Agreed. I'll always prefer an Alamo or Cinepolis, but I've actually been extremely impressed every time I end up up at non-boutique movie theater.
AMC has upgraded their seats at a lot of locations now (to super comfortable recliners), and they often serve some high quality wine/beer options.
The only issue I've been having is content. The movie options have been slim these days. If given a choice of streaming or cinema experience, I'll choose cinema every time. But give us something to actually watch please, that's not superheros or cartoons.
I always figured buying that NFT was sort of a way to just donate to one of Jack's charities. I hope the buyer wasn't trying to make a long term investment with it.
Yeah, I just leave my helmet on the bike (on the handlebars, not attached). It's not a high value item to steal. Someone took my front tire once but left my helmet.
I'm trying to think of what useful evidence that law enforcement can get out of an infotainment system. Guilty of listening to too many Brittney Spears tracks?
Navigation/location data, and also likely time stamped car activity data which you don’t get from the MCU.
Call data and other data from devices tethered to it, and for connected infotainment systems also wifi and cellular data which can provide a secondary source of location data in case the location history has been purged.
It wouldn’t surprise me if there are some more rich logs there including CANBUS data from other car systems on some of the newer models.
Overall if you have a late model car especially towards the upper end of the spectrum I would assume the infotainment system has about as much information as a cellphone you carry because they are basically phones stuck to the console at this point.
I assume there's certain functionality similar to the casual surveillance tools from Allstate and other insurance companies that you plug into your OBD2 port. You know, the ones that log eg GPS location, velocity/acceleration/jerk of the vehicle or its controls, VIN and associated PII metadata, etc.
I've heard tale of all sorts of data that are broadcast back to the manufacturers' servers from your car for later sale to data brokers for advertising, etc. information. Not exactly surprising to hear that that information is available if you connect to the car directly using LE tools.
The Lotus I had would datalog all kinds of data over time. It was very common for buyers to have someone do a data dump of the car's ECU to see how it was used / treated. The ECU was very much designed just to run the engine in this car (no infotainment, network upload, or any other integration), but kept some interesting long term data. That data can be very telling. It tells you percentage of time that the engine spent at each RPM, and percentage of time spent at certain speeds, percentage of time spent at various manifold pressures, maximum engine speeds at certain coolant temps, highest vehicle speeds attained, and number of full load standing starts.
This info would not be useful to LE, because they don't keep timestamps on the data. But it is a big tell to the dealership how hard you have been driving your car.
I love Postgres.app on mac, makes running locally a breeze. Running Postgres fast on the cloud is what I always struggled with (without paying enormous sums)
I paid for Raindrop for years, really loved it. But it got extremely buggy (forced me to relogin constantly). I'd open Raindrop, it would completely reset my auth info, and then close it because it's not worth the hassle of logging in yet again just to save a bookmark. And when they clear out login, they clear out everything (including the email). Their iOS share panel was an absolute disaster.
Their UX was great, but it's a nice case study that if you don't focus on the seemingly little but important things (like making Auth seamless and bulletproof), everything else is meaningless.
Dropbox is the same way. Opening a document never chooses the right account (corp vs personal), constantly clears SSO session, and I usually give up 95% of the time instead of using the app.
Hmm. I'm currently using Raindrop and haven't ever been logged out. It's been pretty solid for the past year or so I've used it on (Android app and Firefox extension on MacOS).
AMC has upgraded their seats at a lot of locations now (to super comfortable recliners), and they often serve some high quality wine/beer options.
The only issue I've been having is content. The movie options have been slim these days. If given a choice of streaming or cinema experience, I'll choose cinema every time. But give us something to actually watch please, that's not superheros or cartoons.