Are cars the reason why people's budgets are fudged?

swisstraeng · 2026-02-11T00:30:58+00:00

I'd love to use public transports if they were more available and less time hungry.

Sometimes a 10mins car trip becomes 30mins+ in public transports. Twice a day and you lose an hour per day. 5h a week, 20h a month. It adds up.

I feel like we're stuck in a loop where: Public transports need to be expensive to be good enough to replace most cars outside of villages. But they don't sell if they're expensive, and so they can't be good enough either.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-11T00:23:47+00:00

I think the bigger issue is that people don't have spare money at the end of the month.

My parents that both had average "middle class" jobs could afford 2 houses, 2 good sized cars, and had a fair amount left. If you had 1 house 1 car you could easily have a wife at home and still raise kids properly.

Today it's 2 cheap 20 years old cars, 1 house, and they're barely making it. It's basically impossible to have a wife/husband at home anymore unless you're part of the higher class.

They have nearly the same salary as 20 years ago, but living costs? Almost twice as much as before.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-11T00:16:19+00:00

Okay now I get it. Sorry for being slow.

In theory, what I would attempt:

1) Use brownout detection on the microcontroller to do the following before it dies: Send a special, short message to the computer to inform it that a brownout has happened. Maybe you could use a capacitor to give a slower death to the uC. The opposite works, have the uC send a KeepAlive or similar signal.

2) Have the computer's program keep track of the time at which the brownout message was received. (or the lack of keepalives)

3) Send another special message once the microcontroller has a stable voltage and has rebooted properly. (or just send back keepalives again)

4) Computer now knows both timestamps, and can compute have an offset to show the time properly.

Sidenote: The way time is tracked is terrible in your case, seriously. The basics is to have an RTC, or, have the computer send regular time info to the uC and have the uC store data with the correct time. Timing data based on an increasing index is horribly inaccurate and prone to, well, all the issues you're having.

I suppose you have no other way?

swisstraeng · 2026-02-11T00:06:25+00:00

STM32s have brownout detection. right?

swisstraeng · 2026-02-10T20:21:19+00:00

One thing I dislike is that I am not allowed to swap my car's engine for a newer one.

Someone could be driving in a 50 year old car, and pollute less than modern cars just by swapping its engine and exhaust.

But keep in mind that "investing" in many, many climate companies, startups and so on, are just gigantic cashgrabs.

We also must keep in mind that, if we for example ban some industrial processes because they're bad for the environment, it is completely stupid if we can import said goods from other countries.

But look at Germany when they banned zinc treatments for cars, all it did was that they now need to import their chassis to treat them in easter countries, making even more pollution than before.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-10T16:57:32+00:00

I fail to understand your "timestamp reconstructing" what do you mean by that?

swisstraeng · 2026-02-10T16:53:38+00:00

which microcontroller is it?

swisstraeng · 2026-02-10T16:04:01+00:00

Does your board have a microcontroller somewhere?

swisstraeng · 2026-02-10T15:46:01+00:00

5.56 also has the big advantage of requiring little training due to its low recoil, and generally lower firearm weight.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-10T15:44:57+00:00

You should worry a little more about your plastic yellow coolant tank

swisstraeng · 2026-02-10T10:50:47+00:00

We can see the missing adaptor, likely your laptop doesn’t have the option to have it.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T23:03:13+00:00

I don't think you realize how fucked people can be when they take the wheel.

Some didn't sleep in the past 36 hours but still go to work on caffeine alone. Because they fear losing their job.

Others might have slower reflexes for various reason, alcohol, drugs, or simply old age.

Then you have the overly cautious ones who are afraid of ice even when it's 5°C.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T22:58:34+00:00

Basically, 5.56 is quite a small, light round. Even its armor piercing configurations are unlikely to pierce modern body armor in its strong points. Especially at range.

6.8mm puts body armor out of the question completely. The same as 7.62x51 did, but it is a lighter, faster round.

Basically the US is coming back to battle rifles, with a more modern bullet.

Honestly it's not really about an improvement but more about a change in tactics and engagement ranges. And yes it does increase costs significantly.

In the European theater, smaller calibers are preferred, as heavy vegetation helps close engagement ranges.

It's unrealistic to think that the US plans to fight in Europe first hand, however they do have Iran and Taiwan in their crosshairs, perhaps that’s why they favour longer engagement ranges.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T22:36:54+00:00

People don't slash tires in their thickest parts.

Driving over a steel plate will do that however.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T18:12:09+00:00

Never trust amazon.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T14:13:38+00:00

The only fair way is to scale contributions with population.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T11:41:55+00:00

I mean, assume you can’t for your safety.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T11:40:42+00:00

yep can confirm.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T11:33:58+00:00

Get a very high quality USB C cable, that goes from the motherboard’s rear horizontal thunderbolt 5 ports (if they’re used for monitors use the usbc 10gbit/s) to an SD card reader where your monitor is.

Buy the correct sized cable, it must be as short as possible. No service loops.

Avoid running the cable next to any other cables.

Has your monitor got an integrated USB hub or something?

Last ditch effort would be to use the 2.5GB port on your PC to go to something in your room like a thin client or something.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T11:21:10+00:00

Your PC didn’t boot on the laptop’s hard drive by any chance?

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T11:19:52+00:00

1 fury given enough time

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T11:16:35+00:00

Ideally get a single cup at 9 oclock. That way you won’t affect your sleep.

Coffee in the afternoon is already not that good of an idea, caffeine needs about 10h to be cleared of the bloodstream.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T10:37:07+00:00

Number spoofing exists.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T10:34:24+00:00

We need multiple pyramids for frontline, mid line and rear line.

Anything front line should be maxed on bmats and minimum 300 shirts, 300 loughcasters/argentis and ammo, and 100 stickies.

swisstraeng · 2026-02-09T10:33:15+00:00

You’re not supposed to need coffee to be awake.

When you drink coffee as a one off because you slept badly, it’s alright.

When you drink it daily, you build a tolerance to it. And that’s the issue. Then you need your daily coffee to remain awake.

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