unwarlikeExtortion

The alarm is fucking stupid on some models.

I will not put on my seatbelt when I take the car out of the garage for a wash 2 feet in front of it.

I would also like the car to be "smart" enough not to beep that it's in reverse before I had the chance to change it out of reverse myself. And of course, the tone is a 120hz sine wave and way too loud. Great to calm the nerves right before work or a long road trip.

And you know what's the bonus point? The headlight on alarm is quiet like a fucking lullaby. Of course my battery died once.

I can guarantee the tones being as loud and obnoxious as they are is the reason people turn them off or buy those clamps to fake wearing a seatbelt.

Even when people use them, they do, they annoy and distract. Which causes accidents.

I'm not going to claim that they cause more accidents than they prevent, but I will claim that these are the most preventable accidents as they are actively caused by literal safety features!

I have quite a few issues with modern cars. Most I've had the opportunity to be in are asinine.

Important, rare warnings get lullaby tones, while the most common ones sound like someone's actively dying on life support.

One had the genius behavior of showing a large ice detected message that took up the entire dashboard and hid away all the dials.

Most also show a tutorial for how to start the damn thing, as if it in any way differs from any other car. And as if you don't need to pass a practical exam before driving it.

Honestly, as bad as it is, there might be one good effect: apps and software will get less bloated and spec-hungry.

It is like replacing an aggressive cancer with a congenital heart issue though. Both are terrible in their own and unique ways and choosing the worse option isn't all that sensible of an ask.

It's already unconstitutional. But when a fool with a ballroom constitutes most of the government, a piece of paper falls flat.

When you're driving a truck for months on end on cruise control, you have less work to do: look in front and steer. Time can get a bit relative.

6 minutes pass when you feel like it was only 2. Not a cardinal mistake.

Or the other guy decides to speed up.

And especially if you drive a route where you have to wait for hours on customs. The waits get really long so of course 15 minutes feel like 5 sometimes.

Yeah. SSDs are more than viable. Discs as well. And having to include media price in a game gives that bit more pressure on the developer to prefer a less obscenely obese game package.

Making physical a necessity (at least for a "premium" feel and package) will make your online downloads take up less space!

Yeah. What this lawsuit in effect did is say "Games can fall under art and education. Publishers shouldn't think just including a swastika in a game is illegal, because it isn't. Just as a movie can include it, a game can as well."

Of course, it still needs to not glorify nacism deliberately or inadvertantly. But it's sad that it took this long for this non-question "legal question" to have been finally asked in court, and answered with the most expected answer - and dare I say it - one more expected of past decades than this one.

Their interpretation did. Games now classify as art and fall under the art-related exception from censorship.

the default web UI

Isn't that the Tesseract from the recent trama?

So a post-apocalyptic fantasy rural frontier/urban civilization center split is fully within the realm of.possibility.

With US cities and states beibg pretty autonomous most things considered (for now at leas), it could easily happen without the US splitting as far as the world map goes.

Honestly, Chromium seems to have the basic features like history and passwords figured out way better than Firefox (or rather, Chrome does), while stripping most of the junk away, as it luckily happens to be proprietary Google bullshit.

Firefox has a bunch of telemetry and bloat, but the fact that my only real dealbreaker for a browser is quality adblock makes Firefox pretty much my only "vanilla" choice.

Torx screws are almost as common as philips and flatheads as they're long out of patent protection and vastly superior.

It's almost impossible to strip them without actively trying, unlike the others mentioned.