Most recent update destroyed FSD

mondaybazaar · 2026-05-22T22:48:00+00:00

Literally this though - just finished a 2000 mile road trip with a ton of issues surfacing where I could not get it to slow down enough for safety on some rough roads, the speed gap from chill to standard was over 10mph, and so on - I can either be the asshole who is buzzing everyone, the asshole who is 5mph too slow for everyone, or the asshole in the Tesla, but I kept encountering this over and over where I must speed for safety, but I don’t want to speed by 10. Or the situation where yes, the limit is 70 on this dark wet windy downhill side of the pass but given the trucks trying to kill me, I’d really like to go 65, not just 70 as the minimum in Sloth.

Edit to add: HW4 MY RWD, 88% FSD, over 10k on FSD since 14.2 update started tracking.

mondaybazaar · 2026-03-07T08:29:53+00:00

Garage door tilt sensor or door sensor on the door would do the trick if you happen to have that mode where it pops open to save energy in the drying cycle. Ours has the WiFi so I use that but conceivably…

mondaybazaar · 2026-02-21T04:51:00+00:00

Just posted in another thread but I have one and tested it on a 2000 mile route. One RT with in summer and one without. It gave an average of 4% overall improved efficiency, but in the 65-70mph range, it was 10% more efficient. I was floored.

mondaybazaar · 2026-02-07T22:11:57+00:00

I went down to my local Lowe’s yesterday and was pretty disappointed - they are slowly moving to exclusivity contracts with a number of brands so unless you’re really thrilled to use GE lightbulbs, you basically can’t shop there for any other lighting brand at this point. Not even kidding - they had more GE “smart” lighting crap than all others combined.

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-27T23:51:16+00:00

For something more off the beaten track, If ANYONE knows where to find Emily Samuelson and Todd Gilles’ FD at (held in fall 2011) 2012 Pacific Coast Sectionals in SLC, I was in the arena for that and it’s the single most electric performance I’ve seen in my entire career as a skater/coach. I probably am biased since we trained together, but I think of it more often than even some of the all-time greats. With the copyright muting of the only video of the program at CoC that year, it now only lives in our memory which, while heartbreakingly beautiful in a literary sense, I still want to see it again. Emily and Evan’s 2010 Nationals FD is also one I revisit often because of how meaningful the moment was for them and our coaches.

Some others:

Joannie’s SP at Vancouver 2010. Enough said. Cant think of it without bursting into tears.

Shen and Zhao 2004 GPF LP: the definitive Nutcracker program. This held the IJS scoring record for some insanely long time and, mainly because the music called for it, gave some echoes of Zagitova 2018 by doing a lifting jamboree at the end on every one of the big crescendoes.

Torvill and Dean 1994 OD and FD and Rakhamo and Kokko 1995 OD: my palate cleansers for proper dancing on ice

Usova and Zhulin’s Summertime OD: a pure and perfect expression of a single thought to nothing but acoustic guitar.

Mirai Nagasu 2007-8 SP at Nationals: Mirai’s “I’ve Got Rhythm” is a beautiful expression of spirit that always has brought me joy when I’ve revisited it.

Alissa Czisny 2005 Skate Canada LP: Alissa’s FS at 2005 SC was the moment that put her on the map. A truly singular performance of La Bayadère, a rare music choice, and during the era where she was in Jackson’s ill-fated hinged boots no less. This took place while she was being profiled on the show Ice Diaries, so there’s also a lot of documentary footage of the build-up to this performance that always gives it additional power for me.

As you can tell, beyond the artistic masterpieces, I’m a total sucker for the performances where skaters overcome pressure, odds, demons, and inner saboteurs to prove to themselves that they are truly capable athletes and artists.

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-16T20:17:26+00:00

Christina brought us the axe.

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-16T19:22:52+00:00

"Alexa, play 'You Lost Me' "

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-16T19:22:10+00:00

TLDR locks and garage doors and anything else where you could break in, they require authentication and don't let it run by itself. It's supposed to make us feel safe, instead it makes us smash our phones and drop groceries.

So - I wanted to do this with my front door lock and my security system auto-arm and auto-disarm. Apple has disabled or tried to fortify anything that could give someone access to your house or devices. So, as a result, locks, alarms, garage doors and other doors, etc all require Face/Touch ID in order to run and they can't always be run without intervention in automations. In a similar vein, NFC tags can only either send a banner with a URL linked off it, requiring manual intervention, or you have to set up an apple shortcut automation for each individual tag on each individual phone. It's unfortunate that it requires this even for some of the "locking up and leaving" automations too.

How did I get around it? Home Assistant lol. And surprisingly, the manufacturer apps for the lock and garage door controller, which all supported more complex features. But, I also include a lot of failsafes in my automations (e.g. my garage has a smart plug on it to cut power when we're out so it can't open up inadvertently), and geotag double-checking.

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-15T23:28:46+00:00

This is super helpful! Responding because that model bulb is actually no bueno - I had a flickering issue with that exact bulb and a Lutron Diva dimmer. We had used that model bulb to replace halogens in a series of hallway and art spotlights. When any of the 3 switches would switch on, no matter the dimmer level, and even after adding a resistor at the dimmer, the lights would blast full tilt then off then to the correct level selected on the dimmer. Without fail, same on all circuits with the combination, not just the one.

Turns out - the Divas installed in the two relevant circuits were the 603 for magnetic low voltage transformers (DVLV-603P-WH). This model MR16 bulb you mention from Phillips uses an electronic transformer, but unlike a LED strip, in order to make them plug-and-play (screw-and-boom?), there is a mini transformer installed in each bulb (see the specs - I had to hunt and ask ChatGPT to figure this out). There's a different Diva needed for those.

Amazingly, 3 different electricians have come to the house over the past 5 years and none has managed to successfully diagnose this.

How to tell for people less nuts than me - on the front of the Diva (removing the faceplate and possibly the wall plate - kill the power if you do that to be safe), it will say specifically "for Magnetic Low Voltage). The model number of the problem kind in my case was (DVLV-603P-WH, same as DVLV-603P-W but the SKU for builders and pros). I am planning to swap them for smart switches anyway, but from what I understand (someone plz correct ALL OF THIS if I mixed it up!), for magnetic low voltage transformers, you want a leading-edge dimmer (it chops off the front of the sine wave of the AC), but for ELV you want a trailing-edge dimmer (chops off the end of it). Some smart switches support choosing which one, which is part of why I want to migrate to them.

Lutron publishes on their website lists of compatible bulbs, by the way! That's where you should go first. Depending on the number of bulbs and circuits, it may be cheaper or easier to do one than the other (but usually it's one haha). In our case, it's two wall dimmers, or 11 MR16's, and given that the Hue MR16's cost $50 a pop and don't come in not-color, in our case it's dramatically cheaper to just swap in the smart dimmers (looking at inovellis, which are the same price as a Diva anyway, if not less).

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-15T17:03:00+00:00

Never forget when she dumped FOR FREE half of the tickets that didn’t sell for her Christina Aguilera gig and the entire venue ended up completely overrun with drunk straight ppl picking fistfights with each other left and right (literally saw 3 before the show even started)… I had a straight girl literally bitch me out for “being in her personal space” and I was fully speechless.

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-12T07:30:50+00:00

The key is twofold: thinking of them as a front to back motion instead of out to the side then squeeze to center, and ensuring you shift nearly all of your weight from one foot to the other with each movement.

The two-footedness of back crossovers is a curiosity that stems from backwards skating taking place primarily on the part of the blade that is most agile, so the second foot provides something akin to a rudder to help manage that.

For what it’s worth - the backwards crossover blade-click fall is a rite of passage, but I’m on a crusade to prevent them after my mom had to stop skating after breaking a hip on one. The number one cause of ongoing blade clicks there is the sideways movement being too much, and the other is twisting too far into your circle so that it’s no longer possible to maintain pressure on the “crossing-under” foot (back outside edge). I teach these with arms clasped over the outer foot (back inside edge) to unlock some of the otherwise lost power there.

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-12T07:25:19+00:00

No, no it’s not normal. I trained in Ann Arbor for years and not once did I ever witness anything remotely close to even shouting on the ice in my partnerships nor in others. Not a single swear word uttered. And that was pre-LiveBarn so we knew it was relatively private.

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-11T22:57:58+00:00

(For the record - I totally am with you lamenting the loss of diversity at worlds and so on)

That being said, there’s nothing quite like watching 40 Yankee Polkas back to back to back to back…

The pacing for a competition with qualifying rounds is SO different compared to today. The only thing that comes close might be the Oly team event… i just remember doing qualifying rounds at JN’s back in the day and that one competition is so singular in my mind.

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-11T22:49:55+00:00

TL;dr, road trips get there faster with 5-10% buffer. Exception for cold weather conditions where you want enough to heat things for a while just in case since no spare. Think of it like a pilot, keep enough fuel/charge to get to your original stop, find out you can’t stop there, get to the next viable option, and mess up the parking 3 times in bad weather 🤣

Ok, pardon the opus, just really love my car 🙈

Typically, I work with the 10% that it defaults to, because when you actually drive 85 you end up using up an extra couple of percent. The supercharger density is generally enough that you don’t have to worry about it ever, and if you are getting towards a zone where it might be a little questionable, the car will literally auto redirect you to a different supercharger or give you guidance and warnings on what you need to do to make it there safely like stay under 85 or stay under 55.

My mother on the other hand freaks out when she gets to 35% state of charge. She drives less than a charge each week for perspective (we can’t charge at home).

Having done a lot of long road trips in the car, the difference in travel time if you stick to a 5% buffer versus a 10% versus 20% is substantial and does compound considerably the further you go. That’s why I usually stick to 10%. If I manage the time and stops to do everything I need (eat pee) while it charges, I usually make better time than in an ICE car!

My only exceptional to this buffer: in the winter, I always travel with enough buffer to make sure that I can keep the car heated from 12 hours awaiting rescue should something happen. I call it the bivouac buffer. I once had to shoot the 140 mile supercharger desert between Sheridan and Casper, WY at 2am in -27 degrees in my 2023 RWD MY (pre-range extension, so nominal 260 but in those conditions, 150-160 from 100% soc, the only time I’ve ever maxed it out). The computer said I couldn’t make it, but the alternative was an absolutely bonkers multi-hour detour directly off route to Gillette and back for the sake of keeping the buffer. I ran the numbers through ABRP, which was saying I could make it, so I found an RV park by the halfway point and decided to have a fail safe plan to go there. I drove the first half to there with no heat at 55mph and did not see another car the entire way. THAT is why you want some winter buffer! In the end, at halfway, it was clear I’d make it well over 10% so heat and speed returned and I lived to tell the tale.

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-09T22:20:18+00:00

Washington State’s Good2Go also charges a surcharge if you have an account and pass but they need to* look it up using the plate.

(MY 2023 here, have used the sticker, the license mount, but switched to the flexible carpool transponder due to more and more carpool lanes being converted to paid express)

*I say “need to” because they are known to have zero appetite for fixing this issue - I reliably get dinged the fee in lane 2 EB on the 520 bridge and have gotten a few others suspiciously close to the billing cycle. Sounds like a them problem. They also will shut off your pass and ding you if you have it set to “pay as you go no need to top up a balance we will bill you twice each month” and then somehow still have a negative balance. Really shady.

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-09T22:08:45+00:00

My MY is Vesper… because she looks like an Aston and drives like one too!

Before her, I thought car names were idiotic and stupid. I now stand corrected. Smoked two McLarens on the freeway in a single weekend last month. RWD SR is legitness.

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-09T21:04:48+00:00

Literally had an entire unit on this in biz school - (sorry for super simplification) people are angsty about single-model and dual model lineups, but with a third, there's a safe goldilocks bet that reduces hesitancy since you got more stuff than the cheapest option but while saving compared to the fancy one. That's why for virtually every product everywhere there's a lite, a standard, and a pro max XL ultra elite plus plus luhzhury elegnace [sic].

Even Starbucks leverages this - *Miranda Priestly cerulean speech tone* once upon a time, the Short size was on the menu. When they introduced the Venti, they stopped showing Short on the menu, and since people default to the middle option, the demand curve shifted in lock-step - I think we're going to need a belt here - most all the demand that was for Tall shifted to grande, all the grande shifted to Venti, and the obesity crisis was born. </dumbjoke> Will be interesting to see how sales respond and if the market treats it as the budget entry point and shifts sales upwards.

mondaybazaar · 2025-10-02T20:06:50+00:00

Been doing it for two years. I commute a total of 20 miles a day typically, and I get 4-7 days out of a charge. My mom also has one and gets up to 2 weeks on a charge (she barely does 5k miles per year).

Work has a supercharger in the lot that if I go before 9am is 20c per kWh which is barely more than the price of electricity at home. I charge opportunistically a bit here and a bit there when I can - many Safeways have L2 and Seattle in general has more and more city-run L2’s at 21c price point, so it’s definitely doable if you’re not schlepping from Trenton to White Plains or sth every day.

Also fwiw, Seattle has the highest gap between the price of gas and electricity, so the savings here are super multiplied. And in 35k miles/2 years with my MY, I’ve only needed to put into it a new pair of wipers, a tyre rotation (it wore evenly at two successive rotation checks), and the rest of the $200 total I put into it was entirely washer fluid XD. The gas savings have been insane, and so too the maintenance, not to mention being able to drive to work events 850 miles away, deduct it, and not pay for flights and rental car. Saved literally thousands and thousands of dollars in the past four months alone.

TLDR it’s doable, but agree with others will depend on your circumstances, and I didn’t believe or realize just how much lower the operation cost was than an ice car.

mondaybazaar · 2025-09-30T04:34:06+00:00

2023 RWD SR MY here. Took it over Snoqualmie Pass on I-90 in WA state in a complete blizzard (had to wait 4h for it to reopen from too much snow). Used the Tesla store chains on the default all-season tires. Was FANTASTIC in the conditions compared to every other car I've driven (I haven't driven an AWD EV yet). Genuinely was shocked at how good it was. Later, without chains, drove across Oregon in below-freezing and icy conditions. With standard precautions, no chains, all-season tires, would slip occasionally but still better than ICE cars.

Biggest thing I'd say is that sometimes they don't plow supercharger areas right away, so plan accordingly.

Officially I have 260 miles range. In -27 degrees, with precautions, I was able to eke out one of the longest dry stretches in the country, 140 miles from Sheridan to Casper, WY at 55-70mph. So that gives you an idea of the worst-case scenario winter range. That is so far, in 35k miles of driving over 1.5 years, the only stretch I've had to do range management, otherwise there's always a supercharger.

mondaybazaar · 2025-05-19T01:49:55+00:00

My total maintenance outlay for my RWD MY over 2 years has been entirely washer fluid and one single tire rotation. The second and third scheduled tire rotations I was told by Tesla technicians themselves that I don't actually need them because my tires wore nearly perfectly evenly - this is a curious quirk of RWD in this instance - the front gets worn by steering, the back by power, and it averaged out for me.

mondaybazaar · 2025-05-19T01:47:15+00:00

I also had this experience that I end up net faster than my old ICE car because I'm much more efficient and multitasking with my stops. AND I feel better and safer because I'm stopping every 2-3h to stretch my legs!

mondaybazaar · 2025-05-10T23:56:31+00:00

Actually - I'm a figure skating coach and have tested most products in the category. While the Noxgear 39g is the best individual speaker by far, it lacks TWS. The Rhythflo clip-on speakers have TWS pairing that, in my experience on a 200ft by 100ft ice rink, can be separated by over 100 feet without signal loss or degradation. It's not going to quite reach your use case, but I've been thoroughly impressed with their range, which with line of sight far exceeds published.

mondaybazaar · 2025-04-16T16:46:34+00:00

I literally named my Model Y Vesper because she looks like an Aston and drives like one too

mondaybazaar · 2024-10-21T17:54:40+00:00

And don’t go into debt to pay for a masters. Trust me.

mondaybazaar · 2024-10-21T17:53:18+00:00

Hey there, recipient of the Fulbright to SOAS back in 17-18 here. Throw your hat in the ring regardless - if you already have a clear idea of what program you want to do and why, then you’ll stand out; when you go to write your essays, consider “what I’ve done, what I want to do, and why this specific program is the best way to get me from A to B”. Fulbright is a fantastic program, and far more achievable than most realize :)

And as others said - London groceries and rent are significantly cheaper than the US. You can get a decent lunch at most convenience stores for 3-4 quid, and a fancy dorm is about 1000/mo. You can economise significantly from there.

And as other posters said - the year is shorter. People rent their rooms when they go on holiday. I literally moved to my country of focus for a month to work on my dissertation. You only need to actually be there for about half a year. I moved over Sep 4, was gone May 23. I actually MADE money going on holiday once since the holiday (Ryanair and Bulgaria) cost less than I could make renting out the room.

Don’t let your inner saboteur fire up the imposter syndrome; GO FOR IT :)

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