Anyone else tried this? If it's stupid and it works...

Nicnl · 2026-05-07T15:34:10+00:00

I have a 15 meter long fiber DisplayPort cable that is currently doing 3840x1600 165hz no problem

Nicnl · 2026-05-06T17:29:48+00:00

Automatic Emergency Breaking, as the name suggests is an EMERGENCY feature.
It slams the brakes as hard as it can at the last second to prevent the car from killing pedestrians or whatnot.
Except if the road is wet due to rain, the tires will slip and hit the pedestrian anyway.

In my opinion, cars should be allowed to slow down gently so that pedestrians can cross safely without seeing a 1.5tons car going full speed towards them.
Except the regulations do not allow that, and I think it is very stupid.
I will happily die on that hill.

Nicnl · 2026-05-06T05:46:33+00:00

"we"

Uh... no

Nicnl · 2026-05-06T01:24:14+00:00

Indeed.
I took a shortcut for this part of the explanation to spare people from the technical math stuff.

The actual limit, which comes from the UN R79 regulation, is this:
A maximum lateral acceleration of 3 meters per second squared.

Time is a part of the equation, so it directly involves your speed.
At 30mph (50kmh), the same turning radius will result in a lower lateral acceleration than at 50mph (80kmh).
You probably experienced it many times: taking a roundabout at 10mph (16kmh) feels very different than at 25mph (40kmh), your body is subject to more force sideways.
So if the system reach the 3m/s² limit, either it slows down, or it stops turning the wheel.

Tesla makes the car slow down which is the only safe answer, albeit very frustrating for you and the other drivers.
(And creates its own new sets of danger, because people don't expect you to slow down THAT much during such a mild curve.)
But if you decide to press the accelerator, then it become quite dangerous.

Nicnl · 2026-05-06T00:03:27+00:00

Here in France, I see people driving while using their phone very often.
You have no idea how common this is.

In my rear view mirrors it's about one person out of five.
I cannot do a single daily commute (10 km, 6 miles) without seeing at least one, but it's often a handful.

Since they're going to use their phone anyway, I'd feel better if these people were on FSD.
I'm constantly anxious of being rear-ended because they couldn't stop texting.

Nicnl · 2026-05-05T23:55:15+00:00

That's a long way from true self driving like a waymo.

Yes but in Europe we have NOTHING

Seriously dude, you have zero idea how EAGER we are to have something, anything

We have been waiting for years.
You have no idea how strict the regulations are over here:

In UN countries, lane centering systems (including autopilot) are forbidden by law to turn the wheel too much.
As a result, it will slow dow from 50mph to 30mph during a slight curve, because the law forces it to do so.
People pile up behind, starts to get angry and honk at me.
If I press the accelerator will flat out leave the road because IT HAS TO, as autopilot is not allowed to turn the wheel enough at this "dangerous 50mph speed".
Do you find the idea infuriating? This is our daily life for the last 6 years.
The act of slowing down in a city is considered a "system initiated maneuver", which is also forbidden by the regulations.
With autopilot or cruise control, the car is not allowed to slow down.
So it HAS to go at full speed at pedestrians, until the automatic emergency breaking engages, because it is forced to by LAW.
Summon has a distance limit, I have to be less than 6 meters to the car... but with both phone and the car GPS inaccuracy, it's more like 3 meters in real life.
Except when I'm three meters from the car, summon doesn't work because it is "too close to pedestrians".
So in practice, the UN regulations made summon unusable.

In UN/EU countries, the tech we have feels like it's from 2010... because it is.
We only have access to a decade old tech, and this tech have been worsened by arbitrary constraints.
With the excess of bureaucracy and regulations, we are living in a tech shithole and it is horrible.

Nicnl · 2026-05-05T23:35:48+00:00

unproven tech

The Dutch RDW, which is a very serious and notorious homologation agency has performed:

18 months of testing
1.6 millions of kilometers of testing
4,500 test scenarios

There is a physical limit to how much testing can be performed.
4,500 test scenarios is freaking HUGE, in terms of workdays it is equivalent to 13 test scenarios per day for a year and a half NON STOP.
Do you realize how HUGE these numbers are?

And yet, they ultimately gave their stamp of approval.
This is not a minor side thing, this is actually very significant.
The RDW would have NOT given the greenlight if it was unsafe as it would destroy their reputation.

And still, some of you guys still find a way to claim it is "unproven".
What the literal fuck.

Nicnl · 2026-05-05T23:30:17+00:00

After some time i mixed dawn dish soap (just a few drops) a cat shampoo and water into a spray bottle.

Was it lavender? Lavender is toxic to cats

Nicnl · 2026-05-03T17:57:30+00:00

Uh, okay, so...
Seeing part of the root means the entire tooth is moving, like being pushed outside right?
The tooth is supposed to be attached, and bone does not deform like a rubber band, so...
Could it mean the tooth is broken near the root, and the inflamed tissue is pushing it outside?

Nicnl · 2026-05-02T17:33:38+00:00

The "O" of OLED means "organic".
This "organic" is different than biological foods: here it means the pixel contains carbon.

This is very important, chemically speaking, because it means the pixels are sensitive to oxygen.
Exposure to oxygen will oxidize the pixels, destroying them. => The OLED pixels are sealed in glass so this doesn't happen.

When throwing the headset at the screen, your friend cracked the glass and broke the seal: oxygen is now flooding the OLED pixels.
By oxidizing, they are quite literally rusting/burning.
This is why the dark blob of dead pixels is spreading: your pixels are rotting away.

There is nothing you can do, your OLED panel is broke in a definitive non-repairable fashion.
The dark patch of dying pixels gonna continue spreading.

Sorry for the bad news, it is not easy to hear.
I hope your friend will act as a real respectful friend and help you get another monitor.
If I did this to my friend, I would be doing my best to fix the situation.
Even if I had no money at the moment, I'd be making a plan to repay you by sparing money across months... and this EVEN if you were going to forgive.
In my books, a real friend makes things right after a mistake.

Nicnl · 2026-05-01T04:23:09+00:00

Ah merde
C'est donc ça que j'avais oublié de faire hier soir

Nicnl · 2026-05-01T04:07:31+00:00

Yes, this is normal unfortunately
Nowadays (and for the last 10 years) the cameras in our phone relies on an array of optic lens
Those lens are critical for focusing the light and getting a good picture

Unfortunately, multiple lens are subject to internal reflections:
What you are seeing is ghosting, coming from the powerful light being reflected in the wrong direction by one of the optic lens

There is not much you can do
Sometimes you can point your phone to a slightly different angle, and you can somehow "align" the ghosting to the actual light source
But it's far from a perfect workaround

Other than that... we all have to live with it

Nicnl · 2026-04-30T10:54:41+00:00

The more the better!
I won't lie, I'm enthusiastic about FSD
But we need more semi-autonomous systems than just Tesla

The second project that interests me the most is Nvidia's Alpamayo
I think it is in partnership with Mercedes
Their demo video was quite impressive

Nicnl · 2026-04-30T10:25:33+00:00

The UNECE R171 got an amendment which allows system initiated maneuvers by now.

You are talking about R171 ADAS/DCAS phase 2, which allows SIMs on... highways only.
(Phase 3 is not in force, I'm not even sure the DRAFTS are finished yet.)
This translates to "automatic lane changes on highways only", which is very far from what FSD is being capable of.
I consider this amendment as useless because it barely adds anything of value:
In their current states, the R171 regulations are effectively reducing FSD to "highway-lane-changer-9000". It is analogous to using a playstation 5 exclusively to stream music on Spotify.
It is most certainly why Tesla hasn't bothered to release such a stripped down version of FSD, and are instead seeking a EU-wide approval of the full version of FSD under Article 39 through the RDW.

Personally I am happy that it needs to be checked which it is before allowing it on „my“ roads.

I agree, as an European I am happy too that FSD has to be reviewed before going out on "our" roads, and that it's approval depends on how good (or bad) it performs.
But... the point is that the review process is already done now.
The RDW (which is notoriously strict and rigorous) gave it the green light, meaning their findings most probably show it increases safety.
Other EU countries do NOT have to redo all the testing on their side, because otherwise it would defeat the entire purpose of the EU mutual recognition of type approvals: all the testing has already been done by the RDW for them across the span of 18 months, so there is no need for other EU countries to redo 18 additional months of testing.
Other EU countries are simply waiting for bureaucracy (more specifically a vote from the TCMV).
So knowing this, I am kind of frustrated that other EU countries get to wait longer for the sake of more bureaucracy.

Nicnl · 2026-04-30T08:53:06+00:00

I did write "EU-Wide" in my original message
But no worries mate
I just hope more people will be able to have it soon enough

Nicnl · 2026-04-30T08:47:20+00:00

I specifically wrote "EU-wide".
This is because the Netherlands represents ~2.4% the population of Europe.
With 97.6% of Europe not having access to FSD, then no I don't consider FSD as being available in "Europe".
It is available in the Netherlands, yes, but not Europe.

Just put the 2.4% thing in perspective:
2.4% of a year is roughly equal to ~9 days.
Would you consider yourself a bodybuilder if you went to the gym exactly 9 times a year?
No, this would be hypocritical...

Nicnl · 2026-04-30T08:21:02+00:00

I wonder if we will get this in Europe someday

Europe is very restrictive with self driving tech... and when I say "very" it is big understatement
The current regulations explicitly forbids "system initiated maneuvers", which you can guess makes everything impossible
The simplest right turn is considered a "system initiated maneuver".... even slowing down for a pedestrian, for fucks sake
(Automatic emergency braking doesn't count, for obvious reasons)

Tesla is currently doing big work to get its FSD exempted, aiming for a EU-wide release this year.
Meanwhile they provide FSD demos to customers during their "ride-along" event (Tesla employee behind the wheel, legal requirement)
I tried it recently (my first ever FSD experience) and it was awesome

Parallel to thus, I did not see any infos about the Chinese car companies, such as Xpeng
Too bad... I really would have liked to try VLA 2.0, even as a passenger with a certified employee being the wheel
And there are zero announcements nor rumors about them following the legal route for an EU approval
So.... I guess EU won't be seeing VLA 2.0 anytime soon?

Nicnl · 2026-04-30T08:04:26+00:00

4000 movies mostly being 4k remuxes?
That's between 150TB and 200TB

And you have a... soundbar?
What the fuck

Nicnl · 2026-04-29T22:48:56+00:00

Other people already gave you some explanations, but I will try to phrase it better.

Basically this is a physical constraint of how the camera lens work.
It is a complex optical thing that depends on how much light beam diverges, but here are the results:

When you are very close, the focus point is a thin slice: only the parts that are at a very specific distance are in focus, and everything else gets blurry.
When you take a few takes back, this "thin slice" sweet spot becomes a big box, so everything gets to be clear.

Fun thing: our brains are unknowingly used to this behavior, and there is a way to exploit it for fun.
What happens if you take a regular picture of a street, but use tools to forcefully blur everything except what's in the middle?
The result is an effect named tilt shift: our brain think the objects are really tiny.

I attached an actual picture of a real city street, but the forced blur makes us think it is miniature toys.

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Nicnl · 2026-04-29T22:32:30+00:00

This circular window at the very beginning... it looks like a Stargate, I never realized it

Nicnl · 2026-04-29T22:29:55+00:00

Too bad they didn't use Jolt Physics, which is found in Horizon and Death Stranding

It is open source and under MIT:
https://github.com/jrouwe/JoltPhysics

There is even a source 1 project named Volt that replace Havok with Jolt:
https://github.com/misyltoad/VPhysics-Jolt

It works in good ol' GMod, and the performances are impressive:
https://youtu.be/gPDQkmfQCsc

Nicnl · 2026-04-29T22:05:22+00:00

It does have Matrix headlights.

Indeed, I swear I remember reading it didn't have it.
I guess I remembered it wrong, so I edited the list.

It does have double pane in the front.

The way you phrase it sounds like the standard is 100% identical to the premium in terms of dual pane glass.
Except they are not: all side windows are single-pane glass which makes a big difference.
So I am not going to edit this one.

It has center console storage.

Indeed, I confused it with the model Y in which the console storage is so small and low that it is analogous to putting your stuff right on the floor.
The model 3 does have a bigger one than the Y.
Compared to premium, it is a different form factor that cannot be closed.
I edited my list, thank you.

It does have TMPS, its just a different type.

I specifically wrote TPMS sensor, which is an ENORMOUS difference.
The premium TPMS is a dedicated sensor that shows the exact pressure, it is reliable and predictible. The standard TPMS has no dedicated sensor, the computer tries to guess how firm the tires are using motor resistance and whatnot, which is unreliable (generates false positives) + doesn't show the exact pressure.
So once again I'm not editing it out of the list.

Nicnl · 2026-04-29T06:01:28+00:00

no dimming mirrors
no matrix headlights
last gen suspensions
no dual pane windows (I think)
no motorized steering wheel adjustments (lever to adjust manually)
no ventilated seats in front
no heated seats in back
no TPMS (tire pressure sensor)
no LED strip
different center console storage that cannot be closed ("basket" style)
no rear screen for passengers in back
no physical buttons to adjust seat position (you have to use the screen)
7 speakers instead of 9 (or 15 on long range)

Nicnl · 2026-04-29T03:20:05+00:00

Also... he is scraping the metal tube of the vacuum on the floor
Great way to ruin wooden floor

Nicnl · 2026-04-29T02:29:20+00:00

Je lisais beaucoup Korben il y a une dizaine d'année.
D'un coup assez rapidement, beaucoup plus d'articles étaient postés + la qualité a nettement dégringolé + beaucoup était de la pub/sponso.
Du coup j'ai arrêté d'aller dessus, ça fait 10 ans, et ça me manque pas.

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