chillpanzee

People started buying EVs like crazy due to high gas prices; the utilities responded with big hikes in electricity prices. They work hard to fuck over consumers.

California. Prices vary between $4.75 and 5.75 a gallon. We’re in I think our third decade of paying 2x what everyone else in the US pays.


I mostly drive an EV though, so I can rest easy knowing that California electricity rates are 3x the national average. lol

It depends on the device.


If the device requires an account and uploads data to the cloud, it’s almost certain that they are recording your location (plus likely a heap of other sensor data). GPS receivers are in a lot of devices that are designed to track your location (like like smart watches, fitness trackers, cars, handheld GPS, PLBs, and so on). The tracking is often a key feature we want for our own benefit, we just don’t want or need that data to be used against us by advertisers and governments.


If you have a device that only receives GPS and has no wifi, bluetooth, or other radio or network connection, and doesn’t use a cloud account, then perhaps that device doesn’t track your location. I’d bet that there aren’t that many of those on the market though.

For sure, it’s a valid use case… connecting to wifi on an airplane.


I can’t help on Samsung. I haven’t had one in ages.

GPS is not bidirectional communication, so the systems themselves (ie GNSS) aren’t tracking you just because you receive the signal. But…



In addition to GPS, airplane mode also doesn’t shut off the Wifi or bluetooth radios; it’s usually just the cell radio.
Your phone OS has several ways of tracking and recording your location, activities, and movements, and it generally does this at all times. For example, Find My even works when the battery on an iPhone is “dead.”
Phones may fallback to BTLE mesh networks (like AirTags), or do background WIFI location scanning to track and record your phone’s location. Turning these off does prevent you and 3rd party apps from using the features, just not the OS.

What was it like working for Kia back in the day?

It happened once



Not even once according to the article. They don’t actually know what happened on that flight, but their simulations can’t test test for cosmic radiation and didn’t reveal any other errors, so they presume it must be the cause. Then made up a story about that being a day of heavy day of solar activity, which the article refutes.

Neanderthal and troglodyte might work



So easy a caveman could do it.