Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

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https://downloads.aaronia.com/datasheets/solutions/drone_detection/Aaronia_AARTOS_DDS_FAQ.pdf

You might have missed that Musk made the same claim about 2016, with the 1-camera sensor system. The 2017 claim was with the newer 8-camera system, and the claim was made before Tesla even had software for the new sensors, and the Tesla then lacked adaptive cruise control, adaptive high beam, self parking, summon, and other things that the prior model did have. I'm embarrassed that I actually believed these claims.

How would something like this affect CarPlay? I have Car Play in all of my vehicles and I'm not about to give up CAr Play or switch cars just to get rid of a charging port.

I am careful in all such interviews to say that Facebook is fine for anyone who likes it, for whom the plusses outweigh any minuses. I state that it's just wrong for me, myself, or others like myself. How can I not be "right" about that?

At least Tesla respects our right to die in our sleep.

Immigrants, documented or not, tend to commit crimes at a smaller rate than native born Americans.

https://www.factcheck.org/2018...

As we said, there aren’t readily available nationwide crime statistics broken down by immigration status. But the available research that estimates the relationship between illegal immigration and crime generally shows an association with lower crime rates.

This may lead to Netflix buying/building its own cinemas just to show movies in.

As it is right now (pre-2019 BMWs and every other car that comes with CarPlay), CarPlay is a feature of the car, like a CD player. So, yes, the license for CarPlay transfers to subsequent owners (like the license to the software that controls the CD player).

In 2019+ BMWs, the subsequent owners would have to pay the yearly fee.

Itâ(TM)s only not part of the residual when the switch to the pay-per-year model (in the 2019 model year). Because the $80 per year fee is paid on top of the lease payment.

Thatâ(TM)s what makes the new, pay-per-year method more expensive than the $300 one-time-few method. And yet BMW is claiming the opposite.

Right now it absolute is part of the residual. Right now in BMWs, CarPlay is an optional feature (despite that on most other cars CarPlay is included as a standard feature). Think of it like an optional sunroof. The leasee pays part of that cost just like he pays for part of the car in general.

My current car has CarPlay. If I sell the car to someone else, she gets CarPlay, too. Just like she gets the sunroof I paid extra for. It's part of the car. CarPlay isn't a service (like satellite radio, for instance). No one is coming to lock the sunroof shut in my car when I sell it. BMW will lock CarPlay, though.

No one else charges a yearly fee for CarPlay. My wife's near-poverty-spec Honda came with CarPlay, and it'll work years down the road even though we don't pay Honda anything for it.

They says that for leases, the 'pay per year' method is cheaper, but let's boil that down.

On a three year least, with the 'pay per year' method, you'll pay $0 for your first year and $80 for each of your next two years. So $160 total.

If you leased the car with the one-time $300 fee, you don't pay $300. You pay Sales Price minus Residual. And the residual on some of these cars is up to ~60% of sales price. So lets say that the residual on a BMW is 58%, that means Car Play would have cost you $300* 0.42 = $126! Still cheaper! You'd have to have a residual less than 47% for the new method to be worth it.

How do 'other phones' deal with the reality that battery output drops after a few years? Their solution is to simply stop providing updates after a year and a half after the phones first went on sale. After the 'other phone' starts misbehaving too much, the owners junk them and get a new phone.

That's a much worse solution than giving degraded performance during intensive tasks to ensure the phone doesn't randomly shut off.

Remember that I picked a '$25k watch' as an extreme example, not as some standard-bearer that should be upheld.

iPhones being more mainstream than luxury watches is to be expected, though. iPhones cost less than 4% of said watch, which puts them in the grasp of a lot more people. Also, iPhones (and phones in general) are a lot more conspicuous than or most expensive things. Can you really tell a $5k men's suit from a $700 suit? or high-end shoes? Maybe if you really look at them, or were already a fan of the brand.