Memories of the good old days

[Captante]

Tesla is the safest car in a crash test.

According to who? (serious question.... no more opinion credible links only plz!)

I have zero emotional investment here ... know what "projecting" is?

 

[Kaido]

According to who? (no more opinion credible links only plz!)

They actually received the highest test marks in crash testing. The NHTSA had to yell at them to stop advertising a 5.4-star crash-test rating even though they got it lol:

NHTSA tells Tesla there's no such thing as a 5.4-star crash rating

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[ponyo]

According to who? (no more opinion credible links only plz!)

I have zero emotional investment here ... know what "projecting" is?

https://www.tesla.com/blog/model-3-lowest-probability-injury-any-vehicle-ever-tested-nhtsa

 

[Captante]

https://www.tesla.com/blog/model-3-lowest-probability-injury-any-vehicle-ever-tested-nhtsa

Look up the meaning of the word "credible" and get back to me.

("Objective" would be another useful term to apply)

EDIT: Kaido beat you to it!

Keep in mind however that things like structural integrity are not tested in any meaningful way by the NHTSA as opposed to the Germans in particular and they have been doing those tests since the early 1970's.

 

[brianmanahan]

Subaru for example gets better crash safety results then just about any other car but spinning off an embankment @ 100 mph I'll take a Benz or BMW every time. The Germans have been crash-testing cars at autobahn-speeds since before Elon Musk was born.

since i can't (well, won't) pay for a mercedes or BMW, i am thinking about getting a forester for my next vehicle

i wanted to do it this summer, but shortages and COVID kept me from getting out and trying one

honestly i could probably get another 10 years out of my honda that i've already owned for 10 years

 

[Red Squirrel]

Speaking of memories...

I rarely build servers these days, but when I do, I typically go with the Xeon 2699 v4 chips. They're older (2.2ghz), but they have 22-cores each & you can run them duallie on older Asus workstation motherboards for 44-cores total! I get the chips off eBay for under $700/ea & throw a terabyte of RAM on them & they're just wonderful for upgrading small businesses that don't want to go to the cloud, but want to go virtual!

Meanwhile, I'm still rocking my desktop PC at home from a decade ago lol. The latest BIOS update was from 2013 hahaha. Hasn't crashed yet!

Been a while since I built anything new myself too. Lot of my servers are pushing close to a decade now actually. Just checked and my NAS was built in 2013. I don't recall if I built my VM server before or after but most of my current servers were roughly around the same time give or take a few years.

 

[ponyo]

Look up the meaning of the word "credible" and get back to me.

("Objective" would be another useful term to apply)

EDIT: Kaido beat you to it!

There's lot of hype with Tesla but how safe it is not hype. Tesla is so good in a crash test that safety testing agencies really do need to develop even higher scale of testing. Because Tesla crash safety ratings are really off the charts good. You can choose to be in denial and keep thinking Subaru, BMW, or Mercedes are better but you're 100% wrong.

 

[brianmanahan]

speaking of the good old days

 

[brianmanahan]

Speaking of memories...

lol it took me a few minutes to get it

 

[Kaido]

Been a while since I built anything new myself too. Lot of my servers are pushing close to a decade now actually. Just checked and my NAS was built in 2013. I don't recall if I built my VM server before or after but most of my current servers were roughly around the same time give or take a few years.

The only reason I put the 2013 BIOS on was because it was the latest beta BIOS that supported the 1080 Ti. So I literally can't even put a newer card in it hahaha. But I mostly only play old games like Half-life & basic VR games for my old circa-2016 Vive so meh lol.

It's funny how long I spent chasing the hardware upgrade cycle & now things are like, pretty dang good! Even my oven is a computer these days lol.

 

[nakedfrog]

I'll put my safety in the hands of companies that have been building cars for more then a few years thanks.

Subaru for example gets better crash safety results then just about any other car but spinning off an embankment @ 100 mph I'll take a Benz or BMW every time. The Germans have been crash-testing cars at autobahn-speeds since before Elon Musk was born.

Tesla is amazing tech-wise, but crazy me I don't like the "giant smartphone" in lieu of a dashboard or having my car's operation/features controlled by the whim of a huge corporation.

But wth do I know? Heathen that I am I even like shifting my own gears!

I'm with you, having a huge tablet on the dash is a real turn-off. With any luck, I'm never buying another vehicle newer than what I have already.

 

[Captante]

keep thinking Subaru, BMW, or Mercedes are better ABOUT THE SAME but AND you're 100% wrong CORRECT BASED ON THE NUMBERS.

Fixed.


According to the tests they pretty much are .... plus there are many hundreds more results to base the numbers on meaning they are almost certainly FAR more representative of real life.

But god-forbid anyone DARE to question the absolute perfection of Tesla ROTFL .... sorry to break it to you but Tesla's are only battery-powered cars not the second coming! (Elon Musk may leave a film on water but walk on it? No.)


EDIT: THIS tiny POS go-cart got 4 stars in those same tests!

The only things absorbing impact in a Smart Car are the airbag and the drivers skull BUT per NHTSA tests its nearly as safe as a Model 3. (sad that people trust this nonsense so blindly)

 

[Iron Woode]

I WAS able to get Windows installed and KINDA stable but not with SMP that actually resulted in any performance gains.

All I found that it did do was increase power draw and heat output. In benchmarks 1x Celeron 366 @ 550 was either the same or VERY slightly faster then 2x of the same CPU most of the time. (walked all over the slot 1 P-II 350 in my other system though!)

I also had a pair of celeron 366s.

I inherited a bunch of socket 370 stuff way back in 2004. I sold most of it a few months back and made some good money off it.

 

[nakedfrog]

I also had a pair of celeron 366s.

I inherited a bunch of socket 370 stuff way back in 2004. I sold most of it a few months back and made some good money off it.

In 2019, someone had set an old Packard Bell 486 and manuals, disks, etc. in their driveway with a "free" sign.
I took it home, put in a new BIOS battery and got the HDD settings configured, played with it for a while, then sold it for $50 last year.

If it had been something other than a Packard Hell, I might have kept it

 

[Captante]

If it had been something other than a Packard Hell, I might have kept it

Man those things were the worst! E-Machines were better desktops! (barely!)

Nice job making $50 on it!

 

[brianmanahan]

If it had been something other than a Packard Hell, I might have kept it

yeah my packard bell 486 sx 33 was tempermental

got a compaq all-in-one 486 dx 66 to replace it and that thing was possibly the best computer i ever had

it could play any DOS or windows game you threw at it without a single compatibility issue

i'm still kinda sad that i sold it

 

[nakedfrog]

Hey, I still have a screen shot of the ad!

 

[Hans Gruber]

 

[Captante]

 

[ultimatebob]

Fixed.


According to the tests they pretty much are .... plus there are many hundreds more results to base the numbers on meaning they are almost certainly FAR more representative of real life.

But god-forbid anyone DARE to question the absolute perfection of Tesla ROTFL .... sorry to break it to you but Tesla's are only battery-powered cars not the second coming! (Elon Musk may leave a film on water but walk on it? No.)


EDIT: THIS tiny POS go-cart got 4 stars in those same tests!

The only things absorbing impact in a Smart Car are the airbag and the drivers skull BUT per NHTSA tests its nearly as safe as a Model 3. (sad that people trust this nonsense so blindly)

I'd say that this is off topic, but arguing about expensive cars that most ATOT members can't afford is part of our original charter

 

[ultimatebob]

One simply cannot forget "the desk":

 

[Red Squirrel]

Such a classic lol

 

[brianmanahan]

One simply cannot forget "the desk":

trygve is a legend!

 

[ultimatebob]

I was rocking a Sony VAIO like this one back in the day:



Mine was even cooler, though, because I had the upgraded Pentium II model with a Zip drive and AV jacks

 

[Geekbabe]

I remember chasing after the latest & greatest bits of hardware, hunting for bargains in the for sale/ trade forum.

Ah & hot deals, the glory days of hot deals….the wounded hitachi monitor children 😂