Friday night and the EggHead Forum option of the forum choices is eerie quiet- I need to get a life!

Buckwoody Egger

I think the government should require tik tok, twitter, IG, etc to distribute “common sense / public service” media either as ads or must-see pop ups before people get to the junk. How to drive, how to solve problems, how to avoid getting ripped off, etc.

fishlessman

Canugghead said:

Friday night bump. Who practises the S-turn manoeuvre when entering dedicated left-turn lanes?

I have encountered a person that s turns turning right. Starts the s turn with the left blinker, then quickly cuts right  Infront of you with her right blinker. When you lock it up she stops and swears at you. Was a common thing swinging into her driveway

lousubcap

Buckwoody Egger said:

I think the government should require tik tok, twitter, IG, etc to distribute “common sense / public service” media either as ads or must-see pop ups before people get to the junk. How to drive, how to solve problems, how to avoid getting ripped off, etc.

Called Basic Life 101.  More kids these days don't have a source for Basic Life 101 and we are seeing the results.  Sad downward trend continues.  

Canugghead

@lousubcap fwiw I learned this from my daughter's driver education classroom notes, it was a big AHA moment for me 

RRP

Oh, boy…permit me to just laugh…what is this 5 turn thing? When I took my driver’s test at age 16 in MO back in 1960 the officer was a tough old bird and he made me repeat my parallel parking twice even though that was in a tiny town with only 12 such parallel parking  spaces in TOTAL in town and all were only around the county courthouse, 

danhoo

Canugghead said:

@lousubcap fwiw I learned this from my daughter's driver education classroom notes, it was a big AHA moment for me 

Did it include the proper use of a 710 cap? 

Botch

Like Ron, I also have no idea what an S-turn into a left lane entails...  

lousubcap

I guess it all depends on whether the S is defined from a top or bottom initiation point and the country where employed.  It is Friday-

Canugghead

danhoo said:

Canugghead said:

@lousubcap fwiw I learned this from my daughter's driver education classroom notes, it was a big AHA moment for me 

Did it include the proper use of a 710 cap? 

Haha, and how to fill'er up at 0553 

Botch

And wow.  
MacOS Sonoma, Vanilla, and obviously something else on my machine are NOT playing well together.  I can copy a video link from EweTube okay (get a black box saying Copy was successful, which then fades away) but when I try to paste it here, nothing; nothing gets pasted.  (I can post on other sites)
Copying text here mostly works, but the highlight stops in random places before continuing elsewhere (I posted about this somewhere else).  
When I try to paste an emoji (see my above post) 3 or 4 different selection boxes post in different areas of the screen.  Sometimes I can eventually make it work, sometimes not.
Hitting Quote, the cursor for my reply bounces all over the place, sometimes in the right place, sometimes at the top of the thread, sometimes inside the text box.  
 
I'm sure it'll all get worked out eventually... two weeks before Sonoma's replacement is downloaded.  
Sigh.  

Canugghead

RRP said:

Oh, boy…permit me to just laugh…what is this 5 turn thing? When I took my driver’s test at age 16 in MO back in 1960 the officer was a tough old bird and he made me repeat my parallel parking twice even though that was in a tiny town with only 12 such parallel parking  spaces in TOTAL in town and all were only around the county courthouse, 

May be you're doing the S turn subconciously already.
Question: you're the lead car waiting at the dedicated left turn lane and there's a big truck/bus facing you in the opposite left turn lane, how far can you see the oncoming traffic from the lane adjacent to him?

JohnInCarolina

Botch said:

And wow.  
MacOS Sonoma, Vanilla, and obviously something else on my machine are NOT playing well together.  I can copy a video link from EweTube okay (get a black box saying Copy was successful, which then fades away) but when I try to paste it here, nothing; nothing gets pasted.  (I can post on other sites)
Copying text here mostly works, but the highlight stops in random places before continuing elsewhere (I posted about this somewhere else).  
When I try to paste an emoji (see my above post) 3 or 4 different selection boxes post in different areas of the screen.  Sometimes I can eventually make it work, sometimes not.
Hitting Quote, the cursor for my reply bounces all over the place, sometimes in the right place, sometimes at the top of the thread, sometimes inside the text box.  
 
I'm sure it'll all get worked out eventually... two weeks before Sonoma's replacement is downloaded.  
Sigh.  

paqman

JohnInCarolina said:

Botch said:

And wow.  
MacOS Sonoma, Vanilla, and obviously something else on my machine are NOT playing well together.  I can copy a video link from EweTube okay (get a black box saying Copy was successful, which then fades away) but when I try to paste it here, nothing; nothing gets pasted.  (I can post on other sites)
Copying text here mostly works, but the highlight stops in random places before continuing elsewhere (I posted about this somewhere else).  
When I try to paste an emoji (see my above post) 3 or 4 different selection boxes post in different areas of the screen.  Sometimes I can eventually make it work, sometimes not.
Hitting Quote, the cursor for my reply bounces all over the place, sometimes in the right place, sometimes at the top of the thread, sometimes inside the text box.  
 
I'm sure it'll all get worked out eventually... two weeks before Sonoma's replacement is downloaded.  
Sigh.  

Nope, that’s « agile » development methodology 🤣😂😳

I’m new to Mac, getting to know my new Mac mini, I’m liking it a lot so far.

Botch

paqman said:
I’m new to Mac, getting to know my new Mac mini, I’m liking it a lot so far.

Gary from the MacMost channel on EweTube just did a 30-minute video for Mac newbies a couple days ago, you may find some useful things here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLBjS5ndNN4
 
Gary normally does a 5-to-7 minute video every weekday on how to do things on a Mac, iPhone or tablet, and even if its something simple (like Copy & Paste) I watch them every day, as I'm always learning some new trick/shortcut.  Highly recommended (and, Enjoy!)  

paqman

@Botch thanks for sharing this link, I subscribed to his channel.  I have been able to figure out things mostly by myself but some small details, IMHO, are so counterintuitive… At least there is a “maximize” button now 🤣😂.  The lack of maximize button is what drove me away from my first Mac several years ago.

Canugghead

Friday night bump.

Waiting to turn left, both body and front wheels facing straight at the opposite left turn lane after making the S-turn, clear visibility of oncoming traffic with minimum/zero blind spot.

Edit: my visibility (viewing angle) is actually better than what you see in the picture because the camera is to my right.

lousubcap

This left turn dynamic is well beyond my comprehension; Left turn-turn left when clear to do so. I must be missing something but it is Friday!

dbCooper

Two wrongs don't make a right, but sometimes three rights can make a safe left.

I think that came from my HS drivers ed course.

Canugghead

lousubcap said:

This left turn dynamic is well beyond my comprehension; Left turn-turn left when clear to do so. I must be missing something but it is Friday!

That's the key cap, but it's only as clear as what you can see. The S-turn positions you for maximum visibility of oncoming traffic. Like I said before many (but not all) drivers are already doing this without even thinking about it 
Edit: like the thread title says, I need to get a life 

GrateEggspectations

@lousubcap @Canugghead

A helpful visual. 

Botch

Okay, here’s a query:  What’s the longest you’ve waited in line to buy tickets for an event?  
 
For me, it was three days.  Iowa State U, local radio station had an Announcement to make at 1 pm.  Finally!  The Who were coming to ISU for a concert!  We quickly asked around our coed dorm floor, got 30 commitments, and sent three to the concert hall to wait in line (I was one of them).  
They had a neat queuing system: after the first lineup, we were all given a numbered ticket, and we could each buy 10 tickets at the final lineup.  Every 6 hours we all had to get back in line, and were given a new ticket, different color, with our corresponding number.  As long as we were there to get back into line for the new ticket, we were guaranteed 10 tix on the final day, per person.  
My dorm floor quickly arranged a rotation program, replacing each “placeholder/guy in line” with a new person, every 12 hours.  As long as you showed up for the new ticket, every 6 hours, you kept your place in line.  
NOW, the 12 hours between rotations: WOW, what a party!  Bands spontaneously set up, pizzas were constantly delivered, tents set up, beer brought by dorm floor friends not on rotation, and a certain herb smoke was quite thick and aromatic (this concerned me a bit, as I was there on a full-ride ROTC scholarship with random drug testing, the concert itself was in a similar “atmosphere”).  I understand there were also deep piles of elicit sex, but being a freshman engineer nerd reeking of Clearasil, I simply “understood”.  
We got half the second row and half the third row, stage right, right in front of Pete Townsend.  The guitar players from the dorm floor were going nuts; Pete had NINE Les Pauls on stands, each clearly marked with white tape, all set to a different tuning; Wow!  This was their first concert without Keith Moon, but they just killed.  
The whole process was hella fun, and I’ll always remember it.  

Ozzie_Isaac

Legume said:

alaskanassasin said:

Yesterday we test drove a BMW I4 because I have never driven a battery car before, The sales lady said if you pull into someones driveway and can't get turned around the car will use its memory to back you out completely up to like 160'.  Also it auto backs into spots and parallel parks on its own.  Times are changing.

Perfect.  That's gonna be my getaway car when I start criming.

Our car has that.  I wouldn't rely on it.  Heck, sometimes I can't back out of the garage because it doesn't want me to run over a shadow.  Super aggravating.  If I want to **** run something ober, then it should let me.

Anyway, when it hits full brake lock because there was a shadow it definitely surprises you.  I have to pull forward and try a slightly different angle.  I had it happen once while making a left across traffic.  I started to go as the last car was passing and it locked up all the tires.  I about bounced my head off the steering wheel.

Also the lane keeping nanny likes to steer hard into gaps in roadway markings.

I turn off all the nannies I can.  Just like I play my racing games.

GrateEggspectations

@Botch

Thanks for giving us a peek at those great memories. That is a long wait, but what I take from it is that the journey was as much fun (possibly more so) than the destination. 

I get the shivers whenever I hear Eminence Front. 

Canugghead

lousubcap

Last Friday with DST (save HI and AZ who never leave standard time) so this place should be fired up...⏰😉

Legume

GrateEggspectations said:

@lousubcap @Canugghead

A helpful visual. 

Just catching up - this just looks like a little shimmy to the left on an unprotected left.  I don't get the "S" part of it, but yes, if I don't think I have a good line of sight I will cheat over a little bit and true up my steering.  I was always taught to keep the wheels pointed forward until you're clear to turn, too many stories of cars with wheels turned that get rear ended and pushed into oncoming traffic. 

Legume

fishlessman said:

Canugghead said:

Friday night bump. Who practises the S-turn manoeuvre when entering dedicated left-turn lanes?

I have encountered a person that s turns turning right. Starts the s turn with the left blinker, then quickly cuts right  Infront of you with her right blinker. When you lock it up she stops and swears at you. Was a common thing swinging into her driveway

We've always called that maneuver clearing their trailer (when they obviously don't have one). 

TheFishWhisperer

I’ll play along.  AMA

Legume

TheFishWhisperer said:

I’ll play along.  AMA

is an eel a fish

TheFishWhisperer

Legume said:

TheFishWhisperer said:

I’ll play along.  AMA

is an eel a fish

Is a hotdog a sandwich?  These are the same questions.  Next.