I never mentioned screwdrivers, Jokin did. I used a hairdryer, putty knife and isoproyl alcohol.
Just another example of how you troll every thread looking for an argument, if not with me, with others who "dare" to hold an opinion different to yours.
As for my idiocy in wanting dash cameras more rugged, a post you're trolled from a thread almost a year old, yes I'm getting old and occasionally drop things. You never remove your dashcam so it never happens to you, but if you remove something thousands of times a year, maybe 6-10 times a day, then eventually, yes you will drop it. Decent build quality isn't an unreasonable demand for something small, portable, often removed and easily dropped. Qudos to Mobius for making some effort here compared to many others.
As for you, it's time to accept other people have opinions different to yours and you're not always right, and there's not always a single answer for everything. It's also time to stop trolling for arguments, the very thing you accuse those you argue with of doing to you, ergo a post pulled from 1 year ago to this thread and off topic......
Trolling you?!!! You are quoting
my reply to jokiin, not
YOU! And jokiin didn't take my comment as an attack or provocation, he responded with a simple explanation for why he mentioned screwdrivers and cracked windscreens, to which I replied that
“People sure do dumb things sometimes, don't they” and that was the end of it and we all moved on to an interesting, hopefully practical and occasionally amusing discussion about the use of putty knives for our purposes as well as their nomenclature.
You need to get a grip on yourself and stop with these paranoid hysterics!
And speaking of trolling, two weeks ago
you initiated a six day insufferably repetitious argument about IR strobe photography after I casually mentioned that I might like to do some experimentation with some IR strobe emitters I own, insisting over and over that it can't work even though I never said a word about what sort of experimentation I intended to do or what sort of camera equipment I might use. Despite my repeated requests that you cease with your badgering, you continued. And here you are doing essentially the same thing. I say you are the troll here.
For some peculiar reason, time after time you keep twisting your tedious arguments into disputes about some ancillary, unrelated subject matter. Here, the subject was actually about how you are the only one among us who's ineptitude caused you to damage the glass on a windscreen removing a 3M VHB tape mount, not whether you used a screwdriver or some other instrument to cause the damage.
Similarly, when I pointed out that the so called “high end” lens you were touting for the 2.7K Mobius Maxi was actually designed for a camera with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels you shifted to a tedious argument about the semantics of the words “recommend” vs “suggest” as a way of sidestepping the actual issue I brought to your attention. And when I explained that “recommend” and “suggest” are literally synonyms that you can look up in any thesaurus or dictionary, you continued the argument more than 24 hours later claiming this fact is “rubbish”, thus continuing with the bickering. And why did you feel it appropriate to even start talking about alternative lenses in the first place in this thread about the Mobius Maxi? There are threads specifically dedicated to alternative lenses for the Mobius that you are well aware of.
If you are getting so old that you keep dropping things, perhaps you shouldn't even be driving at this point.
But really, the reason I've brought it up again is that your story about repeatedly dropping your camera on the pavement until you broke it has become somewhat of the benchmark for all the other outlandish logic we hear from you.
Instead of taking measures to avoid dropping your camera you went on and on for weeks (or was it months?) with a table pounding rant about how manufacturers should build ruggedized, armored dashboard cameras just for maladroit people like you who are so clumsy that they repeatedly drop their sensitive electronic/optical gadgets onto the concrete pavement all the time, something that I can confidently assure you manufacturers of dash cams will never ever do.
It has often been said that if your head hurts from banging it against a wall, the cure for the pain is to stop banging your head against the wall. Somehow, weirdly, according to your logic the solution is to have developers construct buildings with padded walls!
Another aspect of this story I have difficulty forgetting the more you engage me with this kind of logic is that at the time I suggested (or was it recommended?, I forget) that the way to avoid dropping your camera when you transport it from home to car was to get a tote bag or satchel of some sort, a simple solution you adamantly and repeatedly rejected for mysterious reasons.
Often it feels as if you live in some sort of strange alternate reality where you just make stuff up to suit your narrative in these, umm, “discussions” we have. Here, you are now stating as fact that,
“You never remove your dashcam so it never happens to you.” (dropping your cams on the pavement
) Where do you get such an odd notion? I've certainly never said such a thing. For two years now, I've been installing and removing at least one or more cameras per day, every day, such as my varifocal Mobius cams, the Mobius 2 I tested for 11 months and more recently the Mobius Maxi.
And you know what? I transport these cameras back and forth each day from my house to where I park my vehicle in the safe and secure side pocket of a tote bag, along with power banks and whatever else I may need to carry with me for the day. This way I don't risking dropping the cameras on the ground. It's all so simple.
So, look my friend, enough with both of us disrupting this thread with this nonsense. Let's move on, shall we? There are more worthwhile topics to explore.
