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  • Connected cars can be hacked, research finds

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  • My experience is from VW/Skoda, Hyundai and volvo...the volvo was by far the worst and an absolute button-hell, it has insanely bad interior design.

    I 100% prefer managing settings on a screen where I can get a proper detailed layout and logic representation of functional structure.

  • Connected cars can be hacked, research finds

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  • Where it's the most beneficial is when I can walk around e.g. a mall and the decide to heat/cool the car before leaving, or coming back from a hike I can start cooling 15min before we arrive at the car so it's nice and cool when we get there. If I can only start it 300' feet from the car, I might as well just wait the 30sec it takes to keep walking until I get there, it won't make a difference.

    Edit: for EVs it doesn't need to start/enable the entire car, it only starts the AC unit.

  • Connected cars can be hacked, research finds

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  • Yes and for the past few decades the features of cars has exploded giving the driver a lot of options for configuration. Go through the car settings menu on any new car that isn't just the cheapest scraped version, there's dozens upon dozens of options that you can configure. Without a screen (not necessarily touch) to manage this, it would be button-hell where you couldn't find anything.

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  • I'm not saying it is necessary, I'm just explaining why it is not air gapped.

    But if you were to have a physical button for every single thing you can adjust in modern cars, you'd literally need over 100 buttons which is absolutely insanely bad design.

    Edit: not to mention that most of these settings can't be clearly identified with small simple pictograms. All in all it would make a confusing and horrible mess of the interior.

  • Connected cars can be hacked, research finds

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  • Because the infotainment panel is also used to manage features in the car that need to be controlled by the vehicles main controller, e.g. ESC enable/disable, auto start/stop of the engine, park assist systems etc.

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  • Remotely enabling heating/cooling of my car so it's ready when I get to it is just so god damn nice. This is only possible with internet connection, if it's limited by keyfob range to the vehicle then it may as well not exist.

  • Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40%

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  • I'm definitely not running newest HW, I'm running on 6y/o HW and refurbished HDDs bought 2 years ago. But even if my power was free (it isn't), and nothing breaks (it will), I would need to run the server for ~10 years to make up for the subscriptions it let me drop.

  • Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40%

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  • Ah, but your hardware is most definitely not free. and even if bought used, and your power is literally completely free, it will likely fail or be too obsolete before any actual savings occur. Not to mention the massive time-sink it quickly becomes (especially in the beginning).

    I'm not saying don't self host, just don't think you'll save any money doing it.

  • Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40%

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  • If you're making your own server to save money, boy do i have a bridge to sell you!

  • US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash

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  • I'm pretty sure it's the same overhyped bullshit on the European version of the Tesla site as in the US, the actual product available in cars is just limited more.

  • US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash

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  • Yeah I am, and here it is nothing but well-marketed lane-assist. It does better than other brands, but nothing resembling actually steering of the car.

  • US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash

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  • The "auto steer" is what is called lane assistance in other brands, it just keeps you centered in the lane and will do so for mild turns without disengaging. It doesn't take turns or anything resembling actual steering beyond that, it goes straight and keeps the lane in mild bends in the road like all others.

  • Tesla Switches Full Self-Driving to Subscription Only

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  • Yeah they probably could, like all manufactures can these days, but I haven't heard of it actually happening outside of them going back in to Tesla to be resold. Directly from person to person they retain features and even free supercharge access.

  • Tesla Switches Full Self-Driving to Subscription Only

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  • The only cases I've heard that fit this, is some of the old model S where "free supercharging" got removed from vehicles that were resold through Tesla.

    Do you have a link to cases where functionality actually got removed from vehicles sold privately directly? I wouldn't be surprised if it happened, I just haven't heard of any.

  • US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash

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  • people hurt by the supposed "Autopilot"

    I thought these cases were all regarding incidents with the FSD package and not autopilot? The autopilot (in Tesla) is just TACC and lane-assist, the "advanced" autonomous features that actually steer the car is all in FSD.

  • California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

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  • Clogged...like a broadcast storm? IDK, I can see the analogy working, but I don't doubt that any resemblance of correctness was purely coincidental.

  • California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

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  • I mean.....replace the word "tubes" with "cables" and it's apparent it's not completely wrong. he's reasonably correct on an ELI5 level I would say.

  • Pentagon seeks commercially built GEO spy satellites

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  • The Pentagon is trying to fast-track the deployment of spacecraft for surveillance of geosynchronous Earth orbit, or GEO, a strategically important region roughly 22,000 miles above Earth where many U.S. communications, missile warning and intelligence satellites operate.

    So...they want a solution to monitor what is currently moving around in GEO. Doesn't seem particularly sinister or even like "spying"

  • Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says

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  • Lemmy is by no means private or secure, and depending on your level of op-sec you are easily identifiable.