With no actual deliveries in sight at all, it’s not really a serious contender for anyone actively searching for a car, even if they don’t need it right now, because it may be years before you can actually get it…if ever

The automatic emergency braking is probably one of the absolutely best safety features in “recent” cars…and i say “recent” because this has been standard equipment on all trim levels for probably a decade.

Also it’s so barebones it doesn’t even exist yet

I mean, there is a fairly good argument to be made for safety features that actually increase road safety. The tech and legislation requiring it is not bad, it’s the unnecessary data-hoovering that can go on top of it that’s bad. This is where we sort of rely on GDPR to provide at least some guard rails, although it isn’t currently enough.

Be very much aware that these old Renault Zoe use chademo for fast charging, a connector that literally isn’t used anywhere anymore so you’re relegated to AC charging. Oh, and a funny little quirk with them; they cannot charge with less that 6KW AC because of how they use the motor inverter. sometimes with public AC chargers this is an issue due to load distribution between multiple chargers.

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Legislation can sometimes be a bit weird, so they might not actually be allowed to let you cover the camera despite allowing you to disable the system in settings. Most likely this system is restored to default enabled state every time the car “starts” because this is often a requirement for safety systems that can be disabled.

Driver awareness systems A.K.A. driver-facing cameras have been a thing for quite some time now, and they do in fact serve a legitimate safety purpose which is detecting if you’re falling a sleep or distracted from looking at the road. If you’re in the EU these systems are mandatory which is also why the car complains when the cameras are covered.

Unfortunately these systems can also be exploited for nefarious tracking purposes without any real way to know for sure.

Edit: they don’t use any “AI” for the detection AFAIK, just regular old ML (which may be labelled AI for marketing purposes though).

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I’m not sure how card payments work in the US, but here the terminals have offline-mode where the purchases are just stored locally until it comes online again.

If there’s a total blackout, having cash maybe be better (but absolutely no guarantee they’re usable at the grocery store)…but there’s a whole lot of other much more pressing issues in that case.

Just use your browser and Proton Free tier VPN and you’re set.

What would this “adult” app be used for? Porn? Hookups? Finding No-kids-allowed restaurants?

I’ve been using a combination of Opentracks for GPS/map and gadgetbridge+PAIesque with an amazfit neo and Decathlon HRM band for metrics and analysis for about a week now, and it’s honestly just inferior in every single way compared to my Coros Pace 2.

So there are solutions, but they all kind of suck a little and you have to be willing to accept that.

Curious, how do you plan to download from your newsgroups if you are not exposed to the internet? This is no different that the internet access e.g. qbit needs.

Not really, most SFF PCs top out below 70W at absolute maximum, 100W-400W at idle is improbable.

For reference, mine uses 7W on average running my home automation and some other things, when it’s actually idling it’s well below that.

That would make it way too high at anywhere from 100W to 400W depending on where in the world they are.

Have you tried doing a DNS lookup from the router (pinging a host by name, say) when you were having the problems?

Yes this works when I’m having issues. I guess I’ll try looking in to my routers DNS next time i have issues. For now it’s working again (I still haven’t changed anything)

Just default for my gl.inet, haven’t changed anythingon that part.

I mean, i have narrowed it down to some kind of DNS issue, I just don’t know what. Right now everything is working again (I haven’t changed anything), so I’ll have to keep looking next time it stops working. It’s just weird it works for days/weeks at a time, and then suddenly breaks for a few hours until it “magically” fixes it self again without me doing anything.