Appreciate the link, I didn’t see the website was in a repository. I opened an issue.

Looks interesting but I am curious about their ‘Community Survey’ results, this line in particular:

From this we can see that the majority is currently running on Windows (47 users across the various versions), followed by Linux users across a few different distros (57 users across Mint(9), Ubuntu(13), Fedora (3), Debian(13), FlatPak(5), Mageia(1), Slackware(2), Arch(9), Gentoo (1), PCLinuxOS (1)).

I am not a mathematician or anything, so quite possible I missed something, but wouldn’t the 57 Linux users be the majority?

Exactly

For sure, I agree the phone integration is a better solution and could easily take the place of any connection requirements for the vehicle, was just providing insight into why any consumer might justify it.

Why the manufacturers push it would be a totally different answer…

Do you want realtime traffic updates, live charger status, streaming entertainment, software updates, emergency crash response, Wi-Fi hotspot, remote alarm status and controls, remote telematics? If yes to any of those, then you have your answer.

Of course, simply having a connection opens it up for privacy abuses, just like a smartphone, there are number of reasons why consumers would want a connected vehicle.

Who pays if you get myocarditis from COVID?

“The casks are expected to last 50–100 years…”. Let’s see 2025-1972=53 years. Sounds like it is nearing time to start replacing these or to figure out a better solution to reuse the high level waste.

You can make it work on 120V, it just uses ~20-30% more energy due to the overhead of running all the vehicle systems for so much longer while charging.

Here is a video demonstrating the lidar killing pixels in a phone camera sensor.

They also tried cameras on other vehicles but those were not affected, only the cellphone aimed directly at the lidar suffered damage.

Appreciate the extra insight. Any sources you recommend if someone is trying to avoid news sources that are corporate biased or propaganda outlets?

Other large outlets not on the list like BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, RT, all seem like they would fall into one or the other of those categories to varying degrees. Visibility on quality, unbiased, sources of news is certainly needed now more than ever.

I am quite curious to know what news sources you consider to not be “corporate-neolibral brained” if NPR, The Associated Press, Newsmax, and Fox News are all the same in your book?

Maybe I just misunderstood the point you were going for and need some clarification.

They do have an EDR you can access.

Ah the Yamhilll Pub, the graffiti continues on the inside as well.