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Summary
 
The German automotive club ADAC (Algemeiner Deutscher Automobil Club) warns against retractable door handles, as they can be a safety risk to those trapped in a car due to an accident.
 
In order to quickly rescue people from an accident vehicle, it is important for first responders to be able to open a vehicle from the outside quickly, easily and intuitively. Even more so if there is a vehicle fire. From the ADAC's point of view, retractable door handles, i.e. those that retract flush into the side of the car when parking and driving, could make this task significantly more difficult, especially for laypeople. But even professional rescue workers would take longer to get to the occupants.
 
 
 
 
Quotes (Translated by Google Translator)
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
My thoughts
 
I'm completely with ADAC on this one. These things suck! Not only are they a pain to use compared to regular door handles, but they also are a major safety risk that is seemingly ignored by authorities. Not only can they fail and stop working, it's also not very intuitive to know where the emergency release is located and how some of them operate. If I would find a person stuck in a Tesla, BMW, Mercedes or any other car with such door handles, I would not know how to get the door open, if they stopped working or are still retracted.
 
 
 
 
Sources
 
https://de.motor1.com/news/714788/sicherheitsrisiko-versenkbare-tuergriffe-adac-warnt/
https://presse.adac.de/meldungen/adac-ev/technik/adac-warnt---versenkbare-tuergriffe-koennen-ein-sicherheitsrisiko-sein.html

Yes, we're already a few years down the road where cars are getting worse with each new generation because they're moving further and further away from making functionality a priority. Replacing a foolproof physical mirror with a camera and display that can both fail is not the way to go. Or replacing dedicated buttons for AC control or windscreen wipers with a submenu on a touch screen...
 
Not to mention that every tiny bit of useless technology they put in jacks up the price, which you can easily see by some models like the Audi A6 (which represented a standard mid-range family wagon some years ago) starting at 57,000 € nowadays in it's base configuration. And if you know German car brands, base configuration means you're lucky if it includes AC. EVERYTHING is optional and configurable. So a decent configuration with maybe a different color will quickly go over 60-70K. What normal family can afford a 70K car?
 
So while some people may not be bothered by these "features", they're still paying for them.

Realistically companies are building these door handles into their cars for marketing purposes. It looks futuristic and attracts attention. The aesthetics argument I kind of get, but aerodynamics are not the reason they do it. They claim to do it for that reason, but we all know flush door handles have been a thing for decades, without them being electrically operated.

Summary
 
The German automotive club ADAC (Algemeiner Deutscher Automobil Club) warns against retractable door handles, as they can be a safety risk to those trapped in a car due to an accident.
 
In order to quickly rescue people from an accident vehicle, it is important for first responders to be able to open a vehicle from the outside quickly, easily and intuitively. Even more so if there is a vehicle fire. From the ADAC's point of view, retractable door handles, i.e. those that retract flush into the side of the car when parking and driving, could make this task significantly more difficult, especially for laypeople. But even professional rescue workers would take longer to get to the occupants.
 
 
 
 
Quotes (Translated by Google Translator)
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
My thoughts
 
I'm completely with ADAC on this one. These things suck! Not only are they a pain to use compared to regular door handles, but they also are a major safety risk that is seemingly ignored by authorities. Not only can they fail and stop working, it's also not very intuitive to know where the emergency release is located and how some of them operate. If I would find a person stuck in a Tesla, BMW, Mercedes or any other car with such door handles, I would not know how to get the door open, if they stopped working or are still retracted.
 
 
 
 
Sources
 
https://de.motor1.com/news/714788/sicherheitsrisiko-versenkbare-tuergriffe-adac-warnt/
https://presse.adac.de/meldungen/adac-ev/technik/adac-warnt---versenkbare-tuergriffe-koennen-ein-sicherheitsrisiko-sein.html

Don't worry, I got it figured out. Thanks for all your help!

Tell me how they're doing that.
 
Yeah no, they don't. They have just as many dumb issues as Windows.
 
For example, did you know that Macbooks have a bug where they won't let you log out of your Apple account? When that happens the only way to fix it is to reinstall the entire OS. Also, I have seen Macbooks refusing to connect to a Wi-Fi network, even tho the same network has previously worked, or sometimes outright refusing correct hotspot passwords. Then there is the general unresponsiveness of M1 Macbooks at startup (I have to deal with that daily), or just general UI bugs that happen when dragging windows around.
 
Oh and the most fun bug ever, tho this has nothing to do with any particular hardware, is when Apple decides that your password is now wrong, even tho you've never changed it and you definitely typed it in correctly, because you copied it out of a password manager, which worked previously. This has happened to at least a few dozen of people that I personally worked with, me included.
 
So yeah, fuck Apple, just like Microsoft, Google and any other big software developer. They all suck ass.

Thanks, everyone!
 
I got a great deal on a Sony A6000. It includes the 16-50mm 3.5-5.6 kit lens and also the Sony 50mm 1.8 OSS. All of that in its original packaging and for just 450€!
Bonus: The seller includes a Sony bag and multiple batteries. 

Great video!

Best thing is, that there are so many different choices for NAS out there. My first one was a Synology DS212j, which is a cheap, old, little unit that I bought used off of eBay together with two 1TB WD Red hard drives for basically nothing. For basic storage of important data it's a perfect solution and thanks to the excellent software support from Synology it's easy to set up and run for basically ever.

If you have a combined 2.4GHz/5GHz network from your router, you could try separating them and connecting to the 2.4GHz network on your printer.
 
If you have a Wifi 6 router, you may have set the network password encryption to be WPA3 only, which many printers still don't support. In which case, you should set it to WPA3+WPA2 or just WPA2 and see if the printer can see the network.
 
If that doesn't work and you're willing to spend a little money, you could also try a cheap powerline ethernet adapter.

Finally a law no one can even argue against, everyones for it. Next lets ban them from voicechats in games

By definition, they don't have a monopoly, neither in hardware nor software. But can we just agree that they're assholes? There should be an anti-asshole law.

billion trillion
 

One of the PMs where I work has a Macbook and it always displays over 6,000 unread Outlook emails on the taskbar (or whatever it's called on a Mac).  It Outlook itself it shows zero unread emails.

Tell me how they're doing that.
 
Yeah no, they don't. They have just as many dumb issues as Windows.
 
For example, did you know that Macbooks have a bug where they won't let you log out of your Apple account? When that happens the only way to fix it is to reinstall the entire OS. Also, I have seen Macbooks refusing to connect to a Wi-Fi network, even tho the same network has previously worked, or sometimes outright refusing correct hotspot passwords. Then there is the general unresponsiveness of M1 Macbooks at startup (I have to deal with that daily), or just general UI bugs that happen when dragging windows around.
 
Oh and the most fun bug ever, tho this has nothing to do with any particular hardware, is when Apple decides that your password is now wrong, even tho you've never changed it and you definitely typed it in correctly, because you copied it out of a password manager, which worked previously. This has happened to at least a few dozen of people that I personally worked with, me included.
 
So yeah, fuck Apple, just like Microsoft, Google and any other big software developer. They all suck ass.

Does this only happen when a particular monitor is plugged in or does this happen as soon as any 2nd monitor is plugged in?
Could you try to plug in only your second monitor and not the first and if the same issue appears?

people always say "vote with your wallet" but only a very insignificant amount of people every follow through with it when it's actually their turn to vote. consumers are extremely predictable.

By definition, they don't have a monopoly, neither in hardware nor software. But can we just agree that they're assholes? There should be an anti-asshole law.

I am in a similar boat. I do most of my photography using film cameras, but want to grab a cheap digital for casual snaps. I am looking at the sony A7 simply for the fact that I can adapt all of my current vintage lenses to it. If you are coming in with nothing, that is a good way to save cash. Vintage lenses are cheap and most are fantastic if you can live with manual focusing.

Yup its insane the market for this. Bonus that there are also a bunch of compatibility adaptors for canon to get other lenses to work or very old or very new canon lenses to work on older/newer camera's.
 
Very hard to beat that with others.

I mean if you liked the a6000 you could just buy it again?
 
Its not like its suddenly a bad camera at all. A decked out a6000 with a some lenses (the lenses seem a bit expensive) seems to be 500 ish on ebay. A pure body is about 250 too.
 
The fuji is a pretty nice camera too. Nothing wrong with it either.
 
The main thing will be how much do you wanna spend?
 
Like you can still get amazing pictures with a old camera. The neighbour of my parents has been a semi pro photographer for most of her life (hobby and gigs) and has been using a canon eos 5d for 18 years now. Still shooting amazing shots and knows the camera inside and out.

the a6000 really is a great budget cam, but the lens selection sucks or costs hella money.
It has strong advantages that no one ever considers like the ability to charge over usb, yeah, imagine right.
As well as using wifi to offload photos to your phone so you can immediately edit and share them, or even controlling the camera remotely from the same app.
It's final trick is the ability to run third party apps for stuff like timelapse or exposure bracketing or other various useful tools.

Like for a $300 body, you dont get any of that elsewhere, its nuts.
If I had to go with anything else, I would look at Canon because there is so much used market for lenses and stuff. 9/10 lenses in second hand shops are all canon, its insane.