GrindingGears @ GrindingGears @lemmy.ca

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No that's not austerity, that's spending slashed because they need to do wholesale money transfers from public coffers to private hands. CONServative.

Ever had to do one for a business? Omfuckinggod, like nightmare fuel bad.

Honestly it's probably because you are likely in the minority in wanting this, at least according to the car manufacturers. Cell phones haven't had audio jacks for a few years now. Most iPods are in junk drawers, dying long and slow deaths. Take a look around the next time you are in a crowd, the people with headphones on, like 90% of them are going to be airpods or other Bluetooth style headphones.

Ain't saying I like it either, don't get me wrong, but I imagine that's probably the logic behind it.

It's apparently quite a mess. Quite a few of the late summer and fall builds went into 3800 production status. That means it's built, like it's off the assembly line but sitting before the final inspection staging and shipping. So for some this went on for a couple months, and some people started questioning where the fuck their vettes were, like 3800 status usually doesn't last for very long.

Then someone in Michigan noticed their OnStar got activated, and pinged the car and it was saying it was in Pontiac, not Bowling Green. So someone apparently went and looked and sure as shit, lot full of vettes. They took a bunch of shots of like heavy security but otherwise the cars just all sitting outside. GM was and is absolutely zipped about what's going on, it's under lock and key. Prevailing rumor is they needed heavy rework, some rumors are aimed at something to do with the DCTs, there's also rumors that the bodies needed heavy reworking. Whatever the issue is, it's a friggin snafu and a half. The boomers that have their orders sitting there were going thermonuclear because their Vettes have been sitting outside in the rain and snow. They just started getting delivered this past month, so guess we will see if some issues become apparent down the road. It's maybe still going on too, like some cars are still getting stuck at 3800, and are returning pings a couple hours east of Bowling Green. Not sure I'd touch a late model 23 build, that's for sure.

My personal car (the second, mostly unused car in our family) is from 2016, and it has nav and everything, but it looks like it's a commodore. It's also woefully out of date, my house is in the middle of a cornfield according to my car. Literally unusable, and was pretty much right out of the gates even. Doesn't work very well with my phone, I'm still able to stream Spotify and skip songs or whatever, but guess how I have to control it? The phone hooked to the cord and sitting on my seat.

My wife's car, I don't even think I've ever used the navigation. I'm not even really sure how her radio works come to think of it, because it just switches to Android Auto when I start it, and whatever I was doing on my phone, well it's right there. Spotify starts up, and on the way we go. Don't even look at it most of the time, if I'm being honest. Super unsafe for sure, the proprietary solution is for sure better (/s)

This would inevitably put the manufacturer in a bind though. You'd have a pile of pissed off customers standing in a line one morning for you, because Apple or some third party pushed an update that suddenly makes the product incompatible with your car, and they'd be screaming at you about it. You'd have techs piled around a car scratching their heads, like is it the car that's fucked up, is it the device? All without knowing that some third party has randomly done something unbeknown to the person who is scratching their head trying to figure it out. It's frustrating when your Android Auto isn't working suddenly for reasons like this one, this I personally know all about. But could you imagine if it was suddenly the whole dashboard that wasn't working?

Also it beholdens you to third parties to provide solutions that you can't really control from a quality standpoint, but any quality or compatibility issues will 100% affect the customers perception of your product. For example, "I can't get my iPhone to work in that piece of shit car, I fucking hate that far so much," because they can't control the car suddenly either.

Don't get me wrong, your idea is neat, and it would be cool if you could get that all to work, for sure. But it's also fraught with peril, you know what I mean?

Capacitive buttons need to die a painful death. I'm ok with some functions being capacitive or touch screen buttons, like little unimportant ones like accessing my 6th favourite radio station or whatever. Or even Carplay or Android Auto.

But when it comes to operating the HVAC or shifting gears, it shouldn't be allowed that these aren't mechanical switches with proper fail-safe backups. I don't even think those shifter buttons in a lot of modern vehicles, or the shifting knobs, like what's been in the Jeep SUVs for the past decade, are the best idea.

My family is weirdly intense about my choice in car manufacturers because I'm from a small town, and growing up there was quite the vested interest in what I'm seen driving because I'm a GM dealer's something something. It's caused quite a few issues in my personal life over the years, which I'm not expecting you to comprehend or understand.

All you need to know my hatred for the modern day General runs deep. Mostly because it's a company with a long institutional-like history and a deep integration into many communities, and was formerly a company that I cared very much about, for a variety of personal reasons and interests. But it's also a company that has been run by a long succession of absolute fucking morons that have made a long successive chain of absolutely r word decisions. Like this one for example. So I mean I'm biased, and that needs to be stated. But this is still the stupidest fucking move by a company that I've read about all week.

Also the vehicles are terrible and I'm about to have to haul my wife's POS GM for what feels like the 80th time this year to our local dealer (who is also complete shit, but I have a higher expectation of dealers than what is probably ordinary). I'm just over it.

No my counterargument is that there's thankfully lots of alternatives on the market. I could care less what GM does at this point, honestly. There's going to be some upset people at the dinner table next year, but I'm driving something else in 2024. The quality has just gone to absolute shit, and they are pretty clearly trying to rush everything out and come up with all these fucking pretend schemes why they are doing it and why options are missing. When it''s got zero to do with safety, and everything to do with their new UAW deal, where they are going to try and find new revenue streams to offset their rising costs, while also charging everyone out the ass for their bullshit. Because heaven help if the executives or the worst CEO in their history has to give back the increases in their bloated salary/bonuses. Mary Berra couldn't successfully run a fucking lemonade stand, let alone one of the biggest companies in the world.

I'm dropping GM, because they are unsafe. I'm not going back to looking down at my phone while I'm driving.

Also, as a former 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt owner, I'd love to have a good chat about safety with the executives of GM. That is, if they aren't too busy creating their new in-dash subscription model. Which is what this is really about, and we all know it.

Maybe they should first focus on their gross manufacturing shortfalls, and their other issues. Maybe take a look at that parking lot in Pontiac that's bursting at the seams with Corvettes stuck in limbo, and their very pissed off purchasers.

Fuck. What a bunch of numbskulls.

Booooooo. Set fire to your printer.

-A Leafs fan

Snapchat made me realize I'm basically my dad now. Still trying to figure out the purpose of it.

You should check out this happening hip website called Reddit, my man. There will be lots of folks there that will agree with you.

Until there's no more oppression, human trafficking, etc in the world, the USDOJ and other police forces need to get their priorities straight. You've got streets full of people OD'ing during a world wide opioid crisis, and this is how the USDOJ decides to allocate their resources. As a population, we need to do a better job of holding these orgs to account to this, through our voting and decision making. God damn do we need to stop allowing our legal systems and enforcement being glorified butlers to these mega corp media combines.

If it wasn't for the Mrs., I would have turfed Netflix a long time ago. They are the grossest of all the streamers, and they are at the forefront of the greed we face today. I refuse to even use it. I pay for two subscriptions (my wife's, and one for my parents, who live across the continent). I refuse to use it. I don't even use it. Who are we turning into as a species?

They aren't finished. Remember that you are in the minority with your outrage, and 95% of the general population loves eating shit popsicles from megacorps. Aka they won't do anything about it.

If anyone doubts this, simply visit the nearest Apple store for a half hour and watch the lemmings around you. Apple store employees, and the company literally abuse people and treat their customers like shit, yet the place is still packed. The lemmings still line up for an hour for their "appointment," and put up with people yelling/talking down at them, only to have the privilege of purchasing the latest iPhone.

The general population will take this lying down. CTV is one of the biggest growing advertising channels. It mostly gets bought and sold programmatically too, and nothing is off the table. Not only are we getting fucking hosed with streaming fees, they are going to absolutely bombard us with ads too.

It's unbelievable. The dumb fuckers literally figured out a way to beat piracy. High quantity, easily accessible content at an appetizable price. Even one for TV, one for music, $10-15 a month, I had no issue. Everyone made out like a bandit, I was satisfied, and they all made billions.

Now you can't even use YouTube without being bombarded with ads, and streaming is quickly becoming worse than cable was. Piracy is definitely back on the table, and the fuckers don't have license to whine about it this time. They literally had it licked, but then got too greedy, so fuck them.

Drop your Z axis more than it was in the pic, I'd try at least two 0.05mm more steps down, and maybe even more. You want PLA to be pretty squashed. Stick a piece of computer paper in between the nozzle and the bed and lower the nozzle to the point that it takes a fair bit of resistance to pull the piece of paper out. That's the amount of z offset you want with PLA.

As others have said, you need to cool off a bit too, try 60 bed, 195 nozzle. See how it goes, you can always go up a bit or down a bit as it prints too. Try 60/195 though, no fan for the first 3 or 4 layers.

If it's in the same spot every time, it's very likely something wrong with the model. It's inexplicable when this happens, but it does sometimes. Could try a different sd card, doubt that will make a difference, but you never know.

To me, it looks too uniform and consistent to be something with the printer.

It's like a really slow download. Dial up speeds.