It’s similar to me and my small collection of ex-wives.
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Nolvamia@lemmy.worldto
[Dormant] Electric Vehicles (Moved to !electricvehicles@slrpnk.net)@lemmy.world•Consumer backlash against touchscreens in cars is winning; automakers concede, return to buttons.English
1·1 year agoI drive a car built in 2018 and I’m really happy with the balance between buttons and screen.
I’ve got stalks for indicators, wipers and cruise control. Physical switches for lights, windows, mirrors, climate temp, fan, air source, defrost front and rear, odometer reset, driving mode, master door unlock and opening the boot/tailgate. Vents are manually operated and the glovebox and fuel tank flap are too. The steering wheel has physical buttons for media source, track skip/radio seek, phone calls, starting the voice control mic, and scroll wheels for volume and cycling through information displays on the small screen between the large analogue gauges on the dashboard. And a 10 inch touchscreen for everything else (reverse camera, media and maps, mostly, but includes all the car settings you don’t fiddle with often, like light delays, beep volumes, summer time offset etc.).
Basically anything I’m likely to want to use whilst driving I can find and operate with at most a quick glance, if not by touch alone, and have immediate feedback that I got it right because I felt the switch/stalk/button move under my fingertips as I expected.
I’ve wondered what functions I’d be happy with moving from a physical control to the touchscreen or capacitive button. I haven’t come up with a single one. Yet if I were to buy the latest version of this car just about anything that is currently a physical button is now a capacitive touch button. Yeah, no thanks.
Nolvamia@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What industry secret are you aware of that most people aren't?English
7·1 year agoThe YouTube channel The Tim Traveller has covered a few (along with a bunch of other esoteric sights, I really enjoy his stuff).
Nolvamia@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What habits or tastes did you keep from your teenage years and that slightly ashame you as an adult?English
6·2 years agoMine was similar. As a teenager I used to make sandwiches as you describe with instant coffee granules instead of sugar. The granules would dissolve into the butter to form a brown caffeinated sludge. Yummo!

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