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Thank you for explaining why my crappy thumb drives no longer interfere with my wifi!


SeizedBatteryGate turned me off of Louis Rossman for life:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9pow06/louis_rossman...

I liked the guy before he became a professional YouTuber who pretends to not be one.


Serious question. In what ways does your "Mac Plus from 1986 feel snappier than a modern Mac"?


Response time. The time between clicking the mouse and seeing a change on screen feels instantaneous; there's just no hesitation or lag for the most part. Compute-intensive tasks can't compete of course, but response time has gotten much worse in modern operating systems, especially mobile ones. It's quite common on a modern Mac for a scroll of a Finder window to put up a spinning beachball. Wristwatch cursors happened on classic Macs too, but never for something as trivial as a scroll. Part of the problem is that we're still using O[n] algorithms where n is a lot bigger than it used to be, but another part is that we no longer write UI code with an emphasis on quick response time.


Oh, wow. I had completely forgotten that "repeated button pressing to change volume" was a thing. Thank you. Apparently I like the Touch Bar more than I realized.


I don't think you are their primary target buyer.

I work with video most of my waking hours and the 2019 MacBook Pro fully-optioned out has finally allowed me to not be tethered to my desktop for work and has easily paid for itself in time saved.


There is no speed limit sign detection...


Perhaps I'm missing something, but how does anyone know that it's "cannibalizing" S sales rather than just "S sales are down?"


I don't believe you. I own an AP1 Tesla as well as a nominally "FSD computer equipped" AP2 Tesla.

You would be injured or killed if you tried taking an unmonitored trip of any reasonable length - ON THE HIGHWAY - in either, with autopilot on and with the nag disabled using a weight. If you think you don't have to routinely make manual corrections to save yourself from dying I think you are either lying or delusional.


You're stretching quite a bit here...None of the things you said were implied by the previous poster.

> If you think you don't have to routinely make manual corrections to save yourself from dying I think you are either lying or delusional.

What makes you think owners are not aware of this? Try asking that question on the /r/rteslamotors subreddit and you'll see that owners will quickly educate you and tell you to keep your eyes on the road.

You also get a visual warning to do so, whenever you engage Autopilot.


Stretching what, exactly?

They said their car drives itself every day. "Drives itself" means that the car does all of the work of driving without requiring human intervention or involvement. And that technology, of course, does not exist in any car at the moment.

What else could "drives itself" possibly mean?


Do you own a Tesla? Do you feel that autopilot has improved?

And the nag / inability to sense the presence of hands on wheel... to put it mildly, I would pay a lot of money to revert my AP software.


That's nothing like what they said. They are not telling people what to buy. They are trying to understand the willingness of many Tesla owners to brush off being misled and ignored by the manufacturer of their car, and to do things like you just did.

I own a P100D and the magic wore off for me. Apparently it hasn't for you.

Peace.


> Tesla owners to brush off being misled and ignored by the manufacturer of their car

Huh? how so, can you provide examples?

> I own a P100D and the magic wore off for me. Apparently it hasn't for you.

It certainly hasn't, to the point that we got rid all of our gas vehicles for a 3/X (Owned an S since 2015). Also, four of our neighbors also randomly rang our doorbell in the last 6 months asking about the cars. An underrated feature of these cars is safety, I can't put a price on that.

I showed them the features, gave them test drives and told them my honest opinion and experience. A few weeks later, they all ended up buying one.


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