We’re really all over with Spinosaurus.
Batteries. Phones, laptops, other random ecrap.
Europe:
Power plugs
Train gauge and electricity
Online payment without credit cardsWorld wide:
Driving on the right
Driving on the left you mean. It’s better since most people are right-handed.
Yeah, so use your left hand to steer and right hand for everything else.
Prioritise everything else over where the car goes? Madness.
Weaves wildly onto the pavement full of school kids but accurately adjusted the aircon
Weights and measurements
Feet, yards, inches should be replaced by the metric system.
Metric ftw!
When you can divide a meter evenly by 2, 3, 4, 6 we will talk. Until then take your crappy base 10 measurements and stefu!
I really want everyone to use the metric system. Imperial is just awful to use for most design and machine purposes.
powertools’ batteries.
I just want existing standards to be public and accessible, not locked behind
400600 € ISO. That defeats the whole point of standards.Instant messengers.
Human rights
Education
Levels of medical care
Income / maximum wealth (wealth caps)
Income / maximum wealth (wealth caps)
Min and max.
Just set a ratio cap. If you really think this system makes everyone better off then it should be fine.
Women’s clothing sizes
It’s creeping into men’s sizes, too.
Depending on the maker, I’m a Large, Extra Large, 2XL, or sometimes 3XL.
And I can fit into some mediums.
Headlights that don’t blind oncoming vehicles
On my car I have matrix headlights. I think every car should have them it’s honestly awesome technology and it’s a lot safer than normal lights. Hard to explain how they work just go look up a video and see for yourself
Seriously… I hate my own damn headlights! People flash their high beams at me as if I have mine on, but they’re just the stock headlights… I’ve been seriously considering going to a mechanic to have dimmer lights installed lol
A lot of vehicles have a beam dip adjuster in the cab. Mine pops out when I press the center of the light control selector.
Officially, they are to correct for a heavy load in the back. Unofficially, if you tweak them, you can flip between longer range, and polite as required.
If you watch your lights, there should be a fairly sharp cut-off at the top of their coverage. If that line ever hits a window or mirror, it will look like you are flashing them. If it’s too high, either fix it yourself (generally quite easy) or get it fixed.
Your headlight level adjuster might be stuck or broken. Have your mechanic check that it works.
Aim them yourself. You’ll spent more time finding a good spot to aim them then actually doing it.
If they’re LEDs or HIDs they’re probably just a screw you turn to aim them. If they dont then it’s basically the same thing, but in a less convenient spot. Look up the proper aiming procedure for your car, or just wing it by finding a car in a parking lot.
If people regularly flash their lights at you over it, you probably should.
I know the feeling. I had a rental car once for two weeks and I was more than once road-raged because of the lights. Everyone thought I was high-beaming it, but nope.
My cars low to the ground and only has halogen lamps, so if I’m ever flashing high beams at an SUV with overly bright lights, it’s only so I can continue to see the road. LEDs are insane and the governments too busy facilitating record defense contractor earnings to do anything about it.
That’s what sealed-beam headlights used to be before composite housings which are proprietary to a given vehicle were legalized.
If you’re in Canada, they’re developing standards and they’re asking for feedback. There’s a survey to fill out on the Transport Canada site.
Nuts, bolts, and screw heads.
I know we need various sizes for various tasks, but I shouldn’t have to dig through 50 different screwdrivers or ratchet heads and still not have one that’ll work.
Or the crappy BMW design.
I’ll just be happy when we phase out imperial and other weird thread types. Metric standardisation is a godsend over what came before.
The heads are a lost cause. They serve too many different purposes, with differing, competing, requirements.
Best of luck with that mate. Do you know how many different cross-shaped drives there are already?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives
And if you really want to get upset about confused standards you should read the section of the Talk page about why JIS B 1012 was removed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_screw_drives
They ARE distinct from standard Phillips, and posidrive. If one tries to use Phillips on them you’ll likely strip the head.
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As discussed, the previous paragraph was wrong and (as of now) uncited, so it was removed. No information is better than wrong information.
Meanwhile, there’s Robertson, the superior 4 pointed driver over Phillips.
Yes. Everything Robertson.
I replace crappy ones when I remove them.
I’ll tolerate Phillips, but slotted gets replaced with torx. Phillips get replaced if they get damaged.
Torx are pretty great
Everything should be torx
There are reasons why you can’t have Torx in some situations. For example, sanitary machine designs. Preference is a flanged hex head. If flush mount is required, then slotted is best (even though they do suck for every other reason)
Torx Plus*
Those are already standardized though…
There are 14 competing standards. We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases.
Congratulations now we have 15 standards.
Windshield wiper arms. Everything should be J-hook.
The j-hook is fine. What is NOT fine is how difficult it can be to remove the damn wiper blades after they’ve been outside for awhile and things get dried up. There’s got to be a better way
See, if everything was j hook, blades wouldn’t have their own array of adapters, some of which get stuck even on j hooks.
If you have trouble, just break the plastic off. You’re replacing it anyway.
An open phone standard, and no, I do not mean the ‘Open Handset Alliance’ that doesn’t even live up to its name, I mean like an ATX-equivalent standard for mobile devices.
An open-source ISA already exists in RISC-V, maybe that hypothetical ATX-for-mobile-devices standard could standardize around that for starters, as for an OS, it could standardize around non-Android Linux and maybe even some BSD mobile OSes instead of Google pulling some MS-in-the-'90s crap for Android like they’re doing right now.
You need an equivalent of ACPI in the x86 space to catch on in ARM/RISC-V if you want a general purpose OS to be viable on phones
There’s sort-of kind-of SystemReady in ARM but it’s a far cry from the standardization of ACPI on x86 desktops
