matty22

As a VW ID4 owner, I say "Good." My overall summary of the vehicle is that I absolutely love the part of it that is a car. I absolutely loathe the part of it that is a computer.

The infotainment system is the worst piece of consumer technology I've interacted with in easily a decade or more. It's truly bottom tier. It would be better off if the only function it had was connecting to CarPlay and that's it. Of course, connecting to my phone via Bluetooth also takes 5+ minutes, so that is also subpar.

But, it isn't only the infotainment that's an issue. The software that controls core functionality of the car is busted. Some examples:

* Unlocking the passenger/rear doors. When using the key fob, sometimes they unlock and sometimes they don't. There's no rhyme or reason to what's going on. The lock/unlock capacitive "button" on the driver's door is essentially non-functional. I usually just end up leaning over and opening the passenger door manually rather than trying to figure out how to unlock it.

* I've had situations where it seems like the windows operate as a boolean rather than a float. Meaning, I put the window down about 1/3 of the way. But, when I tried to put it back up it just wouldn't move up AT ALL until I put the window fully down, then I could roll it back up. Almost like the isOpen flag variable had not flipped value.

* Many times I've gotten into the car and it gives me all kinds of warnings about the electrical system erring out. The only way to fix it is to put the car in park and physically get out of the car, shut the door, wait 10 seconds, then get back in.

* The collision avoidance system will routinely slam on the brakes for no reason when entering/backing out of my garage.

* The seat position profiles are just a cluster. It doesn't even get the seat position remotely close to where I saved it previously and setting/adjusting it is unintuitive.

My wife and I bought a VW ID4. It's "smart" voice command keyphrase is "Hey ID". _Every_ time one of us says in conversation, "I have an idea" it kicks on. So, now we have to talk around it and never use the word "idea" in conversation while in the car.

Ideal world:

The only thing the screen does is backup camera and provide bluetooth connection to CarPlay and AA and _maybe_ some tucked away very rarely used settings for things I definitely don't need while driving. No car company is going to write software that is better than CarPlay because a: they aren't Apple and b: my phone is also where all of my music, podcasts, contacts, map history, etc. is located.

Everything else has a physical button.

Russia lost something like 27 million dead in WWII. The most recent figure I can find for this war (from November) is 100,000 dead. Russia has plenty of people remaining they can throw into the meat grinder.

I keep hoping and wishing that Rivian will add CarPlay support to the R1T. It's the only electric pickup truck that I'm remotely interested in right now, but no CarPlay is an absolute non-starter. It disqualifies that truck as a purchasing option for me (and I suspect many others). For now, I'll keep saving and waiting.

And I had just started working through a Salesforce Admin certification course to pursue applying for some jobs there. Suppose I can just save that time and do something else now!

You could try BoardGameArena or if you have Steam and don't mind dropping $10 or so, pick up Table Top Simulator. With TTS, you can download a bunch of fan-made (and sometimes publisher-made) digital recreations of popular games.

I'd also say to check out some of the bigger board game review Youtubers and just watch a mixture of their videos. Some games will appeal and others you'll bounce off of just hearing about the idea of them. Some of my favorites are:

* Shut Up & Sit Down

* Actualol

* Three Minute Board Games

* Dice Tower

* GameBoyGeek

Oh man, Letters from Whitechapel is so good. You either squirm for 40 minutes while dancing around the investigators as Jack with a devilish gleam in your eye or you get to play a super interesting deduction game of whack-a-mole searching for Jack.

Hive Pocket is maybe the best "play it on an airplane tray table" game around.

User: Buys $3000 ad machine

Ad Machine: * Shows Ads *

User: * surprised Pikachu face *

Don't listen to these people saying to buy a monitor. Look at Sceptre TVs. They sell dumb panel TVs and they are great.

It shouldn't be showing ads at all, ever while in a car regardless of whether the car is moving or not.

Maybe these ads are part of the reason every third stoplight I have to honk my horn because the guy ahead of me is dicking around on his phone after it turns green?

old.protonmail.com is the way to go with ProtonMail's UI. Their new UI is a mess and not configurable. In old. you get a place to write your own CSS to configure the UI as you see fit.

Check out Sceptre. Bought a completely dumb panel and it's been great.

I don't know if the -a and -aga spell names are more canon or not, but I hate them. Fire 1, Fire 2, and Fire 3 are much more intuitive and better looking than Fire, Fira, Firaga. When I'm quickly scanning through my spell list looking for something during a pitched battle, the numbers make finding what I'm looking for much easier/quicker.

It's incredibly petty, but I wouldn't play this translation for this single reason alone.

I just wish the Pixel remasters would release on an actual console. Shame to play these things on a phone.

Check out Spectre. Decent enough screens, come in lots of sizes, all entirely dumb panels. Love mine and wouldn't trade it for any 'smart' TV.

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes (Open to non-remote and flex for the right position)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, SQL, PostgreSQL, Angular/React/Vue, Express/Node

Résumé/CV: Happy to send one via email

Email: matt[dot]leonard[dot]22[at]protonmail[dot]com

Been tinkering with web dev for the past 5 or so years. Went back to school and recently completed my BS Computer Science in nights/evenings while also working a full time job. Currently working for a small SaaS company as an Internal Tools Developer. Looking for a gig where I can work on something meaningful. Open to position at any point of the stack.

Open a brokerage account and put small amounts into whole market index funds each pay period. That way you are nearly guaranteed to have something in there in 10-15 years. There's really no way to know if BTC will be worth 0 or 100k/coin in that time period.

FFXIV has something like 24 million subs right now and growing.

Shouldn't the assumption at this point be the opposite? Nearly every smart device ever released has either shown ads or tracked your activity and sold that to the highest bidder. Buying a streaming device and expecting the opposite at this point is crazy.

I don't get the outrage? Users bought an ad machine and they are being served ads. That should have been understood. Solution: Buy non-smart TVs

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes (Open to non-remote and flex for the right position)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Sass, jQuery, SQL, PostgreSQL, Angular, React, VueJS, Express, NodeJS, D3, Git, GitHub

Résumé/CV: Happy to send one via email

Email: matt[dot]leonard[dot]22[at]protonmail[dot]com

Been tinkering with web dev for the past 5 or so years. Went back to school and recently completed my BS Comp Sci in nights/evenings while also working a full time job. Currently working for a small SaaS company with a jack-of-all-trades type position (customer support, web design, web development, bookkeeping, etc). Looking for my first 'real' engineering gig. Open to position at any point of the stack, though I am drawn toward the back-end and database layers more than the front-end.

It's funny how a form on a Mozilla website asking you to add your voice to the chorus pushing Apple to move forward with the IDFA privacy changes has a form that asks for your first name, last name, email address, and country. None of which are optional...

I'm not a public repo maintainer. I have just my own personal repos, but I will say that for me Hacktoberfest has been only a positive. I think my first ever PR on someone else's repo was because I was spurred on by Hacktoberfest to dip my toes in. Since then, I've become more and more comfortable with git and Github.

I would be very sad to see Hacktoberfest end.

"I bought an internet-enabled ad delivery platform and put it in my living room. Why is it showing me advertising?!"

Of course, it's showing you advertising, that's what the internet is for according to the advertising scum of the world.

Maybe don't buy a 'smart' TV next time?

If you create an app in a closed ecosystem knowing full well that this is Apple's world and they can do as they please, you shouldn't be surprised when they do as they please.

This whole issue is children screaming because they broke the rules and Mommy and Daddy have put their foot down.

I mean Epic, Spotify, and Tinder are wrong here. Apple built the hardware, and the distribution mechanism for software on that hardware platform. Apple has been a closed ecosystem from day 1. It shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone and they all knew when they decided to create apps for iOS that they were party to a closed system where Apple are the gatekeepers. Don't like their rules? Then, don't do business on their App Store. Simple as that really.

How about let's take the next step and ban the malicious collection of US citizens' data by _US_ companies.

I would 100% Kickstart a Quest-like (wireless, 6DOF, inside-out tracking) competitor that isn't wrapped up in surveillance capitalism.