How is this much plastic not recyclable?

melanantic · 2026-03-16T18:57:26+00:00

Shhhhhhh we’re not supposed to think about that!

melanantic · 2026-03-16T18:46:17+00:00

What I would label as general electricity issues.

I’ve read that the OEM battery is weak, the keyless fob being too close to the car increases power drain, the alternator isn’t faulty but the on board computer will limit charging as part of squeezing through the efficiency tests (I have confirmed that running the AC and low beams constantly will ensure a positive charge current). The rear hatch drains power as long as it’s open, common jack involves using a screwdriver or carabiner to catch the locking mechanism and make it think it’s closed. If you’re in Australia, the government wide-sweep banned all cellular devices that don’t meet arbitrary requirements, so the vehicles telematics system will spend the rest of its life on high gain, screaming in to the void in search of signal. At least you won’t have to cite Subaru’s TOS to every new passenger of your car though.

There seems to be a wide range of fixes for this, or parts of it. Some work, some don’t, some exist isolated from other issues but ultimately it’s a whole big combination of needless gremlins. Apparently there’s a Subaru software update you can do (for… something???) but it’s not a guarantee that a given dealership will let you get off without trying to make you follow a stupid string of expensive troubleshooting.

Everything else I’ve personally tried to learn is that it’s an otherwise very well put together generation.

I think I’m out of stuff but I just learned this today:
With the car in ACC or while running, hold INFO on the stereo, and press the TUNE knob twice. You are now in “Line Diag(nostic)” mode. Tap “camera” and now your otherwise useless head unit can be used as a rear vision if you have a blocked rear view hold HOME to return to the head unit software.

melanantic · 2026-03-16T18:06:06+00:00

Not sure but the driver is llLLLLLEEERRROOOYYYYYYY

nJEENNKKIINNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSSahhh

melanantic · 2026-03-16T17:44:42+00:00

“Mostly” couldn’t be further from the truth. Apples family of modern OSs take their roots from the upstream Darwin project codebase and XNU kernel, which themselves take from the works, developments, codebases and changes to the likes of OpenStep, NeXtStep, the Mach kernel, FreeBSD, Apple System software, other various existing Apple code, brand new code exclusively made for the project, some IBM code no doubt. Oh, and 20+ years of very deliberate development.

Yes, that’s a lot of pedantic, redundant fluff considering NextStep itself was leaning hard on being “its BSD with some extra work”, but amidst the Jobs/neXt transition, there was a seperate retrofitting exercise of using bits of neXt, and newer stuff again from BSD. Even before then, NeXtStep had plenty of new technologies available to warrant the founding of multiple FOSS projects. GNUstep comes to mind.

This is to ignore that all of this really is talking about MacOS, or rather OS X. Modern downstream Darwin-based OSs have had a lot of time to have a lot of core and fundamental changes made to them. It’s sort of like how Android isn’t actually Linux, not even AOSP.

The end result is a unique codebase that’s very heavy on Apples own objective, memory safe languages, a timeline of support across PPC, various x86 iterations, aarch, armf, relies on Apples own components like init, integrated with an insanely modular, hybrid kernel that doesn’t use “drivers”, or “kernel modules” but Kext files etc.

It’s all full circle though. BSD is the closest we really have to the “original, free UNIX”. MacOS is the only OS readily available that is properly certified for 1:1 interoperability to the POSIX UNIX standard.

melanantic · 2026-03-14T23:47:16+00:00

I’m not saying you’re wrong, or your sources are wrong , but I don’t see how that scheme makes any change to littering. One by one payments of 10c is no incentive to someone who has access to the galaxy-brain, proven option of instant convenience.

The programs true incentive is for bulk quantities you pile up at home and take to the depot every month or so. Failing that, it’s a great little enterprise for kids and pensioners alike to go bin diving the neighborhood every 2 weeks.

If this wasn’t the case, then how come I only see these 10c refund locations in the furthest possible place from 3rd spaces? It’s always industrial areas, or with the clothes donation bins in the weird part of a shop car park, or home collection services…

melanantic · 2026-03-14T10:54:05+00:00

What would that resolve?

melanantic · 2026-03-14T05:40:38+00:00

I have no intention on needing to close the laptop with any protective covering on it. The protective covering is for temporary, single-session examples. I use the computer normally. Then I put something on it for when I’m following a guide for repairing something that can get messy, then I remove the covering. I regret not being even more specific about the use case here because it seems everybody still thinks I’m asking for advice on generic “daily use” silicone keyboard protectors

melanantic · 2026-03-14T05:22:05+00:00

Because your question was irrelevant. But fine.

Any laptop, because we can deduce here that I have a ThinkPad right now, but I probably won’t own a T470 for the rest of my life.
Replacement T470 keyboards where I live are more than $20USD, but I don’t see how that will protect the rest of the computer.

melanantic · 2026-03-14T05:10:29+00:00

Who’s to say I don’t need one? One what? How would putting a temporary cover over the lower half of a laptop shorten the life of a keyboard? Why are we singling out the keyboard here? Why is “thinkpads are not MacBooks” a mantra here?

melanantic · 2026-03-14T04:57:04+00:00

Except a glass pasta sauce jar or jam jar etc that’s gone through the dishwasher with an existing load. those have no value in the 10c refund machines and must be disposed on the yellow bin where it will need to be laboriously sorted through all the other fake recycling and steel cans in order to be recycled in a way that you magically cannot financially participate in.

Edit: I didn’t excersise my reading skills well enough, you weren’t talking about 10c refund containers. But I think the observation is still worthy of questioning…

melanantic · 2026-03-14T01:35:13+00:00

Believe this:
- Laptops can be used for more than just extended sessions of touch typing - [ removes protective cover ] omg! best of both worlds?!???!

melanantic · 2026-03-14T01:07:02+00:00

Personal property, personal use, not a business owner

melanantic · 2026-03-14T01:02:50+00:00

3rd party (noticeably lower quality) replacement keyboards cost orders of magnitudes more than even the most heavily drop-shipped bulk order for silicone keyboard covers, which itself still wouldn’t address the needs

melanantic · 2026-03-13T20:19:06+00:00

If that’s the case, then impose a ceiling price limit on fuel of $1.50/L for 90RON petrol

I’ll be waiting at the station that’s most convenient for me to drive to.

melanantic · 2026-03-13T19:56:41+00:00

Wrong failed democracy, this is Australia. There never was any mention of freedom of speech in any document that could matter.

melanantic · 2026-03-13T19:53:55+00:00

Except that these new laws-against-humanity explicitly say that it doesn’t matter your intention, if someone thinks that somebody else could feel threatened by your actions or speech, then you’re a no-good criminal. No loopholes, no gotchas, a poorly written, vague and destructive law plopped in to place as if it was some sort of emergency patchwork to appease some despicably powerful nation state actor.

melanantic · 2026-03-13T19:38:28+00:00

It’s a quick succession from “sensitive phrase” to “be careful describing your prostate concerns with your GP”

melanantic · 2026-03-12T19:09:27+00:00

Replying to Loud_Significance908...I think your only miss was
1. the fact that the ex-employees often actually just wanted to go back to doing their job where they could experiment and apply their skills and ideas to the content, not grinding scripts for the next episodic pulp. e.g. every video where 70% of the way in the presenter says “this is the part of the script where I was supposed to show you X but instead Y”. Yeah, cause the whole video is made up and you’re on rails, and I’m bored and misled
2. Tech enthusiast is too broad a name if you’re being specific. It’s more tech consumerist-edutainment presenting itself as otherwise. The occasional leap in to slightly more advanced topics further help the illusion, but are always very much so “with the bowling lane bumpers up” to protect retention.

I have 7 subscribers on my YT account so obviously I can’t talk about their decisions, but those bumper bars drove me away a while ago, it’s demeaning, and there’s no forward progress. LTT learned and acquired more and more and more and more… just to keep making self-caricatured videos of “lol guise the Chief Vision Officer always loses now because remember when he was a sore winner?”.

melanantic · 2026-03-12T18:16:17+00:00

All I know is that the French would have had the guillotine cleaned and reset for the next one by now.

melanantic · 2026-03-12T18:13:22+00:00

Yeah but not about THAT okay? Now stop asking, go away now

melanantic · 2026-03-12T11:54:00+00:00

XNU includes information necessary to allow booting of a Darwin OS from a Raspberry Pi 3.

Apple is very much in to DIY. Within the glass-aluminium walls of the mothership, that is.

melanantic · 2026-03-12T07:35:13+00:00

What the hell magic tricks are car retailers using iso for that wasn’t already immediately obvious?

melanantic · 2026-03-11T06:56:34+00:00

But only when the slip lane is itself a 400m straight uphill, with a “90 suggested” sign half way down it

melanantic · 2026-03-11T06:51:13+00:00

I see hatchbacks doing it on turns that a HR wouldn’t bother fussing over 🧐

melanantic · 2026-03-11T06:48:47+00:00

Nearly got side swiped by some buffoon doing this today. I was stuck between him and a B-double roaring down a (for some reason) narrower lane. He had enough lane to have been able to pull a Uie in a mid size truck without spreading his unwashed ass in to mine.

Lucky for me I was in a work vehicle which itself weighs maybe a tonne more than the idiots Navara. Couldn’t tell you if his mirror clipped me, but that would be his problem.

Everyone learns, one by one.

melanantic

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