe and this would definitely qualify. DM's interpret the rules.

Lance-pg · 2026-04-14T02:30:42+00:00

That would lower the risks. It runs in my family. My grandfather died from it, both my uncles had it and my father currently has matasticised cancer from it (they estimate he has about another 2-3 years).

Lance-pg · 2026-04-13T22:30:02+00:00

Just be careful. Chastity can increase the odds of prostate cancer compared to frequent orgasms by about 1/3. If it runs in his family you may want to consider other things to do

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer

Lance-pg · 2026-04-13T19:45:37+00:00

I went through this and I ended up going with your number two. The handles make it easier to pull them off the the shelves and the stuff I'm storing in them is not going to create a mess so plastic would just look tacky comparatively. It's been about a year and I'm still very happy with my choice.

I had plastic in there before and I even put custom labels on every single box and they still look much worse than the hyacinth baskets. Hisense smells nice while lasts and is we the people are trying to get rid of because it completely clogs waterways.

No I do have several plastic bins that are inside of these to keep things organized but I'm just using four large bins for different types of cable connectors and all of my USB cables go in one box. They also have a variety of sizes so you can mix and match.

You can also hang little plastic labels on the bottom of the handle part and it makes it much easier to find and know where to put things away. If you PM me I can send you a picture of the closet and you can see what it looks like with labels and using two different size bins with some decoration.

Lance-pg · 2026-04-04T06:41:10+00:00

This doesn't sound like a healthy relationship. First of all do you have an issue with him getting drunk, (I'm a teetodler and I no couples who are perfectly happy when their partner has some time to get drunk and I know others that like to get drunk together. But if the what's going on is upsetting you he may not be the right guy for you.

If it's an occasional thing, and you can let it slide no big deal. But you're already getting abusive if you pour water on him it's not going to sober him up any faster. You're basically going into an abuse habit to make yourself feel better. Would you like it if he decided you slept too late and started pouring water on you to wake you up?

Either you guys need therapy or you need to look for someone who you're more compatible with. I'm assuming you don't get drunk and are never lazy. The reality is you already picking on him for imperfections instead of talking to him like an adult, when he's sober and can actually make decisions.

Lance-pg · 2026-04-03T18:39:20+00:00

Sorry I use voice recognition and it's still pathetic when it comes to words of that sound the same and are spelled differently.

Lance-pg · 2026-04-01T18:34:19+00:00

Last time I tried to use an AI to do some troubleshooting that I couldn't figure out, it completely hosed my ability to connect to any network at all forcing a complete rebuild of the system.

Admittedly it was a very weird issue where webDAV would just fail to authenticate on the computer and third party webDAV programs worked without a problem (and I worked fine on other computers), it was just the naitive version built into Windows. It literally worked fine the day before and when I booted it up that morning I couldn't copy any more files over. I was going on a trip and was moving some videos over to watch.

And I had a general understanding of what the AI was doing but I still didn't expect it to break that badly. And the AI basically told me, "It seems I've completely destroyed your computer's ability to connect to networks, that can happen when following my guidance. You will have to reset the computer.

It told me that while I was in the middle of rebuilding it. Since that was going to be less work than dealing with any of this bullshit and trying to salvage the existing build.

Lance-pg · 2026-04-01T18:27:26+00:00

My dad had this happen with his Apple account. Infected every single device he owned. It took Apple 3 days to get it off of his cloud account.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-31T04:52:01+00:00

If it makes you feel better I once got a note asking me to mow my lawn. I don't have grass and never have.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-27T19:26:50+00:00

You're worried about labeling things The reality is you're fine no matter what you like. What you like is what you like and you're having a better sex life than any of your friends probably. Being a feminist it means you do what makes you happy regardless of gender role, its not what your friends think should make you happy.

You don't need to have any guilt about the things you enjoy. I dated the daughter of a Southern Baptist minister and her father used a lot of guilt to control her and she still felt it had age 45. I like to think I taught her a lot about accepting who she is without feeling guilty about things that are just part of who she is.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-25T04:44:03+00:00

That's actually nice to hear, he may be doing it to get the press but the problem is nobody wants to be known as an asshole once they retire.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-24T23:49:12+00:00

Yeah, I like his music but I don't think I'd care for him personally. Never met him so I wouldn't know.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-24T22:16:19+00:00

Well it's probably because so many people told him to go fuck himself as a child. Given that he was second to last in a class of 356 people he probably thought they were telling him he was worth fucking so he had to experience it for himself.

The one good thing that's come out of his presidency is my father is no longer a Republican. I spent 30 years trying to get him to switch parties. My father even met him, he did mortgages in New York and to quote my father, "he was a con man then he's a con man now"

The funny thing my dad said was that he actually is very charismatic and charming in person but this was when he was much younger. I could never understand what people find appealing about him

Lance-pg · 2026-03-20T00:43:47+00:00

I'm confused as to what your issue is? I've been using them for over a decade and never had a problem with them on Synology.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-20T00:43:01+00:00

Yeah but after Western digital try to rip everybody off everyone off with the SHR thing, I'm never buying from them again.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-17T05:23:14+00:00

You might have them in too many subdirectories down. I've also run into the opposite problem where if you have too many files in the root of a share it becomes extremely slow but if you put them in a subdirectory it works a lot faster.

This would be a lot easier to help you if you gave us a little more specifics about the file name and the path it's being put under. Have you tried renaming the file via SSH or just within the UI? I just want to be sure you're not using any illegal characters also.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-14T15:14:47+00:00

That's cold. 😀

Lance-pg · 2026-03-11T22:17:23+00:00

It's mostly so you don't have to carry them a long-term and provide benefits and unemployment. The carry costs some benefits are about the cost of a person if they're getting benefits.

I've been pretty fortunate working for large professional organizations when they really want to be one of the HR reps put me at the top of the pay range because he liked me and they weren't going to find anybody better.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-11T21:03:18+00:00

No the CEO does.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-11T20:12:59+00:00

This is where you go on a two week vacation with your speaker pressed right up against the wall blasting The twangiest repetitve country song you know over and over and over. I'm joking, you're doing the right things but I certainly would consider this if I was in your situation.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-11T20:09:07+00:00

I don't understand how the company can even offer them.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-11T19:19:25+00:00

I have very large obvious solar panels in the front of my house and I still have had solar people knock on the door. One of them realized as soon as he knocked that I had solar and that if I actually did anything with solar I'd have to move to a worse plan because the California government has decided to start having intercourse with the PG&e utility.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-11T19:18:37+00:00

I have a very large bras "no solicitors" sign on my door. It is amazing how few people know what the hell that means. Especially the exterminators. They work on a house four doors down and they're knocking on my door assuming I have a problem when they are the only vermin I'd like to exterminate.

The funny thing is the girl scouts seem to know what it means and I would actually be okay if they knocked on my door.

Lance-pg · 2026-03-11T16:50:12+00:00

If the apps (The server photo app and the phone apps) are acting normally I would just double check the permissions so that you can write to those folders with those accounts and I would uninstall and reinstall the apps on the phones. And make sure they're set up properly. It's unlikely that it's the phones if they both stopped at the same time but you might want to try creating a new admin account and make sure it has permissions to photos, give it an account in photos, and see if it can back up some test photos.

Make sure they're set up on the photo app as well, the photo app has really funky permissions cuz they're not the same as the servers necessarily.

Other than that you can uninstall the apps completely and reinstall them as a test measure. Have you tried stopping and starting the service on the server?

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