Our new van has a backup camera; nice, since the back is about 12 FEET (not inches) away (okay, not quite that far).
But it’s really taking some getting used to. It’s not a separate screen to look at; it shows up on the left half of the rear-view mirror. It’s very weird, because looking at the mirror, as opposed to looking at the reflection, is a totally different focus point. So when I instinctively look in the mirror, the left half is bright and fuzzy, because the camera view partially obscures the mirror view that I’m used to.
And I haven’t gotten to the point of knowing just how close something can be in the camera view before I need to stop backing up.
On the bright side, this van has windows in the sliding door, so I can actually see what is out of the right side! Our old one was a solid door; I got used to always using pull through spaces if I could, or in places with one-way traffic, parking on the left so that I could see what was coming. This is a big step up (it also has more power, more capacity, cruise control, power locks and windows, and a decent radio; all a big step up from the old one).
But I still tend to use pull-through spaces if possible…
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OK gather round boys and girls so this one is about backing up your work/CYA.
I forgot to run the tmux command before starting today’s update and BBBZZZZTTT my desktop rebooted mid running update commands, so the SAS update process terminated.
Always backup/CYA!
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Super quick update 10/07/2026, oh wow the quick text editor changed but I don’t hate it
Yeah that’s my one thing. I think they are making you look at the preview before hitting reply but I hear you loud and clear
This happens when your expectations have been lowered so much by dealing with Amazon… 
We tried that but like the preview to see how it looks before posting. That extreme right position is just a PITA because of a prior broken wrist that never healed correctly.
Again just a wish
Def not as bad as the New Seller Central…
We’ll get used to it
Wow. Talk about a Low Bar!
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