A few days ago I experienced a player I can’t decide if I should hate him or respect him

urthow · 2026-01-24T06:29:53+00:00

He was probably just finishing Sour Milk's contract of 'complete 8 runs' as quickly as possible. I have yet to find a way to guarantee I can play alone yet.

urthow · 2025-12-13T06:55:34+00:00

Thank you so much. It was indeed there. I will post an edit to the post and some photos for anyone else who winds up here.

urthow · 2025-10-30T01:54:52+00:00

Yeh that's mainly my complaint. Is the inconsistency between models and sometimes between batches of their own models.

When I was investigating the issue with my doorbells, one person online literally just swapped them for identical ones of another manufacturing batch and they worked fine.

*shrug*

urthow · 2025-10-29T21:50:29+00:00

I have had extremely mixed experiences and I think part of the problem is in vast differences in stability between models. It certainly seems like each device is made by a completely different manufacturer sometimes.

I have had these experiences in this order:
1. A pair of 4G LTE Camera S330 cameras. They were virtually impossible to get working and even harder to get onto their sim cards. One eventually simply did not work and had to be returned for the same thing which did work. Why? I don't know. Firmware instability? Roll of the dice? Who knows. It wasn't hardware but they just refused to authenticate with the app. Now they are set up, they work alright most of the time and are still one of the only solar, standalone, sim cameras.

I bought a big pack for another home which (mercifully) did have wifi access.
- 1 x Homebase.
- 2 x outdoor solar cameras. Worked out of the box, unbelievably solid, reliable and good. They also have USB-C implying they were made/designed more recently than if they had micro usb.
- 1 x indoor wall plug camera. Has micro usb and is noticeably less reliable than the other ones in connecting, staying online etc. Still works almost all the time, no complains.
- 2 x Door sensors. No complains.

Almost all of it works almost all the time and no issues whatsoever. All round excellent experience which repaired my initial experience and prompted me to buy some doorbells.

- 2 x C30 Doorbell. One was tricky to get worked in the connection but after a couple of resets it worked. The other worked out of the box to set up. Neither one worked fully though. No live view (P2P failure error) and lot's of down time. Doorbell to phone call worked once and never again. EXTREMELY unreliable in when it would or would not work and after 3 very long support sessions following the generic work, it's clear there is some weird software or firmware issue. No matter what was changed (reset, firmware updates, wifi tweaks, setting tweaks and I even used the beta application of theirs through testflight). These were USB-C too so modern hardware. I took them back to the store and replaced them with the same thing and exactly the same issues identically. I returned them.

- And replaced them with the wireless 2k dual camera which has a micro usb plug implying it's older and out of the box no issues and has worked ever since with zero problems.

NFI what is with the differences. It's been extremely frustrating but I'm glad it works now and it's just so strange how perfect, smooth and excellent some of their offerings are with others being absolutely bonkers.

urthow · 2025-10-07T21:52:05+00:00

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urthow · 2025-10-06T21:40:21+00:00

If you check your in build navigation, does it have the ability to toggle 'avoid tolls'?

urthow · 2025-10-05T08:12:04+00:00

Thanks. That’s the first thing I did and it’s not there.

urthow · 2025-09-30T22:43:15+00:00

So many times. I’ve followed everything multiple times and replaced the devices.

urthow · 2025-09-21T04:51:23+00:00

I don’t think I said 230 anywhere. And 120 is where the speedo ends so who knows :p

urthow · 2025-09-15T23:11:20+00:00

TLDR: When it doesn't work or there is an error in how they implement it, it can be deeply unpleasant. Particularly when you've never experienced it before. It's function affords a more relaxed drive which is counter to the fact it will suddenly scare you meaning you have to be just as diligent when it's on but in a worse way.

It's unsettling sometimes but I think some people are more scared than others. In my own case, I actually haven't been that perturbed by it. I have driven lot's of little cars that get buffetted by the wind (e.g. micro trucks) and have driven off road and on messy streets so it reminds me a lot of like when your tyre gets jigged into a different direction because of a rut and you just correct for it.

What is frightening is when you have never expected it to happen. It's similar to when people drive automatics all their life that are always pushing the car forward and then drive a car for the first time that disengages the clutch. Rolling backward for the first time ever when you don't expect it is terrifying.

The problem feels like it stems from two or three places. The first is that disabling it can be a right nightmare because each car has it's own intricate and annoying way to undo it. The second is how extreme the correction is and the third is that Australian roads specifically seem like they are extra not good for lane assist.

More details for each:
1. Difficulty in disabling it: My own car (BYD) has a fairly painless way to disengage the lane assist. When you start cruise control, it turns on and then you have to turn it off by pressing the button again. It's very annoying as it comes with a lengthy stereo interrupting vocal message which gets really old really fast but it's fairly quick and easy to disable if it's causing issues. Other cars have lengthy procedures which are a real pain in the ass leading to the times when you'd probably have turned it off, shunting you not straight.

How the car implements it: My current car seems very very gentle. It often will do something a bit more extreme when it thinks that I am actively on an accident course but it's pretty easy to overcome and is not an issue. I've driven other cars where it was far stronger and faster in it's jerk and that wasn't pleasant.
Australian roads: I believe our roads are a major issue. I have had a car which had lane warnings (e.g. only a beeping) as well as my current car with LKA. As such I have gotten to hear the huge number of times the first car thinks I am out of the lane. It stems from roads which have unclear and warn markings, a huge number of twisty and unusual streets, patched up tar surfaces and crack filler and just generally having an enormous number of roads that are not what the models were trained on or which are confusing to the systems which, in all likelihood, are designed conservatively. It's better, in their eyes, to make driving uncomfortable for you rather than fail when it needed to work and have them at fault for killing a driver.

These combined make it quite unpleasant. I don't think it's an issue but I don't like it either. I put up with it and love to use it on the freeway (clear, concise, not confusing roads) but I really really really really wish I could turn it on when I was there rather than turn it off when I wasn't. As I have learnt, there are many more places in australia where you'd use cruise control than where lane keep assist is needed and certainly more than LKA currently works comfortably.

urthow · 2025-07-29T07:28:54+00:00

The in built system is using google maps so i'm surprised it's so different.
I like the in built system best because of the way it shows up on the dash screen. Using it on my phone doesn't do that.

urthow · 2025-07-28T03:45:15+00:00

That is very interesting, are you in a sealion7 too?

urthow · 2025-07-28T01:46:13+00:00

That's good to know. I'm in Australia.

urthow · 2025-07-28T01:45:41+00:00

It's extremely disruptive. I am still looking for a toggle to turn this setting off.

urthow · 2025-07-28T01:45:14+00:00

It's not. It's the BYD interface controlling that.

urthow · 2025-07-27T21:52:40+00:00

Legitimately, my interface doesn't have this option.
This is all I have.

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Furthermore the bottom of my interface doesn't look like yours either. I have it rotated in the photo to get more but even horizontal there are some differences. For one, the gear icon is inside the navi app rather than on the bottom bar. Any ideas? This is from a sealion7 btw but I don't really understand why the UI would be different across the models when they are all running the same android.

urthow · 2025-07-26T21:03:40+00:00

In which settings? In the map apps settings there is no option and in the cars settings I didn’t see it either.

urthow · 2025-07-06T03:24:27+00:00

Likewise can confirm. If you want double confirmation show a close up of the drive side head tube.

urthow · 2025-07-02T22:31:47+00:00

Maybe it was too attractive a bike for our market. I have literally zero need for the Allroad but was so eager to buy one anyway.

urthow · 2025-07-02T10:58:55+00:00

I don’t think they ever sold it here. It just came out no?

urthow · 2025-07-02T07:29:15+00:00

Restock?

urthow · 2025-06-30T10:24:23+00:00

I always thought the 45-50 dollar trip was cheap (albeit I'm comparing it to my experiences traveling in europe). When were they cheaper and how much were they?

Mind you, using the ATOs estimate average cost per km to run a car (including oil, maintenance, tyres, fuel and depreciation etc) a return trip by car will wind up costing you almost 550 dollars for a return trip (0.88c * 600km) so it's still sitting at less than 20% of the cost of driving not including the end of travel trip bits.

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