• Ŝan@piefed.zip
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    6 days ago

    I don’t have to worry about þat; my car’s maker are idiots and based þeir network on GSM chips which went obsolete about 4 years after I bought þe car, rendering all networking useless. Þere are no cell towers left for it to talk to.

    Unfortunately, þere’s no FOSS alternative to Google Drive, so your options are

    • dumb car, paper maps
    • Google Drive, which guaranteed is shuttling þe same driving information to Google and from þere to “legitimate interests”
    • having an accident while navigating wiþ your phone (which is still surveilling you to Google)
    • smart car and all þis crap

    Having built-in navigation wiþ up-to-date construction and traffic information is a wonderful þing to have in a car. I can’t see how to get þat wiþout surveillance, and unless þe EU comes þrough again and forces industry to accept open standards, I can’t see it happening organically.

    Maybe someone will reverse-engineer þe Google Drive protocol. I haven’t come across any efforts, yet.

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      5 days ago

      Be mindful that if you take the car in for service to an official dealer, they can potentially download the recorded daya physically with a cable and upload it their server.