Senior year of high school, I drove eight other people to a party in my '74 Mercury Comet. (That picture is my actual car, not just a pic of a Comet.)
I was having problems with the muffler falling halfway off and dragging on the ground at the time. While on the freeway with all those people in my car, I noticed a bunch of sparks behind my car when I looked in the rear-veiw. So I had to pull over to the side of the freeway, get my tools out of my trunk, and put the muffler back up. With eight people crammed in the car. Fun times!
When I was a child, my father had an already old MG, with a cloth top and running boards. Usually if more than two people were going they took the Beetle instead, in which I’d have ridden in the back seat (even if there was no other passenger, and sitting down not standing up, rules not all parents had and which I didn’t like); but one time they needed to go somewhere and take me, and the VW must have been in the shop.
So I rode lying down (there wasn’t room for me to sit up) in the pocket behind the seats, which I think the roof fit into when folded, or maybe it was for small bits of luggage. I was quite small, and thought this was fun.
I also remember, including as an adult, riding loose in the back of open pickups; and, as an adult, on somebody’s lap in a jammed full seat.
Thanks for the correction, I didn’t know the exact year when they switched to a 12V system. One of my best friends has been a VW Beetle and Bus enthusiast for 40 years, has owned several Beetles and still owns a 1972 1302 which he bought in his early 20s and has done a lot of work on, and his mantra is “don’t buy a 6V model, or you’ll be in a world of pain.”
I noticed the other day that when I right-click to access a file on desktop, the menu that pops up has “Open” at the top and “Move to Trash” directly underneath it and I have sent a file to the bin on more than one occasion (thank Frith you have to empty the bin and I could recover the file before oblivion). Is that extremely stupid/is there a way to rearrange that menu?
I don’t think you can rearrange the menu. I can see why it might seem stupid to have “Move to Trash” near the top, but I think it’s been that way for almost 30 years and having it near the top probably means that’s a function more people are looking for compared to most of the other listed functions. Plus, “Move to Trash” is set apart with extra space and divider lines to help you not click it by accident.
You might be able to change the permissions of the Trash folder to “Read Only” which would force you to enter a password every time you put something in it, but that could be more trouble than it’s worth.
If you are right-clicking to open files, I think the best thing to do is just get in the habit of double clicking the file, or if you are right-clicking for something else, use the keyboard shortcut for that function instead.
My computer is an old Mac that is using OS X Yosemite, version 10.10.5.
Joey_P, thanks for those articles; I perused one and it looks like you can’t rearrange the right click menu commands, just mask out ones you don’t want to use. However, a little experimentation and my problem is solved — I moved the folder to the top of the screen and when I right click, the “Open” command is right there and I nudge the curser a tad and I don’t find myself in “Move to Trash” territory anymore.
IANA Mac person. Taking your comment that double-click doesn’t work at face value …
I expect you could click once to select the desired icon and then press the [Enter] key to open the file / start the program. That’s certainly Windows standard and I vaguely recall that Macs back in the 90s when I last had one worked the same way.
As to double-click not working …
You might explore the settings for your mouse. There should be a setting for the speed range recognized as a double-click versus two single-clicks. If that is set either too fast or too slow, the effect is it becomes difficult to impossible for a human to click at the needed rate.
my husband just got a new Kia and of course all of the perfectly fine buttons and knobs have been replaced with screens.
there’s one little strip of real estate on the dashboard that controls both the temperature stuff and the media stuff; you have to touch a spot on the edge to first switch between functions. god forbid you try to do ANYTHING while you’re driving because it’s impossible to do it correctly without looking.
i dunno, maybe we’ll get used to it eventually, but i truly hate it (and the trend of putting screens everywhere in general, so i was already predisposed to hate it…)
You probably won’t. At least I know I never get used to them. The problem is that without being able to feel anything, you have to look at the screen…I shouldn’t have to look at a screen (or navigate through multiple screens) to do something as simple as change the cabin temperature or adjust the radio. Also, on top of lacking the tactile feedback, a lot of cars don’t have anything near the screen to rest your hand/finger/arm on while you’re doing it. At least for me, that means concentrating even more on doing it because even once I know where the icon is, I still have to get to it while my arm bounces around with the car.
At best, if whatever I need to hit is near the top or bottom of the screen, I can rest my hand on the top or bottom edge to steady it, but that only works in certain circumstances. I’ve considered 3D printing a ‘ledge’ that I could rest my fingers on to get closer and/or some sort of ‘guide’ (almost like a like a funnel) that I could put around the buttons that I use most often. But I’m not really interested in gluing things to the screen and, besides, it would just take an update that moves things around and I’d be SOL.
I read somewhere, and it makes sense, that a big reason for the push towards no buttons was because they’re thinner and therefore they can fit more of them in a shipping container.
IIRC I think some manufacturers are finally going back to actual buttons and knobs, either because they realize people prefer them and it’ll be a selling point or some countries are requiring it.
I’d even be happy if they compromised and gave us a handful of physical buttons that would act like programmable shortcuts.
A smattering of automakers are slowly admitting that some smart screens are dumb.
Touch screen for the radio is maybe ok (don’t change the station while driving). Backup camera is ok (mine hasn’t worked for years though).
But keep your freaking touch screen paws away from important stuff like windshield wipers and heat/AC/Headlights. Things that you actually need control of.
No, I’m not going to talk to my car.
It’s just a money making scheme by auto manufacturers.
