So I see the CH341a, but what are the other two PCBs that are stacked on top that the ribbon cable is connected to? And how did you find out you needed them?
Overall, that’s awesome work! Couldn’t have broken it any worse than it was, so why not take the chance and it paid off.
I love my Elite but I think it’s absolutely stupid that I have to connect to one of their servers in order to change activities and buttons. There is literally zero reason for that. You could easily have an app that connects locally to the device and can do it there. I could see needing their service if you want to download new remote profiles but that should be it.
The internet was simultaneously the best and worst thing for humanity.
That’s a non-sequeter. You started by saying that internet on cars were bad and then switched to “you should be using bikes”
I think I mentioned it in another post but Schwaticars are a bit different. Though I’d assume they’d have to have some basic functionality in the event of an outage. “Always on” hasn’t come to cars… yet
Again though, they are all quality of life things. You don’t have to use it on most cars. Don’t want it, don’t pay for it and don’t use it. So just like giving people the choice of AA/CP, what’s wrong with giving them the choice of using those features?
I mean, what’s the alternative? It’s not like it has to have internet. Anything internet connected is mainly quality of life:
Except maybe Teslas, damned if I know what they do. But they’re nice to have things that generally require realtime updates but the car functions just fine as a car without it.
Yeah I’ve used the Audi one and it sucks. Especially traffic, so many missing streets and odd routing.
Frankly CarPlay and Android Auto suck in my opinion compared to iDrive 7 on my BMW.
But… that being said, I do support choice. I wouldn’t even consider a car that doesn’t allow CP/AA as I think it should be up to the consumer to pick which one they want to use.
Something else that people don’t think about besides the backend server is the connectivity. A lot of these cars use LTE with eSIMs that can’t be replaced, and getting an internet package for it will be next to impossible since Tesla gets them at bulk rates. Once upon a time cars did allow “bring your own SIM cards” but not anymore. Also as cars get older the cell networks get shut down. Some companies did offer upgrades but that was few and far between. Most just said “sorry, you’re SOL”.
So even if you could hack your car, your car won’t have any way of talking to a custom endpoint.
Given that there are already 32TB 2.5” SSDs, what does a 3.5” buy you that you couldn’t get with an adapter?
fiddle with AI stuff
I.e. one of the same things that causing gouging on GPUs and the market to be pushed out of gamers hands.
Brand new Intel ARC B580 puts up numbers in the 4060 range and only costs around $250
There are 32 and 64TB enterprise SSDs out there now too.
Nice. That’s the detail I was hoping someone would have! Thank you
If they can get rockets to mars, what’s to prevent them from deploying GPS satellites around Mars? Then just have the spacecraft switch to receiving those signals instead as it get close enough
Who remembers WYSIWYG ?
How do you like the toppings on your pizza?
FF games are like pizza. They’re all a round, baked dish, but you can have them so many ways and everyone will have their opinions. For example
I haven’t played 11 and 14 but I figured that’s my $0.02 when everyone has their own favorite toppings.
I’ve seen an error that said “how in the world did you get this? It shouldn’t be possible”