It doesn’t help that much. Each tire of a fully loaded 18 wheeler carries 4.4x the weight of a typical car tire. 4.4 ^ 4 = 378x the damage per tire but there are also 4.5x the tires so your at 1,700x the damage.
That’s an oversimplification, but it doesn’t really matter if it’s 99.9% or 95% of the damage ware is still absolutely dominated by heavy vehicles.
And how many more SUVs go through that road? If there's a few hundred SUVs for every 18 wheeler, it's no longer negligible: it's 10 or 30% of the damage.
And it could be a lot more negligible, if that mostly drive alone, drove a car with half the weight.
I used 4,000lb for the car, a 2024 Chevrolet Suburban which is huge only clocks in at a 5,824 lbs. Load another 1,000lb for passengers etc and (6,824/4000) ^ 4 = 8.5x a car or 0.5% what I calculated for a full 18 wheeler.
Sure there’s more cars than 18 wheelers but 7,000lb is a rather extreme outlier in terms of SUV weight.
Well, my 7 seater has a kerb weight of 2780 lbs (and it's a hybrid, the petrol is lighter); fully loaded it's under 4400 lbs.
And it's probably heavier than most cars around here, because most cars are not 7 seaters, but 4/5 seat hatches.
US SUVs and pickup trucks wouldn't fit most parking lots around here (to tall, to wide to even get in), but somehow the problem is never the size/weight of cars people got used to drive.
Thanks for posting. The rest of the blog is also short and sweet, I’m struggling a bit with self worth and self criticism so I found it very touching and relatable.
It’s kind of interesting how I’ve come to expect blog posts to be much longer since microblogging pretty much exists exclusively on social media.
IANAL. But I believe it's not that easy. First it would have to be a foregone conclusion that you had contraband on your phone before merely locking it could be construed as obstruction. Then they'd have to demonstrate that you locked the phone at a time when you had reason to believe that you might be coerced to unlock it because it was a foregone conclusion that you had contraband. Are those likely circumstances? Probably not, though it will happen to someone, sometime, but when it does it will be because they did something stupid or because the cops overstepped their authority (in the latter case the process is the punishment, and it wouldn't be the cops getting punished).
iPhone periodically disables biometrics until you enter your passcode. They aren’t going to be able to prove that the reason the phone is asking now isn’t that.
I’m using Infuse as well, and it’s pretty amazing.
The main thing that Infuse does differently from all the others is that it always does Direct Play (in Plex parlance) so you don’t need anything powerful or power hungry to be hosting the video.
Most devices that will play video these days are powerful enough to do the decoding themselves and have the bandwidth available.
I use Jellyfin and it defaults to direct play unless you need transcoding (e.g: the client device doesn't support the chosen format, Firefox with h265 for example, due to licensing) and it will just remux if the container is the only issue. The desktop client just uses mpv so it supports basically everything directly.
> Most devices that will play video these days are powerful enough to do the decoding themselves and have the bandwidth available.
IME this varies a lot between devices. Google TV dongles for example, even the 4K versions, are built with extremely weak SoCs (as in early 2010s phone weak) and lean hard on hardware acceleration. If you want to play back a format that isn’t hardware accelerated on one of these, you’ll have to rely on media server transcoding.
In my memory of Plex on my Apple TV device it was off by default and hidden in an advanced menu or something. Not impossible by any means, just annoying.
