rikonium

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[–] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago

There have been some experimentation but the best (IMO) option is hitting the SOS button to call and navigating the phone menu to get to a representative, not emergency services and having them disconnect your car. You may need your VIN, you’ll need to confirm that you do not want connected services and it may take a day or so to take effect. Now, my SOS button doesn’t have the green light and while the radio - according to the infotainment - is still powered, it is no longer connected to the network.

Another way if you don’t plan on using the microphone (like for calls) you can pull the DCM fuse but I prefer the above option.

[–] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think while the topic is up it’ll be fun mentioning that the Colorado/Canyon does not have a physical headlight control anymore - in favor of defaulting to Auto and touchscreen controls and the project lead(?) claimed that the system was 100% bug-free.

Also later there was a bug with some OTA update for that model that’ll kill the battery.

Anyways, I bought a 4Runner and immediately called to disable its cellular radio. (dubbed DCM in Toyota-land)

[–] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

iMessage indicates “Delivered” for messages that was received by a recipient device and switches to “Read [time]” when read.

Otherwise it’ll sit without a Delivered or fallback to SMS.

[–] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

My parent's Hyundai had no customer-facing internet-related features on the car. Still had a cellular radio for telematics. A potential tell is an SOS button. (That's a non-issue since it's 3G now and that went bye-bye but 4G is going to be around a while)

But my similar age to your Focus, newer than the Sonata, Sorento had nothing that I could find. So it's possible.

[–] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

Echo Dot's joking, more binary per gigabyte doesn't actually make sense

[–] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

ADACA and Signalis just came out last year so not far behind but they were fun. ADACA is billed as Half-Life meets Halo meets STALKER by reviewers and it’s a fun, light FPS. (although I couldn’t get into the more open Zone Patrol mode)

Signalis though, that oozes atmosphere, an excellent soundtrack, and offered feels in a neat fleshed out world. I enjoyed the gameplay quite a bit, a callback to top-down survival horror from an era I never really played. I really appreciate a lack of jump scares except one enemy’s presence when you enter a room making your screen/radio go haywire but hardly FNAF material which I will only watch.

[–] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I just bought a refurb 256 for ~$350 out the door ($319 sticker) so I imagine you could get a bite in the high, mid-200’s although you’d probably also be cross-shopped against the 64 GB refurb (that’s mostly out of stock though)

[–] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I read in a couple spots earlier that the new battery is physically too big and the OLED panel won’t transfer either.

[–] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This is the refresh I was looking for. I didn't really care for more oomph, I care more about thermals and battery so this is right up my alley. But the question then becomes whether the discounted 1.0 model is appealing versus the refresh starting at $549. Good chance I'll swing OLED but we will see.

Update: So much for 2-hours-ago-me, ordered a refurb pre-refresh model.

[–] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Ahh, so the true rate would actually be 50% if it was no better than random chance?

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