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big mean giraffe posted:This is definitely a skill issue, never had this happen once Same I don’t think anyone here is advocating to rely on modern safety features a la “self driving” on a Tesla unless you want to die. But to discount stuff like proximity sensors, cross traffic warnings, blind spot assist, 360 overhead view, LTA, adaptive cruise control, etc, which offer data far in excess of what a human can pay attention to at one time is ridiculous. I don’t even drive “my” car any more because the RAV4 is so much better with all the bells and whistles shazbot fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Nov 1, 2023 |
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naem posted:“may I hand you money for a car now?” ok sign here boom done I think they need to do some back and forth with the DMV and your bank if you’re using one but they’re totally deluded about their place in the process. I suspect they think we’re challenging hard cases and they can win us over by being ultra charismatic as they waste yet even more time. But no if I had prions in my pocket they’d be going straight into your coffee.
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Nov 1, 2023 15:40
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naem posted:I bought a car for cash after watching the price drop on some random website, cargurus.com Classic putting the customer on ice because the deal is too good. I bought a used car from a dealer that doesn't negotiate, so the only thing I could ask for was a reduction in the interest rate which they were able to do. From test drive to driving off the lot was maybe 45 minutes?
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Nov 1, 2023 15:44
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Woolie Wool posted:If you have to pay for a real search engine that is just further proof of the advance of enshittification and the retreat of the consumer society upmarket. Poorer people are ceasing to be consumers and being turned into surplus population. I think about this a lot in regards to news. All the old school investigative journalism is behind paywalls these days but rage bait is free and all over social media (and my browser start page at work for some reason).
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Nov 1, 2023 15:56
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wash bucket posted:I think about this a lot in regards to news. All the old school investigative journalism is behind paywalls these days but rage bait is free and all over social media (and my browser start page at work for some reason). This is quite effective at obliterating what little political power poor people had. It doesn't matter how mad you get or how much you want to change things if you cannot afford to know what is even going on. Nihilism is all the poor have left.
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Nov 1, 2023 16:04
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Woolie Wool posted:This is quite effective at obliterating what little political power poor people had. It doesn't matter how mad you get or how much you want to change things if you cannot afford to know what is even going on. Nihilism is all the poor have left. Nihilism is almost as nourishing and warm as the blood spraying against your face as you rip out an investment bankers throat with your teeth.
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Nov 1, 2023 16:07
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Biplane posted:Nihilism is almost as nourishing and warm as the blood spraying against your face as you rip out an investment bankers throat with your teeth. Killing investment bankers won't dismantle any of the systems that require authorities to coercively control the distribution of resources and the means of production so you'd just end up having to appoint new oligarchs or become them yourself. Your post is a prime example of how screwed industrial society is
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I have a rav4 and it loves to scream at me and slam on the brakes if there's a steel construction plate or some paint splashed in the lane. Actual obstructions like a mattress? Not so much. The lane drift warning is beyond obnoxious and has never done anything remotely helpful ever Real talk, check the settings and you can probably fix the issue. You can adjust the strength and sensitivity of the assists. I have them on very light, but they've saved my butt from other people several times.
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Nov 1, 2023 16:50
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Cerekk posted:
It took some getting used to but it is much less distracting and my eyes don't ever have to leave the road. The lane assist stuff is also gentle instead of aggressive so you can still miss potholes and debris none of the features are annoying enough for me to turn anything off. The only thing I have turned off is auto parking brake when in drive and auto brights are off because the regular LEDs are brighter than my wife's brights already. (I'll turn them on if I need them but they have to be visible/annoying for a mile or more) Even though they are scary good at detecting cars and auto dimming quickly. The cruise control loses or gains 2-5mph occasionally only on hills, unlike older models, but it's probably just a more fuel efficient algorithm.
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Nov 1, 2023 16:51
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DrPossum posted:I've not done it, but I'd rather take that process where I don't have some dipshit hardselling me on stuff and he's deliberately making it difficult to focus and think and can say things I won't have evidence to be able to hold him accountable for later. Don’t forget costs they deliberately hide until the last minute since bait and switch is industry standard
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Nov 1, 2023 16:55
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Woolie Wool posted:If you have to pay for a real search engine that is just further proof of the advance of enshittification and the retreat of the consumer society upmarket. Poorer people are ceasing to be consumers and being turned into surplus population. I don't think through a lens, this is probably correct. 'Free' services these days tend to exist on the premise that the user is the product. Google definitely makes you feel like the product. Kagi makes you feel more like the customer. I think you could argue that 'free' increases net accessibility to the service, especially among those without money, but I think you could argue that it still isn't a net good in many cases (Even before we get into the consequences of social media etc.).
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rafikki posted:I’ve been trying out Kagi for a bit, seems fine. DrPossum posted:
do you have a coupon code or something I could use? would be appreciated. btw here's some JavaScript to put in a bookmarklet or Userscript to jump to a recipe javascript:( function() { const selectedRecipe = document.querySelector([ '.recipe-callout', '.tasty-recipes', '.easyrecipe', '.innerrecipe', '.recipe-summary.wide', '.wprm-recipe-container', '.recipe-content', '.simple-recipe-pro', '.mv-recipe-card', '.recipe', 'div[itemtype="http://schema.org/Recipe"]', 'div[itemtype="https://schema.org/Recipe"]', '[attribute*="container-recipe"]', '.wprm-recipe', '.wprm-recipe-simple', '.cookbook-recipe', '.food-card', '.recipebody', '#wpurp-container-recipe-10155', '.recipe_card' ].join(", ")); if (selectedRecipe) { console.log(selectedRecipe.tagName); selectedRecipe.scrollIntoView(); } }(); ) you can click/run this on a page manually or just put it in a global userscript if you don't care about a minuscule processing time so that whenever you surf to a recipe page it jumps to the place automatically.
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Woolie Wool posted:Killing investment bankers won't dismantle any of the systems that require authorities to coercively control the distribution of resources and the means of production so you'd just end up having to appoint new oligarchs or become them yourself. Your post is a prime example of how screwed industrial society is Dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed 
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Nov 1, 2023 17:31
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I haven't used Spotify in a while. Tried it out at work today. I counted six ads in a row before they played two songs and then played more ads. I am so sick of advertising. I don't have any money, I'm not buying your poo poo!
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Nov 1, 2023 17:36
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ghost emoji posted:I haven't used Spotify in a while. Tried it out at work today. I counted six ads in a row before they played two songs and then played more ads. I am so sick of advertising. I don't have any money, I'm not buying your poo poo! Spotify account locked.
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Biplane posted:Dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed I would then have to kill myself at the sheer horror of it all so nah
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Nov 1, 2023 17:48
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My audio is broken on Linux for the first time since the 2000s
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I bought a Chevy Bolt when they could not be sold due to the battery recall. They lied to me about the timelines of the battery recall multiple times. hosed me around on the trade in value of my car for no reason and in the end I got more than I estimated despite them expecting me to just accept the lowball offer. But the cherry on top was when they attempted to charge me $120 for a tank of gasoline. I jokingly asked if it really took that much fuel and they replied with a straight face something about gas being expensive right now. Just a lot of behaviour that had me pissed off for no reason and made me seek out other dealers.
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big mean giraffe posted:This is definitely a skill issue, never had this happen once Are you saying your rav4 is more skilled than other cars
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mawarannahr posted:do you have a coupon code or something I could use? would be appreciated. You get 100 free searches initially to try it out. I just signed up for the $5/month plan that gives 300 searches and I’ve used 95 of them since 10/22 so I’ll probably wind up with the $10 unlimited plan.
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300 searches for $5? Lmao get out of here
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steinrokkan posted:300 searches for $5? Lmao get out of here Yeah, I generally don't pitch that plan. When someone asks me how much Kagi costs, I usually just skip right to '$10 / month'. But Kagi does indeed own.
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:It's not totally online, but if you have a Costco membership I used their auto buying program, they give you a price and the dealer has to stick with it no matter what or they get blackballed from Costco and penalized. Does this work for used cars or only new?
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Woolie Wool posted:If you have to pay for a real search engine that is just further proof of the advance of enshittification and the retreat of the consumer society upmarket. Poorer people are ceasing to be consumers and being turned into surplus population. you are 100% correct
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rafikki posted:You get 100 free searches initially to try it out. I just signed up for the $5/month plan that gives 300 searches and I’ve used 95 of them since 10/22 so I’ll probably wind up with the $10 unlimited plan. Everything is a subscription service these days. I'm not buying any more monthly plans. Especially not for only 300 searches!
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mawarannahr posted:do you have a coupon code or something I could use? would be appreciated. I would but it doesn't seem like they have a program like that unfortunately. Not sure if they offer trials or initial refends, but they do have a $5 for 500 searches for a month if that's a low enough barrier.
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steinrokkan posted:300 searches for $5? Lmao get out of here Yeah, I wouldn't do that for regular service. it's just the cheapest. $10/mo unlimited is the norm
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If we're on a "you have to pay for basic rights like privacy" screed, back when lowtax was pushing nordvpn I bit and used that for a long time. They are a masters class in managing online opinion with partnerships with the parasocial mediatypes to do sponsorships and build trust. They clearly have people who look out on major social hubs like reddit and news.ycombinator.com to immediately smooth over any dissent or poking around some of their business practice allegations . This is in the already poo poo VPN marketing space. Aside from that, one day they started pushing ads for their own dumb irrelevant features in the app and then started opting me into stuff, adding garbage into the context menus on the one Windows machine I have. That is the fastest way to get me to uninstall anything. If you're looking for a VPN, I switched to proton (same folks as proton mail) and I've been happy and they are quiet. Speeds are close to whatever I can push on my GB fiber without a VPN. The one customer support thing I put in with them was handled helpfully by someone who seemed competent.
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Oh, Linode. You were the darling of these forums and then you got bought by Akamai and then doubled your prices to almost the same as AWS when you don't offer all the features of AWS. What will you do next 
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DrPossum posted:Oh, Linode. You were the darling of these forums and then you got bought by Akamai and then doubled your prices to almost the same as AWS when you don't offer all the features of AWS. What will you do next They'll go out of business
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ghost emoji posted:I haven't used Spotify in a while. Tried it out at work today. I counted six ads in a row before they played two songs and then played more ads. I am so sick of advertising. I don't have any money, I'm not buying your poo poo! I think if you use it in the browser, ublock origin will block the ads.
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Nettle Soup posted:I think if you use it in the browser, ublock origin will block the ads. Nope, used it in-browser with Ublock Origin and Ghostery both installed. Still an endless parade of ads. I now remember why I don't use Spotify anymore. (That and the horrible business practices)
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DrPossum posted:Does this work for used cars or only new? They do offer some last year models or even the year before and possibly some factory certified rebuilt ones. At the time I purchased used cars spiked up a ton so I took the 0% interest for 3 years on a new, first new car ever.
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ghost emoji posted:Nope, used it in-browser with Ublock Origin and Ghostery both installed. Still an endless parade of ads. I now remember why I don't use Spotify anymore. (That and the horrible business practices) Works for me with uBlock. Could running Ghostery at the same be conflicting with it? And yeah, if I try to use Spotify without adblocking sometimes it gets stuck playing ads literally endlessly. As in, it will happily keep playing ads for hours. They don't even seem to target them anymore, it's all services that don't exist in my area and stores that are hundreds of miles away.
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:Costco auto buying program is mostly but not entirely for new cars, sorry I should have specified. Still worth looking into. Thanks! This is a nice angle. Costco has its own decline, but it still ain't something to gently caress with.
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naem posted:I worry we will remember now 2023 as the good ol’ days soon You mean in a year lol
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gather around, children, and I’ll tell you a tale of the days when you could buy boiled animal in a can you could purchase several cans all at once and save them and there weren’t any raiders to take them or burn your village
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Sometimes they had football players on the label of the can YES THOSE ASSHOLES THAT RAID US
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