Tesla's privacy policy [1] suggests you can (by disabling connectivity all together), although it does break some features:
> Opting out of vehicle data: Connectivity and performance is a core part of all Tesla vehicles and why some customers choose Tesla, allowing for advanced features and an enhanced driving experience. By default, Tesla provides this seamless experience while protecting your privacy. However, if you no longer wish for us to collect vehicle data or any other data from your Tesla vehicle, please contact us to deactivate connectivity. Please note, certain advanced features such as over-the-air updates, remote services, and interactivity with mobile applications and in-car features such as location search, Internet radio, voice commands, and web browser functionality rely on such connectivity. If you choose to opt out of vehicle data collection (with the exception of in-car Data Sharing preferences), we will not be able to know or notify you of issues applicable to your vehicle in real time. This may result in your vehicle suffering from reduced functionality, serious damage, or inoperability.
I don't know if anyone has tried this.
There are other EVs where it's easier, but it's not something typically featured in the main marketing material.
Regarding eCall (emergency) functionality, "Under EU rules you have the right to use a third party service (TPS) eCall system in addition to the standard 112-based one" and "Any TPS eCall system must: [...] allow the owner of the vehicle to choose between the 112-based eCall and the TPS service" - which also means manufacturers can't force you to use "their" TPS that probably has different privacy trade-offs.
I just did, have you actually tried using them side-by-side? It's hard for me to look favorably on kid3. I actually gave myself 5-10m to try and learn kid3 and a lot of what seems like obvious ways to accomplish a task like 'rename these files using their tags' didn't do anything. I even broke out the manual which didn't help/explain if there was a different mindset I need to adopt. I could manage to manually edit tags/rename file by file, but that seems like table stakes for anything that handles media files (even a file manager) let alone an application that is meant to be a specialist in that area, and we're not into any advanced functionality yet.
More generally though it's not about one specific type of tool, it's that windows and linux have been different ecosystems for decades and that has encouraged different strengths and weaknesses. To catch up would mean a lot of effort even if you're just aiming to be equivalent, or use projects like WINE to blur the lines and use the win32 tool as though the specific platform doesn't matter so much.
I get that you wanted to make a general point. In case you're still curious about this specific case:
It's been a long time since I last used Mp3tag, so I tried the latest Mp3tag in WINE (seems to work nicely) for comparison. I think the basic operations (editing tags) actually do work similarly: in both you select file(s), edit the tag you want to in the GUI and changes get applied to any selected file(s) when you press save.
Renaming filenames based on tags also works according to that principle in kid3, you select the files you want to change (rename) and then use the `Format (arrow pointing from tag fields to filename field)` to specify what the filename pattern should look like and then use the `Tag 1` or `Tag 2` button to fill the placeholders from the (e.g.) ID3v1/ID3v2 tag, and click save to apply the changes.
In Mp3tag you'd also highlight the files, but unlike other tag editing operations you use the `convert->tag to filename` menu item/button, which pops up a wizard asking for the pattern and confirmation.
I'm guessing coming from Mp3tag you tried to use kid3's `Tools->Apply filename format` option, which I believe ensures the filename doesn't include special characters by doing string replacements (these are configured in the settings under `Files->Filname format`). I was wondering if that was perhaps confusingly named, so I had a look in Mp3tag to see what this functionality was called there, but I couldn't find it. I'm sure it's possible somehow, but it probably involves scripting [1].
I noticed that Mp3tag seems to be able to automatically fetch album art whereas in kid3 you need to get the image yourself. I suspect more advanced functionality (scripting etc) will work differently in the two tools.
> It's hard to tell someone to connect to 2601:3c7:4f80:1a01:4d2:3b7a:9c10:6f5e.
If you would like your IPv6 addresses to be more human-friendly, you could use DHCPv6 (in addition to/instead of SLAAC) and end up with addresses like 2001:db8:3c7:4f80::123. Sure, it's 5 groups of e.g. 3-4 hex digits rather than 4 groups of up to 3 digits, but I think it's much easier than your example. You might set your router to use <prefix>::1 and/or fe80::1 (see OpenWRT's ipv6 suffix/ip6ifaceid option).
DNS servers (that you might occasionally have to type into config by hand) tend to have "nice" IPv6 addresses, e.g. Quad9 apparently uses 2620:fe::fe [1].
> But I'm really not interested in maintaining public DNS for the dynamic addresses at home on my LAN.
I think dnsmasq can these days create AAAA records for local machines whose hostnames it learns via e.g. DHCP.
If you have a public server on the internet and your provider gives you a random-looking address using all 128 bits (and no /64 prefix for example) perhaps using (public) DNS is fine.
Kobo does sell some other books DRM-free, so perhaps this is some sort of error. You can buy it directly from the publisher without Adobe DRM, there it has a watermark instead.
Another possible compromise might be to use watermarking-based DRM. Amazon doesn't seem to support it, but other e-bookstores do. In any case, thank you for offering the LeanPub option!
Get the Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB (or more if you care). Get the RasPiKey [1] for faster storage (compared to SD cards), without needing to get an SSD. Just use the Raspberry Pi OS.
Re: software setup, curriculum etc.. there are so many resources that target the Raspberry Pi that you can choose something that the child finds interesting.
You can do a desktop computer build if/when they outgrow the Raspberry Pi.
My parents did that, to me. I got a Raspberry Pi 2B, an micro SD card, a monitor and a keyboard. My dad helped me to flash the SD card, but everything else I need to figure out myself. Honestly, Linux is not that user unfriendly. Sure it breaks, but when it breaks it behaves like a broken system and not like a baby that throws a tantrum, or a nanny that just pushes you around, because she believes her own lies. I did corrupt my system multiple times. It doesn't matter, because in Linux you can just do everything, including copying home directories from a fried partition. I learned programming accidentally, because I clicked on everything and wanted to know what this weird program does with the blue and yellow cross icon. The only sad thing is that I lost my first website and server, because I rm -rf'ed in the wrong directory and didn't knew version control yet.
> I can share an anecdote how slow tech adoption is in Korea. It is not exactly about tech in public section but in private companies. I assume public section has slower adoption rate than private ones in general.
I guess it's not all tech, but at least in telecoms I thought they were very quick to adopt new tech? 2nd in the world to commercially deploy 3G W-CDMA, world first LTE-Advanced [1], "first fairly substantial deployments" of 5G [2]. 90% of broadband via fibre (used to be #1 amongst OECD countries for some time, now it's only just #2).
Surely you can still pay with plastic cards, at least if the venue advertises accepting the big card issuers?
The latest neobank might require an app, but I'd be surprised if you couldn't find any bank in your country that allows you to spend money without using mobile apps.
Ask if you can order/pay without using the QR code. I'd be surprised if venues didn't have a paper menu as backup.
> Ask if you can order/pay without using the QR code. I'd be surprised if venues didn't have a paper menu as backup.
For newer restaurants, I really wouldn't bet on this being a thing. Or if they do, it's the ones they had before they updated their menus to QR codes, and thus might not be accurate any more.
It's like being blind and asking for the braille menu. Sure, they should have one, but don't bet on them having one.
And even if you know what you want and can pay in cash, even if they're legally bound to take your money at that point, you're working against the current and on some level being a (principled) ass to the staff serving you, who probably had no say in the system they're now having to deal with. It wouldn't even surprise me if some of these places have gone no-cash to the point of not having any place to put your cash after you've paid.
The actual solution is probably 'go somewhere else', but we all how that might go.
> Opting out of vehicle data: Connectivity and performance is a core part of all Tesla vehicles and why some customers choose Tesla, allowing for advanced features and an enhanced driving experience. By default, Tesla provides this seamless experience while protecting your privacy. However, if you no longer wish for us to collect vehicle data or any other data from your Tesla vehicle, please contact us to deactivate connectivity. Please note, certain advanced features such as over-the-air updates, remote services, and interactivity with mobile applications and in-car features such as location search, Internet radio, voice commands, and web browser functionality rely on such connectivity. If you choose to opt out of vehicle data collection (with the exception of in-car Data Sharing preferences), we will not be able to know or notify you of issues applicable to your vehicle in real time. This may result in your vehicle suffering from reduced functionality, serious damage, or inoperability.
I don't know if anyone has tried this.
There are other EVs where it's easier, but it's not something typically featured in the main marketing material.
Regarding eCall (emergency) functionality, "Under EU rules you have the right to use a third party service (TPS) eCall system in addition to the standard 112-based one" and "Any TPS eCall system must: [...] allow the owner of the vehicle to choose between the 112-based eCall and the TPS service" - which also means manufacturers can't force you to use "their" TPS that probably has different privacy trade-offs.
[1] https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/legal/privacy
[2] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/security-and-em...
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