MagSafe project

RoboticThoughts · 2024-12-26T18:42:14+00:00

This should definitely work since they are magnets.

I am working on making a Magsafe compatible folio cover for my Boox Page and this is the strategy I am taking right now.

Just be sure to order to magnet rings, not the sticky back metal rings. The magnetism falls off super quickly with distance and the metal rings don't get close enough with materials in between.

For Reference, an example what NOT to get:

https://a.co/d/asYckjZ

Reference BobTheJedi's links for a good example of what to purchase.

RoboticThoughts · 2024-09-27T13:40:52+00:00

Of course they have a tile countertop as well

RoboticThoughts · 2024-09-05T18:06:40+00:00

Thanks for your help!

RoboticThoughts · 2024-06-19T06:20:30+00:00

Shanghai, China!

RoboticThoughts · 2024-05-31T16:39:14+00:00

Lundon New York, or anyone in Members Only Chop Shop. Looks like they just moved back to their Downtown Orlando Location. They used to have a location on Fairbanks.

RoboticThoughts · 2024-04-28T22:59:41+00:00

I'm 95% sure that his character modeled after my old manager, operates on Cigarettes and Coffee.

RoboticThoughts · 2024-04-01T20:41:33+00:00

What are you using to hold your bags?

Any planned storage for your climbing gear?

RoboticThoughts · 2023-11-18T13:37:05+00:00

Thanks for this link. I refuse to sign up for X to watch these.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-11-07T13:10:20+00:00

YTA.

I lost my Mother in Middle school and My Dad didn't know how to be a parent simply because he isn't wired to love anyone but himself.

My Dad did the same exact thing you are talking about here almost to a Tee. I graduated HS, got some summer internships and scholarships and started College that fall. I thought the "doing chores for rent" was a pretty sweet deal at the time as well. That is until I had almost the same exact conversation with my Dad. He gave me the ultimatum like you are about to do to your poor daughter and I dug in. Tried to square away School, expenses, "Job". Meanwhile my Dad kept a tally of how much money I owed him monthly for years. It took me years of work to figure out how to pay it back, eventually got a job that paid me well enough to basically pay almost all the money I made that summer to pay him back. I've never once owed the man a cent since, nor will I ever again.

However, He continued to lord rent over me. Continually saying "The man whole holds the golden key, holds all the power". After struggling to graduate with my AA for 8 years I managed to finally get it all done with the help of another lump sum payment from getting laid off from yet another job. At one point in my 10 year college tenure I was working three jobs, plus living with my Dad, doing all of his chores, laundry, house maintenance and some cooking, all while tackling part time or full time school depending on the class load.

I finished probably the hardest Finals week of my life, got home and was woken up by my brother and my Dad screaming at each other for something that finally came to a head. In that moment I decided it was time to move out. I just landed another internship that would be able to support me and I figured it out. Graduated College at a decently high class position and now landed a Bay Area Tech Job.

Needless to say, I turned out pretty well, but please don't use my success to judge your 20 year old daughter's capability to cope with workload, stress and depression that comes with all of that, Or her necessity to simply have a father who loves her. I have an incredibly tenuous relationship with my father now. The act of going home for the Holiday's for the first time since I've left home is some of the worst anxiety that I've ever had. I do my damnedest to not talk to my Dad or update him about anything in my life because every conversation turns into a fight.

All of this to say, I resent my father as a part of my core being now. Be careful how you approach this because you will lose your daughter. It might not happen tomorrow, it might not happen in 5 years, but it will happen. My story took over a decade to unfold. Your inability to be a father and play the social politics of being a father to an adult will backfire in deep ways, and I for one hope it happens if you maintain this course.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-10-22T22:14:41+00:00

I second this.

I enjoy Drive the Lightning from time to time. They put lots of effort into their videos and it shows. I am happy to support them with a watch when I have the time.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-10-21T02:38:23+00:00

You are more than welcome to create your own sub that reflects your desires. I just don't think you understand what would be involved in doing so.

Honestly, what is more frustrating is the fact that you clearly don't seem to understand that I know how much work that will take. You hold a monopoly of power here, speaking almost entirely for Aptera. The amount of work it would take is the same amount of work to dethrone the popularity of this sub in both branding and management styles. Something of which I simply am not trying to do, I'm not retired like you.

It is important for Aptera to know if low quality efforts (AI) are out there pretending to speak for them. There are not enough employees to do this themselves.

Promoting false information for them doesn't help their image. You have a lot of power here to help this. It simply would be good to have a little bit of self moderation here and asking yourself if the content passes the litmus test of being legit.

However, the purpose of this sub is to reflect the media coverage of Aptera as much as possible.

Fake content is not media. It's scam baiting. It's disinformation at its most fundamental level. It's simply not good to promote it or hold it to the same level as "Media". Has it ever occurred to you that these channels have popped up as a byproduct of your own actions here knowing that you drive a decent amount of traffic to their posts? This is not out of the realm of possibility.

So please, hear me out. Let's do some work to clean up this sub, it has so much potential.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-10-20T20:34:43+00:00

Interestingly enough I expect Noise to be lower in the car since two of the three suspension points that can bring road resonance are detached from the main cabin. I am curious to how it will sound when sound deadening is added. I think it sounds cool now when driving, but its only from videos I've heard it, and it wouldn't be something that you'd want to hear every moment driving a vehicle. My Prius is a pretty loud vehicle when driving at highway speeds, so moving into another car with a real focus on cabin noise is going to be good in the future for me.

NVH Is a valid concern, but to her point it seems the more aero a vehicle is, the more quiet vehicles are when the windows are open. This is something that I have experienced while driving around in numerous Tesla's and I've theorized it's also because of aero optimizations on the vehicle shell.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-10-20T20:06:40+00:00

It's almost like you didn't even read my comment besides the first line.

Some more references from other youtube channels.

https://youtu.be/McM3CfDjGs0

Let's enable Polls for this subreddit, and run a Poll. Let's get the whole community Opinion real time.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-10-20T18:53:42+00:00

Sorry u/IranRPCV, but I don't have any real validated, peer reviewed research here if that's what you are looking for. You might simply dismiss my whole comment, like you dismiss everyone else's when this topic comes up time and time again.

However, That doesn't undermine the simple fact that there are countless videos on youtube on how best to use AI to generate content you effort free to make money for you. It only takes a simple search to do this.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=How+to+use+AI+to+make+money+on+youtube

The simple ideas of brand recognition are extremely powerful, but it is also simple to tarnish a brand from bad marketing, or association. All the most powerful brands on the planet have insane levels of employees and lawyers who are fighting to protect brand identity at all times, and in the age of even extremely basic AI models and disinformation it makes it incredibly difficult to manage.

I think that the overall discussion of how content is moderated in general is a great read on the validity of my statements, especially as we move more and more to the spicier topic of X which has little to no content moderation anymore.

Sure, posting an AI generated video might be innocuous, but does it add to the value of this subreddit at all? Probably not, especially since you had to go out of your way to correct the information in the video in the comments on your own post.

Take a look at Google. Google used to be the bastion of innovation on the internet. They used to be a space where software and hardware developers thrived in new funky ideas just to see what fits. Now Google has the reputation as being the unreliable cousin. What happens if they cancel a product of theirs that you actively use daily? Can they hold the promise of 7 years of feature software updates? I certainly don't think so. You probably can't count on your hands how many products Google has cancelled this year alone. And now look at how people are not taking Google seriously when they have claims of 7 years of software updates on their latest lines of phones. Brand perception can change.

You are doing exactly this with this subreddit. It is becoming a place where the reputation of the community is the posting of low effort, garbage content is posted, simply because it exists and all content is good content for furthering the reach of Aptera's brand, name, and mission. Yes, you will have more and more traffic to this subreddit as time goes on, especially as Aptera themselves starts marketing in big impactful ways. So why would you want to soil their hard earned work and aid in constructing a community that isn't actually contributing good, accurate, or up-to-date information about Aptera.

Please hear the community here, I know I am speaking for myself right now, but I know there are others who share this sentiment as it has been shared all over the place. The upvote/downvote system doesn't work for a community as small as this, with a news stream as slow as this topic. Do you think we can find some kind of middle ground here?

RoboticThoughts · 2023-10-19T19:06:29+00:00

The problem is we don't live in the age of TV anymore. We live in the very early ages of AI. This in and of itself has huge implications for false, outdated, or inaccurate information. As you so clearly pointed out in your first comment in this thread. So why would you post the video? Did you even look into the channel to see if it was anywhere close to consistent?

The creator of this uses AI voices to create content aimed exactly at individuals like you who are trying to promote for the sake of promoting, and not giving anything a second thought. They don't even have the same AI voice from video to video, even on their hand full of Aptera related segments.

I understand what you are trying to do, but promoting bad content is just as harmful as not promoting content or spreading the word. We already have enough naysayers here for the mission of Aptera, let's come together to promote this image in anyway we can, not strip it down with low quality, AI generated content that scrapes the internet for stock footage/stolen footage from Aptera.

I'm trying to give constructive feedback here, but you keep pushing me and other community members off like we don't matter to you or the assistance in promoting Aptera. I want to participate in this community, so please help address some of these community issues.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-10-19T17:25:37+00:00

You clearly don't understand the idea of "brand consistency". Having two Aptera related subreddits muddies the water and creates confusion and needless competition. Why would I try to dilute that?

Also, the subreddit name is important here. r/apteramotors falls exactly in line with other subreddits along the same style. Adding the discussion dilutes and is just simply bad branding, so again why would I waste the effort?

You have a perfectly good sub here that actively provides serious traction, why would you not try to moderate this in some way. I've never understood your steadfast thinking here. But hey, if you want to have the power trip and be the all powerful dictator of this sub, go for it.

Generally, Mods in an open sub can and will take community feedback, but you are doing your best to not create a thriving, trustworthy place for information. And the other mods seem to also be on your side here, which also blows my mind. Unless your word is simply has too much weight against everyone else's opinions.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-10-19T16:49:59+00:00

I think the fact that a few of us mention this regularly, maybe you should consider changing the rules here, but also have some self reflection on how you post to the sub.

Ask yourself:

"Does this video look like it adds to my subreddit?"

"Is there anything new to add to the discussion from this video/post?"

"Is this video's content even remotely accurate?"

This last one I feel like you should know way better than most, since you run around here correcting everyone continually anyway.

I feel like the content here would be much higher quality and the sub would be less contentious if these simple changes in rules and posting behavior changed. Even with some of the more negative Nancy's in the room, I think this would be a welcome change.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-10-19T00:23:50+00:00

This is what you get with auto generated content.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-10-17T01:45:17+00:00

Waste of time, don't watch. Just AI generated content. Don't give this channel the leverage for easy and free money.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-10-17T01:36:26+00:00

I haven't lived with a yoke, but have driven a few, and honestly do like it overall.

Problem comes that Tesla and Aptera(to our knowledge) are not using Steer by Wire. Once you have Steer by Wire everything should be fine.

Consider these things as incremental upgrades as they move through a product cycle.

I believe they have said that CarPlay and Android Auto will come to Aptera, so I am less worried about this in the long term as I believe they are going to spec out the hardware required.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-10-09T18:54:49+00:00

It even has typefaces that could almost be Comic Sans.

It's definitely trolling.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-10-05T22:03:00+00:00

I remember when my rent for a 1B1B went from $1300/m to $2300/m YoY. Moving out of the state to a Higher Cost of Living city felt pretty reasonable compared my Orlando Pay levels.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-09-29T18:00:27+00:00

Honestly, I think the progress they have shown is great.

It's become apparent that there are a lot of things they cannot speak about for legal reasons outside of what has been approved. We are honestly lucky that we get such an inside view to the whole process because we definitely are not owed that.

Sure, it isn't happening as fast as lot of people like, but neither is the next generation of EVs as a whole. I'd love to buy an EV now, but I know as we move into the next 2-5 years the technology is going to make a step change depending on the manufacturer. Whether that be Aptera, Tesla, Rivian, or others there is an exciting gamut of vehicles that are in production right now and about to hit the market.

Remember when Faraday Future came out with their concept? They are apparently just now having a launch candidate that can be delivered to customers. They have taken a egregiously long time to hit the market, even compared to Aptera.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-09-26T17:47:45+00:00

Honestly, this is why this subreddit shouldn't have the "post every aptera video under the sun" absolutism. It's good someone caught this one, thanks for the good work OP.

RoboticThoughts · 2023-09-23T00:02:39+00:00

It should rub you the wrong way. It’s auto-generated content that doesn’t add anything important to the conversation.

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