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City buses in my town have specific horns for pedestrians, much quieter than those for cars
More complicated extension to this. I want a collection of standard of messages that I can send to other drivers while driving (like 6 buttons max). Some standard low distance wireless (probably based on or just Bluetooth)
Like:
- “Hey check your car its got something wrong with it”
- “Hey you’re in my lane”
- “Hey slow down it’s dangerous here”
- “Hey watch out road hazard ahead”
- “Go ahead”
- “I’m going now”
- etc
Just flashing lights, horns, hand gestures, and yelling out my window is a freaking game of charades man!
Basically, I like the idea of a quieter horn, and a regular horn. But we need like driving emotes, rather than the tea bagging hello equivalent
Just to add a bit: in my country blinking your emergency lights (when all of your turn signals are going) for 2-3 times as a thank you is very common. It’s even considered rude not to use them e.g. after you were let in.
I don’t know if that is something in other countries. I live in Hungary.
It’s not exactly universal. In Germany, this can be interpreted as you warning of a pending emergency and trigger slowdown; they’d do thanks by signalling left-right-left-right rapidly.
Oh, yeah, we use that too. It’s absolutely contextual, on the highway we use it for what you described.
Wtf this is like dark souls pantomime shit. You drivers really need a better way to communicate
Like a simple secondary horn that’s quieter and less aggressive?
Maybe like a kazoo
I do it on occasion, I’m in the US.
blinking your emergency lights
In the US, truck drivers sometimes do this as a “thank you” if you flash your brights to them to let them know they can safely change lanes to the right after they’ve passed you (which is a nice thing to do for them since they can’t really see shit behind on their right).
As a truck driver, it pisses me off when truckers don’t gimme the blinkies.
I found the drivers in Hungary very considerate and polite in general.
We do that in the UK. I wouldn’t say it’s universal but it’s pretty common.
I learned that this is a common practice in Japan, from a Youtube video I watched years ago. I adopted it after watching it. I live in the US.
A friendly meep meep and a hoooooonk would be nice.
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Like the Chevy Volt? (No, not my video. I don’t condone the filming while driving but it’s the best demo I could find.)
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Flash of high beams do work in some cases, but require that they are in front of you
Ah so we need rear high beams
Few taps on break lights is actually similar signal backwards than high beams forward.
I have like a Pavlovian response to immediately feather my own breaks and check my rearview if I see any red in front of me though lol
You thought internet trolls were a nuance… Just wait till they can bother you while driving.
This. I’d only accept this if everyone, and then I mean EVERYONE on the road has the patience of a saint and the radio discipline of an airline pilot at all times. I’d be fine if the most threatening you could ever expect is a “four six golf victor delta niner, your blinker is still live and your tail light is out, be advised, over” but you just KNOW there’s gonna be someone who’ll go “HEY YOU removed IN A WHITE VAN! STAY OUT OF MY FUCKING LANE OR I’LL END YOU AND YOUR MOTHER!”
I remember reading on that other site at some point about airline pilots and the ‘guard’ channel which is supposedly used for shitposts. Any pilot on here that can confirm? This about the discipline of airline pilots.
useful implementation of AI silo’d to the applicable function.
some examples:
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“rename these images with X pattern, add their description to the meta data”
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“correctly capitalize all the names in my address book and tag them by how i know them”
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“show me how much i spent on fast food last month”
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actually good and useful autocorrect / spell check
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find all the emails about Jane’s wedding next year and let me know where we are with the planning
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find me an app for windows desktop that does XYZ
edit to clarify: I know there are algos and LLMs that do this, but I don’t want a “machine” that does all of them, I want a machine that only does each one really well.
LLMs would do all of those incorrectly with 100% confidence.
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Phone assistants responding to you in the same volume of voice you used to address them.
This would require a way of judging the distance you’re speaking from. Calling out from another room might get a whispered response, and vice versa.
This seems solvable. There are differences in pitch between a nearby whisper and a distant shout.
I agree, but I wouldn’t call it a “no-brainer.”
Maybe not. I’ve heard of apps that can detect mood and I imagine being able to tell that someone is sad from the tone of their voice should be more challenging than picking up the relative difference in inflection, quality of overtone saturation, application of the built in compressor, etc.
That one thing, with the whatchamacallit that does that super useful thing…
You know…
They are delicious
Nice try but I’m keeping my even more instant instant noodles to myself.
I’ll give you a hint though, the secret is in being ok with pumping boiling water into your stomach.
Warm white LEDs inside of coloured glass bulbs to make LED Christmas lights that don’t look like gamer vomit.
Technology Connections did a video about this and talked about this company https://tru-tone.com
Maybe OP is Alec from Technology Connections
Proceeds to paint lights
Best Christmas tradition
Gamer vomit… I love it!
Any maps app that, when you set a route, lets you decide “don’t give me any directions until I get to X step” and/or “don’t give any directions after X step”. I dont like hearing the navigation when I don’t need it, and that would save me from having to open or close the navigation while I’m still driving.
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Tomtom made the first steps with this almost 20 years ago, it could show a second quick instruction in a smaller box, and it only showed it like that if it was in quick succession. Kind of crazy that a gazillion dollar company somehow can’t pin it down
Adding on. An option to set complicated maneuver(s) up ahead voice notification and a prep notification for said complicated maneuver. The latter gives you an end goal statement. Such as, ‘Be in the left turn lane on the ramp up ahead.’ Then if you desire to enable it in the settings, hear what step-by-step actions need to be taken.
Hijacking this with my mini rant: GOOGLE if you provide me with three possible routes to my destination and I specifically select one… DON’T FUCKING CHANGE IT MID-DRIVE GODDAMMIT!
As implemented, it’s beyond terrible. The only way I know of to disable it is to turn off mobile data (or disable mobile data for google services / maps). Maybe that’s changed semi-recently, I dunno.
I can understand the utility of a feature that can dynamically adjust your directions so that you’re always on the fastest route, but what Google has implemented has serious and dangerous flaws. The fact that the change in route is automatic and without my consent unless I interact with my phone in a set interval of time WHILE DRIVING is ridiculous, and once it switches over, there’s no quick and easy way to undo that.
Additionally, it doesn’t seem to understand that I don’t care if the toll road will save me 3 minutes on this trip, I don’t want to pay a toll or deal with the inevitable billing screw up. I don’t care if making a dozen turns through unfamiliar urban/suburban side streets will questionably save me 5 minutes, I’d prefer the relative safety and predictability of a straight path down the interstate. I also don’t want to drive down a winding, unlit rural highway after dark during deer season just because it’s a few minutes faster than if I stayed on the well-lit road with a lot more vehicle activity.
And, that’s just the start of my Google Maps rant.
I agree with you but there is a setting to turn off tolls and faries, etc.
Those work at the beginning, when you first set your route, but I don’t think they necessarily work when the app re-routes you. At least, the no toll option doesn’t seem to work around here in the past. Hopefully it’s fixed now. I’m all for that.
Might have been a bug. I’ve set it to never take me through either and it never has. Might also be area dependant.
I feel this has become so much worse the past couple months. "There’s an accident ahead reported 8 hours ago, I’m gonna reroute to the highway you asked me to avoid, you have 5 seconds to decline :) ". Cool, guess I’ll need to pull over and fix it, again.
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I get it but there is an easy toggle from spoken directions to alerts which I find easy to toggle.
At least on Apple and Google maps
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You can set the voiced directions in Google maps to mute
But he wants voiced directions.
Just only when they’re actually useful.
Or stop zooming in to the max, leaving me with zero information! The only choice left is to blindly drive into the river when instructed to do so.
Frick! You’re right!
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This
Would you settle for ill tempered sea bass?
A better voicemail.
I just re-watched the introduction of the first iPhone, and one thing that stood out to me was this “visual voicemail” thing they showed. To this day I still just get an SMS if someone leaves a message, and then have to call my voicemail and listen to recordings one by one. That’s still the norm for standard phone contracts here afaik, it’s ridiculous!
I’ve had my google voice account handle voicemails for like 15 years and it did that for me. Well, now I don’t have to, but it’s been great.
I have a Samsung S20 and it has visual voicemail, haven’t dialed my voicemail in years. I assumed most phones from the past couple years had it, but my husband’s Google pixel doesn’t,.
I agree, this needs to be a standard.
It depends on your service provider. In Canada they charge for it. Last time I checked it was around $7/month.
Mine also allows you to see each voicemail in your acct inbox and play/delete/call back each one like a song on a media player.
There’s still the cell providers limit on how many voicemails are allowed though. Better to use Google voice and have unlimited voice mail
Seems to heavily depend on your provider. Some work with the standard phone apps, some have their own apps, but most don’t seem to offer it at all here in Germany. One even sends you an audio MMS instead and just calls that “Visual Mailbox”. It’s crazy to me that such a basic and useful feature still isn’t just a standard thing on all phones.
My husband and I have the same provider but different brands of phone. I have visual voicemail, he doesn’t and my phone is the older one. It seems like Samsung and Apple are the only ones to even offer the app so far.
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I set mine up in 2009 and it is shocking to me how this is not the standard
I’m sure it could be comfortable in an English speaking country.
Huh on iPhone in the UK. I get a transcript of any left messages.
I generally love T-Mobile, but it’s obnoxious that they charge an extra monthly fee if you want visual voicemail.
Wait what, when did that happen
I’ve had them for years and it’s always been that way
Five minute abs
Strong Bad was ahead of his time when he made the Ab-Abber 2000. Abs in minutes - nay, seconds!
I figured I didn’t need it since I don’t have to fight Trogdor the Burninator, but I was wrong 😢
If your ABS takes 5 minutes to react there may be an issue with your car.
No! 7’s the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 dwarves. 7, man, that’s the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin’ on a branch, eatin’ lots of sunflowers on my uncle’s ranch. You know that old children’s tale from the sea. It’s like you’re dreamin’ about Gorgonzola cheese when it’s clearly Brie time, baby.
Step into my office.
I remember helping a friend apply eardrops to his ears due to earwax buildup and thinking “man if these vials had long bendy straw-like tubes then he wouldn’t need someone to lean over his ear applying drops like someone applying cookie flavoring to a cookie.”
Audinell ear spray. It will change your friends life. And only $15 a bottle.
Where would we find something like that? That sounds like something I’d see in Walmart and buy in an instant if I saw it.
You literally turn your head to the side and drop the drops in your ear. You don’t need a second person.
A long bendy straw would require you to squeeze the liquid from the bottle all the way along the straw until the end point. That would mean a larger bottle with a larger amount of liquid for you to be able to squeeze it along the whole length.
The problem isn’t the drops not going into your ear, it’s the fact they specifically instruct you to put in two drops, no more and no less, and it’s hard to see how many drops you’re putting in when the vial’s method of secreting the drops is squeezing the container.
Do you actually need someone to help with that?
I just apply ear drops myself, are you sure they didn’t involve you in some kind of ear drop kink 🤔
The problem isn’t the drops not going into your ear, it’s the fact they specifically instruct you to put in two drops, no more and no less, and it’s hard to see how many drops you’re putting in when the vial’s method of secreting the drops is squeezing the container.
How would a long bendy applicator help with this?
It can loop up and around and into your ear as you’re laying down and you’ll be able to see how many drops go in as the vial can be right in front of you but the drops can be transported into your ear.
Not the person you replied to, and not a kink, but:
I would absolutely be more willing to clean my ears if I had this straw-like mechanism. I still do it, but it feels like a huge effort. I also end up with drops all over me.
I can’t really explain why.
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Non rebellious printer
Baby wristlet with heartbeat sensor (this one will make you go proper crazy)
Car that breaks down as soon as you buy it
'cause fuck cars.
Baby wristlet with heartbeat sensor (this one will make you go proper crazy)
They have socks that do this. Bluetooth app connection to your phone.
Non rebellious printer
They exist they’re called LED Printers, you have to do a bit of searching for them though because they’re often mislabeled as Laser Jet. If you go on Amazon for example and look for laserjet printers in the type box right at the bottom they’ll tell you if it’s really a laser jet or is actually a LED printer. Get an LED printer, Brother makes some good ones.
They are lightning fast even for color printing. They use toner like laser jet (which I guess is where the confusion comes from) but they work in a different way.
How different? They still use light for drum polarization, right?
Cool, that seems like a new take on things 👍.
In contrast to LED printers, laser printers require combinations of rotating mirrors and lenses that must remain in alignment throughout their use. The LED print head has no moving parts, and the individual assemblies tend to be more compact.
Yeah, thought as much. LEDs are cheaper than lasers, so stack a bunch of them in a line, polarise the drum, bam, you have an image.
Basically, this is the only advantage. And laser heads break very very rarely. You litelarly have to drop the printer from a considerable height in order to break the laser head mechanism.
But, I can see the appeal. Laser heads and mechanisms are more expensive to manufacture.
Car that breaks down as soon as you buy it
BMWs are already pretty mainstream
It’s 2023, BMW is upper middle off the pack reliability wise. If you are going to make fun of Germans it’s Merc you are looking for.
Yep, Mercedes is NOTHING what it used to be… they put in Peugeot engines in new models 🤦… which is not bad, but at the price these cars sell, excuse me, but I want a Mercedes engine in there.
More €€€ and we could start talking :)
More €€€ and I’d get a Hummer.
Interestingly, some hdi Peugeot engines can go on forever
Some… all Merc engines go on forever. You bought a Merc, first 500.000km you’re basically warming up the engine. People bought second hand Mercs with 400.000km on them, not a single doubt that it might fail.
🤘 fuck cars
There’s a community for that if you aren’t subscribed already.
Those baby ekg socks and bracelets are crazy. My wife bought one and it just made her crazy. And then even the dumb thing moves you get everyone jumping to alerts and beeps and are stuck with a baby who isn’t going to sleep anytime soon.
Draino for gutters!
A printer that works
Mine was brilliant and now it’s sad and none of the troubleshooting steps for the symptoms I’m getting actually work. I suspect the room it’s in is too cold and humid and that’s making the toner clump, but I’m not keen on replacing mostly-full cartridges as the price has more than doubled since I got the printer.
Batteries inside of stove/microwave/coffee machine/etc. with the sole purpose of keeping the time from resetting when it loses power.
Just connect an overpriced UPS to every device ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As a bonus, you can still make coffee in a power cut.
I’ve conditioned myself fully by this point to only use the clock on the stove as an indicator of whether my power has or has not gone out
I guess you haven’t cleaned your microwave in 10 years or had to do any electrical maintenance in the kitchen.
I’ll have momentary power losses probably once or twice per quarter, depending on bad thunderstorms or nearby construction, things that happen worldwide and affect power grids indiscriminately.
I do set my stove clock, I just ironically find it more useful to not improve it in this ridiculously simple way because it’s a good indicator of whether my home has had a power outage. Lol
Personally, where I live now, my power has gone out in the last five years more often than the rest of my life combined. I’m in my mid 30s.
I live in a rented house, it’s a double bungalow style with a lovely family attached. During COVID our power was out for three days straight. It was wild. Luckily I have a car that I can waste tons of gas to charge my things with (also luckily it has like seven USB ports), and also some battery packs that can charge things.
Went out and got tons of ice to put in the refrigerator and freezer and cooler.
Set up our iPad connected to our phone as a hot spot and watched YMS play Jump King for all three days. It was wonderful. I miss being NEETs.
Even just a capacitor to keep the time for 10 minutes or so. That would cover 99% of the power outages in my home
At this point I believe there is a conspiracy behind it
You don’t even need that. My microwave is wifi connected but still can’t keep time. Instead of using NTP like any appliances or industrial control system in the last decade+, it syncs to your phone time though an app.
Wtf.
my microwave doesnt need wifi its a fucking microwave
“Smart” microwave might be generally helpful, but a lot of them aren’t for some reason, they went the first step of connecting to wifi and stopped there. Getting notification when ready or setting specific time and program via google voice instead of fiddling with controls is genuinely useful stuff that I would love to have
A rather neat feature is scanning the barcode of an item with the phone app and the heating program is set automatically.
But setting the time automatically using ntp would have been enough for me.
I’m guessing that the way it works is it’s sending the barcode number to the microwave supplier, the supplier sends it to 5738 vendors who have legitimate interest in updating the profile they already have on you, then the heating programme is sent back to you. The same heating programme is described on the package you already hold in your hands. Fingers crossed that your microwave is getting security updates, if not, someone could be downloading all data from your laptop because they got into your network using a microwave. That is the reality of IoT.
I just wish my microwave could have a Facebook login.
How many screen taps does it take to scan your food and send it to the microwave vs typing in the time like normal?
Nothing in my house is WiFi connected, other than computers and phones. It’s staying that way forever.
How about a custom OpenBSD router which allows only whitelisted traffic through, with a custom DNS server and comprehensive network monitoring, for aren’t we paranoid?
Orrrrrr
Only computers and phones
Life is easy
Four desktop
Two rPi
Two ifone
One iPad
All we need
Life is good
Fuck IoT
All my homies hate IoT
RCC has been available since the 80s. Much of the wold has been covered by radio time broadcasts that would be used by devices to set their own time but somehow it didn’t start to become really commonplace until wifi allowed for 2-way communications 🤔
If you have wifi you need to store it’s credentials somewhere, and you run into same issue.
Actually automatic way would be to just take GPS signals clock time.
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That’s most likely what they’re referring to: batteries for the RTC.
