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Hello everyone, 

Personally, I love to travel on New Years, but I'm probably not going to be able to this year (having a few car troubles and things of the sort, might not be able to fit it in). I might go downtown and see what's around though. 

What are your new years plans? Do you have any traditions for new years, or have any new years resolutions you'd like to make for the upcoming year?

Personally, I still use Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter from time to time. Not active on Facebook anymore, it just felt too alienating and isn't as friends-focused as it used to be. Social media, as a whole, seems to have gone downhill a bit, although there are still some apps that are being innovative. TikTok is neat (albeit incredibly addictive, too much so perhaps). 

Do you use any social media networks? Which ones are your favorite?

YouTube is now requiring a premium subscription for 8K videos, although 4K is still available for all users. This isn't really a big deal for the vast majority of users, 8K monitors are very rare (and even 4K monitors are much less common than 1080P displays are). 

I don't have any 4K monitors (retina display on a Mac 2560x1600 HiDPI), but I usually set the resolution to be the highest that YouTube allows just for the bitrate. Even though there isn't much of a visual difference between 1080p and 4k on such a small display, there are fewer artifacts from compression and other such things. It's less noticeable from 4k to 8K, but for those with larger monitors, I'm sure it might be more noticeable. 

Personally, I have no issue with YouTube doing this as long as they continue to allow 4K content for all users. What are your thoughts on YouTube premium?

Hi everyone.
My name is Sebastian, I'm from Romania, living in the United Kingdom.
Addicted to games, proud owner of a Cool Discussion Community, using XenForo platform.
Nice to meet you all.

In a car with a combustion engine, it is easy to understand why it takes quite a long time in winter for the interior to warm up - up to 15 minutes. After all, the engine first has to heat up the cooling water. It's different in an electric vehicle: Here the heat comes from the electric heater, so it should actually be much faster, right? Not really. Sometimes it feels like an eternity.

Fans of eternal ice can already try the heated flops Fiat 500e, Renault Zoe, Tesla Model Y and VW e-up! deal with They are the losers in the ADAC comparison test, which parked e-cars in the cold chamber at minus ten degrees. The aforementioned frostbite needed more than 30 minutes until the front seats reached 20 degrees.

Warm air blows out of the vents fairly quickly on all of the candidates tested - it just brings a different amount.

Blessed are those who can climb into a BMW iX after a bitterly cold winter night. A feel-good atmosphere prevailed here after just 20 minutes. VW ID.3 and Hyundai Kona Elektro needed more than 20 minutes for this.

Particularly noticeable: some vehicles did not manage to get the rear warm even after 30 minutes of continuous heating. The manufacturers sometimes save on the air vents or pursue inadequate heating strategies.

differences in insulation
There are also differences when it comes to thermal insulation: in some vehicles, the temperature drops much more slowly than in others. This is important for short stops, because less energy is required to heat it up again, which means that the range is protected more. In the test, BMW and VW performed best in this regard - with an interior temperature of 16 and 15 degrees after five minutes of engine standstill and 10 and 9 degrees after a half-hour break. The other cars cool faster and further.


Heating goes on the range
It was also shown that all of the cars examined require around 1.5 to 2 kW of power to keep the interior at a permanent 20 degrees when the outside temperature is minus 10 degrees. So if you had to endure 10 hours of traffic jams in extreme cases, you would need 15 to 20 kWh of energy from the battery to stay warm all the time.

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Hy, if I want to answer a thread, the text in the field is missing when answering (except in standard style)
click or drop ..... 
and 
the buttons Remove and insert into post

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I take online privacy fairly seriously, particularly when cross-site trackers are involved. If you've ever wondered how Facebook and Google know so much about their users, this is how. They aren't just tracking your activity across Facebook, they're also buying data from data mining companies that themselves buy tracking data from various other respective apps, including Spotify, TikTok, DoorDash, and many others. The end result is that most of what you do on your phone is tracked and it is often unclear where it goes. 

Facebook also has ways of tracking many of its users' web browsing habits through what is known as the "facebook pixel" (a single pixel "image" that Facebook encourages web developers to embed, which phones home and lets Facebook know that a particular user is on this website). Facebook isn't the only offender here, there are several companies that tend to do a good job of tracking people's activity in fairly creepy ways as well. These companies can track most of your activity online, and they have a pretty detailed profile of it too. (Rest assured, Makestation does not have any of these. We have zero cross site trackers, and have no plans of adding any.) 

I started using Brave Browser a little over a year ago to block these, and I've been pretty happy with it. It's Chromium based, so it's still a RAM hog. But it's pretty stable and does a decent job blocking creepy cross-site tracking on the Internet. It's grown fairly popular, it's actually founded by the founder of the Mozilla Foundation, so it's definitely been able to get a decent amount of traction. 

Do you take steps to preserve privacy online? If so, what are your thoughts on Brave Browser?

Hey there, so you're interested in affiliating with makestation?

here's what ya gotta do.

first, submit a request!  just post it here and include the following.

A link to your site

An 88x31 pixels button like the following.



then once affiliation is requested place our button on your site and link to it.

linking can be done with the following code.

Reddit recently changed the behavior of how their blocking system is managed, and it's resulted in some strange behavior from certain accounts. If a user blocks you, you will now be unable to reply to any of their replies to your comments, and neither will you be able to reply to any replies of replies either (even if the person you are replying to wasn't the person who blocked you). It basically prevents you from seeing much of the thread and prevents you from responding to any of it. 

At first glance, this makes sense. If a user blocks you, why would you want to reply to it? But some users have apparently figured out how to take advantage of it by posting information that is objectively controversial and easily disproven, and then by blocking the accounts of those who reply. In some cases, they are doing it at the post level, preventing many from being able to reply (or to even see the responses), and thereby manipulating public perception in the post. It makes it appear as though their opinions are more widely held than they actually are, and prevents users who might offer rebuttals from participating.

I've seen it crop up more often lately, and it's usually from troll accounts that post blatantly disprovable information (or sometimes spread FUD based on false premises about a specific person or company). There isn't really much you can do when it happens because it's generally not obvious to the onlooker what has happened (unless folks who replied before getting blocked edit their posts to inform readers about what has occured).

Apparently some folks on Reddit noticed as well, and what's scary is that there is nothing stopping dodgy PR firms from doing the same thing (and effectively manipulating public perception to be different than it actually is.)