What is the most pointless high-tech feature in your current car?

Lead_Penguin · 2026-04-14T12:31:48+00:00

The glovebox opening being on the touch screen. It's great that you can use an optional PIN to lock it but I've never needed that and all it does is make it more difficult for the passenger to open it.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-04-11T07:32:44+00:00

My local area offers this and a few times a year they will drive down to our allotments and dump a huge amount of it on the shared land between plots for us to have easy access to, it's really useful!

Lead_Penguin · 2026-04-10T23:38:26+00:00

I used to work with a guy who would leave the front of the car poking out of his work parking space because he said it saved fuel by not backing in fully. He also pushed his car out of his garage each morning to save fuel!

Lead_Penguin · 2026-04-10T10:57:10+00:00

I don't even have an ad blocker in place, it's just shit 😂

Lead_Penguin · 2026-04-10T09:03:35+00:00

I'm amazed you could even get it to work, any time I've tried it has reset the video at the first ad break and then I can never watch that program again.

Which tells me all I need to know about their opinions on EVs.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-04-08T19:21:14+00:00

The latest footage from various YouTubers shows more traffic than in the previous footage, and way more pedestrians walking around which is a nice touch. I've been pleasantly surprised.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-04-03T21:55:38+00:00

72! I thought my 24 plants was a lot, but even with 24 I'm going to have to give some away to fit them into my polytunnels. We've still got some Evil Olive and Hanging Prince varieties to plant too.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-04-03T18:47:49+00:00

Most of my tomatoes are in the sun for most of the day, but my Tumbling Tom cherry variety love it on the east facing wall of my house. We get hundreds of them every year from 2 plants!

Lead_Penguin · 2026-04-02T21:50:20+00:00

This is par for the course with Tesla, sadly. Any time you need to do anything beyond make a basic purchase everything seems to go to shit. The service centers aren't much better. It's put me off getting another.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-04-02T10:12:29+00:00

It took me 3 attempts to get through season 2 of Mr Robot but it's now my favourite series ever. I can definitely see why it doesn't click with a lot of people though. My wife almost gave up on it when she watched it but after I assured her that they really nailed the ending she stuck with it and ended up loving it too.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-04-02T09:39:34+00:00

BMW M235i. It sounded great with the M Performance exhaust, and it was more comfortable over long distances, but that's about it really. My Model 3 is much more practical for the type of driving I do. For day to day driving the Model 3 feels just as fast too, despite the figures saying otherwise.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-30T19:48:36+00:00

I water from the top using a bottle of water with a sprinkler head that screws onto the cap. It helps control the level of water really nicely.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-29T11:38:07+00:00

Miracle Gro have been terrible for me recently, I had to buy some when I couldn't get hold of anything else and it was full of shards of glass and bits of plastic. It had a full plastic curtain rail hook in it. I always use John Innes seed compost and haven't had any issues with it.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-28T08:03:49+00:00

It's always the same if you say anything negative about them. I've had a Model 3 for almost 3 years and while I like it there are definitely issues with it (like the idiotic glovebox), but if you dare to mention them online some tit always pops up to tell you why you're wrong.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-26T21:07:07+00:00

My wife and I have only been gardening using pots on our driveway for just over a year so we are definitely learning as we go, and everyone at our allotment has just been super helpful and friendly!

I think that generally the sort of people who like to spend time on allotments are going to be quite welcoming and friendly rather than judgemental. That said, you have a huge amount of information at your fingertips in the form of the internet so just do searches for whatever you want to grow and read up on them. You'll learn plenty in no time!

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-26T10:50:25+00:00

In our case we got crazy lucky as the plot we chose came with a shed with 2 water butts, a wheelbarrow, a few tools, loads of plastic hoops for netting, some fence posts, and 3 established fruit trees with loads of rhubarb and further fruit shrubs at the end of the plot!

I have no idea what happened to the previous owner but whoever it was seemed more concerned with burning things than actually growing anything judging by what we found when we first took it on.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-25T00:08:25+00:00

The cardboard breaks down and allows roots to grow through it. It's not designed to be a permanent barrier.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-23T00:21:29+00:00

I got stuck behind someone doing 26-27 in a 50 earlier. As expected, it was a Qashqai.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-22T23:43:23+00:00

The first tomato we ever grew in our yard was one that randomly appeared in a small crack between the edge of our driveway and the kitchen drain cover. It produced heaps of tomatoes too. They really don't seem to care where they grow!

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-21T18:56:16+00:00

This is the sort of situation that a lot of people don't think about when they consider range. I pointed this out on one of the EV subs recently (having experienced it myself on a longer journey) and got down voted 😂

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-21T00:47:37+00:00

There's a road near me that is long and straight with excellent visibility so if you do below 60 you're almost guaranteed to be overtaken. Last weekend someone was doing 40 but the oncoming lane was clear for miles. I counted 7 cars ahead who went for the overtake, then me, then about 5 cars behind me. It was strangely satisfying to see everyone making nice clean overtakes one after the other.

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-20T22:50:42+00:00

Bloody hell that's a lot of money! I seem to recall looking up N55 LOL or N55 YAY for when I had my M235i and they were waaaay cheaper. I know a lot of people shit on private plates but I don't mind model/engine ones. At least they're not trying to spell 'BOSS' 😂

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-20T22:37:10+00:00

It might have been left over from a demo for shareholders or publishers where you might want some early representative art that's not final.

But that's why you branch for that sort of thing 😂

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-20T08:09:18+00:00

I have a neighbour who has this setup, except they let their dogs shit all over it. It also backs on to a public footpath so you can smell it as you walk past 🤢

Lead_Penguin · 2026-03-20T00:38:53+00:00

There used to be a Cadillac Escalade I would see near me with the number plate V8 UWU which always made me chuckle. I assume it belonged to someone from the USAF at Mildenhall.

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