The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
-
Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
-
Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
-
Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
-
Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Notes -
I have, err had, a dashboard mount for my phone that I usually have open to either Google maps or Spotify while I'm driving, and I don't really want any more than that. The lack of tactile feedback on a touch screen also make it a real PITA as a interface while driving and/or wearing gloves. I didn't have to take my eyes off the road to do things like change the audio volume or turn on the defroster in my old truck, but in this one I do. It's ostensibly a much nicer truck with many more features than my old Ford but its got a sort of "premium mediocre" vibe to it, and I feel like there's certain lack of engineering thought put into it. (things like having climate controls run via a touch screen menu)
As for the lifting, we are in full agreement there.
I don't mind (heck, even like) most of the things you mentioned disliking in your rental vehicle. But on one thing we are in complete agreement: touchscreens have no place whatsoever in vehicle controls. For stuff like playing music fine, whatever, I'm not doing that while driving. But I insist on actual physical controls for functions like climate control, volume, etc. That touchscreen nonsense needs to die ASAP.
More options
Context Copy link
More options
Context Copy link