Comparing people is unhealthy and the road to depression. It’s easy to imagine something we don’t like about ourselves that we cannot change, no matter how much money we have.

Money breeds resentment and invites corruption. Whenever we introduce money into a relationship, it imperils friendship and creates conflicts of interest. Money cannot buy your love. People who love money are ugly, no matter how good they look.

Elephants are far more sensitive and intelligent than most of the people in this story.

Is your SO George Orwell?

• Getting a formal education.
• Getting an ADHD diagnosis.
• Learning about self awareness and meditation. Everything else flowed from these three things. Health and education is the foundation of happiness and fulfilment.

Learn about the main psychological disorders. There are many resources online that describe the DSM in plain language. Figure out if you identify with some of the symptoms of a particular disorder. Seek out a therapist who deals with the particular disorder.

Well, that was my method. Doctors and therapists can help us but ultimately we have to heal ourselves.

Windows - not even once.

I used to love digging holes in the beach and unearthing hidden treasures like cigarette butts.

I really believe the things I say.

The only thing I haven’t found in a garage is a woman.

There are some examples of buyers exploiting the returns policy for expensive items. The buyer initiates a return of item but never sends it, gets item and refund.

I showed penus. Now there is restraining order.

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Pleased to meet you. I am also one of those people. We’re a rare breed 😂

When I’ve queried DTC using a cheap scan tool it’s usually resolved the important (as in emission relevant) DTC information text and most of the non engine stuff. In order to create a DTC there usually is a customer recognisable fault or an implication for emissions performance.

Many of the DTC are spurious and would only serve to confuse the user. As a system integrator, I’m personally responsible for creating tens of thousands of spurious DTC (in a vehicle population of ~100k) and I have to periodically report to management what has been done to reduce that number. The funny bit is when I found the root cause the management completely lost interest in solving the problem because, money 😂

I’m with you though, there’s no such thing as too much information. I want to know how my car is doing and fix the problems. Most people in the business do not care and our users are ignorant and apathetic, that’s why we can’t have nice things.

Who is going to look at that stuff apart from technicians? Most users have no clue how the functionality of their vehicle is achieved and they don’t care.

For argument’s sake, let’s assume there is a userbase for this type of information. It would be possible to show diagnostic information like DTC or run DID routines from the dashboard but this is already possible from any cheap offboard tester, via a phone app or laptop.

The reality is that even if an OEM wanted to provide detailed diagnostic information, they don’t know it either because the information isn’t disclosed by their supply chain. Companies such as Bosch, who supply brake ECU, are extremely tight lipped about their intellectual property. When something goes wrong we use a special development version of the ECU to record the associated software variables during the fault and present that as evidence but we don’t have access to the source code.

Modern products are not designed to be repaired. They want us to continually buy new shit. Basically anything with software in it is an absolute nightmare to maintain. It makes me depressed just thinking about what a clusterfuck this landscape is.

Source: control system engineer for a large OEM.

What level of accuracy are we talking about on those screw lengths? I wouldn’t accept more than one diameter variance.

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I still own the car I learnt to drive, thirty years ago. My dad bought this VW beetle in 1970 and gave it to me when I was twenty. Not driven it for years but I can’t let go of it either.

Notepad++ is also great for searching text strings in many documents and collating the results in a single window.

The same threat that democracy faces, it’s vulnerable to charismatic people who become entrenched and draconian. I’m not convinced it can ever work without some competing force that resists the consolidation of power, such as highly educated and politically involved populace.

Communism probably works at smaller scales but for larger populations it would only be feasible when the leadership is benevolent. A robot administrator would be an interesting experiment.