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You can also do some washing and detailing under there even when it's sunny outside. I'd love a covered area like that.

To be fair, "first generation" would've been easier to understand than "1g," but after someone had already pointed out it means generations, that should've been the end of that conversation.

One time I had cookie cake and I made a frosting racecar on top.

It's a little short-sighted to say an EV will never be more efficient or more sustainable than an ICE vehicle. The issues you list, like unsustainable materials sourcing, are already being worked on and alternatives are already being developed. The truth is that in the long-run, EVs are far more beneficial to both the majority of consumers as well as the environment. To a non-enthusiast consumer, the only real benefits of an ICE vehicle are faster refueling and longer range, but both of these are sort of countered by the fact that owners can charge at home overnight and for cheaper. An EV offers improved handling, a quieter ride, less maintenance, and assuming everyone in the immediate area has an EV, quieter living and improved air quality. There are also design benefits, like the ability to introduce modularity, which makes it much easier to literally reuse vehicle components several times over. That also makes manufacturing easier and less polluting. Infrastructure to support EVs is already in development anyway and building it will be much faster and easier than what was necessary to support the ICE. Unlike the requirements for an ICE, where you need a method of extracting oil, refineries, trucks to deliver fuel, storage tanks, and pumps, all you really need to support an EV is a preexisting electrical grid with a green energy source and a cable. For the electrical grids that don't support EVs, expanding what's already there isn't particularly tough. The improvements necessary for EVs are being made regardless of whether or not EVs are adopted because we need the additional infrastructure to support ourselves anyway. Hydrogen is plagued by its own problems, many of them the same as ICE. The fuel system takes up a lot of space in the car, and there's a lot of infrastructure development that would need to be done to support hydrogen vehicles. They're also far less energy efficient than EVs. To move a hydrogen car the same distance as an EV requires up to 4 times as much energy because of all of the conversion that needs to be done. You could use my argument and say that in the long-run, hydrogen can be made more efficient, but then why not start with something that's already more efficient and develop it further? I'd also like to point out that in the coming decades, it's likely the role personal vehicles have in our lives will change. People already need their personal vehicles less often than they did before, and it's likely they'll need them even less as cities around the world switch to using alternative mobility solutions like autonomous vehicles and bikes. I agree with you in that this won't all happen by 2035, but to say we shouldn't ever adopt this because it won't ever be good is a little pessimistic and unaware.

Are you arguing that EVs will never be more efficient and less polluting than ICE vehicles, so no one should ever switch, or are you arguing that this is only the case in the short-run?

It felt like the Camaro got some sort of refresh every year, but I don't think it was good. The Camaro's design kinda sucked and the only way for them to have maintained any kind of excitement around that car was to refresh it. It would be cool to see frequent updates but at this point it's just wasteful, both economically and environmentally. Like FSX said, if a car is designed well then it shouldn't really need changes anyway. But with the advent of electric cars and more modular car design, we probably will see more "updates", especially through third-party developers.

I can't wait to see Linus model these on his OnlyFans.

There are just too many problems and not enough benefits with the doors on these cars to justify their design. The exterior door handles can get stuck in the winter. Tesla recommends you apply WD-40 to the handle pivot pins to attempt to prevent this. You have to apply WD-40 to what could be a $100,000+ car. However, the Model 3 does somewhat fix this. No weight or money is saved for the consumer because now two release mechanisms are present in the doors instead of one. The largest problem with the interior release is that people get used to the electronic release and expect it to work. It becomes muscle memory. An electronic release is not necessary for frameless windows--I have a car with frameless windows and typical door handles. My car's technology has existed since it was originally released in 2008. The manual door release already exists inside the vehicle, and is cleanly integrated! With all that considered, there are only a few reasons I can imagine they included an electronic release: The manual door release is in a spot that's too hard to find during everyday use, and they recognize that as an issue but wanted to maintain the interior aesthetic. The electronic door handle is there for the premium "cool factor." The release is from the Model X's electronic doors and Tesla didn't want to spend additional money developing an alternative. By the way, frameless windows are purely aesthetic. It allows designers to make the roofline thinner and thus appear lower and "faster." It's common on sports cars because the "benefit" of aesthetics exceeds the functional drawbacks. Very few people are taking their sports cars out in sub-zero weather. In my opinion, a lot of what Tesla has done is purely for aesthetics and is incredibly gimmicky. It's a side-effect of trying to design a "cool" new EV, and it's great to attract customers but it's never a good idea to sacrifice functionality for aesthetics. Rivian does it best; their truck has cool features that are functional and beautiful. The features are cool because they're functional and beautiful. Teslas are just plagued with gimmicks, the most notable of which is the F1-style steering yoke in their full-size sedan with an unmodified steering ratio.

I actually kind of like the idea, although they'd probably have to just recreate the processors since using old ones could get expensive, and the size of the cube would have to be huge. But they could be cool little 3d-printed pieces with a nice finish, and maybe you'd be able to remove the CPU and underneath would be the socket or something.

It was kind of nice but good price drops were so infrequent that the emails just became redundant. Five dollars off of a $500 processor every week was nothing important.

Reading the manual would help, I agree, but do you also agree that the problem would also be mitigated if the emergency door handle had a symbol on it and was instead located immediately below the electronic door switch? Emergency features need to be clearly marked, because an emergency feature shouldn't need to be read about in a manual. This is basic human factors. In an emergency, it's stupid to assume every individual is going to be completely calm, and those who aren't calm still need to be able to see, recognize, and use emergency features. Do you know why the hazard switch is always a bright red analog button located in an immediately obvious place in the vehicle (ironically, in every vehicle except Teslas)? If you have to read the manual to find what should be an immediately obvious feature then that is poor design, by definition. Yes, it is the door's fault. There have been a countless number of fires that have changed fire safety standards and demonstrate that it is the door's fault. How is a user supposed to understand how a door is supposed to be used if they come upon it and the door handle is completely non-standard? How are they supposed to tell if the door is locked or not? That's why emergency exit doors always have large and immediately obvious push handles, and are exclusively outward-opening push doors. It's obvious to the user that you need to push to exit, and in the event that someone is panicking, they can still easily open the door. If they're being crushed by a crowd of a hundred people, they still push the door open. Also, are you telling me all doorknobs are perfectly designed? You've never walked up to a door and questioned whether it was push or pull? That's like a non-standard keyboard where none of the keys are listed, and when you press w it's actually s. Or an Xbox controller where none of the buttons are marked and it doesn't tell you what any of the buttons do in-game. And your battery argument is a testament to making functions obvious, because a battery is very clearly not intended to be consumed, hence the solid, closed, metallic design. The warning label was only added so the company wasn't legally liable when someone intentionally tried to consume battery contents. I agree. If a user gets into a car and expects a steering wheel and standard pedals, but the brake is actually the gas and the gas is the brake, that's poor design. It's not any different with a handle. This is especially true because the electronic door handle is in the exact spot that a typical handle would be in any other car, so users get in and expect that "handle" to be able to work regardless of whether or not their car is on fire. In the mind of someone in an emergency, why in the world would anyone reasonably assume their door handle isn't going to work? Like an inverse brake/gas pedal, the handle is non-standard and not immediately obvious. In design, especially industrial design and human factors, those are the two key necessities of a "good" design. If it's non-standard that's fine, but it needs to be ergonomic and obvious. If it's not obvious, fine, but it needs to be standard and if it's standard then it will typically be obvious anyway. This is especially true of emergency controls. If you have to read a manual to understand and operate an emergency control then that is by definition a poor design. An emergency control that isn't obvious is unsafe. It's not even like the emergency door switch is right next to the regular door switch, another crucial component of good human factors. So not only are people frantically pressing the electronic door switch in an emergency, wondering why the door doesn't just open, but then when they do realize there might be a manual door switch, it's down by the window switches. It's not equipment failure and it's not the fault of the user, it's just poor design. Ask any industrial designer, especially a human factors designer, and they'll tell you the same thing.

I haven't used the Quest 2 but I use an Oculus and my monitor for the menus. Napper is totally right in that navigating the menus in a VR headset can really suck, especially if you don't have your VR controllers with you. Some games don't have VR menus at all. But otherwise, it's a lot of fun and I don't think I'd go back to racing with monitors. The biggest benefit to me is just being able to look around and see other cars, apexes, and overall have a better sense of awareness. But you might find the experience to be uncomfortable, depending on the headset, if you wear glasses. I also tend to get hot with the headset on so I need a fan while racing.

What's the harm in showing what's going on? I've seen other large forums have some live data and it's always interesting to see the statistics. User post count and reputation are already public, anyway.

Are the lobbies private or public? My guess is that those people are a part of a sim racing club. I can't recommend one because I haven't raced in a while, but I'm sure you'll be able to find a group if you search up some clubs on Google or ask in the Youtube comments.

Modern Trans-Am cars are so cool. They remind me a lot of the SuperGT cars with the big flat hoods and fenders. I wish iRacing had some cars from either of these classes.

I received an email back from WD after sending them that video and they told me the hard drive is, "facing exertion while rotating, resulting in a faulty drive..." Do you know what this means? Do you think I should return it? I'm just a little bit concerned that since not every drive does it, it might not be normal. I just can't imagine that they'd send out so many broken ones, though.

Alright, thanks for your reply. I know there's a lot of discussion out there so I'd hope they wouldn't release that many drives that are defective and over such a long period of time. My only concern is that I found one post in which someone RMA'd theirs twice after both made that sound, and upon receiving the third one, there was no sound. How ironic would it be if they walked themselves into a defective drive lol

I received a brand new WD Black 2TB for Christmas and it's making a very apparent grinding or whining noise when I turn the computer off. It hasn't had any data put on it and has only been turned on about a dozen times. I was wondering if anyone had dealt with this issue before and how you fixed it, or if the sound is normal. I've looked up other threads regarding this issue and so far I've come to the conclusion that this is not supposed to happen and an RMA is the only solution, but I don't know anything about hard drives. I've already contacted WD about this issue and they've given me some things to try but none of them worked. I've tried replacing the cables, moving the drive, and isolating it to make sure the drive is causing the noise. Here's a short video of the sound: https://imgur.com/a/RQaNlJI (I apologize for the horrific cable management)

Mission: Impossible came out in the late 90s but is still a good movie.

My understanding is that the methods outlined by Apple are not the same as the methods outlined by the team in the article that you've linked. It seems to be that Apple's patent mentions using heat that could be achieved while charging a phone, but the Japanese team has developed a method of self-healing that uses compression and they state that heat is an inferior method because it specifically requires high temperatures in order to achieve any healing. This seems to be another example that is similar to the paper that you've linked. It mentions using compression to heal the phone's screen and it seems to be linked directly back to the research paper. This news article also mentions that LG did something similar--in-fact, using compression caused by scratches--to heal the rear surface of the phone. In addition, just as an example, I could have had self-healing film applied to my car years ago. Here's the patent for that filed in 2014. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9074111 Self-healing technology is nothing new.

It's a bummer that you had to sell it and I feel for you and your 8 year old, but you probably made the right decision. Hopefully once all of this is over, you guys will be able to get another one or something even better. Also, to contribute to the Christmas gifts topic, my parents would always get one family gift. The Christmas tag would say something like, "To The Ninjas/The Ninja family, from Santa." Last year we got a Nintendo Switch with some extra controllers so we could play Super Mario Brothers and Mario Kart together. That was a lot of fun and as long as your kids are okay with sharing, it would make for a great gift for everyone. Otherwise, Cards Against Humanity or Monopoly is always a lot of fun. Cards Against Humanity can be an incredibly adult game and even with the youngest in our family being in his late teens, some cards still needed to be removed lol. But there is a family edition that you can print for yourself or you can buy it in stores. Some cards still might not be appropriate for your youngest, and some of the cards could be made dirtier than the original game if used in a clever manner.

What kind of car is it? I've been wanting to start a project car with my parents on an old Dart or Coronet since this might be my last year living with them, but prices have been going up since the pandemic began.

To be fair, when I use thermal paste I end up with like half a tube left and then I lose it before it's time to reapply...so I don't know if I'd really end up buying more than I do, just from the perspective of an average consumer who likes computers.

I haven't watched the video but 300/770 is .389 which rounds up to .39 which, when multiplied by 100 or represented as a percentage, is 39. So whether or not that's how they calculated it, that does work out just fine.

With all due respect, if you're serious, I don't think the forums are the place to ask for a partnership or a job. I'm sure it's wonderful that you'd like to join their team, but there are right ways and there are wrong ways. You should probably first establish yourself in the tech industry and build a resume, and maybe actively participate on the forums. Anyway, @LinusTech, I'm looking to be your personal chauffeur hmu. Pink Lambos only.