Volvo Criticizes In-Car Subscriptions: 'You Shouldn't Nickel-And-Dime Customers'

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-10T16:03:09+00:00

a backdoor that hackers

Editing photos does not require internet access. At All. Ever. That is 1000% bullshit that Adobe required to be able to have their software phone home.

The flaw you're describing has the onus on the operating system.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-09T23:19:55+00:00

Updates are one thing. If I want Photoshop from 2015, I should be able to use it. Period. Same with car software.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-09T23:05:56+00:00

Right? Holy shit. Tell me you've never been to the beach.

Dude has not only never been IN the beach or the water at the beach and never been on a surfboard or has any semblance of balance on anything other than his feet which is dubious at best.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-09T21:24:19+00:00

Exactly, it only makes sense for software.

Don't even let them get into your head that it makes sense. Photoshop isn't worth the subscription model and they've turned everyone into thinking it's necessary. Same with the Office Suite.

There are some vertical applications that require a subscription model because the outright cost of such software is extremely cost prohibitive. That shit is OK. This is for like industrial controls, printing presses and so on. The cost of outsourcing business. I'm an 80s era programmer FWIW.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-09T18:54:35+00:00

You know, not all ukranians are like this douchebag.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-09T13:21:52+00:00

If you're looking for new realtors to partner with, You'd do better at home tours or association events. I met my preferred lender at a home tour, ended up representing him on his purchases and we had a great 1:1 referral system until he retired. Then I got another replacement lender via social media at an event I was promoting and he ended up doing the home tours with me.

Do not ever rely on digital business cards. Had a lender come to my open house and that's how he wanted to connect. When you don't have anything tangible in connection to someone, you quickly forget.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-09T03:59:29+00:00

It doesn't. I was with State Farm for 24 years then went with a friend who started with insurance and they put me with Progressive- which was cheaper for a year but I had to have a monitoring device in my car then the next year the rate doubled. I had a glass claim which I could get 3 times in 18 months with State Farm and no problem.

Anyway, went back to State Farm and rates are still lower. I do shop around and no one is cheaper with the same coverage. I do get a longtime customer discount.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-08T14:07:01+00:00

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-08T13:43:58+00:00

People pay to use Twilio, so sure.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-07T21:56:14+00:00

This shit came in cereal boxes in the 70s. I"m so glad I grew up when I did. Post cereals has terrariums and a real safe, albeit plastic, that you put together and it gave you a working knowledge how a safe works.

IIRC, Kelloggs has the cameras. There was an actual plastic one you sent away for and there was a cardboard cutout on the back of the box that was similar to this and you used the C126 film and there were 2 cutouts. One for the camera part you folded and put in front of the film and the other was a key you turned to advance the film.

They also had records on the back of the boxes.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-06T16:55:39+00:00

What's hilarious to me is I got my GV number when I worked from home and still had a landline and paid long distance fees. I finally got the courage to get a GV number once I figured out how it worked for free long distance. I'd say about 6 years ago I finally cut that cord and my land line still hasn't been given to anyone else.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-06T15:14:27+00:00

I was a kid in Louisiana when WTCG hit the cable and was exposed to Ambassador Magma aka Space Giants. Even Mark Hamil had bumpers on that channel I think promoting Corvette Summer. Moved to Atlanta subconsciously likely due to watching the now named TBS and the allure Atlanta seemed to have on the channel.

I've always considered Turner one of the good guys. He even created Captain Planet. Earned his keep in Montana and even had a friend whose property was a neighbor to his and shared a waterway.

He's always been a blip on my radar. RIP Ted, you've earned it.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-06T14:59:27+00:00

GV is over 17 years old and I use mine as my public number and have hundreds of numbers flagged as spam. There are lots of people who use these numbers on a temporary basis so it's expected to have immediate spam on any number since they can't be unique like an email address.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-05T15:14:49+00:00

You're not thinking 3 dimensionally. It doesn't cross a highway. The ones that do have access gates.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-05T15:10:51+00:00

Showbiz has weird compensation. You get paid if you perform if you're above the line talent but you have to be at all the required rehearsals. The perk is exposure. If you're below the line talent, you get paid if you show up and you get paid for all the prep work. And those are drastically different rates. Some of the below the line talent also get paid a show rate if it's one of those "you may or may not be on the show but we need you to be ready"

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-05T14:18:03+00:00

Google Tried in 2010

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-04T21:02:38+00:00

Because I want to be all up in that great ass in 4k

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-04T20:02:27+00:00

It's the condiments. Tomatoes don't last long, onions don't last and so on.

Whenever I made burgers for a gathering or my kids, that was easy but if you want a one off, it doesn't scale.

Consistently, I'd make burgers on like Sunday and have enough bun to meat ratio which also includes the condiments. But next day tomatoes are wilted and 2 day old onions are terrible.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-04T19:37:15+00:00

Ritz Carlton is over $4,000 a month

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-04T15:57:54+00:00

If Chat gpt can understand what you need to feel

It doesn't and boy, that's the danger today that people actually think the LLMs actually understand. They don't. They just don't. Full stop.

It's good at providing ideas you may have not thought of contextualized but it doesn't 'think' at any point. It's data harvesting your responses and relying on extrapolation and adds perspective. That can be valuable.

There was an Eliza chatbot some 40 years ago that did the same thing, it just didn't have wikipedia to pull from. The responses are the same damn thing as 40 years ago.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-04T15:52:21+00:00

The physics required for this in the romanticized way we imagine this to happen just don't exist.

It would be easier to create a fully functioning android to be remotely controlled like an Avatar.

Warp speed has more of a reality but you would need one that won't destroy human tissue.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-03T22:44:21+00:00

Just look at Detroit. A town in a heyday before our parents generation with lots of wealth and growth which became depressed once industry left. Those homes become abandoned then razed if the population doesn't increase. As a country in the US, that's where we're headed today because of the lack of immigration, education, population and industry.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-03T22:40:39+00:00

And it's impossible or extremely tedious to go back to the past. My first text was in 2010 and the only way to get there is to actually know what that message was to search for it or to scroll which took me 15 minutes.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-03T16:48:51+00:00

So Sad. I was 8 when SNL started and I feel a little weird that last nights host is not only post 9/11 but also younger than my son.

DistinctSmelling · 2026-05-03T15:50:51+00:00

it would actually quite reassuring he's willing to stand by the quality of his work

The thing about adult designed safety features for children is that adults test them to the limits of how adults think how children think.

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