I am waiting for federation to land. Would love to give it a spin and see how smooth that works across instances.
madnificent
joined 2 years ago
It was a fast diesel, in 1993. For today's standards both the 525td as well as the 525i would not be very impressive. The latter more than the former though. But the handling characteristics, driver communication and joy to drive were great back then and are still amazing today. The 525td had one of the smoothest diesel engines I have ever experienced. From the sound to the power delivery it is all a gradual and consistently predictive curve.
That 300td is a W123 with a 5 cylinder engine, right? We have a 240d, they don't easily rev up but they don't stall easily either. In their day, these were very respectable in terms of diesel car performance. They're very reliable work horses and generally nice to drive, though there's a very very big gap with the driving dynamics of the e34.
My main concern with the diesel is not as much the price as it is the impact on the environment. They're made for pleasure or the occasional freight hauling at this point. Keeping that in mind, the 240d (and thus also the 300td) are very accepting to alternative oil-like fuels, like biodiesel or really anything you can get your hands on. We used sunflower oil at some point. Make sure there's sufficient regular diesel for starting the engine. With how they behaved in their day, I doubt they'll pollute more with sunflower oil too.
Thank you for keeping this on the road!
We still have a 1993 e34 525td with (I think) over 500k km on it. It is not road worthy but I couldn't get rid of it either. I am conflicted to put another diesel on the road at this time so I guess it will sit there for a while longer. It is a very very nice all-rounder that communicates very well to the driver.
Keep it running :D
Looks like another nice release.
I am running 1.8.1 on a ph-1 and it shows there is no system update available. Is something misconfigured on my end or will this flow through later?
My whole work environment is tightly integrated ensuring I can use the same tools nearly everywhere. Things like keybindings (deleting a sentence, spellchecking a region, multiple cursors), macro's (ad-hoc repetitive command sequences), the consistent mostly text-based visual look & feel. All of this lowers the cognitive load.
Comparing to an IDE, Emacs is more of a hyper-configurable integrated work environment. In my case, my code editor (Emacs), my knowledge base (org-roam), my tasks manager (ad-hoc on top of org-mode), my email client (mu4e), my tiling window manager (exwm), interaction with git (magit) and git issues and PRs (forge) as well as some other tools are controlled from Emacs. I call them 'my' because they're sometimes slightly modified to scratch my own itches. I could integrate my calendar but Google's webdav APIs seemed flaky at the time and FireFox only gets some consistent keybindings.
Just a few more years and Emacs will turn 50 years old. You never know what the future will bring but there's a reasonable chance I will not have to throw away what I have learned so far.
Some examples of this integration:
M-x develop-projectnamecommand that boots up the application, arranges my windows with the right folders open, backend and frontends started, and a place for FireFox (not integrated, only uses some of the same keybindings)If you want to come to the dark side and like VIm's keybindings, you may want to use Emacs's evil-mode and keep them. It might just be the best of both worlds.