Update: It's handling much more predictably now. It seems the issue was likely due to the wheel speed sensors not knowing that the tires weren't properly inflated due to an improper/lacking TPMS calibration. Since there aren't actual pressure sensors in the tires this car has to make some assumptions that rely on having the tire pressure accurately set and then telling the car to reset it's calibration. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I bought a 2023 ID.4 last summer and have to say overall I really like it. That said, it's winter handling on roads and highways might be the worst of any car I've ever owned.

It has the OEM Pirelli Scorpion Zeroes, and all of the online reviews make these out to be really good all around tires. Tread depth is okay - my depth gauge shows it on the border between green and yellow all around, so about 5/32".

With snow packed roads it slides all over above 30 mph or so. On the highways I can't go over 40 or 45 if there are slippery patches or the whole car skates sideways and begins to fishtail. Other cars are flying by me, and the other vehicles I own handle the roads more like I would expect.

Could this be due to the material of the tires being harder than other tires? Is the tread pattern not good for ice and snow? I'm really questioning the online reviews but not sure if different tires will be better or not.

I use a UCG Max gateway at home with some WiFi access points for connectivity. I really like it, and so I just bought a 2nd one to use at a cabin that we haven't yet moved into. My wife will be making the initial trip alone, so I want to send everything with her ready to plug in and go. Since I haven't done something like this before, I'm looking for some guidance or confirmation from smarter people than me that this will work.

Can I plug the new gateway into my existing gateway to adopt it into my account as a new Site, then adopt the WiFi access point to the new gateway and expect everything to just work when my wife takes it and plugs in the ethernet from the new ISP in the new location? I also intend to buy some of the Unifi cameras and connect them up too. I think I can talk my wife through doing that remotely if needed but I'd like to adopt them into the Protect app on the new gateway in advance too.

Does this seem straightforward? Any suggestions? Or should I not do anything with the new gateway until it is connected to the new ISP?

I just bought a used mirrorless camera - Sony A7C if it matters, and and am wanting some advice on a zoom lens.

I want a lens for use in a dark arena - there are dozens of performers with spotlights, so a lot of dark and light. I want to go between shots of the full arena and zooms onto individual acts or performers. I think that my best choice is between the Sony FE 24-240 f/ 3.5-6.3 and the Tamron 28-200 f/2.8-5.6.

Will there be a significant difference in low light performance between these lenses? I like the wider specs of the Sony lens but am not sure how much of a tradeoff I would be making with the smaller aperture.

I have 4 old hard drives that I pulled from an old Drobo that needs to be trashed. I bought a Mediasonic 4-bay RAID enclosure that I thought would be a good upgrade, but knew going into that the drives may not work because the manual for the new enclosure specifically says to use new drives to avoid problems. The exact product is this Mediasonic one.

I don't care about the existing data on these drives, and that was originally what I thought was meant by "avoiding problems". So I tried just putting the drives in to no avail. They don't show up as drives in the file explorer. They don't show up in "Disks".

I also have an external hard drive dock - the 15 year old version of this one which does let me mount the drives and see them in Disks.

I have tried running "wipefs -a" and I've tried formatting them in Disks with no filesystem specified. I've also run parted on them, but anything I try in parted gives me the error "unrecognised disk label".

If I can't reuse these old drives then the enclosure is of less use to me than I had hoped as I don't intend to buy new drives any time soon.

Is there anything else I can try to reset these drives to a state where they'll act like new drives that have never been used before?

Update: The "tricks" haven't worked so I'm doing the full disk write using dd. It'll be a while before I have 2 disks prepped to try.

Most of the way through bag #3 and I just noticed they're not calling these "tortilla chips" anymore..

I'll preface this by saying that these issues are on a Surface Tablet that I've been using to play around with, so I haven't been too diligent in documenting what changes were made when.

I've got a Surface Go 2 tablet with the LTE modem that I installed Linux Mint onto several months ago. When I first made the switch, cellular connectivity seemed very "touch and go" but Wi-Fi had been solid.

At some point in time (roughly 6 months ago), I switched my home network to using Control D for DNS resolution for about 2 months until I decided it wasn't what I wanted and went back to my default setup which is a Unifi UCG Max gateway using the AdGuard public DNS servers coupled with the built-in ad blocking of the Unifi gateway. This feeds to a separate Wi-Fi mesh network in my home.

About a month ago I noticed that I could no longer reach internet locations on my tablet when connected to my home Wi-Fi network, but I could still access other computers on my LAN just fine, so Wi-Fi was working. Cellular connectivity seemed to have stopped working entirely even though I ran the "lte_modem_fix" that is on github and was seeing several bars of connectivity in the status bar.

Even though websites were inaccessible (Firefox gave me an error saying there was no network connection), in my attempt to try anything I found that I could visit the Control D website even though I stopped subscribing months ago.

On a lark I pulled up my Mullvad VPN app which I have an active subscription to and it let me connect to a server. As soon as I did this, ALL internet sites became available.

Next I took the tablet with me away from home, disabled Wi-Fi and activated the cellular network. Again the bars appeared but I couldn't access any sites. I loaded up Mullvad and was able to connect, after which I could reliably connect to all internet sites. Again, cellular connectivity was never 100% but Wi-Fi was.

How do I even begin troubleshooting and fixing this? Needing a VPN isn't the end of the world, but when at home it gets in the way of accessing local computers so I'd like to get to where the tablet works on Wi-Fi or cellular, with and without a VPN active.

I sometimes listen to music from Amazon Music through Firefox while I play Rocket League. My keyboard has audio controls, and in Windows adjusting the volume or hitting pause would briefly show an overlay with the current song info and album art.

In Linux the default behavior is to show nothing. Is there a setting or tool to add similar functionality to the Windows behavior?

I have a Surface Go tablet that I switched over to Linux a while back, and just came across a problem that I don't know how to approach. I use an iDataLink Maestro module in my car to make an aftermarket stereo do what I want it to do. I want to check for a firmware update on it, but the management software tool is windows or mac only.

So I installed WINE and the PlayonLinux front end. I successfully installed the tool (Weblink) but the keyboard doesn't work so I can't log into it. The trackpad works though, and this is a directly connected keyboard/trackpad, so for one to work but not the other seems weird. I can find threads about non-functional keyboards with some games, but I honestly don't understand the guidance being dished out.

How can I troubleshoot and fix this keyboard issue?

I'm a relative newbie to this.. started growing last year, have infused some coconut oil and ghee, have tried a few different gummy recipes and buy gummies as well.

The gummies and other things that I make at home have a moderate to strong earthy flavor while what I buy is quite mild. How do I work on reducing that earthiness? Is it a function of how concentrated my oil is, or is there a processing technique to remove the smell from the oil before I cook with it? My concentrations so far have been in the 75-90 mg/Tbsp range making me use 2 Tbsp of coconut oil in a batch of gummies to get 5 mg per gummy.

Any suggestions?

I have a couple of Surface tablets that I'd like to put Linux on if possible. The one I want to try first is a 5th gen Surface Pro. If all goes well I would then try it on a Surface Go 2 and hopefully could keep the cellular access.

What resources are available for doing this? The little I've read so far makes me think that it is a buggy process and maybe not worth the effort involved.