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Just a not so quick update about my beloved GV60 and the persistent 12v battery problem.

My 12v battery seems to die way too often. I’ve been able to figure out windowsbut it exposes another problem this time with the Genesis App.

I replaced all the door seals and sound dampeners to make my car really quiet and sealed. A side effect of this is that if there are no windows down and you close the door, there’s no way for the air inside the car to escape so you get pushback on the door that is pretty subtle. Needless to say if you have a bunch of groceries in your hand and you push the door with your foot, there no way to be sure if it’s closed.

Other luxury brands automatically lower the windows slightly ensuring that you don’t blow the glass out when you slam the door, for example. Without that feature, the door looks closed but it isn’t.

Previously it would drain the 12v when the door was imperceptibly open with no notice. After the update, my partner gets a message that the door is open. Only my partner wasn’t driving the car, I was. I got no such message. That’s problematic

What’s worse is that when the door is left slightly ajar, after a while it triggers the alarm. What is killing the battery is the alarm. That’s also a problem.

So after cleaning the car today, I went inside to cool off. I heard the alarm go off so I pressed the button on the remote to stop it. Three additional times the alarm goes off I press the key on the remote and think it just triggered the alarm from my keychain. I turn it off and a couple minutes later the same thing. I put my keys on the rack and check the app notifications. All is well no alarms.

After three times of flashing the lights and triggering the alarm to alert me of an opened door, the battery is dead. No alerts on app.

Fortunately AAA is I the way so I can get my weekend started.

My complaint is again the car should go out of its way to never render itself dead. Never. It has Utility mode, it should be smart enough to charge it from the big battery. It should never trigger the battery consuming lights and horn using the 12v battery. And it should give alerts to all people registered to that car. Or at least to the last person who drove it. Not just one person …sometimes. And finally, the App should display critical alerts front center. It doesn’t.

And let the chorus of Saint Owners with the trigger downvote fingers who have leaky, noisy cars in exchange for the convenience of never having the door partially ajar start with the self righteous , ‘I’ve never had that problem so it’s your issue not Genesis’.Congratulations on being sainted and giving us mortals someone to look up to. If you are happy that you don’t have a perfect seal on your car so you never have this problem, great!

it doesn’t excuse the failure of alerting the wrong person and the failure to show the error in the app when logged in. My fault or not, those are problems on Genesis’ end that could easily be resolved.

Thx for reading.

Let me start by saying that I am old. I had one of the first Motorola Box Phones--that old.

Before the iPhone came out, lots of cell phones had retractable antennas that you could replace if needed. I had one that lit up brightly whenever a call came in.

From there, I had an indiglo case that lit up when I received a call on my cell phone.

I even had a device that I plugged in and could set my cell phone on (Long before wireless charging) and it would trigger a super bright flash on top of my cubicle to alert me when someone called if I was across the room or if the environment was noisey.

Somehow these cell-signal triggered light devices went out of style.

I realize you can use the camera flash or smart appliances and triggers now, but they used to have tiny devices that somehow sensed a cell call coming in.

How could I make one today with LEDS, for example. The problem with Indiglo is that you had to have 120V to light the crystals up. With LEDs, it should be a lot easier.

But my question is what sort of component would be able to trigger something when a cell call came in? Was it some sort of RF Sensor that clumsily got triggered by the cell signal or what?

I realize I am aging myself, but a long, long time ago, I had a bunch of cool accessories for my phone. One was a phone case with an EL panel that lit up when a call came in. Another was a pen that flashed and vibrated when your phone rang. Another one was a super bright light that you would plug into a regular power outlet and set on your cubicle wall that would flash so you could tell you were getting a phone call in a loud environment.

Did this only work because we were using TDMA or something? All of the devices were third-party, but they worked. I was working on a clip-on piece of tech that I hoped to attach to a set of glasses to light an LED to let you know when a call came in.

But I don't see anything like that anymore.

I use Illustrator a lot. The field variables (x:, y:, etc) in the Properties panel always attempt to show the field units (i.e., 1000px). My thought is that the interface would be a lot better if they hid the units or made the units a select box rather than cramming them into the field.

One of the nice things about Illustrator is that I can enter units in a field value and have it automatically convert to the document units. So if my document is set up in px and I enter 1 in in any field, it automatically converts to 72 px.

But again, that demonstrates the lack of need for units in the field. If, instead, the value remained in inches, I could understand having different units in fields. But since it automatically converts any input into document units, there's no need to display the units. It would really clean up the interface.

From a professional UI Design standpoint, is this a reasonable request--to stop displaying document units in the UI for Illustrator?

I have a simple image of an anthropomorphic pig that I want as my wallpaper.

I have tried a dozen different sizes based on Reddit posts and suggestions from other forums, and none of them work. They all do the same thing.

Any suggestions? Here are the images:

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My mother means the world to me. About 10 years ago, I called up a florist in Cheyenne and gave them a bunch of instructions about what my mother would and wouldn’t like. The florist hand delivered the bouquet to my mother and she was so excited she was in tears.

The girl had created a modern succulent/dried weed/ sculpture like thing that didn’t look like your typical Mother’s Day crap. It was perfect.

To my dismay, that young lady got outta Cheyenne quick and moved to SanDiego.

I need to find someone who can do something similar for my mom. One year I paid $150 for a bouquet trusting the florist and it ended up being gawdy and flashy—two thing my mother is not. It had birds of paradise in it—the worst mother day gift ever.

Does anyone know if a creative person that could put together a beautiful, modern, succulent bouquet that was tasteful and unique that could then deliver it to my mom? I can pay up to $150 if that helps. I’d like to see a picture of it before it’s delivered to make sure it’s not cheesey.

Please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks.

And the quality of calls is abysmal. I get stuttering and echos on nearly every call.

Why is this happening and should I try another SIP provider? Or is this a Ubiquity problem?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have about 7 mirrors that I have to move soon. They are all about 4 ft x 8 ft and extremely heavy -- doubt I could even lift one by myself.

Some things I plan to do:

• Place masking tape in a big X on each surface.
• Use either Funoodles or pipe insulation foam attached to the mirror edges on the floor.
• Wrap them in moving blankets
• Use powerful suction cups for glass

But I was curious if it would be a terrible idea to do something like take a 2x4x8 and cut a 1" groove down the middle of the long end. Place the mirror with the foam inside the goove to provide a solid edge and support for the mirror. Then add a series of rollers (like garage door rollers) attached through the wood to roll the mirror without lifting it. Use the suction cups to steady it vertically. (see diagram).

Then as for the stairs, place a 1x12 to make a ramp...sounds dangerous.

Any suggestions would be great. I'm thinking they may not be too heavy to carry, but I am getting old. If there was an easy way to do this, please let me know.

Oh, and no, I"m unable to hire a moving company to do it for me. Long story.

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Thanks for any help.