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Comment Re:full-size electric pickup (Score 1) 138

Lots of people want full-sized pickups, unfortunately. The F150 has been one of the top selling vehicles in north america for literal decades, and while it used to be smaller, it's been pretty big for at least 10 years.

But the Lightning is SUPER expensive and a lot of the folks buying full-sized trucks are doing it for the optics. They want to appear tough and rugged, and they can't do that without a loud engine, I guess?

The depreciation on EVs is also astronomical. Pay $100k for a Lightning and it'll be worth $60k next year. There's no point in buying a brand new EV right now.

I agree that people SHOULD want smaller trucks, or—get this—CARS, but the big car companies love their margins. Ford's eliminated every passenger car in their lineup except for the Mustang (even the Mustang Mach-e is classified as an SUV for some reason).

Comment Access does at least appear to be encrypted (Score 4, Informative) 43

Samsik confirmed that it had been contacted by Movia and said that it was “not aware of any specific cases of deactivation of electric buses”.

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Yutong said it “strictly complies with the applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards of the locations where its vehicles operate” and that Yutong vehicle terminal data in the EU were stored at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) datacentre in Frankfurt.

A spokesperson added: “This data is used solely for vehicle-related maintenance, optimisation and improvement to meet customers’ after-sales service needs. The data is protected by storage encryption and access control measures. No one is allowed to access or view this data without customer authorisation. Yutong strictly complies with the EU’s data protection laws and regulations.”

The summary implies that remote deactivation is not that difficult, that does not appear to be the case.
I'm not really familiar with Tesla vehicles, do they have remote deactivation? Does any other car manufacturer have that?

Comment Re:Nothing should be pre installed (Score 1) 40

Every single phone, when started for the first time, should be spanking clean, with any additional software selected through the setup wizard on first power on cycle.

I'm not familiar with the iPhone setup, but that is simply not realistic with Android systems. Android devices come with a number of apps providing core functionality, Samsung Android devices come with an additional set of apps providing alternatives to the ones Google supply (and some of them are actually better).
I find it annoying that I can't delete apps from either set, apps which I don't need, don't want, and only notice when Play Store updates them every few days. At least crap like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok are not in that list - they were on a previous phone and all I could do was "Force Stop".

Comment Re:When your product doesn't sell.... (Score 3, Interesting) 72

CanCon laws gave us a lot of extremely popular Canadian music and television. The Tragically Hip, Crash Test Dummies, Bryan Adams, Alanis Morisette, the list is actually quite long. Whether or not you enjoy the bands (or television shows or movies), they ended up being an excellent return on investment. Several artists, like the Hip, are considered quintessentially Canadian.

That's just the sort of thing you have to do when one of your neighbours is a huge cultural influence. We should be doing this, and we should've done it a long time ago. Like, I think you could make the case that there should be CanCon requirements for platforms like TikTok.

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