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| james_s:
--- Quote from: David Hess on November 13, 2021, 01:45:54 am ---Car manufacturers copied the stupid monostable shifter which looks like a shifter that indicates state, but does not and operates completely differently, leading to accidents, deaths, and lawsuits. --- End quote --- If cars all had proper manual gearboxes that would solve almost all of those problems. It is impossible to have unintended acceleration from a stop by confusing the gas and brake or forgetting the car is in gear. You can't put it in gear without depressing the clutch, if you let out the clutch without giving it gas the engine will stall. If you mash any two pedals to the floor the car will stop moving one way or another. |
| amyk:
--- Quote from: james_s on November 13, 2021, 03:57:10 am ---For non-technical people no amount of patching really solves that problem, I finally set up my mom with a locked down limited user account because I got tired of formatting the hard drive and reinstalling every time she somehow managed to break the system. --- End quote --- It's been a while since I've set this up but there's a way to make Windows treat the drive as "read only" and all changes made only persist until the next full reboot. |
| VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: IanB on November 12, 2021, 03:34:53 am --- --- Quote from: xrunner on November 12, 2021, 03:27:54 am ---Hmm this makes me wonder. I know vehicles have computers somewhere ... under the seat perhaps. Does anyone know if it has an "OS" or is it a glorified microcontroller? I can't recall ever having to reboot my Subaru. :-DD --- End quote --- Oh yes, they boot up these days. If you've ever got in a recent model car with a glass console, you will observe that when you turn on the ignition it takes several seconds before the console boots and displays the home menu. --- End quote --- One major flaw with Windows is there is nothing to tell you then the operating system has actually completed its boot-up. Linux has never had that problem. If a car booted Windows after the ignition is started, the "Where Do You Want To Go To Today" would pop up on a screen and then you would have to sit there and do nothing for a further minute or two, else the indicators might miss a few flashes, the accelerator will have a delay, the steering could over steer, and brakes would be sluggish. I once worked with a high-end LeCroy oscilloscope that did that ran under Windows XP. Horrible boot-up time, but at least you could play solitaire at lunchtime. |
| BradC:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on November 13, 2021, 06:25:55 am ---One major flaw with Windows is there is nothing to tell you then the operating system has actually completed its boot-up. Linux has never had that problem. --- End quote --- It does now. Every recent distribution I've played with that is systemd based boots to a command prompt like greased lightning. Then you have to sit and wait as pretty much every service in the background is still in the process of booting up. It *looks* like it boots fast as long as you don't actually want to use it. *Exactly* like Windows. |
| PKTKS:
--- Quote from: BradC on November 13, 2021, 08:47:37 am ---*Exactly* like Windows. --- End quote --- Never was a surprise... SYSTEMD thinghy is conceived to implement windooze mimimcs in nix The POTTERIX system is meant as a compatible layer thrown in the wild Remove user from boot Allow a fast vm with wayland piped GUI PUF MAGIC CORPORATE KIOSKS... just like same old 30y of shit Paul |
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