[–] 8 points 4 days ago

50c isn't really a safe temperature for food, but I guess some places do it.

The Swedish media reported it as "de-icing mode". If you have a large freezer in a store, you can't defrost it quickly enough with passive airing, especially with the top-loading freezers.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Pi was made popular by "cheap price, decent enough product". You get good value, and accept its quirks. But now when you can spend a bit more and get a "better" product, the usecases for Pi aren't really there in my opinion.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    I get one of the most information-stealing, asks too-many-privileges apps on my phone

    Ford's app doesn't actually require ANY permissions other than network access to do what you said. It doesn't even require Nearby Devices to lock/unlock the car, nor start climate, set departure times, etc. Their app is actually pretty non-intrusive.

    ...this is thanks to the fact that the car's onboard modem is so "cloud connected" instead, so it's even more difficult to avoid telemetries! So cool, right?

    This is also why I will always make sure I have a physical keyfob if I'm ever driving a Ford somewhere. It has happened way too often that when Google Cloud has problems, Ford's "keyless entry" goes down.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    As a rule of thumb, if your car model is approved for sale in the EU after 2017, it most likely has tracking in it. And post-2021, it almost definitely has it.

    Sure, it's possible that they have a different model specifically for the non-EU market, but they still usually have the same modules installed... your data is valuable, especially in countries where they don't need to care as much about privacy laws.

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