[–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

You have a warped view here, I have to say.

I've looked all over for aftermarket options, and asked the dealership repeatedly for options for 4 years.. And I have no responsibility because I won't go spending inordinate amounts of money to try and engineer a potentially worse solution...

Right... Great viewpoint you have there.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    If I illegally modified my vehicle in a way that made it worse, it would be.

    This is a factory vehicle from the dealership with no alternative light options. I'm not responsible for anything with regard to the lights on it unless I'm running around with my brights on, which I don't use.

    Not sure how you think the law works, but that's not it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago*

    Its bad enough that people constantly flash their lights at me because they think I have my brights on. At stop signs I literally need to flash my brights back to prove they aren't. (It would be impossible, the brights will not stay on when there are any red or white lights in front of the vehicle unless you manually pullback and hold the control stick.)

    I never use the brights on this thing. The headlights are already too bright

    Mentioned in another thread, this is a Dodge. And Mopar makes sure no aftermarket parts exist. Dodge doesn't provide any alternative light brightnesses.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Canada used to have regulations about the maximum lumens that could be output by headlights, but corporate lobbyists undermined this with a rule that exempted cars that rolled off the dealership lot with brighter lights in the late 90's when the manufacturers started using the bright blue halogens. Then LEDs came out and they got the same bypass automatically.

    I voted against the political leaders that supported moves like this for years, but most of the population doesn't.

    So, here we are.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Needed a vehicle and I won't buy older than 10 years. Every vehicle in the last 10 years has led lights. That's it.

    I held off with the 2014 as long as possible, but when its maintenance costs got to be unreasonable, it was time to replace it.

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  • [–] 61 points 3 days ago (40 children)

    Yeah, as an owner of a vehicle with these fucking things. I hate them but there's literally nothing we can do. All vehicles sold have them now, and the manufacturers have no options for softer lights. I've tried for months.

    Do what I did and write your MP. This needs to be legislated.

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    I've been seeing a lot of startrek.website shares I do showing the wrong desc and image in the unfurl on the posts lately. It was a few of them a week at first, but it's become multiple a day now.

    As the most recent example, the "Look at the time, its 7 of 9" post unfurls like this in signal:

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    As the title says, I'm curious if they ever named or revisited this Human civilization in the later parts of the timeline in any way? It seems like too good of an opportunity to not revisit it at some point.

    My searches did not reveal any answer, so thought I'd ask my fellow trek nerds.

     

    Is the darkspace theme something that comes packaged with Lemmy or something the server admins are throwing together? I love where it's going but its in need of some love.. there's nothing to make the posts readable against the background.

    Complaints are not intended here, I could likely help if someone points me to a place where I can make PRs.

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