I think it’s an update from January. The first produced R5s doesn’t seem to have the camera on the A-pillar. It’s part of the media system which is used in other models as well.

I can’t imagine that rentals or fleet cars will throw a warning every time someone new uses the car, so I want to bet that the warnings can be disabled somehow with the right access to the ECU.

Renault uses their own ECU computers, which are quite expensive, but previous versions have been accessible using an OSB dongle with other software.

I’m sure someone will eventually figure out how to get into the system once these cars get old enough to reach the used market.

It’s an EU decision. It will be coming to many more cars as it will be mandatory from July 2026 for all newly registered vehicles. Renault 5 is simply one of the first new cars to feature it.

According to the same law, it is illegal to use the system in a way that can identify the person, it may not save biometrics, and it must function in closed loop without sharing the data. It’s looking for things like head nodding or looking away from the road for more than 3.5 seconds while driving over 50 km/h. The camera is likely using infrared lighting as it should also work at night.

Anyway. According to the manual, it can be disabled by double tapping a button on the steering wheel or through the touch screen menus, though it will default to being enabled everytime you start the car as per the legal requirement.

If you cover it with tape, wear a mask or drive somebody else’s car in which you don’t have a profile saved, it will simply use the last previous profile and show an icon in the dashboard as a warning that the function isn’t working.

Another explanation for women’s buttons is that they used to ride horses sideways. Sidesaddle is done with the right side facing the riding direction.

The would expose the button opening to the wind if they were placed on the right side like men’s. With left side buttons, the fabric goes over the opening from right to left, thereby covering for the wind.

It’s wild to think about how in our lifetime there’s been these people who went straight from tribal to modern life.

It’s interesting for sure. The more I think about it, the more sense it makes.

At least Prince Philip showed up and gave them things they’d never seen before, unlike the priests who are like " you gotta believe this 2000 year old book I’ve read, just trust me bro."

It also makes me think about how modern people are still offering all of their valuables to random billionaires or choosing their leaders by popularity instead of skill.

Modern humans are still tribal.

Heretic. There is only one true religion.

It’s a bad idea because shorting requires a settlement date.

You can’t keep a short the same way that you keep an investment. You need to predict at what time it is worth less than it is now.

It’s also a bad idea, because you can lose more than you invest. If you buy a stock, you can only lose the purchase price of that stock. If you short it, there’s no upper limit to how much you can lose if the stock keeps rising. The people holding the stocks will do anything to keep inflating the stock price, even if it’s evident to everyone that it is a bubble. As long as they can keep throwing money at it, they can keep the price going up.

I’m not well versed in the stock market.

This is a good reason not to short.

principled human

This is an even better reason not to short.

afford to lose the money

Yeah that’s the thing about shorting. Nobody knows how much that is. It’s potentially infinite.

Other brands have better statistics. EVs get service notifications just as any other kind of car. They get pollen filter,12 v battery, wheel, brakes and software updates changes just as often.

Tesla is simply singlehandedly dragging the fail rates down on the entire EV segment, making EV failures a talking point on Facebook.

That’s half a word.

People do this too when they suddenly get a wholesale offer on stupid things. My friend opened a business and shortly after he had thousands of bouncing balls in a closet for no fucking reason.

The only blunder in the story is not being able to come up with a recipe to use the canned tomatoes. Panini/bruschetta etc. are pretty common in cafe’s.

Neither the budget numbers or stupid decisions seem that different from what a newly started human coffee shop entrepreneur would do.

I’m not at all a fan of AI, but humans are stupid too.

It would be interesting to calculate the user’s value of the time wasted on this shit.

My guess is that online advertising has a negative return for society as a whole. It should be illegal.

Depends on how long it’ll sit there before I run it.

A “move in” fee is not a deposit. It’s more like a goodwill payment, or you could call it a front pocket fee, even if there’s nobody else in queue. Obviously whoever is willing to pay the most gets the first choice.

It’s shady as fuck and also illegal where I live, but people still pay it instead of risking not getting the apartment. Sadly, nobody cares enough to take these scumbags to court over it. You can choose not to pay it but then you just don’t get the apartment, and if so, why’d you want to waste your time and money on a lawyer, when there’s nothing to win from doing so.

the Start menu is getting a full rewrite in WinUI 3, which will make it 60% more responsive

Uh. I think I found the issue. A menu isn’t even supposed to have various degrees of responsiveness.

Ryan Dunn.

Ha, yes I guess I called it before it happened. Honestly I just woke up from a nap and figured it out.

I guess we’ll have to see what Israel does before we can tell the outcome.

I don’t think anyone else is going to anything crazy right now. Trump is likely out golfing and cashing in on whatever investments he made before starting this shit show. Let’s not pretend that he gives a flying fuck about who does what in Iran.

There’s no positive end game in it for him.

If he turns this into a “Look at what you made me do!”-moment, he will have nothing but enemies and they’ll all know that nothing will ever please him, which is dangerous for them.

Thus, their only option will be to assassinate him shortly after. Either by Iran getting back at him with a dirty bomb, or the Saudis getting pissed about the oil prices dropping and making a Diana out of him, or even by some lunatic MAGA who “didn’t vote for this”.

Literally everyone would be out to take him out, and he has nothing to gain from it.

If he realizes this, then no.

His best option is to chicken out. He will claim to have reached a tremendous deal with Pakistan that stopped him from bombing Iran out of his own kindness and generosity, and he will mispronounce all the words.

No doubt. But why does the farmer get the money? It would make more sense for the government to buy the land back for good.

That’s a nice idea, but it would be better if the farmers hadn’t bought that strip of field to begin with.

Farming is ridiculous like that.

Now the farmers are getting paid your tax euros because they once bought it, destroyed it and took no responsibility for it.