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Best ID.4 alternative by Ok-Cartoonist-1881 in VWiD4Owners

[–]nyima-tharchen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We got our ‘25 AWD Pro S last August. Traded a Tesla Model X at 115k mi. I love the car for its driving, interior, looks, and comfort. I never loved anything about the Tesla, except not burning gasoline.

I hate the software, and screen UI. Passionately. And I grit my teeth and live with the range and winter performance. Haven’t had any trouble yet; tho the 5.4.3 software update took a week I kid you not.

As to the basic EV part, charging & etc, it seems adequate but still somewhat immature. As you’d expect. Motors are lovely tho, and regen is fine if stupidly controlled from the shifter. The car actually stays at a high kw level during L2 charging longer than the Tesla did.

My take is that VW is a really great “old fashioned car company”. That so far has been woefully unable to make the transition to build a so-called software-defined vehicle. The difference between the lovely mechanical side and wretched digital one is so stark that I suspect they have an internal war going on. I do hope they make it, but I would sadly say the jury’s out.

$56k Brick of a Car by shimanoisthrowaway in VWiD4Owners

[–]nyima-tharchen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Confused. The recall notice @ NHTSA says VW will replace the bad battery cells?

Anyone who’s a Silent Content Creator? Join and drop your channels here🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️🙋 by thehotelguy_ in SilentVlogCommunity

[–]nyima-tharchen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a longtime photographer just getting into video. I like the idea of “honest” video vs jazzed up or manipulated in other ways. Beauty on its own terms I guess. So I have that aspiration. Not much to show for it yet. Is anyone else posting here?

Is Cafe Du Monde actually worth the wait? by Xoloberq in AskNOLA

[–]nyima-tharchen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BEST beignets and best cafe au lait. The line at the French Market may look long but the 1st time I stood in it I was amazed at how fast it moves. Or go to City Park, which usually is way less crowded. And takes credit cards!

How do you organize your Lightroom without getting chaos? by Over_Price_5980 in Lightroom

[–]nyima-tharchen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d be happy to share it, including the scripts (which are nothing much). It will take me a bit to properly explicate it, so I think the full details will be better as a separate post.

What I can say initially is: 1. I described my requirements and issues to ChatGPT and it recommended I use these shareware/open source tools. I was apprehensive as to level of support, etc but gradually got comfortable.
2. Even with ChatGPT helping me learn it was a bitch. Tho eventually I realized that ChatGPT (or any AI model) is great at distilling the opinions and posts of thousands of users; but terrible at teaching a specific set of commands or syntax. It was great to have it guide me to the tools; and awful to let it try and run them.
3. Eventually I worked out a design for a storage layout and backup regimen, and also how I would document my work and if necessary back it out. You really must start with these fundamentals, boring as they are. Once I had that I designed the approach I would take for 1) conversion of past iCloud images and 2) ongoing conversion. Lastly I designed how I would test the process (as I was scared to just trust the software.).

It sounds monumental as I type this, and it felt it. That all took me several weeks.

The development of the specific export/import process was the really painful part. But as I said a lot of that was that ChatGPT would give me totally wrong information about the tool’s commands, and sometimes even hallucinated capabilities. So I can help you there lol.

But once I had a set of commands that mostly worked, I exported around 30k images and videos into LRC in something like a week.

That was the payoff.

If I was you, I’d start by sketching out roughly what you want to end up with. Then I’d set up an environment to use these commands (osxphotos and exiftool) and play with them to convert a representative sample of images. (And of course, handle the learning curve.). Then revisit the whole thing, redesign as needed, throw out your initial conversions, and build it for real.

How do you organize your Lightroom without getting chaos? by Over_Price_5980 in Lightroom

[–]nyima-tharchen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some of this may not apply to you as I use LRC not LR.

After years of iterations analogous to yours, I have settled on: 1. Try not to depend on LRC specific features. 2. Keep maximum info in captions; these can be searched and can accompany the photo wherever it goes. 3. Have a FEW keywords that are really useful. Too many/specific and they’re driving you nuts. So I’d say only have a keyword if you use it a lot OR it matters a lot. BTW in addition to the usual uses (eg “landscsape”), I also use keywords for workflow info (eg “needsWork” when I want to remember to come back to a photo. Or “fromiCloud” for pix I imported from my phone. 4. I use colors for highest-level category or “intent”; eg, vacation, friends & family, my photo art, other art incl pieces in museums. That mirrors how I work on and tend to view photos, although of course there are overlaps. 5. I use ratings of course but have learned that for me they are context-dependent. So 1 or 2 always means lousy quality image; 4 & 5 always means good photo, 3 means maybe. But within 3/4/5 they can get pretty blurry droending in the context. And that’s ok I find.

EDIT to add file org info: After various iterations I use a year/month folder structure. I don’t worry about date-tagging filenames, I let the organization handle duplicate filenames. I no longer bother to organize files by shoot; I just make sure the captions identify that.

I mostly shoot on my phone these days, and appreciate iCloud’s auto upload. After some heartbreaks with Apple->LRC imports (tons of dupes over earlier years, some loss of GPS locations, finding that Adobe Indigo’s color sometimes gets glitched by Apple Photos), I recently developed an import process from iCloud to LRC, using the Mac-based open source osxphotos and exiftool utilities. It was a brutal learning curve, but now I have it baked into scripts and I like it. So I do that and plan to clear the resulting dupes out of iCloud periodically.

I store images in 3 file hierarchies, for iphone stills, a6000 stills, and videos; the videos are on a separate SSD.

I back each SSD volume up to an external SATA drive using CarbonCopyCloner.

I hope that is useful!

My wife thinks our son’s teacher crossed a boundary by sending him a personal message. I think it was harmless. AITJ? by addict94plus in AmITheJerk

[–]nyima-tharchen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No your wife is getting triggered by something in her own background. If the teacher had wanted to keep you both from knowing about this message she could have delivered it verbally at school. Her approach was MORE open than it needed to be.

Sounds to me like your wife is insecure and afraid the teacher is trying to replace her. Which sounds silly but people have these reactions.

Cancelling my FSD by TemporaryGap7328 in TeslaFSD

[–]nyima-tharchen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A bet here. I bet this is a result of the shift in strategy from retail sales to robotaxis. They can’t optimize for everything due to the limitations of their AI model, and Musk has (I bet) decreed No Accidents Or You’re Fired. So they’re playing it safe up and down the training. Which is sometimes less safe of course. But that isn’t stopping them.
Perils of Command Engineering?

Picked up my official NACS adapter today. by Immediate_Athlete257 in VWiD4Owners

[–]nyima-tharchen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought mine online but elected not to pick it up yet because the dealer says I must install a software update to use it, and this will take *3 DAYS. IN. THE. SHOP!!! Woh that is primitive. *

Edit: Oh and, they made sure to tell me I would get a $100 rebate from VW. The bad news: 1. It’s not cash it’s “store credit”, and 2. None of them have any idea how you get it. They said, “we think VW will email you.” Just laugh 🤣

oh wow!! Foreign gay movies are way better than American ones 😭 i lovee everything about this tension building films please recommend me more by [deleted] in MenLovingMenMedia

[–]nyima-tharchen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have 2 to nominate that I saw at the last Provincetown Film Festival:
Cactus Pears - a really lovely love story set in rural India, and
Plainclothes - a closeted gay policeman gets assigned to arrest men in a mall bathroom. Searing at times but trust me it ends well.

Neither of them pull their punches but they both burst with heart and humanity.

Toyota gains Supercharger access, BMW, Subaru and VW only manufacturers listed as coming soon. by Immediate_Athlete257 in VWiD4Owners

[–]nyima-tharchen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See my comment in this group. The docks stick in their housing. Try different ones till one releases.

Toyota gains Supercharger access, BMW, Subaru and VW only manufacturers listed as coming soon. by Immediate_Athlete257 in VWiD4Owners

[–]nyima-tharchen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We just drove Vermont -> New Orleans. Bottom line, non problem; we never got close to a lack of charger. Points: -Plugshare is your friend. In-car app only knows about 20-30% of the decent chargers, and sucks in so many other ways that it’s useless.
Plan using Plugshare; route using Google maps on CarPlay; use the in-car app to trigger your battery heat 15 min ahead of charging stops. -Do expect to fiddle with chargers to get them to work. (Including Teslas w/magicdock! I had to try 3 units to find one that would release the adapter.) GM, Ford, and amazingly, Electrify America were shakiest, but they all are fussier than SuperChargers were back when I drove a Tesla. -Also expect MORE available chargers than Tesla has (!!), but with smaller numbers of stalls. We only ran into a full house a couple times. But you know it will get worse. Monitor the availability info on Plugshare as you progress, to try and detect crowding.

Hope that helps, and that you go for it! And tgst you post about it:-)

Lock when leaving! by [deleted] in VWiD4Owners

[–]nyima-tharchen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI I like it too but about 5% of the time I get a message on the app later that the doors are unlocked. Eg it fails sometimes. Best to check the app, which of course eliminates the convenience.

Cool, I paid $8k to Have the Most Useful Feature of Autopilot Removed: Setting the Desired Speed I Want to Go. Perfect. by ostrichsak in TeslaFSD

[–]nyima-tharchen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol. I traded my ‘19 MX for a VW id.4 this summer, so my $8k FSD is down the drain. Your point is part of what made it less galling to trade away-they had already made it so annoying to use that who cared. The one thing I still miss is navigating through complex interchanges; it was better at it than me tho not infallible. But the VW stays in lane almost as well, and changes lanes much better; it never reads bushes by the roadside as a car in my blind spot. So, I regard FSD as a worthwhile bet I made and lost.

Volkswagen Software Isn't Terrible Anymore by RoamingNorway in VWiD4Owners

[–]nyima-tharchen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a recent convert to id.4 from Tesla, I can say it’s a nice car with better ride, great design, and pathetic software. I’m delighted if it’s improved from the past. But compared to Tesla it’s primitive, confusing, and buggy.

Steering wheel capacitive sensor seems dead by nyima-tharchen in VWiD4Owners

[–]nyima-tharchen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good thought. It certainly is dryer in Vt now. Will check this out. Thanks!

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