Well, at least they got the piece of string right but… No tissues, no nail clipper and file? No band-aids, disinfectant, eye drops, sugar lumps, lip balm?
Anyway, judging by the weight of my hand bag the curling rock definitely IS somewhere at the bottom but I can't find it. There must be a secret pocket…
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Vieille biologiste avec un tropisme pour le DIY, la récup' dans les poubelles, le minimalisme et les chats.
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Ancient biologist with soft spots for DIY, dumpster diving / upcycling, minimalism and cats.
Fan of Fantasy and SF, eclectic cinema and music lover, ex-gamer since Steam. FOSS advocate.
For recent cars I am afraid you are right. My current and "old" car has a built in navigation system with the map on an SD-card. No need for a connection to a smartphone - which I do not own. Therefore I suppose it is not communicating with the manufacturer.
Then, someone in my family with a more recent car got several "firmware updates" out of the blue, hinting to a 'permanent' connection to the manufacturer.
I have the feeling we need to start organizing and claim a "right to disconnection". Having the car dial for help after a crash is one thing but what Mozilla's report describes is at another, much higher level.
PS2 and VGA connector, tiny heatsink, only 1 USB slot… That's an antedeluvian machine, no wonder it can't take the load ^^
Would that be what is referred to as Eternal September? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal\_September
I discovered it only a few weeks ago and I am sad to say that 1994-1995 was when I went online for the first time. With an AOL "Free 20 hours access". I undoubtedly contributed to degrade the quality of discussions, not mentioning choking several dial-accesses with the freakinig 50x50 pixels pictures I uploaded on my very first homepage.
Sorry, I'm so sorry…
Right!
If I had gotten 10 cent each time I heard (or said) this I would be close to 10 € by now :D
I switched to Linux back in 2006 but not everyone has the knowledge, the capacity or the motivation to do so.
It is because of rumors about Windows starting to implement this type of measures that I moved to Ubuntu… That was shortly before Windows Vista came out, back in 2006.
I never went back again, except briefly on an air-gaped machine under 7 to play Skyrim and Grim Dawn.
+1. I use it to help non-tech relatives. Apparently works on different OSes, including Android.
Install, setup password, create icon on desktop and name it "Help me" - Done.
Do you wish to submit me to a Turing test? I am sure at 92.82293 % that I could demonstrate my appartenance to your species.
Valid point, no offense taken. I did not think about the airbags! As for damages to the vehicle, this is something I understand an am willing to accept. If I do stupid things I have to face consequences.
Anyway, getting the help of a mechanic would be point number 1 on my list. If can find one willing to take the challenge :)
Thanks, this looks like a very nice backup tool, especially for non-technical users. I can think about several people in my family who could benefit from it but I first need to convince them about the importance of making backups.
On the personal side, if I ever get fed up with borg and command lien I might give it a try :)
Great! Enjoy :)
Thanks! Knowing that what I might be searching for would be somewhere under the dashboard is a good first step.
Then I am not an engineer nor have any experience in electronics BUT I know from my dad that taking the dashboard apart is not an easy task. If I would succeed I do not know what I would be looking for… Would tan antenna look like a piece of wire? Or could it be embedded in the 'copper' circuitry of a PCB? Do cars use regular SIM cards like the ones found in phones or would they look different?
The maintenance manual would probably be a good place to start before trying to put anything apart.
Yup: write down the password when you set up the software and feed it to your "own" RustDesk on your computer.
Although I recently had a case where the password on the remote machine seemed to have changed by its own, but it could be me or the machine owner who did something funny without noticing.
Thanks a lot for your post ! The future of cars looks grim.
Serious and naive question: how could I get rid of the tracking at the hardware level when I will have no choice other than to buy a connected car?
Is there an antenna or a SIM card somewhere that I could disconnect/remove? Would the car continue to work if the connection to the manufacturer's server is lost?