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My "real lived experience" with a CarPlay device that I installed into my 2016 Toyota Sienna is that it was slow, annoying, and I actually removed it. You can have it for free if you are in the Calgary area, my email is in my profile.

The UX difference compared to my phone, and the change in speed / etc.. was infuriating. The experience with my phone was ALWAYS better.

An argument based on the desires of fiscally illiterate people with 19.99% APR loans on oversized cars would make more sense if I worked for an auto company, thankfully I don't.

I used to feel this way, but nowadays I've come to realize that Carplay's UX is inferior to my iPhone's UX on a mount. As long as I have Bluetooth or Aux-in, I'm fine.

(That isn't to say that I think GM will somehow produce anything other than a captured rent extraction tool)

> The majority of marriages end in divorce

This is pedantic, but if I understand correctly, this is not true anymore. Moreover, this number is inflated by a set of people getting divorced multiple times.

If this is a real person, please touch grass.

I can guess what it means, but it sounds like a pastiche and an exaggeration from far right activists that are trying to portray leftists as being out of touch.

This is a joke right? No one refers to people as "melanated POC", do they?

I actually got in spat with a coworker once at a previous company for politely and sincerely asking what one of these neologisms meant (latinx in that case).

I'm sorry about your wife.

There was scientific basis for N95 masks and similar masks. If you are talking about cloth and paper masks, I mostly agree. Even then there were tests done with using even those surgical masks with 3d printed frames. I remember this as one example of people following this line of thinking.

https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2021/07/26/surgical-ma...

As for dehumanization, I used to live in Tokyo and spending years riding the train. I think blaming masks for dehumanization when we have entire systems ragebaiting us on a daily basis is like blaming the LED light for your electric bill.

Social Distancing having "no scientific backing" is very difficult to respond to. Do you mean in terms of long term reduction of spread, or as a temporary measure to prevent overwhelming the hospitals (which is what the concern was at the time)?

I do agree that it was fundamentally dishonest to block people from going to church and then telling other people it was OK to protest (because somehow these protests were "socially distanced" and outdoors). They could have applied the same logic to Church groups and helped them find places to congregate, but it was clearly a case of having sympathy for the in-group vs the out-group.

I used to agree with this line of reasoning, but then I saw that the same process was used to block war crimes investigators from using Microsoft's software.

Thank you, 100 times this. There was literally nothing fun about it.

I remember desperately trying to put drivers in high memory, because Wing Commander 2 needed more memory if I was to get the precious images of the joystick moving. Slowly removing items, one by one from my autoexec.bat file, desperately hoping it was going to work, but then the creeping realisation that I would have to unload my soundcard drivers if I wanted a chance.

Or the time our bios randomly wiped its memory and my dad was convinced I had destroyed the harddrive. Thankfully I was told by a family friend that I would only have to turn on the BIOS and set it to # 31 (because somehow hard disk sizes, sectors, et cetra were all standardized) in order to access our precious 95 megabyte hard disk.

Yeah, likewise. Claude has been going downhill recently for me, while Codex works great. I nearly cancelled my ChatGPT membership until they started providing codex, and now I'm considering if I want to use Pro again.

It's weird though because ChatGPT itself is not particularly better than it was before. Bringing down costs per token probably means they can do more reasoning before coding than Codex does.

This is nice but I have zero idea how I can surface interesting or useful videos. The search function on PeerTube doesn't give me anything useful for my topics of interest.

As a result, I wind up wasting hours and I simply do not have that time.

I called it a "ghost town" because none of my friends post on it anymore. There is nothing social about it, it is like a message board at this time.

Everyone refers to FB and IG as the representatives of social media. FB is a ghost town, and IG is a major advertising online. (I also have said nice things about using FB while in Japan, all of which stand for the time in which I said them; I don't let my children use either.)

What I really find annoying is that Reddit never comes up in these discussions. Just because people tend to agree with the bias doesn't change the fact that it has no doubt left people radicalised. I was watching an Ezra Klein interview with some pollsters after the election, and it even shocked me the level of difference between what polling showed as of importance to most Americans, and what Reddit portrayed as being the common American opinion.

It's a cancer, just like Twitter, but no one ever mentions it. Not even Trump, who you would think would want to squash this safe space.

(I am indulging a bit in conspiracies, but the Elgins Air Force Base conspiracy seems more and more likely given how this site goes unnamed in the US, despite being so busy and so weird)

I've had this same issue happen repeatedly. It's not a big deal because it is just for small personal stuff, but I often need to tell it that it is doing the same thing and that I had asked for changes.

I am dating myself and making myself unemployable in SV but this was not a normal thing when I was younger. It seems to have become far more common post Bush II; the Supreme Court and hanging chads had a much bigger effect than you'd think.

(Incidentally, I also remember the "Your side lost, hippies" trolls, the "Peak oil" comments, and the apocalyptic "George Bush is going to impose martial law and cancel the election, they are building concentration camps" comments. Such a wild time for internet discussion, many of these were recycled later on.)

When I worked at Salesforce Japan, I went to conferences in the US. I always honestly said it was for business when entering the country. I spent nearly the whole time at the office, and answered emails from customers and clients.

No one asked about visas. I didn't think that was an issue since I really was there for a week for a business conference, but maybe it was? After all, technically it was a "Tourist" visa.

In the end though, SFDC keeps almost all of its technical talent in the US. If the government really got annoying, they probably would have stuck to the local talent and forgotten about the rest of us.

It isn't the sentiment, but rather the omnipresence of the most extreme version of the sentiment, that makes it seem artificial. It's not as if states like Iowa voting for a conservative figure is a surprise. (They voted against FDR during WW2)

I've never heard a liberal American IRL express more than mild distaste for farmers and their subsidies. I've certainly not seen enough IRL vitrol for people to engage in page after page of Reddit / Herman Cain award style comments on news comment sections on Youtube.

I can imagine the farmer handout being seen as offensive when conservative activists opposed bailing out student loans, but other countries do very similar things (Canada certainly does). It's just not political to give money to farmers, even when they are millionaires. Additional consolidation of farms will just lead to more egg price hikes when bird flu spreads to mega flocks on mega farms.

The other reason this doesn't seem real is that normally you'd have an angle behind this other than "Ha, you guys are fucked". Instead it just seems to be comments geared at arousing maximum anger, which seems like something I would do if I wanted acceleration vs. change.

I've also seen similar comments before, like the "Ha ha you didn't vote for Kamala and Gaza is in flames because of you".

It might be people terminally online, but it strikes me as being inorganic, not real.

I think one of the more interesting stories about this that is being missed is the comments being left under videos related to this.

I legitimately don't know if they are bots (because the comments are all too similar) or if they are the just sneering Redditors en masse. I can certainly imagine both scenarios, although I'm going to guess it is more likely to be bots.

Two examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VYtabeCROY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_N3g986TiE

I used to use Teams w/ Firefox but the lagging and other issues with video calls led me to using Chrome. Is that still an issue?

But it did crash Chrome all the time. I started runnung it in a VM so it would be less annoying when it crashed

Yeah, honestly my whole karma score is built from pithy comments about Teams.

Thankfully it no longer crashes Chrome all the time, but everything else is meh. I still can't tag people in Japanese. The security settings are a trap for poor quality system admins and checkbox checkers. The meetings crash, the screen sharing only allows one way (so no easy pair programming), etc..

I much prefer working with slack and google meet like I did at my last job.

Turns out even Microsoft can't get Teams to work.

The price was not the issue, the fact that they took 5 weeks for a potential safety issue was. (In my case, it turns out that the issue was related to a torn bushing in the suspension; a common issue with a Model 3 w/ more than 100k kilometers apparently).

The fact that they took longer AND were more expensive than local providers was ridiculous, and certainly not a good look compared to my experiences at Toyota with my Sienna.

-edit- (That and the fact that they shouldn't be resource constrained when the most valuable car company in the world)

For the sake of argument, why should I be more afraid of phoning home to China (a country I will probably never go to) than phoning home to the US or Canada?

If I'm making an inappropriate joke to my wife while we drive, I'd prefer the former than the later.

(Obviously, much like you I assume, I'd rather have no internet connection)

I've generally advocated ignoring Musk, but it's impossible to defend him in good faith as a reasonable figurehead for a multinational company. His X page in particular portrays a man who cares deeply about 4chan/pol politics and very little about his car company.

If he cared at all, you'd see a better repair process with them. There is a Tesla repair hub in Calgary where I live, and I had to wait 5 weeks for them to see my car (including an un-explained situation where they bumped me, despite me being concerned about a safety issue). I eventually took it to an EV repair shop who did it for half of what Tesla quoted because, FFS, the world's most valuable auto company is "Resource Constrained" with mechanics.

Seriously, how can they afford a trillion on a CEO when they are parking expensive Cybertrucks on the front lawn of their Calgary store?

I still love driving my car (a 2019 Model 3), but I have no faith that Tesla will actually improve on it with their current leadership structure.

Likewise.

I'll play devil's advocate and say that I think the Codex-cli included with the plus subscription is pretty good (quality wise). However, after using it, it suddenly told me I couldn't use it for a week out without warning. Claude is a bit more reasonable there.

Yes, this is very much my experience too.

Switching to GPT5 Thinking helps a little, but it often misses things that it wouldn't when I was using o3 or o1.

As an example, I asked it if there were any incidents involving Botchan in an Onsen. This is a text that is readily available and must have been trained on; in the book, Botchan goes swimming in the onsen, and then is humiliated when the next time he comes back, there is a sign saying "No swimming in the Onsen".

According to GPT5 it gives me this, which is subtly wrong.

> In the novel, when Botchan goes to Dōgo Onsen, he notes the posted rules of the bath. One of them forbids things like: > “No swimming in the bath.” (泳ぐべからず) > “No roughhousing / rowdy behavior.” (無闇に騒ぐべからず) > Botchan finds these signs funny because he’s exactly the sort of hot-headed, restless character who might be tempted to splash around or make noise. He jokes in his narration that it seems as though the rules were written specifically to keep people like him out.

Incidentally, Dogo Onsen still has the "No swimming sign", or it did when I went 10 years ago.

Ah I would have guessed that too but in my case, had a crack that opened up over night — no impact at all.

Besides, hot in summer and cold in winter. Just see no benefit, it is just another made for California feature

I bought one too and he did not factor into it.

Electric car + active battery management were what I cared about at the time of purchase. Also, I am biased against GM and Ford due to experiences with their cars in the 80s and 90s.

I doubt I'm the only one.

(In retrospect, the glass roof was not practical in Canada and I will look elsewhere in the future)

As someone who normally would not take such anti-life positions, I legitimately cannot understand why anyone would want to survive a nuclear attack.

You'd survive just to starve. From that perspective, duck and cover is trading a quick death for a long one.