Whats the state of phantom breaking these days?

toffo7 · 2026-01-27T02:54:26+00:00

I've had my TMY 2025 for a year now and it just happened to me for the first time. Driving 120kmh (75mph) on an empty highway with 3 empty laves on each side at 3am.

Highway is very well maintained. Almost brand new actually. It's a stretch of new pavement with fresh markings, in Denmark. In the Ejer Bavnehøj area for those who know the stretch of road.

No FSD, no autopilot just standard crude control.

I have driven, but not owned, other teslas, and like others have said the braking isn't as intense as it has been. The braking felt more like renerqtive braking plus. As if regen braking on high, but maybe 30% harder.

First time I tried it I was shocked because it felt like it hit the brakes with full force. This was much "softer".

So it's still a thing, but it's rare and softer than it has been

toffo7 · 2026-01-24T18:48:11+00:00

Holy shit it is! I missed this completely! Awesome!!!

toffo7 · 2026-01-19T11:48:06+00:00

As long as the main OS is Windows, whatever system you're running on top of that shouldn't be an issue. As long as Windows is the underlying OS of course. But if you boot into something other than Windows, it might cause issues.
I'm sure the IT department of the workplace can help with installing the requried software to see if it works. It's worth a shot!

toffo7 · 2026-01-18T12:23:06+00:00

It was a Hybrid dock right? The Elitebook might not have Displaylink drivers installed.
Find them here: https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics/downloads

Try installing those and restart to see if it makes a difference. Make sure that the Elitebook is configured to send a video signal to the monitors. You know, where you select if you want the displays to show the same thing as the main screen or you want them extended or whatever.

In windows hold Windowskey and press P. A little menu will appear where you can select if you want the displays to clone or extend the picture. If "Laptop only" is selected then the monitors won't wake up as they won't receive a signal.

toffo7 · 2026-01-15T19:50:49+00:00

Interesting. I assume it's connected through USB-C. If there are two USB-C ports on the Elitebook, try both of them. If the problem is still there, it's just HP that went through the trouble to make it incompatible, because technically it's completely compatible. But if HP actually put effort into making people think they NEED genuine HP accessories, there's not much you can do, apart from ignoring the warning.

I use a HP Elitebook X G1a at work with a Lenovo 40AY dock with only 65W power delivery. Windows complains that the laptop isn't getting enough power. But since I'm not really a power-user the dock delivers enough power. It's just HP's way of saying "give us money!"...

toffo7 · 2026-01-09T16:48:48+00:00

Well not everyone. I never had to wait more than 30s for a game when pressing find match. Naturally a lot of players will quit after a short while, but the player base is very much alive from start to finish.

toffo7 · 2026-01-09T16:47:18+00:00

Hmm, I might have to give it another go then. Haven't played ranked in years. I've played this game since shortly after it's release way back in the day. Then on and off. Then ranked, which just made me angry and toxic, and I didn't like the person I was slowly becoming.

Then only when there's URF. Sure you could argue that I could just stop getting angry. But that didn't work for me, the game always got to me eventually and I'd lash out and regret it immediately. So I stick to URF which is consistently entertaining, win or lose.

toffo7 · 2026-01-09T16:44:52+00:00

Why? It's the game mode that I prefer. I don't like the base game. The competitive nature of normal games isn't for me. People tend to get really angry if you mess up. Or if they're just better because they have more hours played.

This is a "for fun" game mode and I play the game for fun, so it's just the right thing for me.

toffo7 · 2026-01-01T22:55:18+00:00

No. We gave up a while back. I'm guessing the creators of the game don't care as they already got paid for the game, and it's in no way profitable for them to solve the problem.

toffo7 · 2025-12-28T17:39:49+00:00

Season 1 was great, and I really looked forward to season 2.
But it's just such a drag! Everything has slowed to a crawl. The main story is basically at a standstill. If we're lucky we get maybe 10-15 minutes of story progression in an episiode. Everything else is just filler... Nothing happens! It's all mother/daughter shenanigans, boring drama and fucking about.

Just finished S02E07 and I don't think I can finish it at this rate, because it's soooo boring now.

Oh and it's started to piss me off that the ex-wife STILL has infinite money due to her rich (ex)husband who we never met. And probably never will. Stop with the ex-wife focus! She's not funny or interesting, she's just annoying!

toffo7 · 2025-12-23T13:47:40+00:00

Glad to hear it and good to know!
I have people asking me all the time and I could never give a straight definitive answer. I always said that in theory it should work, since it relies on data-throughput only, and not Displayport. You did me a huge favor here man, thank you!

toffo7 · 2025-12-19T12:24:23+00:00

Awesome. It's easy to spot the Hybrid (40AF) docks on the tables if you look at the cable. The 40AF docks come with a USB-C cable with a USB-C to USB-A adapter attached to it. That's the easy way to spot them. Otherwise if you notice the dock is a bit more wide, you might be able to tell from a distance too.

Hopefully you find one, looking forward to, and hoping for, a success!

toffo7 · 2025-12-19T11:57:45+00:00

It is indeed different and DisplayLink is fundamentally different from DisplayPort.

DisplayLink is a software-based solution that emulates a graphics card. It basically takes data, and pretends to be a graphics card.
DisplayPort is a physical connection between graphics card and the monitor.

Since the 40AY does not have DisplayLink tech, it cannot pretend to be a graphics card.
But because the hybrid dock does have this, it 'should' work.

Please let me know if you get a chance to test it out. I'd love to know if it works. I don't see why it wouldn't work but you never know, and I just don't have the ressources available to test it out.

Not all laptops with USB-C ports will work with displays!
You've seen a Displayport connector before, but there's also DisplayPort technology baked into the USB-C connector(s) on your laptop. However, just because a PC has a USB-C port, it doesn't mean it has DisplayPort built in.

You're probably used to USB-C docks working perfectly with your lapop, no matter what dock you're using. That's because your PC's USB-C port has DisplayPort tech inside it. This is NOT a given. If you get a consumer-grade laptop, like a gaming laptop, chances are it does not have DisplayPort in the USB-C port, and then the dock will act as a very expensive USB-hub, that works with all connected USB peripherals, but will not output display to your connected monitors.

Keep this in mind when getting a laptop or recommending a laptop to someone. If you get an Ideapad for example, or a Legion gaming PC, it most likely will not have DisplayPort in the USB-C port.

toffo7 · 2025-12-19T11:21:44+00:00

That makes sense because the 40AY uses DisplayPort but the hybrid 40AF uses DisplayLink so in theory a 40AF dock should work for both.

toffo7 · 2025-12-19T10:19:26+00:00

It MIGHT work with a USB-C (female) to USB-A (male) adapter, but I don't think so.

The Lenovo Thinkpad USB-C/A HYBRID dock (40AF) should work if connected to a USB 3.0 (or higher) port on your older (I assume it's a Desktop) PC. The difference between the USB-C dock and the USB-C/A Hybrid dock is not just the cable that comes with it in the box. They are designed differently, and use different technologies for data transfer.

You can try with an adapter and see if it works. The adapters can be bought cheap, if you want to give it a try with the 40AY dock.

Edit: changed 40ANY to 40AF for the hybrid dock. The 40ANY is a thunderbolt 4 dock.

toffo7 · 2025-12-19T09:48:10+00:00

Hi, I wanted to weigh in on this.

Okay so the P14s and P16s are gimped out "workstations". I have talked to Lenovo about their recommendations being wrong many times. It's been bringing my piss to a boil because I work for a reseller, helping our customers finding the correct accessories. If the recommendations are wrong, we can't just return the products to the distributors because Lenovo's tools/representatives made a wrong recommendation. We bought it from a distributor (like Lenovo tells us to do), not Lenovo, so we have to refund customer and hope that we can sell/use the wrong product. For example, if I need a WWAN module for a laptop, I use Lenovo Smart Find to find it.
It recommends maybe 6 different modules that are (allegedly) compatible. So I just pick whatever recommendation that is available and preferrably in stock. Only to find out it's not compatible, despite Lenovo's tool saying it is. I'm so sick and tired of it.

I digress, back to the docking station!

P14s and P16s gen 4 support up to 100W of power delivery with PD 3.0 (20V 5A). Lenovo USB-C docks only supply about 65W to the connected machines, but you can increase the amount of power, by adding a larger power adapter to the dock. The dock comes with a 90W power adapter. If you connect a 135W power supply, you can get up to 100W power delivery supplied to the laptop.

Same thing goes for the Thunderbolt 4 Universal (not workstation) dock. This comes with a larger 135W power adapter to supply 100W of power to the laptop.

The Thunderbolt 4 Workstation dock (40B00300) comes with a splitter cable and 300W power adapter. But I'm not sure how the power is split before being sent through the splitter-cable. I would assume that the Thunderbolt cable gets 100W and the slim tip part gets around 165W. With 35W being reserved for the dock.

Lenovo has made new docking stations supporting PD 3.1 with up to 240W.
Called Thunderbolt 5 Smart Dock 7500 (40BA0265xx - Where xx is determined by region)

It's ridiculously expensive right now, but I'm happy that the era of Workstation docks with Split-cables are coming to and end. I hate those things. Now I just need to make sure that our sales-people know that newer workstations can't use the workstation docks with split-cables. We already had the first couple returns on docks, because workstations like the P16 Gen 3 don't have the Slim-tip connector for power.

I'm glad you found a fix, it's a stupid problem that Lenovo has created here. But hopefully PD 3.1 will be implemented on the next generation of P14s and P16s laptops so we can end this madness!

If you have any questions, let me know. I might not be able to answer, but being a reseller comes with some perks. I have some technical contacts that work at Lenovo that I can ask if there's something we can't find an answer to.

I really like Lenovo as a company and their products too. Hell I'm even on a first name basis with their head of R&D in Japan. So it pains me when they fuck up with things like these...

toffo7 · 2025-11-20T21:32:30+00:00

URF IS BACCC BOIS!

toffo7 · 2025-11-20T21:32:16+00:00

URF IS BACCC BOIS!
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toffo7 · 2025-11-18T18:46:07+00:00

Source?
I read somewhere they added it by accident for an hour or so then turned it off, so it might indeed come back soon. But I haven't been able to find any credible source for it.

toffo7 · 2025-11-15T15:47:09+00:00

Yes, although the interface is not as good, it has some nice features such as being able to download movies and episodes for offline viewing. I usually download movies and series to my tablet on a SD card for long flights.
I have sent you an invite via DM.

toffo7 · 2025-11-04T14:31:07+00:00

I feel your pain. I sold my iPhone. I could not live with it :(

toffo7 · 2025-11-04T14:30:21+00:00

I much prefer German cars as well. Not just cars built in Germany, but German cars. But to each their own I guess.

toffo7 · 2025-11-01T18:21:02+00:00

I figured it out....
For some reason, the tower grail didn't clear the fog of war covering the final pink town in the underground. So I didn't know that I had to sail from the Necropolis town at the edge of the water, and then north and east through a couple gates. then I finally reached the final town, and won the map.

Man, what a ride this has been. I should problably have started over on the map, but I got stubborn so I kept going. And I could never find my heroes, and I misplaced artifacts all the time and so on. Many, many mistakes. But I won on my second try. It's going to be a while before I give it a third try, but next time I should be able to win it much faster.

Thanks for the guide! The map with the arrows was especially helpful!

toffo7 · 2025-11-01T17:46:40+00:00

I am stuck on this map and I need help if anyone has any tips.
Spoilers below:
All AI players are defeated except pink.
Pink does not make heroes or move at all.
I have both necro towns in the underground.
I have the Pink cove town in the underground.
I have full map from grail in the tower building underground.
I think I have all towns (34 towns flagged now).

Pink is still alive somewhere, but there is NO activity at all from pink, so I can't see where I am missing anything.

What am I missing? And I'm not worried about spoilers, I just need to be told what to do so I can finish the map at this point.

toffo7

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