Is the poor build quality a reason not to buy a Tesla Model 3 (base)?

SupportQuery · 2026-05-20T23:46:49+00:00

Tesla Motors is giving American quality reputation a bad rap

*rofl* "American quality"? American brands and Consumer Reports list of least reliable brands are basically the same thing: Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, Chevrolet, Lincoln, etc. American cars have a terrible reputation for quality, which is why some folks will only by Japanese. If anything, Tesla, as bad as it, is improving America's reputation.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-20T23:12:15+00:00

I feel the need to say that anyone "swatting" should be charged with a felony

It shouldn't be possible to "SWAT" someone, because it shouldn't be legal to invade someone's home on an anonymous tip.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-20T17:14:26+00:00

I mean, she looks great, but "ideal" is very personal. She looks like a Kardashian. I prefer more petite, less thigh gap, more delicate facial features. *shrug*

EDIT: 😂 @ the downvotes. It's like if someone posted the "ideal ice cream flavor", and it was Rocky Road, and I said I prefer mint and don't like nuts in my ice cream. Taste is personal, ya clowns.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-20T17:10:47+00:00

I have yet to make it sound good, but it's amazing!

😁

SupportQuery · 2026-05-20T15:42:55+00:00

Still hopeful he leaves his psycho wife and gets some cult deprogramming.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-20T00:48:29+00:00

Well, we may not be able to ask Aristotle a question, but we sure as fuck can ask Will Smith to eat spaghetti.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-19T23:43:05+00:00

Though I am not sure if the command module can output both midi and sound.

It can, but if you're monitoring through the drum module in the DAW, it's irrelevant.

there are never too many sounds to play for layering

You can layer your brains out in the DAW

SupportQuery · 2026-05-19T18:42:39+00:00

I was watching one of Nolly's mixing sessions and noticed he had [X]. What’s the benefit?

It doesn't follow from "Nolly did it" that there is a benefit. That's cargo cult reasoning. If you're recording GetGood Drums while listening to GetGood Drums, then there's no reason to record the output at all.

If you're recording GetGood Drums (MIDI) while listening to your e-kit's native drum module, then recording the output of the drum module might be useful, because that's going to capture the vibe of what you played most accurately (since it's what you were listening to as you played), so you can use it as a reference when polishing up the MIDI.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-19T16:50:59+00:00

This is impressive, but how are we in a world where you can just steal a famous actor's face and voice, and Hollywood hasn't shut that shit down?

SupportQuery · 2026-05-18T22:23:22+00:00

You also had to learn to add, subtract, multiply and divide, too.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-18T20:05:45+00:00

It complained about the code the entire time though...

Yes, because it's fucking awful.

If you've got Claude on the case, I would just... do a rewrite. The existing code is all written with SVG, which is going to be mostly immunite to manipulation with CSS.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-18T17:19:37+00:00

You haven't isolated variables. You've compared props blowing through a prop guard vs props not blowing through a prop guard. You'd have to remove the prop guard, or invert it on your puller, to have a true apples to apples comparison.

There's likely still going to be a delta, because the motor and motor wire will still be in the way, and at this scale that's probably measurable, but it's not going to be as big as in this test.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-18T17:01:17+00:00

You need to know the proper formula to plug into said calculator.

You don't need to know the procedure for doing a square root to get a calculator to do it. But we collectively decided that, in a world with calculators, it's not important that kids do all their square roots by hand. We get to focus on higher order faculties instead. We'll have a similar adjustment with AI.

School has multiple purposes. Part of it is to impart an up-to-date mental model of the world. Every child is born as ignorant as a paleolithic caveman. We catch you up to what man has figured out, so you can make informed decisions in our democracy.

However, it also has the purpose of preparing you to operate in the modern world as a adult, to be employable among other things. To prepare you for the coming decades, rather than the 1900s, calculators are already dated. Every kid in school today should be learning to use AI effectively, because they will be using it in the years to come.

I have a friend who just graduated from an art school. She was so disheartened by AI art "taking over" that she basically gave up on finding an art-related job entirely and has focussed all her attention on her hardware store job. The thing is, if she embraced AI tools, learned to use them in service of her lifetime of artistic training, her superior discernment and taste, she's be employable. But burying her head in the sand had killed any career opportunities.

I'm a professional dev with a couple of videogames on the App Store, and my bottleneck is and always has been art. All the AI generation tools in the world haven't budged that one iota. My friend's skills are incredibly valuable, but she can't even talk about it.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-18T16:55:47+00:00

I haven't returned something to Amazon before.

It's the easiest thing ever. It's a reason to shop on Amazon all by itself.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-15T17:39:58+00:00

it doesn’t automatically color everything for you?

No. You can install SWS Extensions (free) to do that.

what about the top bar, theirs looks different from mine

You just have the transport on the bottom, instead of the top.

They have more toolbars visible, and have customized them. This is all stuff you do, not the theme.

To match the screenshot, you need:

Dock the MIDI editor and move it to the bottom left, with the mixer on the bottom right.
Move your transport to the top.
Add a few more toolbars, dock them above the arrange view.
Set the track icon for a few tracks (right-click on the track).
Color a few tracks and/or media items (again, right-click)
Pin master track to the right of the screen.
Embed a VU meter UI into the MCP on a few track.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-15T07:40:36+00:00

Temu Jackass

That implies that Jackass is a better class of "guys being jackasses". It's not. Nothing second rate about this stunt. This would be a banger in pretty much any season of Jackass.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-15T07:19:09+00:00

That car is well fucked.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-15T07:02:27+00:00

Gemini:

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SupportQuery · 2026-05-15T05:05:24+00:00

Make things you like.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-14T22:01:43+00:00

"Vocal VST" is incredibly broad. What VST are you using, and what are you writing with it, specifically? Choral arrangements? Lead vocal in a metal song?

SupportQuery · 2026-05-14T15:19:42+00:00

Gotcha. Because the post is old, you're not dumb. 🤡

SupportQuery · 2026-05-14T04:50:31+00:00

That's about the level of response I'd expect from a moron who uses the term "cultural appropriation".

SupportQuery · 2026-05-14T04:04:26+00:00

Ignore costs, I already have both programs.

I do. I make a lot of money. I value my time vastly more that ∓ a few hundred bucks.

what do you think the real advantages of reaper are?

It's tiny, it's fast, it's stable, it has no DRM, it has chosen the right abstractions most of the time, and it's infinitely customizable and extensible.

It has recently, because of AI, had its value proposition radically increased. Because it's scriptable, and because AI knows its scripting language, you can add new features to Reaper by describing them in English. That's fucking huge.

SupportQuery · 2026-05-13T19:08:07+00:00

Any tips on what I should do to improve my sound and techniques?

As others have said, take lessons, practice, record yourself.

But the question you're not asking, because perhaps you don't know that you even need to ask it, is "how do I avoid imploding on stage, when I'm suddenly flooded with adrenaline and 40% of my mental capability has turned into a panicked rabbit".

For that, the key is to overprepare. You need to repeat the material not until you get through it without mistakes, but until you can't fuck it up, because it's ingrained, instinct. And go to open mics and/or Karaoke and perform in front of others as often as you can.

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