Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure

• eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Living in Russia in Moscow/Petersburg is actually really nice these days.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean if I was a rich ethnic Russian in either of those cities, I’d probably love it.

    I’m Estonian though, don’t speak any more Russian than yes, no, please, thank you and go fuck yourself. Of course I also understand when being asked for a cigarette - an absolute necessity in Estonia (though these days you’re very unlikely to get attacked for not providing said cigarettes - 20-30 years ago was different, but I wasn’t exactly old enough to smoke then)

    But overall I’m glad I don’t live in Russia because I don’t agree with the politics. Even before the current war, I’m sure I would’ve been seen as a dissident. I’m sure the people of Russia are actually mostly very nice. It’s also cheaper than a lot of western countries so working remotely, I’m sure I would’ve been able to live very comfortably before the war. I just wouldn’t ever want to live under Putin rule and I wouldn’t really want to live in a country with so many nationalists (US, if I ever moved there, would be a bit easier, because it’s more about race than nationality and I’m white)

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  • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you’re relatively rich that is.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Living in Petersburg being nice? I dunno

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    • eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The one in Florida certainly sucks.

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      • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was thinking more about all the dismemberment and depression jokes about the one on Neva with the Aurora cruiser docker yadda-yadda

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• imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Feature is based on the same tech implementation as these SOS/Service call buttons almost every modern car has. It uses IoT sim.

  People who have SOS/Service call button in their cars are also falling under this issue except it would only affect cars that has been outside of russian cellular towers for over 72h.

  Also, maybe this is happening due to Porsche not willing to extend IoT sim subscriptions for russian citizens making their sims essentially to be disabled. But I am not sure how car manufacturer IoT sim contracts work. For a typical company/private person IoT sim contract is for 10 years with typically 1gb of data for the same timeframe. If car manufacturer contract is similar to that, this may be the reason why their cars are bricking.

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