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can you elaborate?

No, I wasn’t even thinking about remote bricking when I did it.

All of the car makers are making big money by selling your telematics data, so insurance companies can charge you more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

and then there is this:

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-buying-americans-location-data-under-scrutiny-11627381

Unfortunately, the Leaf doesn’t really know the SIM is removed, so it still asks me every month. But fortunately, now it doesn’t matter what I answer 🙂

I got under the dashboard and removed the SIM from my Leaf. Took a screwdriver and 15 minutes, but Youtube showed me the entire process.

nobody would see this but me

Hehe I see it too, now.

Anybody else notice how Lexus front grille looks like classic Cylon from Battlestar Galactica?

miss having a truck bed. Can’t say I miss the fuel bill though.

For less than one year’s truck fuel bill, you could buy a trailer and never have to worry about renting one again…

No, they can’t think and reason. However, they can replicate and integrate the thinking and reasoning of many people who have written about similar problems. And yes, they can do it must faster than we could read a hundred search result pages. And yes, their output looks slightly better than many of us in many cases, because they are often dispensing best practices by duplicating the writings of experts. (In the best cases, that is.)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01191

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/

Often known as the “Gartner Hype Cycle”

I just did this. I installed a banana pi r4 as my main router with no wifi, and a couple of separate APs. I bought some Extreme Networks APs on ebay for USD$15 each, already flashed with openwrt.

I used the YouTube tutorials by OneMarcFifty to set up vlans for alternate SSIDs. Works great!