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How do you start a car and move it with manual shift "the right way"?
  • Make sure the car is in neutral and handbrake is on before starting. It's not strictly necessary but you should make this a habit for safety.

    Buckle up. Make yourself aware of your surroundings.

    Insert and turn key / press button. Newer cars require clutch and/or brake to be pressed to start, check the car manual if unsure.

    Key shouldn't need to be turned for long - if its kept turned when the engine starts you'll hear a horrible grinding noise. Avoid this.

    The car should now be started. Take your foot off clutch/brake, nothing will happen (as long as you ate in neutral with handbrake on).

    To start moving, press the clutch, put the gear stick in 1st, start smoothly lifting your foot off the clutch. You're looking for the bite point of the clutch - when you start to feel the car want to move. This takes practice and you will stall the car many times before its natural. Once you've found the bite point, its time to release the hand brake*, and start gently pressing the accelerator as you lift your foot the rest of the way off the clutch.

    It takes a while for this to be smooth.

    *you could release the hand brake before this and use the brake pedal instead.

    When you want to change gears, take your foot off the accelerator, press the clutch, move the gear stick to the right gear, release the clutch smoothly, press the accelerator

  • Releasing names of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to Canada could embarrass federal government, bureaucrats told
  • “A few stakeholders were concerned that the release of the report would result in new legal action (criminal prosecution, citizen revocation, or otherwise) being brought against the individuals named in the report,” a summary of the library’s discussions noted.

    What a good argument. Can't find any fault with that logic. Let's just get rid of laws that hold people accountable for their actions. Wouldn't want murderers, or war criminals to be inconvenienced in any way and it wouldn't be fair to embarrass the government for looking the other way or being complicit.

  • Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will
  • Clickbait title for extra sensationalism. Nobody physically forced her to have the surgery to remove the implant.

    I sympathize with this woman however it was part of the trial for it to be switched off and removed at the end of the trial, which is what she agreed to, though it does raise a lot of questions about medical trials/procedures involving implants.

    If the company no longer exists but let her keep the implant, what happens when something goes wrong? Who is responsible, who do medical professionals trying to help with what went wrong contact for context, who bears the cost, what happens if it's hacked, etc etc. If it was left in and she ended up dying, it's guaranteed that headlines will talk about it being irresponsible and medical malpractice.

    Fwiw, reading the MIT review, this device didn't prevent her seizures, but monitored brainwave activity and used an algorithm to predict the likelihood of an imminent seizure. She seems to have been an edge case in terms of successi in the trial.

    It seems the issue is that this gave her confidence to leave the house to do things. Prior to that she very rarely left the house because of the unpredictability of her seizures. It must suck to have that confidence, and therefore freedom, taken away.

  • Cheap but reliable external SSD for RPis
  • Don't have much personal experience with BX but they're probably fine. But once you have backups of anything you care about the worst that can happen is you need to restore those backups. If its running a service you can't do without then maybe a backup pi?

    I have RPis running on SD cards for years with no issues so realistically you probably won't have any either but better to be prepared than not. And it also means that if you mess something up you can restore it to when it worked.

  • Cheap but reliable external SSD for RPis
  • Do you want reliable, or do you want cheap? You must choose 1 from that list.

    If you're not planning on putting anything critical on it and you're doing backups, and you don't mind being without its use for however long it would take you to replace it if it dies, pick anything.

    I've never had an SSD die on me Yet but I don't buy cheap brands though I don't buy top of the range and I usually buy at a good deal. Crucial MX has been reasonably priced in the past.

  • Spotify update broke playing from another device... AGAIN
  • Is there anything preventing you from using any of their competitors? I paid for Spotify for years and there were always things that annoyed me but I didn't think there were any alternatives that would be better. Turns out there are choices and IMO better ones.

  • Which European language am I reading
  • Ahh, I misunderstood what you were saying. Thanks for clarifying

    Admittedly it's been a while since I've read an Irish book (or any book, audiobooks are more convenient for me) but I'd never come across anything modern that used the dot throughout, only in much older manuscripts or the like. Or stylized writing for designs. Signs are a good example.

  • Ford trying to patent system that reports speeding vehicles to police
  • Driving fast can be enjoyable, ask a professional or even an amateur racer, but that's not what I'm saying. A legally mandated limiter is going to cost drivers money to have it installed on cars that don't have it. Governments aren't going to pay to have it retro installed. Or if they did, there are better things to prioritize first. It's also going to cause an increase in the price of new cars as well (because any reason to jack the price) though I suspect retro fitting is more expensive.

    People doing 90 in a 30 or drag racing down a street, rollin coal, etc etc - totally disagree with that sort of thing, I just don't think punishing everyone else is the way to stop that issue. A fair and just legal/justice system that isn't hobbled by bullshit partisan politics and lobbying would do wonders.

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