Reminds me of the old "If cars were like computers" post. https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/crash.htm
25$ and 1000 miles to gallon. Probably correct, but it would also be size of tiny toy car...
Car showed pop-up while driving
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Re: Car showed pop-up while driving
#112This is an obvious no-no but these popups create other issues too. My Grandma lives in a small town in Eastern Europe and I bought her a Samsung Tablet to use with Skype so we can talk to her without paying ridiculous international rates(her house had 100mbps internet but no landline for phone, only GSM which was expensive to call). Anyway, at some point Skype and later Samsung decided that we can't call grandma with…
> I Give her my old iPhone 7 and use FaceTime now, with auto answer setting turned on in the accessibility. I didn't know this feature existed. Quite thoughtful!
unfortunately Apple seems to be the only consumer brand on earth which actually gives a crap about real disabled folks using their devices and making their lives better because of it
Re: Car showed pop-up while driving
#113Reminds my of when I tried to resurrect and old DJI drone with an out of date iPad mini for a controller. I turn on drone, launch the app and try several times to take off and fail. Try one last time assuming failure and it starts to take off! But then... Just as the drone starts to drift towards me, several notifications pop up within the app/iOS preventing control and sending me into a panic. Drone hits the house s…
The move to use mobile devices as controllers has always terrified me. They are just way too user-disempowering to be reliable like that.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Metric in many things, and I was taught metric exclusively through school in the early 80s in England. Road signs and limits all still in miles exclusively. People still refer to each other in feet and inches although official stuff often wants cms. TVs still in inches. It's not as bad as America, because Brits have a very solid understand of metric and tend to use it whenever we can, but still needs work :(
> because Brits have a very solid understand of metric As an American, I was taught metric in elementary school 30 years ago. It's used throughout education for science classes. I can't imagine there's many Americans who don't understand the metric system. We just don't use it for anything outside the sciences, for whatever reason.
And soda bottle sizes
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
The accept button is a one time deal. You click it and never hear about it again. Deny on the other hand causes the same question to come up again and again. They want you either to get fed up and accept it or accidentally accept it.
Maybe the cookie tracking whether or not you responded isn’t saved if you reject cookies?
Nah. They normally have the default "allow system cookies" which is untickable.
What annoys me are the "Legitimate Consent" option on all 9000 cookie vendors. There never seems to be a "No to all" button on those.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'd pay to just not have one, but I'm not even sure that's possible any more. Yeah, some stuff makes you go through the head unit on some machines. Any replacement head unit would have to implement the same controls somehow. Wealthy will be the person who makes a generic 2 DIN head unit, where you have physical buttons which you can map to various CANBus messages.
I'm working on a generic device that sends canbus messages, that can have inputs such as potentiometer, push buttons, toggle switches, and rotary encoders. My end goal is to have real hvac controls on my Tesla, but I'd like to abstract the device as much as possible. Fun project, and most of the hardware necessary is already out there.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'd pay to just not have one, but I'm not even sure that's possible any more. Yeah, some stuff makes you go through the head unit on some machines. Any replacement head unit would have to implement the same controls somehow. Wealthy will be the person who makes a generic 2 DIN head unit, where you have physical buttons which you can map to various CANBus messages.
I'm working on a generic device that sends canbus messages, that can have inputs such as potentiometer, push buttons, toggle switches, and rotary encoders. My end goal is to have real hvac controls on my Tesla, but I'd like to abstract the device as much as possible. Fun project, and most of the hardware necessary is already out there.
Awesome! I demand links! Give me a GitHub I can watch and contribute too. My soldering iron is already hot! LFG!
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
The accept button is a one time deal. You click it and never hear about it again. Deny on the other hand causes the same question to come up again and again. They want you either to get fed up and accept it or accidentally accept it.
Maybe the cookie tracking whether or not you responded isn’t saved if you reject cookies?
A cookie like that doesn't need to contain any personal information and therefore does not need a user's consent to store under GDPR. As a cookie it does need the user to be notified (ePrivacy Directive aka its 2009 "cookies law" update), but that is/can be covered as part of the original request that the user clicks to reject optional cookies.
The only reason to forget that a user said no is because it's a hostile interface designed to get users to give in and give their "consent".
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Metric in many things, and I was taught metric exclusively through school in the early 80s in England. Road signs and limits all still in miles exclusively. People still refer to each other in feet and inches although official stuff often wants cms. TVs still in inches. It's not as bad as America, because Brits have a very solid understand of metric and tend to use it whenever we can, but still needs work :(
I definitely acknowledge I don't live there so I can't truly know, but I feel like I'd just prefer to live in a region where everything is consistent instead of constantly changing units all the time. We want to talk meters? Sure, We want to talk miles? That's fine. But something like "Ipswitch is 90km from Cambridge, you're going 40 miles per hour, how long till you get there?" just seems annoying to me, more annoyi…
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
The accept button is a one time deal. You click it and never hear about it again. Deny on the other hand causes the same question to come up again and again. They want you either to get fed up and accept it or accidentally accept it.
Maybe the cookie tracking whether or not you responded isn’t saved if you reject cookies?
Cookies for functionality that's necessary, i.e. expected by the user, are completely legal without any consent or notification.
Fact of the matter is, when you see a cookie banner, that's always for spyware shit that the service doesn't really need to serve the user (e.g., analytics, tracking).