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Cake day: December 18th, 2023

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  • 2018 Subaru Forester

    It might be a bit more updated than most, but in general less smart than most cars today.

    • Still have to press a button on the key to unlock the doors, or use the convenient key.
    • Need to put the key into the ignition to start.
    • Doors do not automatically lock out unlock.
    • Manual parking break.
    • Rear door is 100% manual (if you didn’t count un/lock with key fob).
    • Basic Bluetooth functionality.
    • Equipped with OnStar, and Sirius.
    • Shipped with 3G cellular, which no longer works. They do offer a free upgrade, I never bothered.

    By my own assessment, it’s the dumbest modern car you can get.


  • How about Genocidal GOP or Genocidal 45

    Language and words have great power. Walking around attaching the word genocide to a man who has at worse not done enough in a very complex situation will cause great harm to the electorate. You may be propping up the uncommitted vote, but not everyone will understand that, many may just see the genocide and not vote for Biden ever or worse vote for the orange idiot.

    Meanwhile you have politicians who will kill Americans with their policies. And you have a potential future president who would put boots on the ground in Gaza and do just about whatever they could to see Ukraine returned to Russia.

    Words have power. A simple phrase will stick more than the meaning behind it. There is a reason crooked Hilary worked so well, and no one can tell you why she might be crooked beyond her emails and Benghazi. Even then they only know those words, they don’t know the meaning behind them. We need all of the votes we can get in November.


  • I’m always using assistant to play music in the car or on home speakers. Gemini isn’t able to do this. I also discovered I can’t use the Gemini app without allowing it to replace the assistant.

    I will say I have had similar problems getting assistant to identify songs. It used to work pretty seamlessly.

    Against all privacy recommendations I do allow my phone to id music at all times. Nice thing is I have a shortcut to history, it doesn’t always work, bit does most of the time.