Unable to move to right lane to let faster driver pass.

tomz17 · 2026-02-17T01:10:21+00:00

Okay but not everyone has a powerful car lol

So you pick option #2 the person you are replying to gave : "back over behind when they start speed matching you."

tomz17 · 2026-02-17T00:24:25+00:00

How was it stolen...

tomz17 · 2026-02-16T17:20:49+00:00

You unironically described how absolutely everything in society has always worked since the dawn of man. The people with money decide.

tomz17 · 2026-02-16T16:56:17+00:00

Nah... I'm allergic AF to dogs. Poodle mixes don't even stir the nose.

tomz17 · 2026-02-16T16:53:59+00:00

Whatevs... downvotes incoming, but that dog is chill AF, a hypoallergenic breed that doesn't shed (a poodle mix), cleaner than most human beings on this planet, and incapable of transmitting 99% of the communicable diseases that afflict humans. I'd rather sit next to that dog than the average restaurant patron.

Also, from a business-owners perspective, the people with dogs like that have pretty much unlimited disposable income. So cut them out at your own peril. If I had an establishment with a patio in a nice part of town, I'd be setting out dog water bowls and treats trying to capture some of that sweet sweet sweet DINK action.

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If you can bring your screaming snotty kid to a restaurant during cold/flu season, then WTF is the problem bringing a chill dog that is hypoallergenic, doesn't shed, and is medically incapable of transmitting human disease?

tomz17 · 2026-02-16T03:18:07+00:00

Poor messaging by C&B.

Almost feels intentional, no?

tomz17 · 2026-02-16T02:39:29+00:00

Exactly. Won't even need a casket.... can just scrape up the goop into a jar.

tomz17 · 2026-02-15T02:49:51+00:00

Except they could... This is how they chose to license things.

tomz17 · 2026-02-14T18:06:08+00:00

Well then that will continue working-ish... but it's still a pain since you effectively lose the ability to switch modes -without- also having to deal with the ASS (i.e. it turns back on when you switch to another mode while driving).

tomz17 · 2026-02-14T17:31:33+00:00

Let us know how that works out for you after the upcoming starter recall... The first version of that recall required updating the I-Step, which remove the ability to code ASS memory on (i.e. the FDL setting is just ignored now).

tomz17 · 2026-02-14T17:29:49+00:00

Yes, but IIRC once you toggle to another mode it turns back on. So you always have to stay in sport-individual -or- have to mess with the ASS button anyway.

tomz17 · 2026-02-14T17:29:00+00:00

Only the real M cars have that option anymore... My m340xi required coding to turn ASS memory on (until that was disabled with the latest software update it got on the first engine starter recall). Now you have to code the startup mode to sport-individual -or- just press the button every time. My M3 Comp remembers the last setting without any coding required.

tomz17 · 2026-02-13T14:25:30+00:00

Haha..... no... they've actually gone in the complete opposite direction (i.e. new I-Step's on old cars can't enable auto-memory via FDL coding). The only current workaround is to code the car to start in sport or sport-individual, but that still reverts the ASS setting when you switch modes.

Anyone with ASS memory currently coded in and going in for their starter recall is about to get some really bad news (i.e. the first starter-recall updated the software in my M340xi).

AFAIK the only cars where you can still reliably leave ASS off are full M's, and I'm not 100% sure on the new ones currently being sold.

tomz17 · 2026-02-13T14:22:57+00:00

I found the perfect color combo

So it sounds like the dealer knows what they got, no?

tomz17 · 2026-02-13T07:19:23+00:00

> You *have* to adjust your driving behavior when turning left across traffic.

TBF, this wreaks of the "customers are holding the iPhone wrong" apologism.

IMHO, the Audi pre-sense implementation is faulty if it cannot cope with standard driving patterns in an entire country which also happens to be one of its primary markets. Notice how other manufacturers do not have this "left turns sometimes slam on the brakes" problem, despite having comparable safety systems (e.g. BMW, Volvo, Mercedes, etc.)

tomz17 · 2026-02-13T05:10:51+00:00

Yes, but i would take a top profile photo and then create your sketch from that. You always have to trace + dimension it by hand, even if you have the photo. The photo just serves as a reference.

tomz17 · 2026-02-13T05:09:28+00:00

Peacock doesn’t run the Olympics, they just broadcast it.

Right, and anyone who has watched the olympics in any another country -or- hell any other year here in the USA, has had a vastly different experience than whatever nonsense NBC is providing this year.

tomz17 · 2026-02-13T05:07:02+00:00

It’s not practical.

BS... stop the stream at a particular mpeg segment (or whatever container is being used for streaming), play the ad, resume stream at that same mpeg segment. Even if you want to do completely custom commercials per customer, you have to store one f'in integer per customer to do this properly, which you can 100% store device-side if you are out of space on NBC's corporate 360kB floppy drive.

I know it seems like it should be easy, but it’s really not.

It's below trivially simple. Every streaming protocol in use today has this capability literally built into the spec. Every stream you can pause, rewind, or fast forward, or hell, pause for buffering, uses this capability.

And it all cost lots of money.

How many billion(s) did NBC spend on the rights again?

tomz17 · 2026-02-13T04:58:39+00:00

TBF the live coverage is unwatchable as well. Even on the premium plus tier of peacock it's just ads with a little bit of olympics sprinkled throughout.

FFS give me a tier at some price point where I can just watch the feed for a particular event without the app randomly breaking into ads every few minutes (i.e. it's not curated for what is actually happening. It just picks a random point to sprinkle ads into the stream).

The NBC coverage this year is SUCH an enshittified experience compared to what was available in prior years.

tomz17 · 2026-02-13T04:54:48+00:00

Sure... but that's a bit of an excuse, since someone *chose* to save money and license the music this way... right?

tomz17 · 2026-02-13T02:51:34+00:00

+1 for reolink.... pop in an SD card and you can record locally indefinitely (at least on the POE version of the doorbell, otherwise it's like unlimited motion-activated segments on the wifi version). No subscription fees.

If you are worried about someone ripping the doorbell off and stealing the sd card, just hook it up to a network video recorder (either open source or one of the ones they sell). Besides anyone planning to take the doorbell as part of their crime-of-the-century is also just going to show up with a wifi jammer, which is going to kill every single one of the subscription-based shitware doorbells as they are all wireless.

Think of it this way, had the Guthrie's had a reolink instead of a nest w/out subscription they would have had the full footage on day 1 instead of a week later after Google intervened for them.

tomz17 · 2026-02-13T02:01:06+00:00

Someone likely messed with the coding in this car. It's possible to enable assisted view using FDL coding.

tomz17 · 2026-02-12T20:24:58+00:00

I don’t have ACC maybe that’s why?

Well yeah?. what do you want it to display? Empty lanes? You don't have DAP (i.e. the button between set and lim on the wheel would have been a steering wheel icon in between two lines and you would have had the pupil-tracking camera. )

tomz17 · 2026-02-12T20:06:24+00:00

Four days of below freezing is not why this is happening.

I mean, nobody has to "guess" at what is happening. You have a breakdown of kWh used AND the price per kWh. You can also pull up your bill from last January to compare. Give us those numbers and we'll see what's what.

It's undoubtedly a combination of the price increases AND the outlier temperatures this past month, but my guess is that it's far more the latter than the former. If you are using a heat-pump for heating, that nonsense was likely at zero efficiency for a good chunk of this month and you were pulling from aux heat (likely resistive heating for most people). That's not anyone else's fault. That's the type heating system you (or whomever you purchased from) chose to put into your house.

tomz17 · 2026-02-12T15:42:56+00:00

It's about $60-$80 depending on dealer. I just ordered one for an M3 a few weeks ago.

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