Yes of course it is a police state, but yes of course it's stupid to pretend you don't live in one when you do

I had to add minimum paragraph and sentence counts to the prompts it uses to keep it from trying to write a few terse sentences each time.

I noticed this in Claude (from DDG). It invariably tries to shorten sentences or make them more compact and concise. Sometimes that can be good, but most times long-winded sentences are what are needed.

Formerly wince or vxworks, now nt embedded or vxworks.

Meanwhile I also own a Tesla, and am using a CarPlay adapter with it. Maps is better, particularly lane guidance and actually telling me which motorway junction number I'm coming off at. I can share an ETA with my contacts. I can listen to subscriber-only (paid) Podcasts. I can use WhatsApp (via voice of course), something sadly essential in the UK as the vast majority use that. I can listen to audiobooks from other than Audible. I can use the BBC Sounds app. I can...

You get the idea. I agree with you about integration - the time I will use the built-in map is if I'm on a longer journey that needs charging on the way, or if the journey is so short that none of the above really matters.

Personally I hope the rumours about CarPlay integration being worked on by Tesla are true, although I'd be surprised I must admit. But for me - works well.

and there is no way I can find to make it stop popping up giant intrusive ads for their other services every single time I open it.

Just like Firefox. There is no easy way to turn off being harassed by an intrusive pop-up telling me about a new update.

There used to be. It was a simple checkbox. But somewhere along the way someone had to justify their existence and removed that simple checkbox in favor of harassment.

With global warming, those ice roads may not be around for much longer.

Seems more like he's always been one.

Unfortunately you aren't the only one in we, at least it's unfortunate in this case.

A lot of people voted for hate. And a lot of people voted to have whatever happen to them, by not voting...

There is also nvtop

I never activated Sirius, but twice a year they have a free week or so of music as a promotion. I don't do anything with or about that, but "weather alerts" start popping up. It's naturally windy in my neck of the woods so I get bajillion alerts that require pushing Dismiss while driving, but often cannot turn the alerts completely off because the Weather Alert "Off" feature is only available some of the time, but I cannot tell when without going into the menus, which present music options first. If it's not stealth spamming it's crappy UI coding. Either way, it sucks. I contacted Surius once and they said it cannot be fully deactivated. I may have a mechanic cut the antenna wire to Sirius but am afraid it would break GPS also.

but I can't track it down. Memory usage and disk/SSD look fine. I suspect either GPU or some weird OS stack gets full or confused. Windows 10 has a secret bladder that needs a diaper.

The high price is due to the obsession with SUVs, and people feeling they "need" one, just for that one time in 20 years they may need the extra cargo capacity. Give me a sedan with a hatchback any day.

There's a reason I call Buick vehicles, "ick", and that is one of them.

Honda and Toyota aren't great when it comes to the user interface. Hyundai does a much better job on that front. Ford isn't horrible about their systems from what I saw the last time I rented a vehicle, but Hyundai is definitely better.

The cost of RAM has been going up and up and up. $200 worth of RAM from January of 2025 is now up into the $600+ range for the same RAM if you buy it today. In the next year, it might end up over $1000 because AI is destroying the computer industry.