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Unexpected surprises can be dangerous. I feel like safety related systems really should be as simple as possible.
I like ABS but in one of my vehicles I had an issue with it randomly engaging when it shouldn't due to rusted and cracked tone rings. It's actually pretty scary losing the majority of your braking power when you desperately need it.
Sometimes you can't appreciate the good aspects until you're missing them.
I've actually got 2 cars with crank windows and am in the process of converting one of them to power windows just because it doesn't have AC and I want an easier way to manage the windows.
I'd only cut the antennas in a last case scenario. It's more likely they'd have a connector or I'd try to de-solder them first.
Your second point about the swappable ports finally made me realize it's not a gimmick. I don't know why but I think just because it's different I was a little apprehensive about it. The thought of being able to reconfigure it to avoid a dongle or hub is great.
I live in a rural area myself and it's not unusual to see a pick up truck with DIY elements on them such as a wood bed rack, or wood bed cap. Usually this is a dead give away of an older gentlemen driving it. My parents own a pick up truck that had an older gentleman as a previous owner and it has a DIY wooden center console in it as it did not come with one from the factory. Ford sells a center console as an option for some of them but I guess he preferred to build his own.
I fear this will be me in 40 years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28867562
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/viewing-website-...
The current ongoing thing here is that the power company wants to build a power corridor to transport electricity from Canada to Mass. The power company has gone through questionable means to do this and the locals are rightfully unhappy about it. It's hard to not hear about it right now.
(Not sure where I was going with this)
Facebook made me wait two weeks before giving me the option to delete it and now it's just stuck on "deleting". Bing emails me weekly saying I need to update my listing yet I've tried 3 times to mark it as closed to no avail.
The only one I've been able to remove it from has been Google so far. It's quite frustrating.
The good sites are :)
The not so good ones "force" you to download an app with no alternative and require obtrusive permissions even though all you want to know is the answer to a quick question.
I'm bummed that fridges actually use the internet now.
It's weird how we can have things that are extremely well known / commonly used in our culture that suddenly disappear as soon as something better comes along never to be thought of again.
Scheduled too many jobs this week? Friggen boss is overworking me again. New business cards have too small of a font? Ugh, I need to have a talk with my designer.
I like to stick to smaller subreddits as they tend to be more authentic. Usually anything under 100K subscribers (with exceptions) can be really enjoyable to lurk + a great source of info.