@dick_turpin Oui
For example, fine rain falls. visibility is reduced. What you should definitely *not* do is put your full beams on. Which they all do. Congrats. now you see even worse, and opposing traffic is totally blind.
Drivers here often respond to inclement weather with a technique I like to call "losing their fucking minds"
@tayfonay Hope the trip goes well!
@kibcol1049 It surprised me how quickly the old Chunnel terminal looked really bad, but I don't think they every cleaned it. The blue paint on the steel structure faded really badly too. It looked like shit the last time I was there.
@dick_turpin Ha! C'est la vie!
@tayfonay As long as they can make enough power to outclimb the air they're in moving downwards they're good...
@tayfonay Now *that* is scary. Detection has got a lot better but it's still a very scary thing.
@tayfonay If the airport is so equipped (and the plane!), this height can be zero to allow full autoland onto the runway in zero vis
@tayfonay Oh God! Each runway (approach, to use the right word) has its own 'decision height/minimums' i.e the height above ground by which if you cannot see runway lights you have to carry out a missed approach. Some push this a little, which is maybe what they were referring to.
@jerry That's what I thought. So they're just being gits.
@jerry Is this on everything, or just Chinese imports?
@tayfonay I guess for Bermuda an alternate would be going back, which is quite rare.
@tayfonay I had a similar experience at Krakow many years ago. Heavy fog and I think we did it on the third try. If that didn't work the alternate was Poznan which was miles away (for me) and I was glad I didn't have to worry about it.
@HebrideanHecate They're trying that here. Make the fucking things affordable if you want to force people to have them.
@tayfonay It can be frightening, but take some peace in the fact it's all planned for.
Good news! #OpenBSD -current now allows setting a separate performance policy (hw.perfpolicy) when on battery power vs. on AC power.
This is useful as a few years ago the default changed. The "auto" performance policy (hw.perfpolicy) is equivalent to "high" on when on AC power and there was no option to change this without custom kernel patches, or a userspace solution (sysutils/obsdfreqd).
jca@ modified src/sys/kern/sched_bsd.c: Let the user provide an alternative perfpolicy when on battery
The current behavior of "auto", which implies running at full speed when on AC power, does not fit all the hardware and use cases. For some people it results in more power consumption, more heat, more noise, etc.
Extend the semantics of hw.perfpolicy and provide two buttons to specify the desired behavior:
sysctl hw.perfpolicy=ac-policy,battery-policy
Keep the default behavior of "high,auto". People can opt for "auto,auto" or simply "auto" instead.
No objection from deraadt@, input and ok sobrado@ sthen@
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