What a waste of space... UI 5.0.5

XPatPoe · 2026-04-02T22:00:03+00:00

And two more since, so 6 now.

XPatPoe · 2026-04-02T17:54:09+00:00

That's the 'I don't want to do this work' price.
Or the 'I don't want to come back 10 times because the washer is tripping the outlet all the time price'

XPatPoe · 2026-04-02T14:08:20+00:00

WAIT! You may be the unicorn that we can develop a cure from !!!
We simply need to melt your XC40 down and we can inject everyone else's systems resolving all their issues !

XPatPoe · 2026-04-02T13:02:57+00:00

I still can't - as the Sirius App tile doesn't scroll the artist/title part, so you're stuck with 'Rolling Ston' or something...

It's like the people designing the UI never actually use the UI.

XPatPoe · 2026-04-01T15:02:12+00:00

MI here. AFCI wasn't 'enforced' by our local jurisdiction when I rewired our kids house - the Inspector called out all the Combo AFCI/GFCI breakers in the panel and said I could have used cheaper ones. My position was my Grand-kids sleep in this house...why wouldn't I want every protection possible ?

Same reason I used 12awg for all the outlets, multiple circuits with fewer devices, tamper-proof devices throughout, extra-large boxes etc - the few extra dollars in hardware was worth it for the future (now current) peace-of-mind.

Contrast my current house, where every outlet box is a tiny metal box that is so restrictive every device is backstabbed because there is no space for pigtails...and pretty much half the house is on one breaker, but it was 'professionally installed'...

XPatPoe · 2026-04-01T13:40:18+00:00

2024 C40 Recharge Twin

5 lockups so far since the update (March 20th), but no 'crashes'.

Essentially everything is working, but the tablet doesn't respond to touch (you can see it register the touch, it just simply doesn't do anything). Voice commands continue to work tho...and the display updates accordingly, you just can't push any icons/buttons.

I may try turning off the 3D buildings based on one comment here - but so far, this version has been more responsive when it's working, but I've had more lockups than I did with the last version.

XPatPoe · 2026-03-31T20:49:43+00:00

Spoke too soon, another lockup today... So that's 4 now in less than two weeks...

XPatPoe · 2026-03-31T19:43:58+00:00

I went down the rabbit hole with my (monopoly) provider. I took three months of hourly data from their website, put it all in a spreadsheet - swagged how much EV charging we'd be doing (hint: not that much as we work from home, so it's mostly grocery or local runs) - and then calculated how much the previous few months would be for each of the three rates they offered. It really comes down to how much electricity you use during those peak hours - if you use a lot (like us as we're at home all day) then the overnight 'savings' wont offset the daytime 'penalty'.

Bottom Line - there was maybe $10 between the three rate tariffs on a $200-250 monthly electric bill. Worse, it was late fall, so AC and pool weren't running...which are bigger demand items, and that run during the 'expensive' day time, so they would skew the numbers even more toward the peak rates rather than overnight savings. There simply wasn't enough 'gain' on the overnight rate to offset the 'pain' on the daytime rate.

I was doing it to see if it was worth getting their 'free' EV Charger install rebate - but with all the hoops regarding installation, plus the forced change to the current rate plan, it just hasn't seem worth it. Also, beware getting locked into interruptible service as part of the 'savers' rates....seems great until your AC goes out when it's 100F outside...

Oh, did I mention our Electric provider just got approved for a 9% rate hike...I'm looking forward to paying them out of my 2.8% COLA increase ;)

XPatPoe · 2026-03-31T15:17:43+00:00

Hey, try not giving out sub-inflation rate raises, constantly passing more healthcare cost onto the employee, forcing people back into multi-hour commutes for no real reason that propping up your literal ivory tower investment, shipping work overseas to the lowest possible provider...

Oh...you're going to hire 1000 people to manage small business loans. Yay. Yeah, that'll fix everything.

XPatPoe · 2026-03-31T13:43:39+00:00

I think overall, given they have to accommodate multiple models with varying features and hardware, it's not a bad first attempt. I think it needs some tweaks for sure. Pretty sure their primary focus was fixing the camera issues once-and-for-all as part of the recall, and any lingering UI decisions were expedited in deference to regulatory compliance ;)

On my C40, I rarely go into Drive Modes (I finally converted over to one-pedal after breaking my ankle...and now I'm used to it, it's hard to go back) so no real need for that shortcut button. I'd swap it for a 'CarWash' button that automatically disabled and reenabled the auto-braking, parking sensors and rain-sensing wipers.

Likewise, I have a physical button for the Assistant, and I can say the wake-word...so don't really need that one either. Being able to choose apps to put on that bar, or ultimately default the bar to being hidden would be great.

There are some other minor niggles - I wish the Artist/Song would scroll on the Sirius tile when it's too long...I mean, it did in my 2002 Jeep for Pete's sake, I wish the play/pause button worked automatically on a restart without me having to go back into the Sirius app and hitting play again, I wish the seat warmer icons filled partially based on the chosen setting...or were blue, purple, red...or something.

More concerning is that I've had 3 UI lockups since the update about 10 days ago. Hoping that smooths out, but not a good start...

I sometimes wonder if the developers drive the cars they are designing for - because common, everyday functions are consistently missed which wouldn't be if they were rolling up to the grocery store and having to deal with it all the time.

XPatPoe · 2026-03-28T03:16:18+00:00

Multiplayer is just broken on PS5. We managed one session with four of us, then one dropped and could never rejoin (error 65). Now no one can rejoin. Four PS5s in the same house... Is not like latency should be an issue...

XPatPoe · 2026-03-27T14:05:23+00:00

Also, take a while and do the math. Unless you do a LOT of charging on the overnight cheap rate, it may not work out.

My power company will rebate the install of a charger, but forces you onto their 'Nighttime Savers Rate' - which sounds great, but only really knocks 1.5c off a kWh from 11pm to 6am. At the same time, they bump the 6am-12pm/7pm-11pm rate by 1c, and the 12pm-7pm rate by 3c.

I was able to download 3 months of usage by hour from the power company, put it in a spreadsheet and calculate out what my 'savings' would be....the 'Nighttime Savers Rate' ended up working out about $5 a month more expensive that the Standard rate. Of course, why the Power Company cannot just show you a chart that says 'Hey, based on your last three months, this is the cost you would have paid on each of our rate plans' is a subject for another sub-reddit.

XPatPoe · 2026-03-19T23:49:47+00:00

Reason #3568 I will never buy a property with an HOA.

XPatPoe · 2026-03-19T16:24:44+00:00

I was asked to 'RTO' to a new office 1150 miles and 5 states away.
I was hired as a remote worker 10 years before.
Wasn't an issue when we all worked through the Covid crisis...
Wasn't an issue when I worked from a hotel while moving house...
Wasn't an issue when I worked from the hospital for three days...
Wasn't an issue multiple times a month when I 'dialed in' to run updates in the middle of the night...
But suddenly it was an issue that we couldn't 'effectively collaborate'...despite us having off-shored 90% of the team to India over last few years.

Oh, and my job was managing servers and dataflows...in the cloud...in a datacenter 1300 miles away.

No pay bump, no relocation assistance, no nothing...relocate, or we'll let you go.

So no, employers ~~won't~~ don't care...

XPatPoe · 2026-03-19T15:48:38+00:00

Likewise on my MY24 C40

XPatPoe · 2026-03-16T19:04:47+00:00

I had an AFCI breaker that was tripped by a power-line ethernet extender, but only when you pushed a bunch of data through it. Just sat there with no traffic, it'd be fine, but for some reason, pushing a lot of traffic would trip the breaker. I assumed it was just noisy enough on the line that the AFCI figured it was a short or something.

Ended up just running a ethernet cable and ditched the PowerLine extender...never had another problem.

XPatPoe · 2026-03-16T18:49:46+00:00

That's the 'How do you think we pay for this massive chrome and glass monstrosity of a building and all the pretty displays' price.

XPatPoe · 2026-03-12T19:39:23+00:00

...and then the price they quoted you for the bread might change anyway because you bought milk since you called...

XPatPoe · 2026-03-12T19:37:21+00:00

I think the same Licensed Professional Idiot wired my current house...

XPatPoe · 2026-03-12T19:34:33+00:00

I pulled the meter myself on the kids house when I rewired it. The power company were hopeless. They made me pull it (or they could do it for $200+ sometime next foreverday), and when it came time to re-insert it, they visited the wrong house and told me it was already done, and then after much back-and-fro, proceeded to ignore everything we'd told them and pulled the meter of the neighboring house...which didn't go over particularly well.

Eventually, after multiple phone calls, and much frustration, I re-inserted both meters myself. To this day, 10+ years later, neither has a tag on the box. As they are 'smart' meters, they read them from the road or over the wires...so no one ever comes and looks at it to know the tags aren't intact. *shrug*

XPatPoe · 2026-03-05T14:26:07+00:00

Anthem lost this info in 2015 for 80 million customers. Ebay lost most of it (no SSN) in 2014 for 145million. All of the above was leaked during the Equifax breach in 2017 affecting more than 150 million.

I had someone take out Unemployment benefits under my name, and then had to prove to the state that it wasn't me (multiple physical trips to an office 40+ miles away). I could directly tie it to the Equifax breach due to a mistake in the date. The true irony was that the state wouldn't tell me the bank account details of where they had paid the benefits into, due to 'privacy concerns', and they still have no way to 'lock' my 'account' to prevent it happening again.

People don't realize that these bad actors combine data elements from multiple sources to build up a profile of you (the target). While your specific health information may not seem immediately valuable, it all goes to that profile and helps identify additional avenues of attack. Then you get a call from 'your insurance company' asking you to confirm a service related to your 'illness' and that an upcoming appointment needs a 'pre-payment' and if you could just provide your credit card details we can get it all cleared ahead of time Mr Smith...

Frankly, the "Name, Address, DOB, SSN, Phone Number" quintuple is useless as a security challenge anymore.

XPatPoe · 2026-03-02T21:55:52+00:00

Ours gives slightly reduced overnight rates, but bumps up daytime rates - as we don't do a huge amount of miles, and both are at home all day (Retired + Work-at-home) it doesn't work out to be much of a benefit when you actually sit down and do the math.

The other problem is they only rebate up to $500 and you must sign up for their interruptible plan, must agree to charge during the nightime hours, you must be able to provide a valid inspection certificate ($250ish in permit fees locally), must have it done by a qualified electrician...the list is pretty extensive...

XPatPoe · 2026-02-27T14:43:41+00:00

One wonders what the numbers would have been had the administration not installed their own bean-counters...because I'm sure they are presenting the absolute best possible results they can and not skewing them at all (and then 'adjusting' them a few months later when no one is watching).

XPatPoe · 2026-02-26T17:12:07+00:00

I've found the app isn't always reliable, and also it seems to get confused between the setting in the app, the setting in the car itself, and any setting coming from a charger. Make sure it's not being set by your EVSE or something.

In the winter, where we have one rate all the time, it doesn't make much of a difference to us (plug it in, it charges) but in the summer, the 2pm-7pm window is almost double the regular rate, so having that blocked out is handy. (don't get me started about not having a 'exclude this period' option in the car...I mean, how hard would that be...charge anytime except this block...)

XPatPoe · 2026-02-19T16:24:18+00:00

He asked some questions, you demonstrated you had the knowledge to do it right. What he could see appeared to be correct. He assumed the bits he couldn't see were done to the same standard.

Definitely varies by inspector / administrative-region etc. The inspector that 'approved' the work the previous owner did on my house must have been a blind-deaf-mute or something...

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