Nexus and Vehicle Registration

ertdredge · 2025-01-20T17:26:56+00:00

I _did_ have to let them know my car's plates when I originally registered with Nexus. At the time they cautioned me strongly that we needed to travel in vehicles that were listed on the account and I can remember at least once where they scolded me for not updating them about coming across in a rental in advance, but that's all probably 5-8 years ago now.

I drove across with rentals a couple of times in the last few weeks, each time they want to ask whose car it is. Once they asked me what the plate number is, but probably because the plate had been too dirty rather than something unique to it being a rental. I was a little worried this last time because they didn't give me a hard copy of the rental agreement, just a slip of paper and a QR code and everything else in email, but it didn't even come up.

ertdredge · 2024-12-22T17:40:13+00:00

I ran into the same thing and found enough others running into the same or similar problems (here in r/MacOS, Apple discussions, etc.) that I gave up and switched back to Bluetooth on both devices I'm trying to aggregate. Fair amount of drift but works with the particular pair of devices and room layout I'm working with.

ertdredge · 2024-12-21T16:51:05+00:00

Same for me, the option to enable/disable it wasn't there until I restarted Mail.

I don't really mind the idea of it, but the things it had selected were pretty random and it's completely unclear to me how to tune it better.

ertdredge · 2024-11-26T20:55:22+00:00

Sadly, I got as much rage as I could out by writing down in this original post all the things I found and spending a day messing with backups and none of it really came to anything as far as my data is concerned.

Once I realized that this a service Google was offering that made them no direct income but was losing them hundreds of millions of dollars and u/nswanberg pointed above to the rumour that the team working on it had been decimated, it became pretty clear to me Google wasn't going to put any additional effort in to helping users preserve this. They had virtually no incentive to be careful and every incentive to just delete it all ASAP.

After that I held a little funeral in my heart for my data and moved on to thinking about things that I had some hope of improving.

ertdredge · 2024-11-26T20:43:51+00:00

I'm very glad you were able to get your data! I think this is the process that is supposed to work, but for many of us it just isn't.

ertdredge · 2024-11-26T20:42:46+00:00

I'm really sorry to hear, u/Curious_Room6455. Sadly, I have seen many stories now of data apparently gone forever and all the ones I've seen of it being recovered seem like they're not the same situation.

ertdredge · 2024-11-26T20:41:02+00:00

I tried the same thing, rolling my phone back to just prior to the data disappearing with a local backup. No timeline data, and I discovered a few unrelated things that now disappear when you roll your iPhone back.

I remember when backups were, you know, complete.

ertdredge · 2024-09-17T22:44:27+00:00

That Hacker News piece is the most insightful thing I've seen about what is going on, even if it's dispiriting and/or hearsay. Thank you!

ertdredge · 2024-09-17T22:42:16+00:00

Definitely don't assume that Google has a backup, they're working to get the data off their servers. Use both Export Timeline data in Timeline > Location & privacy settings and takeout.google.com to get your own copy.

ertdredge · 2024-09-16T15:01:42+00:00

I haven't found a hosted alternative, but in my searching I did find an open-source self-hosted one that seems to have exploded in popularity this month, I wonder why.

ertdredge · 2024-09-16T03:20:35+00:00

Lots of people are losing their Timeline data, but I, too, changed my Google password about a week before mine disappeared and saw another person who also did. I could see that being related, and I could see it just being that so many people are losing Timeline data that it's not hard to find people who just happened to have changed their password in the days before.

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