“From the ID 2all onwards, we will have physical buttons for the five most important functions – the volume, the heating on each side of the car, the fans and the hazard light – below the screen,”

Climate controls are one but sure, five most important functions. Honestly rip out the touch screen, implement buttons just as they had been previously then add the display; preferably with a decent HID as Mazda have done.

I’m still driving a mk6 golf and really can’t imagine not having easy access to those features.

Ahh spotted another one!

https://git.galing.org/kel/nixos

Mine is a mess but works for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’d dare say the easier method, from memory the p6 should have a charge limit in the stock firmware.

I’ve not an old Samsung s10+ kicking around with corrupted firmware, should really take a look at it and see if it can be up and running again. Not that I need more cores, ram, cameras or any additions to my equipment but just because.

It fassinates me that consumer hardware, and low power at that goes wasted so often. So many small form factor devices such as phones, with built in ups aren’t being leveraged. But I guess that comes down to proprietary binary blobs and developer work on a per device basis.

I might have to investigate what platforms mobile nixos supports and see if it’s cheap enough to dabble with.

Wife kicked me off our joined Spotify membership (we both agreed to her using student discount for her account) so I’ve setup plexamp for my albums. I mean technically streaming but self-hosted.

Has android auto, and the in app interface is reasonable.

Its kind of nice, just to play an album you own vs having a neverending list of songs you might enjoy.

Yeah my car is filthy 😇

I’m much the same in my auto with dsg. Having a gearbox vs slushbox lets me shift down a gear where I only need to gradually slow down or sit in say 2nd on a downhill and not gain any speed.

My car is from 2011 and it had the right amount of modern features while lacking all the touchscreen climate controls and connected nonsonce.

Not around here but the major banks in my area still allow for note / change deposits into accounts. They even have coin hoppers in some still, great for cleaning out the glovebox / centre console.

Been a while since I’ve used one as I generally take my change into work and convert it into notes there :D

It’s crazy to see the downturn in cash going through pubs, I’ve been in the industry for 20 years and remember when I’d started most transactions were physical money, these days on a busy night I’ll count the 7 tills we have and maybe end up with 3k in cash takings. (not including the pokies for obvious reasons).

Ahh we don’t really use cheques here in Aus. Payments being electronic doesn’t worry me, pay lands in my account the same day it’s processed, sometimes the following day if the accountants miss the deadline.

Sending someone money is generally instant using PayID, without fees too.

I use neobanks (no physical branches) so as long as their web interface works well enough for me, and I can use my own 2FA (not SMS based) ill be happy as a pig in mud.

Just wait and see if the climate turns to no physical cards in the next 5 - 10 years…

Banks allow me to login via their web interface, send money to a BSB + Account Number or even a PayID (email / phone number) but using their app to do just the same is too far?

It’s total rubbish, honestly I’ve resurrected my OG ridge wallet and am planning on installing Graphene on my P7P to skirt the phone payment trap.

I was one of the few in Australia to test Google wallet (thanks for the free cash google) and thought it was the bees knees. It’s a fucking long con and fuck I feel dumb for falling into it.

Worst still my drivers licence is a phone app, so are my work certificates and probably a bunch of other shit that I’ll only realize later.

I guess fuck around and find out shows its ugly face eventually.

So vibe coding?

I’ve tried using llm for a couple of tasks before I gave up on the jargon outputs and nonsense loops that they kept feeding me.

I’m no coder / programmer but for the simple tasks / things I needed I took inspo from others, understood how the scripts worked, added comments to my own scripts showing my understanding and explaining what it’s doing.

I’ve written honestly so much, just throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks (works). I have fleshed out a method for using base16 colour schemes to modify other GTK* themes so everything in my OS matches. I have declarative containers, IP addresses, secrets, containers and so much more. Thanks to the folks who created nix-colors, I should really contribute to that repo.

I still feel like a noob when it comes to Linux however seeing my progress in ~ 1y is massive.

I managed to get a working google coral after everyone else’s scripts (that I could find on Github) had quit working (NixOS). I’ve since ditched that module as the upkeep required isn’t worth a few ms in detection speeds.

I don’t believe any of my configs would be where they are if I’d asked a llm to slap it together for me. I’d have none of the understanding of how things work.

Yer I host Plex for 10+ folks and it’s an easy send. Really wish I could pipe it through CloudFlare but not willing to risk it currently.

I’ll give plexamp a go, man my tastes are all over the shop so it will be an album dump (that I should have done years ago) spinning up some old cds and the external dvd drive 😂

You hosting your plex service for other users outside of your home? I’m finding the ease of access for other users / the wife is the largest driving point for me to continue using plex.

I could configure a VPN and attach my jellyfin server to that network however that’s a large hurdle for some of the general population users I have on my plex currently.

For something on-topic the wife and I agreed that she should move to the student sub as she’s studying and kick me off Spotify entirely. I’ve got until the EOM to get plexamp / something else self hosted. Interested to see what comes from this post as it’s pretty relevant for me right now.

Admittedly I could Bluetooth to my head unit in my car and stream Grayjay music to it, but that’s just leaning on an unfree service.

That’s why I love my Datavac, been kicking around for 10 or so years now. Decent pressure, reasonably priced. Only downside is the mains power requirement, and the noise it produces would wake the neighbours up.

It’s essentially a big vaccum motor in a tube with a nozzle.

I found that powerline adaptors were a great temp fix until I was able to run some cat6a through the walls / ceiling.

Sounds like a temporary permanent fix.

Could be seeing if it’s a modem / other hardware fault.

Id personally try a hardwired connection, and if the problem persists try a live Linux distro and see if the problem persists there.

3070? I remember receiving boxes of these which were delegated to prebuild systems.

These were screamers, up there with the two slot 3090 blower from gigabyte 🫠

Yeah take a look at TempleOS and it’s filesystem RedSea.

TempleOS is a rabbit hole in of itself, RIP Terry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

From memory Paint on W10 is able to open webp, and save as another file extension if required. I had to convert so many of these images for product listings online, only for them to be converted back to webp…

I’d be pretty surprised to see lead solder used in these applications, lead free is the defacto standard and has been for a long time. Not in vapes but any consumer electronics device.

More than likely it’s the mesh coils used having some lead present.

Nicotine isn’t really harmful, aside from the rediculously addictive nature it’s what a vasoconstrictor?

Much like caffeine it has some decent properties for focus / cognitive abilities.

The main downfall is how it’s consumed by the majority of the population. Durries are overall awful. The stench, accidental burns and all the inhaling burning plant matter leading to cancer thing.

Ahh man, Australia have tried DNS blocking websites via our ISPs however running your own or changing your DNS (on your local machine or your modem if it’s not locked down) completely dumpsters this strategy.

From memory torrent websites were blocked and some rom / game piracy sites.