Irvine CA might give Austin TX a run for its money. Moved here from the Seattle area and it’s a night and day difference. Used to get middle fingers every day. Haven’t gotten one in months since moving. Anyone who hates cybertrucks here got repetitive stress injury and can’t use that finger...
There was a repair I needed a while ago (seat belt restraint error) that I thought should have been covered under warranty. But then the estimate came and it implied I was going to have to pay. I asked the service center rep about it and they said the estimate is added first and if the repair is...
It's annoying that CT can't get a Homelink module. I try to avoid subscriptions as much as possible, so MyQ is out.
My solution is a bit involved when done from scratch but if you already have some home automation set up it's not bad. OpenGarage ($45) is a device that wires directly into your...
If my CT can pick me up at the ski slope entrance and park itself it would save me quite a few minutes of walking across a huge parking lot while wearing clunky boots, carrying heavy gear, and managing young kids.
Where’s the $10/month plan that gives you 50gb? You’re right that could be a decent option vs standby, but I can’t find it. There’s a $50/month for 50gb plan that I do see.
I wonder if standby mode is enough for in-car road maps and streaming music? An average mp3 is 128 kbit/s (Apple Music apparently streams at 64 kbps in the car) so a 500 Kbps connection ought to be more than enough. Not sure how much bandwidth road maps without satellite imagery use. One source...
I had a recent 20 minute drive that had 4 instances of middle fingers and thumbs down. Seattle suburbs. My theory is that hot weather is hitting people hard who can’t afford air conditioning.
I had a recent one from someone who pretty much looks how you’d expect. Sad part is she had a kid with her who seemed well-rehearsed with turning his back to the camera. I hope her hatefulness doesn't affect him growing up.
Unrelated to this particular tire mount (which looks very good btw) I was driving with a trailer hitch bike rack and had the same message. Used FSD anyway. It was noticeably worse which surprised me. The truck had a lot more trouble centering in the lane and I had to take over a few times. Also...
Easy to be a tough guy when it's just yourself but when the kids are getting blowback, it's much harder. Sorry you're going through this. None of us should judge if you have to give it up, but it stings letting the terrorists win one.
I have a tiktok channel but as a matter of principle (security through obscurity) I don't crosslink my social media accounts.
This takes little extra time on my part. I'm already on the road going from point A to point B and filming comes for "free". Posting takes less than a minute.
As for...
Living near Seattle there's no end to deranged people (usually in Subarus) who do their best German dictator impression when they see my truck. Many CT drivers in this area are well-behaved Asian/Indian women driving their kids to daycare. I leave it to them to turn the other cheek, so that I...
Google is getting harder to trust now. They display very confident sounding answers powered by their LLM, but much of the time it’s hallucinating or based off of random people on forums. You always have to click through to the source and assess its reliability yourself.
I got a nice gimbal grip for my phone that can be easily operated with one hand. Start/stop recording, zoom, reposition, start person tracking, etc. If a hater starts with their shenanigans, I start filming them with a big grin and encourage them to give me a good show so that I can collect some...
If I were an idiot with vandalism on my mind, and saw a CT with an external camera, that camera is getting disconnected/broken/stolen first. You will deter some non-committed vandals though and maybe that’s good enough.