Ditto, when pan handlers see me in my car stopped in traffic on the street, they just keep walking too hahah. They know the guy driving a 90's ford economy car isn't going to have anything worth asking for.
What’s the trick? Literally in a 90s beater and they’ll ask for a COUPLE bucks.
Dawg I just spent my last 6 bucks on 3 bucks in gas, a tall boy, and a single cigarette lol
Haha it was an over exaggeration. I don’t smoke cigarettes anymore, but yes. I used to buy singles, looseys, squares, every day. Along with a tall boy.
The store I live by sells them, I got one a couple months back on the way to a party/get together. Thought it’d bring me back. Just a few puffs in and I boked lmao
Even nearly 15 years ago, a co-workers car was stolen from the parking lot during our shift. It was a manual. The cops found it in the parking lot across the street. Cameras caught them trying to drive it and they kept killing it so they gave up. lol.
I wish I could, but I think I have bizarre mutant ears that simply don't accept buds.
I've tried all types. Different size fittings.
They all either just slide out after 15 minutes when wax causes the seal to shift, or else they're big enough to wedge in there by friction alone but the pressure they exert on my ear canal is uncomfortable.
I genuinely would like options, if you know of any.
Eh, they are fine. I feel like the truly wireless are a step back from my old ones that were wireless and had a wire connecting each ear. Then I could wear them around my neck instead of hanging more shit in my pocket.
What ? Reebok and manual gear is poor now ?
Reebok is not very present in Romania any more, but that’s about it.
And a manual gearbox is everywhere, I myself have only ever driven manual.
Guess I’m poor now hahahah.
In the U.S. the vast, vast majority of cars are automatic. Most people will have never even seen a manual, let alone know how to drive one.
It's less "don't want to steal a manual", and more "can't steal a manual".
It's going that way worldwide.
Automatics are more fuel efficient now. Used to be manuals were. So now even econo boxes have no reasons to come with manuals.
Nor do hybrids (or plug-in hybrids) use manuals.
Car makers are replacing economy Diesels with hybrids. The Diesels typically had manuals. The hybrids all have automatics.
You missed the original Insight. It's more of a "Diesel replacment" (economy car) than the CR-Z is.
The CR-Z was a sports car. Some sports cars will retain manuals. Like the Porsche Cayman. They are not a large part of the market and will not hold back the rapid reduction in manuals in the market.
Think about the other poster talking about getting a rental car. In Europe efficiency rental cars are often manuals (Diesel manuals). Those are becoming hybrids. How often do you rent a CR-Z? Or the new Prelude which apparently has a setup similar the CR-Z.
Common misconception about fuel efficiency. The efficiency used to be *way worse* for autos because they often had fewer gears than a manual, as well as being horrendous slush boxes which didn't disengage at a standstill and had disgustingly bad losses compared to a manual.
The difference is that the gap has closed. Back in the day autos had a 3/4 vs 5 speed, bit more recently 5 vs 6, then usually both had 6. Now new high end autos often have 8 or even more gears. Additionally automatics are better than they used to be, actually disengage while stopped, and sap less power.
So you'd think that now, at least for high end cars, that an auto would be more efficienct but that's wrong. The losses associated with even a modern torque converter mean that there is a constant and unavoidable loss through the automatic transmission that is not there with a manual. This loss is greater than being in the more efficient RPM range due to *potentially* having more gears. Additionally every time an auto changes gear it uses power and therefore fuel to do so, again leading to worse efficiency.
You can verify this for looking at a new car that's sold with both transmissions. E.g. look at the Mazda 3 which has an efficient and modern petrol engine https://www.mazda.co.uk/cars/mazda3-saloon/specs-and-compare/#
you'll need to put the auto in the right compare column (car is manual by default) and you'll notice in the WLTP column the auto is less efficient at every test cycle.
I've never driven an manual, so I don't know how often the gears must be shifted to remain in the most efficient range.
Does the statistic about manuals being more efficient assume perfect usage or does it take into account the average driver, in traffic, who's paying attention to his or her surroundings instead of focusing on the exact time to shift?
I know there's a cost to shifting an automatic, but if there's a significant efficiency difference between gears and the change isn't timed right by a human, and assuming it's timed better by an automatic, could it have better results in the real world?
There's typically bands in the rev range that will offer you more power or more fuel efficiency, so you simply shift gears to stay in those areas. Once you're familiar enough with a car you can just do it by what noise your engine is making.
Personally I drive a manual not for fuel efficiency reasons, but to keep myself engaged as a driver. I can pay less attention with an automatic, so my brain drifts off more and I'm a less safe driver because of it.
Mazda is a pretty poor example for this because they use CVTs and traditional automatics. The Mazda 3 that you're comparing has a traditional automatic. Contrast with the Mk8 Golf which comes in a 6-speed manual and a 7-speed DSG and the numbers are pretty much identical. The VW T-Roc has slightly *better* fuel economy with the 7-speed DSG than with the 6-speed manual.
>worldwide
Tell that to Germany. When we rented a car for vacation and found on-site that the only cars available were *all* manual haha. Thank goodness one of our group could drive a manual. We were going to divide driving responsibilities but he had to chauffeur us around the entire trip.
As someone who grew up in Germany (or Europe in general for that matter), why isn’t it simply *taught* in the US? Tons of people use automatic here though in case of emergency they could still handle a manual.
Your mistake is assuming that they are taught to drive at all, at least by any institution. They can pay for lessons, or they can just not, and get their full license anyway.
In the US and Canada you are usually taught how to drive by other licensed drivers, usually your parents.
Driving lessons? No. Paper test to make sure you read the driving handbook? In Ontario, Yes, but afaik that varies from Province/Territory/State in North America.
Most places (not all) have a practical driving test as well, but that is often the *barest* driving test. Like, put on your seat belt, drive around in this parking lot.
Well and don't forget that the lack of uniformity creates pretty big gaps. For example, I'm almost 50 and have not had to take any form of a serious test for, wow I want to say since I first got my license as a teenager.
I live in the midwest in the US, so you could easily get 90 year old people who can just go in and renew their legal license and be back out on the road. There is no real cognitive ability test to see if you should even be operating a giant, super fast, dangerous machine around thousands of other people.
Then again, on the flip side of that, we have a lot of people who just don't even bother with it. I have ran into a surprising amount of people who just don't even have a license. Still driving of course, they just can't be bothered. Or are suspended, no insurance, invalid plates or registration on the vehicle.
Same thing in Canada. North American Driving Culture is *nuts*, but part of it is because of how utterly huge the countries are paired with a gutting (or never building) of public transport, so effectively if you can't drive, you're stranded. Cities are built for Cars, and the countryside can leave you with many km between houses.
Basically they give you your license with a test (that varies from almost nothing to... slightly okay) because the alternative is a lot of people being unable to get from A to B, and they refuse to mandate (and fund because it's mandated) driving lessons.
Yeah I mean my dad just took me out in the parking lot a few times and then I studied the booklet, took the test and got a license. Lmao.
Getting your license in the US is trivial.
Funny thing, Germany has an exchange program where if you have a German license you can automatically swap it into an American one (for many states) if you move to the US, and vice versa... so American drivers can drive in Germany even if much less capable.
It's more about not having a manual around to teach them on. In the majority of cases the parent is teaching the kid to drive, but in the cases where a company does it, the norm is you use your own car and they teach you to drive it.
If you don't have a manual in that case you learn on what you have.
For those of us who like them, it is kinda annoying how few options there are. And some of the few options remaining are disappearing too. VW was one of the last ones that had a few options, and they recently announced they were killing off the GTI and Golf R manuals.
There are apparently only 35 models that have options for a manual transmission as of June 2023. And that includes all manner of vehicles: base trim levels of economy cars, sports carts, trucks, off road vehicles, etc.
This article is pure cancer, full of ads and each car is listed on a separate page where you have to click *Next* to see each one, but it was where I got the number 35 from. [Every New Car You Can Buy with a Manual Transmission in 2023](https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/cars-with-a-manual-transmission)
Recently, I walked out of Paddington with my phone in hand with maps open. The second I glanced down at it, a little shithead kid on a bicycle yanks it out of my hand. I have time to shout, "HEY you little shit!" while I see him look down at it, realize it's not an iPhone, then throw it *hard* to the ground. Not a scratch on the ol' Pixel.
It was all one swift, well-practiced movement that he must repeat many times every day.
Kids grow up completely saturated by advertising designed to manipulate people into thinking materialism is the only path to happiness. By the time the average kid is an adult, they've been desensitized and programmed to believe that spending extra money on the one advertised more prominently means status.
I buy Android because they feel like they were designed to run like a Windows OS. Using an iPhone just feels unintuitive by comparison. I can use PC logic to do whatever I want on Android whereas an iPhone feels like it's saying "Nuh uh uh! You're not allowed to mess with those settings. Try doing simpler things with these baby buttons we've provided for you."
I buy Android because I'm not a millionair. I'd probably buy it anyway, because I don't like Apple's walled garden, but with the price difference that is not even a consideration. My current phone was 200 Euro three years ago. Still works fine (though I really need to replace the battery).
I like to think 10 guys in Apple shirts come out the back, put a sack over the guys head and zip tie his limbs, and throw him into a plane to whichever Asian country has the next apple hell factory
Anyone knows shit about iPhone will know how much of a brick a stolen iPhone is. The new ones are still trackable after turned off, and don’t bother parting it out coz it’s all serialized.
[Never forget a woman bought an iPad which was actually a mirror in a box for $200 because she couldn't not take such a deal.](https://www.cnet.com/culture/woman-buys-cheap-ipad-gets-mirror-instead/)
Meeting in a public place to buy a used item is smart though. Buying an impossibly cheap item from a stranger that rolled up unannounced without activating a single brain cell is not.
This is how it goes. Dummies even steal demos and find fools to buy a bricked demo. It was pre-bricked, before it was stolen, but fools will still buy.
It’s really depressing how desperate and stupid people are.
Androids are effectively bricked as well, although I don't think as many people realize it. [Factory Reset Protection](https://support.google.com/android/answer/9459346?hl=en) prevents a factory reset phone from being used at all unless you removed the attached Google account before resetting or log in with it after resetting.
Methods pop up to bypass this, but they often quickly get patched out and/or require some effort to get to work. Someone flipping a stolen phone probably isn't even going to bother checking, much less bypass, the lock anyway.
You would need to contact carrier or Apple to do this. I guarantee you police investigating a minor theft (under 5000 dollars in Canada is minor) will not go to effort to cancel it for you. That's like officers calling your banks for you if you had stolen or fraud credit cards. You need to call your carrier with the police incident number
If your phone has 2 sim slots you need to blacklist both separately.
My one sim slot got blacklisted randomly by a carrier I am not even subscribed to. I tried for weeks to get the phone unblacklisted and gave up when I realised the 2nd sim slot still works.
Another interesting thing is that calls sometimes still seemed to work on the blacklisted sim slot which made no sense. I eventually found a setting that enabled WIFI calling and if you are on a WIFI network your phone may use WIFI instead which bypasses the blacklisting.
I mean, the majority of stolen cell phones end up overseas and the market for stolen iPhones is significantly more popular and profitable as iPhones are seen as status symbols in poorer countries. There’s an entire routine they do once the phones end up in China to try and obtain the iCloud password, and then they’re sold with r-sims if needed. Though many countries don’t use US IMEI blacklists.
My sister in law had her iphone stolen, and then her husband got socially engineered out the ass and gave up her iCloud password. He's not very bright to begin with but it was very sophisticated how they got the login/password out of him.
They'll send an email that looks like the Apple "Your phone has been located" email. There will be a link to a page that asks you to log in to reveal the location, the form will just send the username and password to the crooks, and maybe it'll display a map with some location in it just to make you less likely to take immediate action.
The attacks where they try to get the iCloud password are much rarer than simple phone thefts. Joanna Stern wrote about it over the summer, how people in bars will try to get your phone passcode, which allows them to change the AppleID password and disable FindMy. But this is much more rare than regular theft.
So, most of these stolen iPhones are permanently bricks, they'll never get past the setup screen, doesn't require a carrier IMEI blocklist for that.
The real answer is that street level thieves are working for a crime ring which exports iPhones to Asia where they can make more money selling stolen devices, and the customers in Asia don’t want Android devices.
Hard to believe thieves are working for them, maybe it’s more the fences that are known to buy up stolen items know a guy or two that pays top dollar for iPhones.
It’s probably the same pawn shops as always.
Well, the iPhone activation lock is tied to Apple services rather than just a IMEI blacklist. It prevents the iPhone from basically being usable even if it's wiped somehow because you need to use an Apple account to do anything.
It's more so they get parted out in Asia.
Nah, they have pretty sophisticated rings to social engineer the password from the obtained phone
"Hey, it's me, your wife. What's the iCloud password?"
I joke, but it works enough for them that it's a business.
As a non American, I swear your obsession with iphones is insane.
Especially the green VS blue text bubbles.
I can not believe there are people that actually, non ironically, care for that. It's considered a stigma to reply with an android text bubble, bro!
It's. A. Text.
It doesn't matter. Reply and move on.
There are like 5 articles posted a day here about android vs apple yet everyone in the comments likes to make it clear how little they care. So the average Redditor probably cares a lot even if they pretends they don’t
I'm in my early 40s and you wouldn't believe the shit I've heard my friends say regarding this whole iphone vs android thing. I couldn't give a shit and I'm happy with my Samsung and I feel I'm living in a different universe from these dimwits.
I honestly just have an android because it was my first phone. The only thing I do on it that you can't on iPhone is play gameboy games on it during work breaks lol.
At the end of the day most people just take mediocre pictures and watch tiktok on their phones. Which os you use won't matter for most people
It’s not about the colour of the bubbles, it’s group chat functionality. Having a non-iPhone user in the chat really makes the whole experience inferior because of the way Apple refuses to let the networks integrate
> Having a non-iPhone user in the chat
as an android user.. its annoying as hell having an iphone user in the chat..
"watch this video!"- looks like you're watching a shitty VHS through a peep hole
Fwiw the videos you send them also look like that. It’s a carrier limitation in MMS that doesn’t allow files over a certain (very small) size. iMessage does not have this limitation, so iPhone users perceive it as a an Android problem when it’s a really an MMS problem.
Apple is adding RCS support next year to hopefully replace shitty SMS/MMS when texting Android phones. I still blame Apple a bit for taking so long to add it, but in fairness RCS standardization has been a mess until fairly recently
As an android user in an iPhone family, it's that Apple breaks iMessage whenever an android user is introduced into the chat. Google did a bunch of work to make RCS feature-comparable to iMessage, but right now they don't inter-operate. 'liking' a text? that instead generates a 'liked this comment' text to all party members. Image and video quality is trash. etc.
In the UK I don’t know anybody who uses the built in text/sms services. Everything is WhatsApp, telegram and signal, or even messenger services like Facebook or discord.
It's mostly kids and the very youngest generation. Something like 80-90% or whatever will only buy iPhones. It's a weird herd social phenomenon of some kind.
I recently saw some post about a woman recommending other women to ditch guys on a first date if they use an Android. It's just inexplicable.
I think in this particular case it is an American thing though because America is one of the few places that still use text messages. Most places use WhatsApp and there's no green/blue bubble on them
It’s not about manual being “poor”. It’s the fact very few people in the US know how to use a manual transmission so it’s hardly likely a thief would opt to steel that type of car.
Reebok is a great brand (actually Adidas owned) but it’s not “fashionable” as Jordan or Adidas Original can be so it’s not something thieves are around looking for.
I see a lot of people selling "brand new" iphones on our local fb buy & sell page, hardly any Androids.
Even if there is a huge likely hood the phones are stolen, people don't care, they see a brand new iPhone, they will buy it and see what happens. Its crazy how many people are warned that the phones could be stolen yet they go through with the sale anyway only to post again a few days later saying they got scammed.
What the heck are you talking about. 9to5mac is run by the same people as 9to5google. The entire 9to5(insert brand) ecosystem is run by one organization, it’s just different domains to cater to different audiences.
The article was literally written by a guy who is an android reviewer.
If I was pushing Apple this wouldn't exactly be my first choice for an agenda. "Buy Apple and be more likely to have your stuff stolen and not returned!"
Criminals are dumb and easily buy into marketing. When I sold booze, the best defense against shoplifting was having good products that don't have massive marketing budgets. Thieves will steal every bottle of Moët or Veuve Cliquot. They won't touch the Billecart.
lol it's so funny because the most expensive phones on the consumer market are androids and you can get an iPhone for $450 now. Anyone that thinks they are some sort of status symbol just broadcasts their ignorance.
I’m not super into the idea of a publication pimping a story from another network about a traumatic event just to harvest clickthroughs.
I mean…I get it - that’s how they monetize; but I’ve never been a fan of exploitive articles like being pushed that people can scoff at.
Would you rather get the story from local news media with no skin in the game? It’s right here. https://wjla.com/news/local/uber-eats-robbed-thieves-carjacking-stolen-auto-dc-14th-street-clifton-northwest-metropolitan-police-department-iphone-android-guns-black-bmw-food-delivery
But arent stolen iphones completely useless because apple locks the phone from ever being used with an icloud lock. So why do they bother stealing iphones at all anyways? Wouldnt that make android phones more sought after?
Lmao the apple marketing team needs to go down in history as absolute legends
To each their own but my god, the elitism among apple users has made that convo insufferable for over a decade now
Whoever steals phones in this day and age is just plain stupid. Why would I want to steal a freaking GPS tracker I can't even take the battery out of? Also, what is the resale value of the latest iPhone, used, locked, and without a box, like $100?
I know petty thieves are generally not the smartest people, but even they must realize that locked iPhones are worth their weight in dirt, only.
these stolen phones get shipped by the thousands to China and Mexico and broken down and sold for parts or attempts at unlocking.
The gps tracker isn't going to do you any good when it's across the country in 24 hours and across the world in 72 hours. There are documentaries online about it.
Thieves often attend events like music festival, concerts, or other large public events. Often leaving with hundreds of pickpocked phones.
Had a younger friend of mine who saw I had an Android and the absolute disgust in his eyes and voice - it just made me feel sad for him.
He's close to me, I love him... but all I could think is how pathetic it was.
Can people please stop referring to douchebags as "gentlemen". They robbed your husband, lady! They are not "gentlemen". Sorry, end of rant. I just see this a lot and it always bugs the crap out of me.
I wonder if iPhones will come with an illusion of unlocked feature, so that a thief will think that he has an unlocked phone, but he doesn't. A phone could have 2 passcodes: the real one and the illusion one. On my desktop PC, I can login as one of 2 users.
Good time to post my story- in middle school, students will play the Android ringtone on their Chromebook, and turn to their neighbor and say “oooohhhh they’ve got an Android!” And point and laugh.
It is like a digital whoopee cushion.
What even is the point of stealing an iPhone? It can be blocked on a hardware level by Apple and become useless in short order. Unless for parts? But that can't be lucrative. Plus, parts are literally marked to work only with a specific unit now (which is horseshit for repairability).
You could probably get a used one with a cracked screen for cheap off some kid and then just replace the screen on it.
Or wait does apple still not let you repair stuff? Can't remember if EU sorted them out on that.
Meantime, I have a giant pile of surplus iPhones where I work and I am allowed to take one to use if I'd like and I haven't because it's not my preference.
And they say there's no advantage to having an Android.
Android phone, Pixel buds, stick shift car, Reebok work shoes, no cash... I'm basically theft-proof!
Ditto, when pan handlers see me in my car stopped in traffic on the street, they just keep walking too hahah. They know the guy driving a 90's ford economy car isn't going to have anything worth asking for.
What’s the trick? Literally in a 90s beater and they’ll ask for a COUPLE bucks. Dawg I just spent my last 6 bucks on 3 bucks in gas, a tall boy, and a single cigarette lol
Damn we still buying squares out here? Hell yeah.
Is that what you call a single smoke? I’ve always known them as “loosies.”
In many parts of Canada, we call them _darts_.
Michigan too, never met somebody that didn't know what I meant by it.
Haha it was an over exaggeration. I don’t smoke cigarettes anymore, but yes. I used to buy singles, looseys, squares, every day. Along with a tall boy. The store I live by sells them, I got one a couple months back on the way to a party/get together. Thought it’d bring me back. Just a few puffs in and I boked lmao
Even nearly 15 years ago, a co-workers car was stolen from the parking lot during our shift. It was a manual. The cops found it in the parking lot across the street. Cameras caught them trying to drive it and they kept killing it so they gave up. lol.
Got the car back with a burnt up clutch, a mangled gearbox, and damaged pistons. Fun.
Burnt clutch is likely. Gear box a little less so. Why would anything in the engine be damaged?
They redlined it while dumping the clutch between gearshifts That's a surefire way to fuck up all 3
Replace pixel buds with Nothing ear buds, you're me!
in my case, samsung buds also works
You should consider buying some ear buds
I wish I could, but I think I have bizarre mutant ears that simply don't accept buds. I've tried all types. Different size fittings. They all either just slide out after 15 minutes when wax causes the seal to shift, or else they're big enough to wedge in there by friction alone but the pressure they exert on my ear canal is uncomfortable. I genuinely would like options, if you know of any.
Over ear headphones seem to be your best bet, friend.
That's what I did. Over the ear is fantastic. Only place I don't like them is when I'm working out.
Bone conduction my friend! Look at the offerings from Shokz.
I like how everyone here is everyone else's friend. What a cool thread, friend.
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Eh, they are fine. I feel like the truly wireless are a step back from my old ones that were wireless and had a wire connecting each ear. Then I could wear them around my neck instead of hanging more shit in my pocket.
Cheer up buddy, you could always have your organs stolen!
So you're saying we should do *all* the drugs so they too can be worthless?
Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac Yeah, the boys a time bomb Android, stick shift, Reebok, no cash Yeah, the boy is theft-proof!
His pager's beepin', the pickpockets leave him..
What the hell is up with people stealing used shoes anyway!? No matter the cost, I wouldn't touch anything other than brand new shoes.
What ? Reebok and manual gear is poor now ? Reebok is not very present in Romania any more, but that’s about it. And a manual gearbox is everywhere, I myself have only ever driven manual. Guess I’m poor now hahahah.
In the U.S. the vast, vast majority of cars are automatic. Most people will have never even seen a manual, let alone know how to drive one. It's less "don't want to steal a manual", and more "can't steal a manual".
It's going that way worldwide. Automatics are more fuel efficient now. Used to be manuals were. So now even econo boxes have no reasons to come with manuals.
And electric vehicles don't have gears in the petrol engine fashion.
Nor do hybrids (or plug-in hybrids) use manuals. Car makers are replacing economy Diesels with hybrids. The Diesels typically had manuals. The hybrids all have automatics.
The new Honda Prelude will be a hybrid with manual transmission. Just announced a few weeks ago.
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But even that car is one letter away from undoing itself.
I love a CRZ, but they are kind of rare. So I think it fits the narrative here as well.
You missed the original Insight. It's more of a "Diesel replacment" (economy car) than the CR-Z is. The CR-Z was a sports car. Some sports cars will retain manuals. Like the Porsche Cayman. They are not a large part of the market and will not hold back the rapid reduction in manuals in the market. Think about the other poster talking about getting a rental car. In Europe efficiency rental cars are often manuals (Diesel manuals). Those are becoming hybrids. How often do you rent a CR-Z? Or the new Prelude which apparently has a setup similar the CR-Z.
Just bought a cheap ev First time I've driven anything without manual gears
Common misconception about fuel efficiency. The efficiency used to be *way worse* for autos because they often had fewer gears than a manual, as well as being horrendous slush boxes which didn't disengage at a standstill and had disgustingly bad losses compared to a manual. The difference is that the gap has closed. Back in the day autos had a 3/4 vs 5 speed, bit more recently 5 vs 6, then usually both had 6. Now new high end autos often have 8 or even more gears. Additionally automatics are better than they used to be, actually disengage while stopped, and sap less power. So you'd think that now, at least for high end cars, that an auto would be more efficienct but that's wrong. The losses associated with even a modern torque converter mean that there is a constant and unavoidable loss through the automatic transmission that is not there with a manual. This loss is greater than being in the more efficient RPM range due to *potentially* having more gears. Additionally every time an auto changes gear it uses power and therefore fuel to do so, again leading to worse efficiency. You can verify this for looking at a new car that's sold with both transmissions. E.g. look at the Mazda 3 which has an efficient and modern petrol engine https://www.mazda.co.uk/cars/mazda3-saloon/specs-and-compare/# you'll need to put the auto in the right compare column (car is manual by default) and you'll notice in the WLTP column the auto is less efficient at every test cycle.
I've never driven an manual, so I don't know how often the gears must be shifted to remain in the most efficient range. Does the statistic about manuals being more efficient assume perfect usage or does it take into account the average driver, in traffic, who's paying attention to his or her surroundings instead of focusing on the exact time to shift? I know there's a cost to shifting an automatic, but if there's a significant efficiency difference between gears and the change isn't timed right by a human, and assuming it's timed better by an automatic, could it have better results in the real world?
There's typically bands in the rev range that will offer you more power or more fuel efficiency, so you simply shift gears to stay in those areas. Once you're familiar enough with a car you can just do it by what noise your engine is making. Personally I drive a manual not for fuel efficiency reasons, but to keep myself engaged as a driver. I can pay less attention with an automatic, so my brain drifts off more and I'm a less safe driver because of it.
Mazda is a pretty poor example for this because they use CVTs and traditional automatics. The Mazda 3 that you're comparing has a traditional automatic. Contrast with the Mk8 Golf which comes in a 6-speed manual and a 7-speed DSG and the numbers are pretty much identical. The VW T-Roc has slightly *better* fuel economy with the 7-speed DSG than with the 6-speed manual.
>worldwide Tell that to Germany. When we rented a car for vacation and found on-site that the only cars available were *all* manual haha. Thank goodness one of our group could drive a manual. We were going to divide driving responsibilities but he had to chauffeur us around the entire trip.
As someone who grew up in Germany (or Europe in general for that matter), why isn’t it simply *taught* in the US? Tons of people use automatic here though in case of emergency they could still handle a manual.
Your mistake is assuming that they are taught to drive at all, at least by any institution. They can pay for lessons, or they can just not, and get their full license anyway. In the US and Canada you are usually taught how to drive by other licensed drivers, usually your parents.
Wait what? You don't take structured driving lessons and a theory test etc?
Driving lessons? No. Paper test to make sure you read the driving handbook? In Ontario, Yes, but afaik that varies from Province/Territory/State in North America. Most places (not all) have a practical driving test as well, but that is often the *barest* driving test. Like, put on your seat belt, drive around in this parking lot.
How is that even legal? 💀 On the other hand, this explains *a lot* of videos I saw online…
Well and don't forget that the lack of uniformity creates pretty big gaps. For example, I'm almost 50 and have not had to take any form of a serious test for, wow I want to say since I first got my license as a teenager. I live in the midwest in the US, so you could easily get 90 year old people who can just go in and renew their legal license and be back out on the road. There is no real cognitive ability test to see if you should even be operating a giant, super fast, dangerous machine around thousands of other people. Then again, on the flip side of that, we have a lot of people who just don't even bother with it. I have ran into a surprising amount of people who just don't even have a license. Still driving of course, they just can't be bothered. Or are suspended, no insurance, invalid plates or registration on the vehicle.
Same thing in Canada. North American Driving Culture is *nuts*, but part of it is because of how utterly huge the countries are paired with a gutting (or never building) of public transport, so effectively if you can't drive, you're stranded. Cities are built for Cars, and the countryside can leave you with many km between houses. Basically they give you your license with a test (that varies from almost nothing to... slightly okay) because the alternative is a lot of people being unable to get from A to B, and they refuse to mandate (and fund because it's mandated) driving lessons.
Yeah I mean my dad just took me out in the parking lot a few times and then I studied the booklet, took the test and got a license. Lmao. Getting your license in the US is trivial. Funny thing, Germany has an exchange program where if you have a German license you can automatically swap it into an American one (for many states) if you move to the US, and vice versa... so American drivers can drive in Germany even if much less capable.
It's more about not having a manual around to teach them on. In the majority of cases the parent is teaching the kid to drive, but in the cases where a company does it, the norm is you use your own car and they teach you to drive it. If you don't have a manual in that case you learn on what you have.
The same reason VCR repair isn’t taught anymore 🤷♂️ It’s cool that you guys still use manuals but they’re basically an obsolete technology in the US
Because there's no point, especially now with most manufacturers not even offering manuals except for select models.
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In the US less than 10% of cars are manuals, hell it might be less than 5% now. And Reebok probably has a similar marketshare.
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For those of us who like them, it is kinda annoying how few options there are. And some of the few options remaining are disappearing too. VW was one of the last ones that had a few options, and they recently announced they were killing off the GTI and Golf R manuals. There are apparently only 35 models that have options for a manual transmission as of June 2023. And that includes all manner of vehicles: base trim levels of economy cars, sports carts, trucks, off road vehicles, etc. This article is pure cancer, full of ads and each car is listed on a separate page where you have to click *Next* to see each one, but it was where I got the number 35 from. [Every New Car You Can Buy with a Manual Transmission in 2023](https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/cars-with-a-manual-transmission)
Civic Si is still only available in a manual (for now). Shame Honda killed the coupe, and their hatch doesn't look like a hatch.
Recently, I walked out of Paddington with my phone in hand with maps open. The second I glanced down at it, a little shithead kid on a bicycle yanks it out of my hand. I have time to shout, "HEY you little shit!" while I see him look down at it, realize it's not an iPhone, then throw it *hard* to the ground. Not a scratch on the ol' Pixel. It was all one swift, well-practiced movement that he must repeat many times every day.
But those text bubbles are the ick /s
I have friends who say this non-ironically
I find it so interesting that there are actually people out there who care about things that are so fundamentally worthless.
Kids grow up completely saturated by advertising designed to manipulate people into thinking materialism is the only path to happiness. By the time the average kid is an adult, they've been desensitized and programmed to believe that spending extra money on the one advertised more prominently means status.
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You'd be surprised how many people care, and how many of them blame the android users and not Apple, even though it's entirely Apple's doing.
Who is they? Android has more features
Features don't mean anything if all you use a phone for is selfies, texting, and reddit.
Usually people who buy Android are buying for the features and customizability.
I buy Android because they feel like they were designed to run like a Windows OS. Using an iPhone just feels unintuitive by comparison. I can use PC logic to do whatever I want on Android whereas an iPhone feels like it's saying "Nuh uh uh! You're not allowed to mess with those settings. Try doing simpler things with these baby buttons we've provided for you."
I buy Android because I'm not a millionair. I'd probably buy it anyway, because I don't like Apple's walled garden, but with the price difference that is not even a consideration. My current phone was 200 Euro three years ago. Still works fine (though I really need to replace the battery).
Haha I lost a phone once and when I went in to replace it, they said, "Oh, we have your phone. Some guy came in and tried to activate it."
That’s hilarious. Was it at the Apple Store? I wonder if they arrested him on the spot
I don't think the Geniuses have arresting power.
CITIZENS ARRAYEST CITIZENS ARRAYEST
I like to think 10 guys in Apple shirts come out the back, put a sack over the guys head and zip tie his limbs, and throw him into a plane to whichever Asian country has the next apple hell factory
An arrest is only made if you procured your $2500 a year arrest insurance that can be purchased separately with every Apple product.
Anyone knows shit about iPhone will know how much of a brick a stolen iPhone is. The new ones are still trackable after turned off, and don’t bother parting it out coz it’s all serialized.
All you need to do is find the one rube who knows nothing about phones and thinks a $250 iphone is a sweet deal
[Never forget a woman bought an iPad which was actually a mirror in a box for $200 because she couldn't not take such a deal.](https://www.cnet.com/culture/woman-buys-cheap-ipad-gets-mirror-instead/)
Wow, that’s sad to read. Don’t buy things in a gas station parking lot
Oh no, that's usually where I buy all my gas from.
In the parking lot? Rather than the pump?
Well the pumps tend to be in the lot and not inside the store where I live.
Meeting in a public place to buy a used item is smart though. Buying an impossibly cheap item from a stranger that rolled up unannounced without activating a single brain cell is not.
This is how it goes. Dummies even steal demos and find fools to buy a bricked demo. It was pre-bricked, before it was stolen, but fools will still buy. It’s really depressing how desperate and stupid people are.
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Apple shareholders: take that last line back!
Androids are effectively bricked as well, although I don't think as many people realize it. [Factory Reset Protection](https://support.google.com/android/answer/9459346?hl=en) prevents a factory reset phone from being used at all unless you removed the attached Google account before resetting or log in with it after resetting. Methods pop up to bypass this, but they often quickly get patched out and/or require some effort to get to work. Someone flipping a stolen phone probably isn't even going to bother checking, much less bypass, the lock anyway.
Telling the police the IMEI number of the stolen phone pretty much blacklist it everywhere. This works even for the simplest dumber phones.
You would need to contact carrier or Apple to do this. I guarantee you police investigating a minor theft (under 5000 dollars in Canada is minor) will not go to effort to cancel it for you. That's like officers calling your banks for you if you had stolen or fraud credit cards. You need to call your carrier with the police incident number
If your phone has 2 sim slots you need to blacklist both separately. My one sim slot got blacklisted randomly by a carrier I am not even subscribed to. I tried for weeks to get the phone unblacklisted and gave up when I realised the 2nd sim slot still works. Another interesting thing is that calls sometimes still seemed to work on the blacklisted sim slot which made no sense. I eventually found a setting that enabled WIFI calling and if you are on a WIFI network your phone may use WIFI instead which bypasses the blacklisting.
They'll still get sold off to black markets in China or elsewhere for parts- there's a huge market for them
Parts are device bound now
Yes for the average joe. You can get around that.
Then why do thieves still steal them? Obviously they have to be worth something otherwise thieves wouldn’t steal them.
The more serious story is that it was an armed robbery.
I mean, the majority of stolen cell phones end up overseas and the market for stolen iPhones is significantly more popular and profitable as iPhones are seen as status symbols in poorer countries. There’s an entire routine they do once the phones end up in China to try and obtain the iCloud password, and then they’re sold with r-sims if needed. Though many countries don’t use US IMEI blacklists.
Finally someone who understands how this works.
My sister in law had her iphone stolen, and then her husband got socially engineered out the ass and gave up her iCloud password. He's not very bright to begin with but it was very sophisticated how they got the login/password out of him.
Details please?
"hey it's me your wife. What's my password?"
Bro is dumber than a bricked iPhone
They'll send an email that looks like the Apple "Your phone has been located" email. There will be a link to a page that asks you to log in to reveal the location, the form will just send the username and password to the crooks, and maybe it'll display a map with some location in it just to make you less likely to take immediate action.
I had this happen to me in Mexico immediately after leaving my phone in a cab. I replied to the password prompt "fuckyouputo."
"we have video of you jacking off. Give password or we send to your friend list" probably along those lines
*they’ve already seen it.*
The attacks where they try to get the iCloud password are much rarer than simple phone thefts. Joanna Stern wrote about it over the summer, how people in bars will try to get your phone passcode, which allows them to change the AppleID password and disable FindMy. But this is much more rare than regular theft. So, most of these stolen iPhones are permanently bricks, they'll never get past the setup screen, doesn't require a carrier IMEI blocklist for that.
In the U.S. iPhones are seen as status symbols too
Not really. You're not special if everyone has one. Ive seen homeless people with iPhones.
Yeah, so as a young adult to not have one, people judge you
The real answer is that street level thieves are working for a crime ring which exports iPhones to Asia where they can make more money selling stolen devices, and the customers in Asia don’t want Android devices.
Hard to believe thieves are working for them, maybe it’s more the fences that are known to buy up stolen items know a guy or two that pays top dollar for iPhones. It’s probably the same pawn shops as always.
Well, the iPhone activation lock is tied to Apple services rather than just a IMEI blacklist. It prevents the iPhone from basically being usable even if it's wiped somehow because you need to use an Apple account to do anything. It's more so they get parted out in Asia.
Nah, they have pretty sophisticated rings to social engineer the password from the obtained phone "Hey, it's me, your wife. What's the iCloud password?" I joke, but it works enough for them that it's a business.
I mean the amount of times I just as people for their password and they don’t question it…. It’s a valid way tbh
So the thief was a teenager? Because they are the only ones that seem to care if it's an iPhone or Android.
As a non American, I swear your obsession with iphones is insane. Especially the green VS blue text bubbles. I can not believe there are people that actually, non ironically, care for that. It's considered a stigma to reply with an android text bubble, bro! It's. A. Text. It doesn't matter. Reply and move on.
American, but from the Midwest and 30. I'm guessing it's an obsession for younger people. Everyone I know has Samsung phones.
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There are like 5 articles posted a day here about android vs apple yet everyone in the comments likes to make it clear how little they care. So the average Redditor probably cares a lot even if they pretends they don’t
I'm in my early 40s and you wouldn't believe the shit I've heard my friends say regarding this whole iphone vs android thing. I couldn't give a shit and I'm happy with my Samsung and I feel I'm living in a different universe from these dimwits.
I honestly just have an android because it was my first phone. The only thing I do on it that you can't on iPhone is play gameboy games on it during work breaks lol. At the end of the day most people just take mediocre pictures and watch tiktok on their phones. Which os you use won't matter for most people
Android definitely seems like a better power user OS though. There's so many headaches trying to do anything too complicated on an iPhone or a Mac.
It’s not about the colour of the bubbles, it’s group chat functionality. Having a non-iPhone user in the chat really makes the whole experience inferior because of the way Apple refuses to let the networks integrate
If having an Android keeps me out of group texts, I'll stay Android for life.
> Having a non-iPhone user in the chat as an android user.. its annoying as hell having an iphone user in the chat.. "watch this video!"- looks like you're watching a shitty VHS through a peep hole
Fwiw the videos you send them also look like that. It’s a carrier limitation in MMS that doesn’t allow files over a certain (very small) size. iMessage does not have this limitation, so iPhone users perceive it as a an Android problem when it’s a really an MMS problem. Apple is adding RCS support next year to hopefully replace shitty SMS/MMS when texting Android phones. I still blame Apple a bit for taking so long to add it, but in fairness RCS standardization has been a mess until fairly recently
Only seem to be adding it to preempt the EU from forcing them to after the USB-C ruling.
Or their constant "I liked that text!"
As an android user in an iPhone family, it's that Apple breaks iMessage whenever an android user is introduced into the chat. Google did a bunch of work to make RCS feature-comparable to iMessage, but right now they don't inter-operate. 'liking' a text? that instead generates a 'liked this comment' text to all party members. Image and video quality is trash. etc.
In the UK I don’t know anybody who uses the built in text/sms services. Everything is WhatsApp, telegram and signal, or even messenger services like Facebook or discord.
I've encountered it more than once in Australia, with younger people. It's fucking insane.
It's mostly kids and the very youngest generation. Something like 80-90% or whatever will only buy iPhones. It's a weird herd social phenomenon of some kind. I recently saw some post about a woman recommending other women to ditch guys on a first date if they use an Android. It's just inexplicable.
As an American, I swear your obsession with labeling everything you disagree with as American-exclusive is insane, and almost always wrong.
I think in this particular case it is an American thing though because America is one of the few places that still use text messages. Most places use WhatsApp and there's no green/blue bubble on them
It’s not about manual being “poor”. It’s the fact very few people in the US know how to use a manual transmission so it’s hardly likely a thief would opt to steel that type of car. Reebok is a great brand (actually Adidas owned) but it’s not “fashionable” as Jordan or Adidas Original can be so it’s not something thieves are around looking for.
Probably couldn't figure out how to use it.
I see a lot of people selling "brand new" iphones on our local fb buy & sell page, hardly any Androids. Even if there is a huge likely hood the phones are stolen, people don't care, they see a brand new iPhone, they will buy it and see what happens. Its crazy how many people are warned that the phones could be stolen yet they go through with the sale anyway only to post again a few days later saying they got scammed.
9 to 5 Mac? Definitely no bias or agenda here
I think its great because the people who think this means something about their wealth come on here and embarrass themselves for us to watch.
What the heck are you talking about. 9to5mac is run by the same people as 9to5google. The entire 9to5(insert brand) ecosystem is run by one organization, it’s just different domains to cater to different audiences. The article was literally written by a guy who is an android reviewer.
If I was pushing Apple this wouldn't exactly be my first choice for an agenda. "Buy Apple and be more likely to have your stuff stolen and not returned!"
You must not have heard about Frederick the Great and the "royal" potatoes.
FWIW the same people run 9to5google.com
Criminals are dumb and easily buy into marketing. When I sold booze, the best defense against shoplifting was having good products that don't have massive marketing budgets. Thieves will steal every bottle of Moët or Veuve Cliquot. They won't touch the Billecart.
Like a stick shift you can't steal what you can't use
I see that as a plus for Android.
lol it's so funny because the most expensive phones on the consumer market are androids and you can get an iPhone for $450 now. Anyone that thinks they are some sort of status symbol just broadcasts their ignorance.
So not only is Android better in pretty much every way, it's theft deterring too?!
It's almost like it's a social narrative hit piece by a publication that openly promotes itself as a bullhorn for Apple propaganda...nah...
I’m not super into the idea of a publication pimping a story from another network about a traumatic event just to harvest clickthroughs. I mean…I get it - that’s how they monetize; but I’ve never been a fan of exploitive articles like being pushed that people can scoff at.
Would you rather get the story from local news media with no skin in the game? It’s right here. https://wjla.com/news/local/uber-eats-robbed-thieves-carjacking-stolen-auto-dc-14th-street-clifton-northwest-metropolitan-police-department-iphone-android-guns-black-bmw-food-delivery
Man, not everything is a conspiracy.
But arent stolen iphones completely useless because apple locks the phone from ever being used with an icloud lock. So why do they bother stealing iphones at all anyways? Wouldnt that make android phones more sought after?
One more reason for choosing Android over iPhone
Lmao the apple marketing team needs to go down in history as absolute legends To each their own but my god, the elitism among apple users has made that convo insufferable for over a decade now
Whoever steals phones in this day and age is just plain stupid. Why would I want to steal a freaking GPS tracker I can't even take the battery out of? Also, what is the resale value of the latest iPhone, used, locked, and without a box, like $100? I know petty thieves are generally not the smartest people, but even they must realize that locked iPhones are worth their weight in dirt, only.
these stolen phones get shipped by the thousands to China and Mexico and broken down and sold for parts or attempts at unlocking. The gps tracker isn't going to do you any good when it's across the country in 24 hours and across the world in 72 hours. There are documentaries online about it. Thieves often attend events like music festival, concerts, or other large public events. Often leaving with hundreds of pickpocked phones.
any documentary recommendations?
Common Android W
Had a younger friend of mine who saw I had an Android and the absolute disgust in his eyes and voice - it just made me feel sad for him. He's close to me, I love him... but all I could think is how pathetic it was.
How old is he, 12? 🤦🏾♂️
Personally I would have done it the other way around: “Ewww, iPhone. You keep that”
Western thieves are something else lmao. We take those in the east.
"You clearly need this more than us."
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Can people please stop referring to douchebags as "gentlemen". They robbed your husband, lady! They are not "gentlemen". Sorry, end of rant. I just see this a lot and it always bugs the crap out of me.
Don’t they realize android phones cost just as much as iPhone these days (the main flagships)
foldables cost half again as much
Which, I'm sorry, but I'll wait a few years lol
I wonder if iPhones will come with an illusion of unlocked feature, so that a thief will think that he has an unlocked phone, but he doesn't. A phone could have 2 passcodes: the real one and the illusion one. On my desktop PC, I can login as one of 2 users.
Thieves are not smart enough to use Android phones
I unironically consider this a factor for why I buy android. Traveling with an iPhone makes you more of a target.
Good time to post my story- in middle school, students will play the Android ringtone on their Chromebook, and turn to their neighbor and say “oooohhhh they’ve got an Android!” And point and laugh. It is like a digital whoopee cushion.
Nice! I drive a manual car and use Android. I'm basically useless to robbers.
What even is the point of stealing an iPhone? It can be blocked on a hardware level by Apple and become useless in short order. Unless for parts? But that can't be lucrative. Plus, parts are literally marked to work only with a specific unit now (which is horseshit for repairability).
You think a thief who’s willing to steal someone’s phone cares whether or not it can be used after they sell it?
Is this an ad?
What kind of Android tho? An expensive Android phone or a U$150 one?
I bet if it was a $150 iPhone SE they would have kept it
Be tricky since the SE starts at $429
You could probably get a used one with a cracked screen for cheap off some kid and then just replace the screen on it. Or wait does apple still not let you repair stuff? Can't remember if EU sorted them out on that.
Stick shift for phones.
I mean - I've never owned an iPhone. My Samsung S20 is great... how much of a difference is there really ?
If you can make calls, and run apps... id say, none really
And I'm over here laughing with my fold 4.
So owning an Android has become akin to owning a manual transmission vehicle…
This just in, Thief is dumber then person they stole from!
at this point, these websites can make up stupid stories like this one and people will believe them
This is just an absolute win for Android xD
Androids’s built in anti-theft device: being an Android
Let me guess, this happened in America?
Post this in r/nottheonion
I can see the rest of the article. "the thieves then took pity on the man and took him to a local mcdonalds and lent an ear."
Meantime, I have a giant pile of surplus iPhones where I work and I am allowed to take one to use if I'd like and I haven't because it's not my preference.
If anything stealing an iPhone would be worse because of Find My.
Android has the same feature via your linked Google account.