This. If it was as great as promised it would also work if done legally.

A big one for me is choice of apps. Only apps made for Android Auto are available, and that’s not a lot. Especially pretty much nothing from F-Droid. Open source apps for Android Auto are very limited.

Sideloading is not a thing for Android Auto either. So I can’t even choose to work around the limitations as I can on the phone itself.

The ancient Android Assistant sucks. It constantly doesn’t understand what I ask it and so far I haven’t figured out when exactly it can do a google search for me and when not. Especially considering how far LLMs have come in terms of answering simple questions (e.g. if a name comes up in a podcast and I want to know a little bit of background information to that person). And when they finally add LLM support it will be Gemini only with no choice past that.

Then there’s stupid design decisions in apps, e.g. that Google Maps doesn’t show GPS speed when in Android Auto mode. I also hate that Google Maps decided in an update a year or so ago that speed camera warnings (which are illegal in some of the countries I frequently drive in) can not only not be disabled but are so important that they need to take up half the screen and hide the navigation directions while they are up. This is especially crappy when I come up to a busy highway intersection where I have to get off and suddenly there’s no navigation on my screen but a stupid warning I don’t care about because I obey speedlimits anyway.

And lastly (that’s likely down to the implementation in my car or my phone), there’s constant connection issues.

Lemmy. The rather lax moderation is an advantage and a disadvantage at the same time. Combined with the fact that a lot of people who got banned on Reddit are using Lemmy as an alternative.

Dacia’s implementation isn’t bad. The only safety limits in there are the ones imposed by Android Auto.

But I totally agree with you, when your car/android auto/phone combo acts dumb, finger pointing to who is at fault hardly matters, because it doesn’t work and that’s all that matters (except for knowing which manufacturer to avoid the next time).

It’s so painful, because it could really be good. But they went out of their way to make it suck…

Btw, did you read your link about disengagement?

For a disengage call to be valid, it must not be accompanied by other arguments on the existing topic.

You violated that.

Also, no, nothing you did was polite, and “politely cussing people out” doesn’t exist. Cussing people out is by definition not polite.

Kind of strange that basic rules of communication like that need to be explained.

Sod off. Fuck off. Cisfuck

Yes, that is hateful.

That’s a really good way to put it. Too many people around here who fit in that category.

It’s kinda strong of you to use hateful language and cusswords all the way through the discussion and then call on the mods.

Are you sure you want to do that?

Being a bigot has absolutely nothing to do with your sexual orientation, your sexual preferences or your fetishes.

Yes, you can be a bigot and using bigot language like “cisfuck” proves that you are one. The worst kind of bigots are those who think they cannot be bigots because they like to have sex with people they are bigoted against.

It’s literally the same as a right-wing extremist claming he cannot be racist because he sourced his wife from the Philipines.

Don’t kink shame!

I’m not in the same boat and don’t claim to be.

I use a phone with a keyboard attachment and thus my phone is too large to fit many man’s trouser pockets either.

So now when I shop for trousers, I intentionally check whether my phone fits the pockets and weigh large pockets over looks.

It would be interesting if there’s at least some women’s trousers with large enough pockets. If there are and women in large numbers actually buy these and reject small-pocket trousers no matter the looks, I think that could get some traction.

If there’s really not a single pair of trousers available, even via online shopping, that has decently sized pockets, then of course that wouldn’t work.

I would guess (and this is decidedly an uneducated guess based on maybe a dozen or so women I talked with about that topic), many women do dislike small pockets, but dislike bad style, bad fit or bad looks more.

Interesting, didn’t hear of that yet. Apparently, Apple changed their stance on emulators in summer 2024. Before that they had emulators banned completely from the iOS store. Now it appears that they allow them, at least Retroarch.

Tbh, I think that Apple makes stuff like the Vision Pro not to make money but to appear as if they have some kind of technological leadership.

They can claim that they have the best headset on the market. No need to actually sell any units.

(And of course other manufacturers could make just as nice headsets for that price point, but most other manufacturers actually need to sell units and thus they build them with realistic hardware.)

Was going to say this. Second hand phones don’t give money to corporations (except via usage, of course).

You might like this, maybe: https://github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry

Being pansexual (same as literally any other factor) doesn’t preclude you from being a bigot.

If you can’t stay civil, please log off. That kind of behaviour is not ok.

You know, it’s totally fine to have LGBTQ+ only spaces and demand that these spaces stay exclusively LGBTQ+.

It’s really weird though to butt into a thread that’s specifically about heterosexual relationships and then demand that everything there is LGBTQ+.

It’s about as tone-deaf and inappropriate as if someone would join a queer community and then call everyone slurs for talking about LGBTQ+ relationships.

Your choice of relationship is of course of, but offtopic here.

Please stay respectful. You want respect for your pansexuality, please be respectful of other people’s lifestyle choices. Don’t be a bigot.

What part of the existence of other people than you don’t you comprehend? Also, what does pansexuality have to do with anything? You can also be a pansexual starfish.

Pansexuality also doesn’t excuse poor behavior and anger management issues.

The Lockheed L-1011 cannot recognize that the pilot is incapacitated. It cannot make a decision on which airport is the most appropriate for an emergency landing. It cannot automatically communicate with air traffic control to declare an emergency and to determine if it can actually land on the chosen airport. It cannot configure the plane for landing. It cannot automatically power-down the plane after landing.

So yes, it can do all the parts except the relevant new parts of Garmin Autoland.

You are mixing up things.

ILS autoland is something that’s super common. Pretty much every jetliner and most commercial planes are equipped with them. What they can do is land a plane automatically.

Garmin Autoland does that too, but it does a lot of other things too.

• It figures out that the pilot has been incapacitated (or is activated manually by the pilot)
• It determines which of the nearby airports is best suited for the landing and makes the decision which airport to take
• It automatically communicates with air traffic control to make sure it can actually land on that airport. It also automatically declares an emergency
• It configures the autopilot to head to the airport
• It configures the plane for landing
• It performs an ILS landing
• It then shuts off the engines to allow emergency personell safe access

Equating this system with ILS autoland is like equating Level 5 self-driving cars with an automatic parking system. Yes, both systems perform an automatic parking at the end of the journey, but the Level 5 self-driving car does a ton more too.