No the filler placement is sort of a cultural or historical thing.

Usually European cars have filler on the passenger side while American and Japanese put them on the driver side.

Afaik passenger side fillers are more safe if you run out of gas and need to fill up from a canister at the side of the road.

While driver side fillers are more comfortable because you don't have to walk as far to get there.

I recall looking at a car to buy, and the salesman toted the gas cap on the right as the "safe side".

The logic was, if you run out of gas, you can refill on the side away from traffic.

Dumbest design reasoning. Plan the side, for an event most people never experience?! Or if they do, once... and maybe on a rural dirt road, not necessarily a freeway.

Probably wanted an excuse for moving it.

It's also nice not having to worry about opening your door and hitting the pump.

Do you also hate airplane regulations for their dumbest reasoning? You know, when they try to avoid one in a million situation saving mere 200 people?

While I have no issue with pulling up to the pump, I think many would prefer to pull up driver on the pump side.

And there is zero indication it will save even one life a decade.

Think of all the drivers pulling over and (gasp!) getting out of their cars for other ressons.

> And there is zero indication it will save even one life a decade

You're just making things up and present as facts.

For your V2: a Can-Bus connector would be great. Should really be standard for toolheads nowadays. Makes cable management so much easyer. And the board does not need the driver for the extruder, the heater contoll and sensors anymore.

So maybe a version which is optimized for Can-Bus toolheads?

And more driver slots, 4 is not sufficient if you want a self leveling bed.

Vorons need 4 drivers for the gantry alone.

Yes but that is due to the vastly different population density.

The USA has 34 people per square km while Germany has 234. So pollution per capita would be a better metric.

The air you breathe is the same regardless of how many people stand next to you also breathing it.

Actually if you're standing next to people the air you breathe in also has some of their exhaust gases in it, in this case slightly elevated CO2. If there's a dozen people in a small meeting room with the windows closed and no AC the air quality is significantly worse in that room than it would be say, stood on the roof... unless you're in the middle of a major city where maybe the air on the roof is full of exhaust from motor vehicles, hence legislation to restrict vehicle exhaust.

But only if they stand.

If they start driving, the situation changes dramatically!

Or as my mom used to say: AEG auspacken, einschalten, geht nicht.

Which translates to: unpack, switch on, doesnt work.

She owned a couple of AEG devices and all broke immediately except the oven. AEG ovens and stove tops seem to be mostly OK for whatever reason.

It's crazy how long those reputation can last. AEG made good product 30-40 years ago, like everyone else as is was standard to build quality gear.

AEG was sold to Electrolux which produces rather mid tier equipment. They are not a part of the old German trifecta (BSH, AEG and Miele).

This is the downward spiral for a lot of brands. They sell out to an investor, who uses their brand reputation inertia, reduces cost and quality, etc. There's barely any brands left. IIRC Miele is still one of the few good brands for home appliances, but they're also significantly more expensive. At least for the initial purchase, I'm sure it evens out long term.

The obvious use case would be to replace the clunky head tracking systems which are often used in simulator games.

Systems like trackir, which require dedicated hardware.

You can do this today with OpenTrack: https://github.com/opentrack/opentrack

Also, TrackIR is just an IR webcam, IR leds, and a hat with reflectors. You can DIY the exact same setup easily with OpenTrack, but OpenTrack also has a neural net webcam-only tracker which is, AFAIK, pretty much state of the art. At any rate it works incredibly robustly.

Actually I have already used it to implement the same idea as the post, with the added feature of anaglyph (red/blue) glasses 3D. The way I did it, I put an entire lightfield into a texture and rendered it with a shader. Then I just piped the output of OpenTrack directly into the shader and Robert, c'est votre proverbial oncle. The latency isn't quite up to VR standard (the old term for this is "fishtank VR"), but it's still quite convincing if you don't move your head too fast.

There's already a wide variety of Opentrack plugins that use everything from off the shelf webcams to DIY infrared trackers to an iPhone app and FaceID/AirPods.

Trackir is just a camera with an infrared led.

I definitely don't want to be randomly interrupted by Ai garbage.

Those horrible automatic translations are bad enough.

And it seems the slop can't be completely disabled. I guess sooner or later it will spew out"usefull recommendations" and end up being just another vehicle for ads.

It will be shit like "did you know that the singer of band {xyz} likes this brand of {snake oil}?" or "the song you are listening to reminds me of {insert crypto scam}".

It seems soon antoher browser plug-in is required to get rid of yet antoher annoying anti-feature.

FiDA is a planned initiative that forces first party financial services like banks to provide other services like insurances or investment companies and maybe third parties with their customers data.

From what i understand it is required that this works via a unified API across all of Europe.

Data transfer explicitly requires the customers consent.

My guess is that this would be useful if you change the bank or some insurance to allow easy switchovers and of course tax avoidance and money laundering might be harder.

IMHO insurance companies should not have access to any of their customers banking data (they want to of course, to do price gauging and price discrimination).

And obviously there is no reason why any of those vile datahogs like Google, Facebook, Apple and so on, should have even the slightest access to this.

Its not too hard to detect ads in video streams, even old school analog VCR's could do that.

Watching TV shows without adds was one of the selling points of those back in the day.

Some more modern digital ones had near real time features where they would play with a delay of a lets say half an hour and used that time to remove the ads.

If you have stream from Youtube containing ads you can trivially skip ahead.

And Youtube could do nothing about it because random skipping is one of the base features of every video player ever.

Sadly noise sells.

I can totally understand that bikers like to hear the engine and exhaust of their bike but physics and the design of motorcycles is not very accommodating to that.

My bike has the manufacturers default 94db idle exhaust.

It is 94db because anything louder than that is not allowed on certain nice Austrian roads, so the manufacturer set it to 94.

While driving i hear the wind noise on the helmet, the airbox, the drive train and a bit of the engine. I usually wear ear protection.

To be clear 94db is a lot and it is way more if you pull on the gas and i don't have one of those stupid valve controlled exhausts.

I am always astonished how freaking loud that thing is, when i hear it's exhaust echoing over open fields or while going through a tunnel at full tilt.

It just comes down to physics, the exhaust points not at the biker, so the noise is directed into the environment.

There is no engine bay covering the engine and gearbox so that is comparatively loud, also chaindrives are rather noisy as well.

For the exhaust to compete it must be incredibly loud, which of course is obnoxious.

Some modern (sports) cars play engine sounds via the stereo system, maybe someone can build something similar for bikers.

In Europe new motorcycles must have ABS on both wheels since 2017.

Its a good thing.

While it is possible to stop in less distance without ABS, in real live emergency situations ABS usually is of great help due to the no skill required, additional control.

For example if you take the sudden car running in front of you from a side road. You will instinctively pull the brakes hard on a road with unknown slipperiness.

Maybe the car then stops in the last second or is really fast so there is space, then you need control to ride around the car.

You really don't want your rear wheel locking up and the bike going sideways or doing a stoppie on your front wheel which completely removes any way of obstacle avoidance.

The same is true if over breaking in a curve, if you can handle the bike standing up you can brake astonishingly hard in curves.

I would not recommend it though it feels really weird being slippery in a curve.

On rainy days i do even like traction control. It saved my ass a few times where i accelerated out of a curve a bit to enthusiastically on wet foliage.