The General Technology Thread

[jkaetz]

Hum... anyway to post modify it?
I know on the 2006 vehicle I have the "seat belt" alarm will go off if you dont have it on and are driving. There is a way to disable that damb alarm.

Of course with enough know how but always with side effects like warning lights to say that the system has faulted.

 

[HoughMade]

Hum... anyway to post modify it?
I know on the 2006 vehicle I have the "seat belt" alarm will go off if you dont have it on and are driving...

In that situation I know of a way to disable the alarm that is nearly foolproof.

Let me guess, your uncle's cousin's friend from school's aunt's son got in an accident and would have burned to death if he wore a seatbelt.

 

[MarkC]

In that situation I know of a way to disable the alarm that is nearly foolproof.

Let me guess, your uncle's cousin's friend from school's aunt's son got in an accident and would have burned to death if he wore a seatbelt.

Or drowned; don't forget all the people who have drowned from wearing their seatbelts!

 

[jedi]

In that situation I know of a way to disable the alarm that is nearly foolproof.

Let me guess, your uncle's cousin's friend from school's aunt's son got in an accident and would have burned to death if he wore a seatbelt.

Nah the issue I had was putting heavy stuff on the passenger seat and the stupid vehicle thinking someone was sitting there.

 

[MarkC]

Nah the issue I had was putting heavy stuff on the passenger seat and the stupid vehicle thinking someone was sitting there.

My BMW is particularly fussy about that, too. Anything heavier than a book seems to make the car think someone is sitting there.

That car is about to be traded in, for many reasons, but not that one.

 

[jedi]

I prefer my dads 1976 mustang.
Just put fuel in it and go! None of this fluff stuff.

 

[MarkC]

I prefer my dads 1976 mustang.
Just put fuel in it and go! None of this fluff stuff.

1976? Mustang II? If I remember correctly, it should have the early Ford electronic ignition, which was a great improvement over points. The color of the grommet was essential when ordering a replacement:

 

[BugI02]

No !

My new car has a lot of these stupid safety features. You have to turn most of them off EVERY ****ING TIME you start the car. The frontal collision one then puts not one, but two amber warning lights on your display.

On a number of newer cars, you can store a profile in the cars memory of multiple driver's preferences and specify in your preference the disabling of many safety nannies. Since engaging a particular profile is an affirmative action, it satisfies the company lawyers and thus allows quite a wide variety of system shutdowns

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I know I've griped about this in multiple threads, but I wish I could disable the ABS in my Hyundai Elantra Touring. If it starts to slide even a little bit, the brake pedal delivers rapid fire hammer blows to the bottom of my foot, and the steering column locks. I'm basically just along for the ride at that point. From everything I've gleaned from Hyundai forums this is perfectly normal. I've never had any other vehicle with ABS do anything like that. They don't provide any "feedback" to the brake pedal, and they certainly don't lock the steering column.

 

[bwframe]

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Got this email today. Don't quite understand the legal G-speak???

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[tv1217]

The ABS, traction control, and AWD are all off in my car because of a faulty speed sensor in one of the wheels and I'm not even worried about getting it fixed right away. I've been driving 2WD vehicles every winter for the last 18 years anyway.

 

[KLB]

AWD can help in lots of conditions, but it is not the miracle in snow it is made out to be by the manufacturers. Snow tires are more important than AWD.

Having said that, I don't buy cars without AWD anymore.

 

[jamil]

Above 40mph, 4wd/awd doesn’t matter much, except where active traction control can put power to wheels with most traction when a vehicle starts to lose control at those speeds. But priority at higher speeds is definitely tires first, 4wd/awd with traction control next, and that’s mostly what matters. If you’re talking about driving through deep snow at slower speeds: tires, clearance, 4wd, lockable diffs, in that order. In deep snow, given the tires and clearance, awd + traction control, can be effective but that’s not as effective as 4wd with lockers.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

A new study found the brains of 3-to-5-year-olds who overused screens were not as developed in areas needed for language, writing and cognitive skills

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1193181726090117127

But they're developed enough to choose their gender.

 

[jedi]

All part of the plan.
Those in power dont need the masses to think or become self aware per say. They need an semi able working class that will be slaves but not know they are slaves.

This is how it's been thru-out history of our spieces.
With very few examples of it not being that way. Our founding fathers being one of those examples.

Give it a bit more time and human nature will revert back to what it always does.

 

[Jludo]

The future is technology, the brains plastic and doesnt care what parts are used for what. I dont have any issue with the brain changing to fit changing technology.
However I wouldn't give kids anything highly addictive that they'd overuse.

 

[Cameramonkey]

UI/Unifi really stepped in this one.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/07/ubiquiti_networks_phone_home/

TL;DR Company rolls out a new firmware and conveniently forgets to tell us that it now phones home and shares telemetry data. There is no way to opt out. And this isnt traditional free crap where you expect these kind of shenanigans. These are bought and paid for routers and switches.

But the company assures us in the next release they will give us a way to opt out. When? Wont say.

 

[actaeon277]

Time for everyone to demand a refund

 

[jedi]

Nah... skynet needs all computers...

 

[T.Lex]

https://www.quantamagazine.org/neutrinos-lead-to-unexpected-discovery-in-basic-math-20191113/

Physicists studying neutrinos figure out a previously unknown (and unsuspected) link between eigenvalues and eigenvectors that simplify the calculations in the latter.

That's kinda obscure, but it deals with mathematical operations to rotate and transform matrices of objects from the real world.

Ok. That's still obscure. But, the article doesn't say it, but this could be a real breakthrough for computer programming of simulations.