That definitely might be it. We definitely share the plates and I can’t shake the northern BC accent.

I traveled through Oregon in June and didn’t know about this law. I pumped my own gas in Astoria, Portland, and another place and no one stopped me. No one came out to pump my gas either.

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When I was a kid, I owned a remote control van called the Max Machine. It was sonic, but not ultrasonic. It had a remote with one button that made a loud “clack” when you pressed it. A clack would turn the front wheels left, another would turn them back to the center, another would turn them right, and so on…

The clacking drove my parents crazy. Here’s a link: https://flashbak.com/powered-fun-thrills-remembering-schapers-telesonic-toys-mid-1970s-53252/

I guess you could also include “the clapper” among sonically-controlled items. It also had one of the most annoying jingles ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRWtFVFSx5I

I found out because it was on TV. He must have been in Ontario by then, because the early part of the run didn’t get a lot of attention. I was 10. So if I knew, everyone probably knew.

He died on a Sunday. We were at church and the priest said something about it. It felt like everyone there was crushed by the news.

Thanks. I’ll look to see if my Subaru has the same setting.

I just gave up my 91 Mazda B2200 and bought a Crosstrek and a trailer. What is the point of a four or five foot box? I don’t get it.

The trailer has the length and is nice and low for loading. The crazy thing is that I now see people with $100,000 pickup trucks towing trailers like mine. Insane.

In a classic car with thin pillars between the windows and lots more glass, you don’t need the sensors because you can actually see well.

I hate that. I don’t connect my phone because of it.

That’s partly because modern cars have really bad sightlines. The old ones (without airbags) had thinner pillars between the windows and way more glass, which meant that you could see around the car much better.

Edit: but yeah, you’re right that a backup cam is really useful now.

Depending on your commute, an ebike might also serve the purpose.

There already are: I’ve bought a regular remote start (the car came with subscription cellular remote start) and a little box to make my auto start-stop setting persistent.

I checked into those things before buying. I guess that’s the world we’re in now.

I just took my '91 Mazda off the road (undercarriage rust) and bought a '24 Subaru Crosstrek with an 11" touchscreen that I did not want. The best feature? You can turn it off and it stays off, every time you use the car.

If you put the heat/AC into auto, there are physical buttons to raise and lower the temperature. The screen flashes on for a second to display the temperature change. There are also physical buttons on the steering wheel to skip through the radio stations (which display between the tach and speedometer) and adjust the volume.

Perfect. I’m so glad not to have to leave that screen on.

Greenland. The only non-green part of the world.

Whoops. Overlooked Ethiopia.

A. yes, that’s me.

B. we can’t force other people to come here, though it would be nice if they did.

This really is one of the impending problems. Threads will introduce ‘feature creep’ and Lemmy, kbin, and whatever else comes along will have to adopt those features or be seen as incomplete and inadequate. Hopefully they won’t let Meta have a hand in revising the ActivityPub standard.

But the deluge is coming first. For poetic reasons, I really hope they federate in September.