When we purchased our new house 5 years ago, we had a Tesla PowerWall installed. It came with a Telstra 3G SIM card and when they installed it, I told them to connect it via Ethernet. The technician refused, saying that it has 3G and doesnât need to be connect to the home network at all.
I received a text from Tesla this morning, telling me that our PowerWall will not be covered by warranty when Telstra kill 3G at the end of next month.
I then received an email from Tesla (that looked like Spam).
I then receive a phone call from Tesla.
I mentioned that I donât have WiFi coverage in my garage and they told me to move my router. I told them that I instructed the technician to connect via Ethernet originally and they said that I would need to get the technician back out to connect it.
I am not allowed to plug Ethernet into it without voiding warranty and I need to plug Ethernet into it to prevent the warranty from being void.
There is a difference between destroying looms, corrupting LLMs by feeding bad data and causing an uprising like the Butlerian Jihad of Dune or the Second Renaissance of The Matrix.
There are legitimate uses for vehicle telemetry being stored by the vehicle and uploaded to the manufacturer.
Identifying unexpected behaviour under certain driving conditions and being able to contact emergency services in an accident are two important examples. Remote diagnosis in the case of a breakdown is another.
None of these uses include selling the data to third parties or using the data to create a profile of the vehicle owner.
It is currently the only domestic retail industry.
Previously, there was automotive, but over time, the secondary automotive manufacturing (parts and components) was outsourced overseas (because it was cheaper by cents-in-the-dollar), which was the beginning of the end.
The building industry is still supporting the secondary industries of building materials. Forestry, plaster/concrete/brick manufacturing and other bulk industries rely on builders to stay solvent, so they do get a fair bit of leeway.
With the cessation of the Home Owners Grants and other corporate welfare, the builders Ponzi schemes are starting to collapse and the national economy cannot afford another major fizzling out of another major industry.
Builders canât squeeze their suppliers any more, so the only way they can continue is to rip-off their retail customers.
When Christian Selig announced his independent Apple Vision YouTube App, I thought twice about actually getting one, just so I wouldât have to use YouTubes ridiculous Application and Web UIs.
Considering all the Bloatware that Microsoft has been pumping out lately (donât get me started or Outlook), this may be a good excuse to get a Radeon Graphics Card.
If I can be guaranteed that installing this software will prevent having to deal with CoPilot, I would jump on that straight away.
Why donât they believe they need to pay tax?
Because they donât want to and some scam artist told them they didnât have to, and they are fucking idiots.
You have to wonder where this idiocy comes from; it is people who donât want to pay taxes so make up some
Bullshit and share it online?, is it people who want to scam other people and feed them bullshit so they can make money off the gulliable?, is it people who spread disinformation because they want to see the world burn?
Mine had a 3-speed crash box with an unusual shift-pattern that basically made the theft-proof.
It also ran on both LPG and Petrol so I could drive it everywhere without having to refill.
Petrol was reasonably priced back then and LPG was even cheaper.
Yeah.
Iâm like that quite often too.
Phone keypads and numeric keypads are upside down.
Often I just copy/paste or type the number into my VoIP phone app on my computer, especially after the third failed attempt.
But what we have dealt with this week is just a whole new level of stupid. I have had a few AITA moments wondering if I am having too-high expectations of customers, but when my colleagues concur that the customer is a dead-set cock-head, I feel vindicated.
They all do.
Google search is one big primitive Digital Assistant.
Appleâs Siri is less functional than its predecessor Voice Control.
Amazonâs product recommendation algorithm and Alexa are also successful digital assistants.
Meanwhile the YouTube algorithm, Netflix, and Metas recommendations are notoriously frustrating, pumping out irrelevant recommendations and obfuscating constant that you actually want to consume.
Microsoft havenât had any effective Digital Assistants to date and must they feel like they are being left behind. Their attempts to emulate successful product from other companies are either unnoticeably irrelevant or laughably bad. Even the terrible content recommendations of Netflix and YouTube keep people hooked.
I am so frustrated with all the crap MSFT are doing to Outlook at the moment.
WTF is the search bar in the title bar? How am I supposed to move the Outlook window around when there is a search bar taking up valuable grabable space.
Also, why is there a search bar on Every.Single.Fucking.Window. I donât need a search bar on the task I have that has 5 lines of content.
Finally, why is the search bar so fucking useless. I want to search for an email from my manager, about a widget for a specific customer, so I type in the managers name, the part number for the widget and the customers name. What comes up? Either every single item involving any of these terms or nothing! And it is inconsistent. The same search either works or doesnât work depending on some random attribute that no one can rationalise.
I do have A UniFi home network so all I need to do is add another access point, but that is beside the point.
I donât want it using WiFi; it is a fitting that is part of the house, it should be wired, not wireless.