buran
@buran@lemmy.world
- Comment on Finally, fans are getting what they've been demanding for years, a crossover event between the Kelvinverse and... World of Tanks 6 months ago:
Now where’s my warships?
- Comment on User guide: End of Life (EOL) for Twilio Authy Desktop app 9 months ago:
This is how I did it, using my Mac laptop. You can’t do it with the phone app, but a Mac or Windows computer can.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
Honda’s sensing system will read shadows from bridges as obstructions in the road that it meds to brake for. It’s easy enough to accelerate out of the slowdown, but I was surprised to find that there is apparently no radar check to see if the obstruction is real.
My current vehicle doesn’t have that issue, so either the programming has been improved or the vendor for the sensing systems is a different one (different vehicle make, so it’s entirely possible).
- Comment on Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive 11 months ago:
It was bad, yes. Not debating that, and I’m glad that the design was changed and existing owners could get the shifter replaced at no cost to them.
However, it’s frustrating to see that people so often ignore recalls and then are injured or killed in a way that would have been avoided had they done the free recall. I usually feel sad when I think of deaths like that because the death is just so final and was easy to avoid.
People have recently died to exploding airbag inflators, even though the Takata recall has been in the news for years, and even if a vehicle has had multiple owners, the publicity means that chances are that the current owner has seen at least a headline about it. Yet clearly people aren’t getting the recall work done, and they’re dying because of it.
Is it a hassle to take a car in for repair? Yep. Had to have mine serviced due to a recall for something that hadn’t manifested on my car in my own use. But given that the alternative could have been very bad (the car’s software was updated to ensure that it would shift into park more reliably when there was a rollaway risk, if the driver didn’t do so manually), I dealt with having a loaner for a day when the update took longer than expected.
Designers sometimes make bad choices. Regulations are written in blood, it’s said, because it’s often tragedy that leads to changes. But I don’t think it very likely that shifters like that will make it past design reviews again. It’ll be some other bad decision that causes the best big recall.
- Comment on Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive 11 months ago:
Both of those things have been acknowledged and will be changed. Cars have very long design cycles, though.
The ID.7 has the new sliders as does the facelift of the ID.4.
Yes, there’s other problems, but this one is already on the way out.
- Comment on Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive 11 months ago:
That vehicle had a recall out to replace the badly-designed shifter. It was ignored.
The fix would have been free.
- Comment on Porsche will adopt Android Automotive, complete with Google apps 1 year ago:
Neither company has a monopoly anywhere but the mix of Android and iOS varies greatly by region.
Thankfully, most cars that support phone projection support both, probably because of that fact. Easier to develop a single configuration that works for everyone.
- Comment on Porsche will adopt Android Automotive, complete with Google apps 1 year ago:
Android Automotive (the car OS) does support phone projection (Android Auto and CarPlay).
From what I’ve seen in reviews of cars that have it, Automotive is pretty solid, and I’d take an EV that had it as long as CarPlay were an option. (So no GM for me).
- Comment on ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Used AI For A Dead Voice Actor’s Performance, With Permission 1 year ago:
World of Warcraft would benefit from this. Local processing power is quite up to the task these days, and it’s jarring to see your name on the screen but the audio says “champion” or something similar.
Maybe in 11.0…
- Comment on We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure - Mullvad VPN 1 year ago:
I feel like I have it easy as a WoW player — we’ve got wowhead, which is partially datamining and partially crowdsourced (and has its own newsgathering staff) and it’s always been very helpful when trying to figure something out that isn’t self-evident (quests with erroneous instructions that weren’t corrected during beta testing, stuff like that).
- Comment on The Galaxy Class Starship 1 year ago:
Always liked the fact that they chose Yamato as the vessel to fail due to a design flaw.
It is believed by some that the eponymous battleship sank more quickly than she otherwise might have due to a design flaw in the torpedo bulges.