There are also instances that most likely exist just to suck up data for AI/LLM training. People were up in arms about it happening on Reddit and trying to torch their comments when here they’re giving it away for free and there are less bots because it’s a newer platform.

Ever been to New York?

I love my Elite but I think it’s absolutely stupid that I have to connect to one of their servers in order to change activities and buttons. There is literally zero reason for that. You could easily have an app that connects locally to the device and can do it there. I could see needing their service if you want to download new remote profiles but that should be it.

The internet was simultaneously the best and worst thing for humanity.

Serious question: how does war thunder end up with the leaks they do all the time?

I’d do an ad that says: “We don’t pay the tariffs. You do” — Canada

Not to mention engineering. Placing weight on the land is one thing. Placing weight on top of each other, now you need to make sure it’s not going to collapse which…. Yeah, costs more money.

That’s a non-sequeter. You started by saying that internet on cars were bad and then switched to “you should be using bikes”

Yeah I point out that Texas used to actually be part of Mexico and the border moved, not the people.

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Just a note. The government is using Signal most likely to get around FOIA and other requests for documentation and accountability.

The number of F-bombs in Final Fantasy 16 is quite impressive.

I think I mentioned it in another post but Schwaticars are a bit different. Though I’d assume they’d have to have some basic functionality in the event of an outage. “Always on” hasn’t come to cars… yet

Again though, they are all quality of life things. You don’t have to use it on most cars. Don’t want it, don’t pay for it and don’t use it. So just like giving people the choice of AA/CP, what’s wrong with giving them the choice of using those features?

I mean, what’s the alternative? It’s not like it has to have internet. Anything internet connected is mainly quality of life:

• Traffic
• Remote (app) features
• Music

Except maybe Teslas, damned if I know what they do. But they’re nice to have things that generally require realtime updates but the car functions just fine as a car without it.

Yeah I’ve used the Audi one and it sucks. Especially traffic, so many missing streets and odd routing.

Frankly CarPlay and Android Auto suck in my opinion compared to iDrive 7 on my BMW.

But… that being said, I do support choice. I wouldn’t even consider a car that doesn’t allow CP/AA as I think it should be up to the consumer to pick which one they want to use.

Something else that people don’t think about besides the backend server is the connectivity. A lot of these cars use LTE with eSIMs that can’t be replaced, and getting an internet package for it will be next to impossible since Tesla gets them at bulk rates. Once upon a time cars did allow “bring your own SIM cards” but not anymore. Also as cars get older the cell networks get shut down. Some companies did offer upgrades but that was few and far between. Most just said “sorry, you’re SOL”.

So even if you could hack your car, your car won’t have any way of talking to a custom endpoint.

I have never once used discord and it makes me wonder how much information I haven’t been able to find, but I’ve managed to get what I need so I don’t know if it was important anyway.

We do plenty of stuff for human consumption. Computers work for us, not the other way around. Insensitivity should be the default. It’s okay to give options. I’m not saying take that away.