A long drive but safely home. We escaped the closure of the A1M by the literal skin of our teeth! We passed the workers putting cones over the motorway, that had two lanes closed off and were just starting on the final lane as we passed.
Oh yes, and my trusty #Honda 1.6 Diesel scooted up to the NE of Scotland and back without a problem, as expected, and passed 100,100 miles on the journey home.
What made it even luckier, on our way to view a rental property, the agent called to say the tenant didn't want to do viewings today. We booked last Thursday and stayed in Scotland the weekend to view today as arranged. We were furious but decided to go anyway. Fuck them!
We arrived and a nice lady asked if she could help me. I explained that we had an appointment at 3:30 but we were a couple of hours early. She was the tenant, had no idea we were coming, & hadn't spoken to the agent. 1/2
She showed us round anyway. It later turned out to have been her husband who said no viewings today as they were just back from holiday and only this morning had the agent contacted them!
MrsD left a very irate message for the agent, who blamed "a glitch in the system"!
By getting shown around early, we left for home early and missed the closure of the motorway by the skin of our fore, I mean teeth! 😉
Wesley had a miserable day, unfortunately, but he did get a paddle at the beach.
Het beest had even tijd nodig om wakker te worden uit de winterslaap. Maar nadat een aangenaam grommetje klonk mocht de oldtimer op pad! En het beest ging mee!
#Cars#Privacy#DataProtection#Honda#Surveillance: "I wanted to turn off data collection on my car because it’s creepy and I thought the option would be simple. It turns out that shutting off data collection and figuring out what’s been collected is much more difficult than it would seem. I know because it took me — a reasonably informed and technologically savvy person — a month to finally do so.
I’m in good company.
“It’s comically difficult,” Thorin Klosowski, a security and privacy activist at Electronic Frontier Foundation, who’s written about how to do just this, told me. “I do this for a living and I am not 100% positive I have gotten everything correct, which is ridiculous.”
In March, my husband and I bought a new Honda. When I turned on the car to leave the dealership, I got a notification telling me that data sharing was on. Right next to “on” was an “off” button. Simple enough! But when I hit “off” I got a message telling me it was “unable to change settings while network is invalid.” Right.
My children were screaming at me from the back seat, so I assumed this was a problem I could easily fix another time."
I remember this ride clearly. It was the beginning of the COVID Era, and I was still working in-person in a customer service role. I was finishing up my degree. I took a ride out to a local state park with some empty roads running through it and did some sightseeing. I had my first "close call" when an oncoming car driver failed to notice me (a bright green cannonball), took a left turn directly in front of me, and stopped in my travel lane when she panicked.