Don’t forget the “major” version increment that breaks “lifetime”.

• Oh, you’re mistaken. The license is for the lifetime of version 32. To use version 33 you must upgrade. But no rush, you have until version 33.1 before we activate the kill switch.

I’d consult a lawyer that specializes in this sort of thing. You want to cross all your t’s, dot the i’s and dot the the j’s. You don’t want to find out later you were supposed to cross the Ⱦ the other way.

Tell that to the kids and pets that got run over because they were in a blind spot, backup cameras help to prevent that.

I completely understand not wanting the whole suite of modern safety features, I hate most them too, but they do save lives. If you don’t drive that much, then they shouldn’t bother you if they are there. Most can be turned off anyway. If you’re that desperate to not have a rear cam, just tape over it, but please don’t.

Even the “cheap”, sub $30k new cars come with a lot of the safety features standard now. (Based on general internet rumblings), a used 2018-2022 higher trim car will probably be the sweet spot between having some of the safety features (that can be turned off), physical AC controls, and not having the ads and giant tablet screens. Personally, I wouldn’t go any older than 2020 unless you find something well taken care of. A 2018 model year would have be released summer 2017, 9 years ago.

I get not wanting the internal camera and telemetry crap, but not wanting the other stuff puts you in the same group of people that opposed seat belts when they first became mandatory for cars.

Backup cams, lane warnings, blind spot detection, and auto breaking are all incredible advancements that have significantly improved vehicle saftey.

The features I don’t like are things that take total control of the car like auto pilot, lane merging, auto park, or lane correction. It should not fight you trying to avoid something on the road. A little beep to say, “hey you’re leaving the lane” is okay, a little beep to remind you to keep your eyes on the road is theoretically okay (but we all know the massive privacy concerns with that one.)

And to answer your question, yes you can get still cars with less of those features. Often the more advanced automation features are sold as an add-ons package or at higher trim level. Unfortunately, comforts like heated seats or motorized trunks are part of the same package, there is no getting one with out the other.

Awkward

The sand people stopped participating when a new guy “Racer V” went off the tracks killing them all. It took weeks to clean up.

Its a shame Racer V disappeared before Racer X appeared, their races would have been legendary.

If you can see the light has gone out, it just means the light bulb needs to be replaced.

Cool Cammy, her videos are reminiscent of the early YouTube era.

Her solution to the Trolley Problem is good; https://youtu.be/33VUuu2fb1I

Tom Scott started posting again.

He’s showcasing some incredible people and the things they do.

Did you put on a cat ear headband, attach a tail and hide under a pile of pillows?

I still use Simple note.

While I’d prefer one that isn’t owned by the same people as WordPress and not sync to their cloud, it is open source and free. I figure it beats Google or MS notes, and don’t have to manage syncing all the files. No AI nonsense either (at least for now)

Easy for shopping lists and jotting stuff down, there’s an app for all the major OSs. I definitely don’t trust it for anything important or sensitive.

…yes, I definitely read your entire post and repeated exactly what you said for fun.

Why have an extension for this?

On Firefox (desktop and mobile) you can easily add it as your default search engine. It can be done in Vivaldi too (not sure if its a chrome default or Vivaldi addition).

They could just have a 1 paragraph guide telling you how to do it.

Hah, I think we’ll be sadled with 100% of the debt and consequences.

I hope you saved what you could from that exchange, as well the attempts to contact them. If they ever notice, their AI mistake will become your problem to deal with, (and the kind of news story to end up on a Steve Lehto video).

If that happened to me, I’d have a chat with my bank, “please help me return this money to where it came from, it was payed in error. They have no way to contact a human and I don’t want them to accuse me of fraud down the line”.

So, the Little Trashmaid (well, a slightly less-dark version than your story)

https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/the-little-trashmaid/list?title_no=300138

The good kind, or the bad kind?

That’s good… (The not killing part) On a completely unrelated note, I like your hat.

You’re supposed to drink the wine? I dunked the computer in wine.

Nah, I bet they’re a Numbers on iPhone mini person.