BogusCabbage

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t a new thing. Almost every car that has an electrical park brake advises you to use software to change change out your rear brake pads, as when you release your Electric Park Brake (EPB), the EPB motor doesn’t wind back enough, to give you the space required to install new pads and/or rotors, it only winds back enough to release pressure off the piston pushing the pad, which this has been in production cars since 2001 (some cars have brake maintenance modes which can be activated without software, Mazda first comes to mind with this). This whole Hyundai/Kia deal reminds me of Volkswagen back when they were intoducting proprietary software for vehicle maintenance, which led to a guy getting mad and making his own software that does everything the factory software does for a fraction of the cost and arguably better (Rosstech/VCDS) which I feel will happen soon with Hyundai. But being mad just at just Hyundai for this is the wrong mindsent, almost every car manufacturer does this and for a long time, and needs to stop. Even for dealerships this is horrendous because it uses a always online software that if you live somewhere with bad internet or GPS connection, stops you from even just resetting the service interval, which as usual is explained as being a good thing for “safety reasons” by the manufacturer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3G Shutdown: 258,000 4G/5G Phones to be Blocked from November! - Gov Blocking Rules Now 'In Force'!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  BYOD, as in Bring You Own Device, hence buying and importing phones that you wouldn’t typically see on a Telstra plan.

  Whether or not a device can actually support VoLTE unfortunately actually has very little to do with what is and isn’t being blocked; even the industry itself doesn’t know what 100% will and won’t be affected, as there are devices that are told to be ready for post 3G shutdown, but in testing they are not emergency VoLTE ready, and so will not be able to make emergency calls after the shutdown, and no matter what you put on the phone, if the IMEI number isn’t on a compatible registry, that phone will be blocked.

  I do highly suggest reading the article, as it does go more into depth on everything (as well as the Change.org petition). I am “tech aware,” to a degree; however, I am not at all well knowledged, just something I genuinely very much feel needs to be shared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3G Shutdown: 258,000 4G/5G Phones to be Blocked from November! - Gov Blocking Rules Now 'In Force'!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m late to all of this going on but now am very much impacted by it.

  The end of the BYOD phones. Using a Xperia 1 V that is now to be near to useless when out, and I am only 1 of 250,000+ people who are gonna be pushed into buying phone directly from telco instead of actually picking phones that suite our interests and needs (as well as OS for those running another that isn’t adroid or iOS).

  I’ve connected Sony to see if they will comment on the matter, but it is ashamed this has happened at all in the first place.

  I would recommend anyone to read James Parkers full article on the matter:

  medium.com/…/australias-3g-shutdown-telcos-to-blo…

  I apologize If this isn’t the right place to post this.

• 3G Shutdown: 258,000 4G/5G Phones to be Blocked from November! - Gov Blocking Rules Now 'In Force'!www.change.org ↗
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