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Updating a 2020 Tesla vs 2020 Updating a Land Rover - A lesson in WTF
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Negative on the flyby there Maverick. There are VERY few things that I'm willing to tell my wife what to do - and telling her to get in line definitely ain't one of them. Becoming a Tesla only family just happens to be ONE of those few things.
BrokerDon
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Toyota Prius, Jeep Grand Cherokee and Chevrolet Corvette Z06 factory navigation systems EACH wanted HUNDRED$ for map updates. Sold Jeep Grand Cherokee AND Corvette and bought our 2015 MS P85D which replaced BOTH of these cars... and turned our Prius into a hardly driven "backup vehicle".
No ICE cars in our future. Hoping the Tesla Semi to be available as an RV so we can replace our diesel powered Winnebago View (Mercedes Sprinter chassis) RV.
Ugh. I'd been messing with Usenet since the mid-1980s, and remember when all the AOL newbies hit the Usenet news groups. (I used to hang out in rec.autos.misc, alt.folklore.urban, and numerous others.) Usenet was never the same afterwards.
It sounds like an issue with your router. I have connected my M3 to plenty of SSID's with no issue.
No one is saying that Tesla is the end all but connecting it to a wifi network isn't hard. There is nothing special about how it connects.
XLR82XS
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The type of person who discovers the son (a.k.a. automated lawnmower) is difficult to start, requires tons of expensive and regular maintenance, and is recharging whenever needed for lawn mowing.
If you can't get your Tesla to connect to your router then the issue is with your router - if you need help why not ask - there are many of us with networking expertise that are happy to help.
And take it down a notch there, cowboy, no one is saying that Tesla is the "be all and end all of everything" - you do understand what an anecdote is right?
I hear you, dude. I also save asserting my dominance to only the things that matter.
Yeah, if we could only have kept people away from technology, preventing mass adoption and the innovation explosions that would later be the core fundamentals for stuff like, I dunno, autonomous vehicles?
Eternal September? Want me to hold your Captain Crunch whistle while you cry? Elon Musk is a newbie in the car industry who doesn't respect the existing etiquette. Just saying.
The best thing about AOL were the free 'coasters' that came in the mail.
And thankfully so.
And thankfully so.
It was a rebuttal to "eternal September". It's an expression usually thrown out by someone who is either trying to seem more savvy than they are or someone who felt they "owned the internet" until regular people started joining.
That and the incredible over-engineered containers they shipped them in. I remember several bamboo boxes with neatly beveled corners ... and then there were the metal "tins". Those containers were worth more than the AOL CDs ... LOL.
Then came the WWW, and forums like this one, and things _really_ went downhill.
AOL marketing was a good source of extra floppy disks too.
Yup. I used to go to Fry's Electronics and hoard those floppy disks to store my *pics*Then came the WWW, and forums like this one, and things _really_ went downhill.
AOL marketing was a good source of extra floppy disks too.
RayK
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If your comment was directed to me, since I was the one that first threw out the topic, I'd like to respond at the risk of taking this thread even more OT. I made note to Eternal September only to place a timestamp on the ownership of my AOL account. I assumed that some people here would get the reference as they are internet-savvy (or are as old as I am), while others would have to Goggle it and then may or may not understand the significance of that event.
As for my savviness, my previous work history included a stint at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA back in 1973-75 as a math aide, Remote Job Entry station operator and finally a FORTRAN programmer assisting an aeronautical engineer on the first attempts at simulating aircraft performance using computers. Search the internet for references to AEROX and John Axelson. He's the engineer I worked for. I used ARPANET to play chess with other RJE operators using a simple messaging program; a precursor to computer "chat" or IM.
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I don't ever feel like I'm owed the internet. Yes I've used nn on a UNIX shell account during the Eternal September period to read Usenet, mostly rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 and ba.broadcast, Also used Gopher, Archie, Veronica, Mosaic, Lynx and others I've forgotten about. However, if I DID own the internet, one of the first things I'd do is banish Facebook and Twitter as the damage they are doing to the degrade the public's overall intelligence is infinitely worse than what happened during Eternal September.
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C'mon man AOL was actually amazing in 90s. You've Got Mail. Instant Messaging. Chat rooms (especially those warez rooms). The one thing I did hate was the annoying dial up sound that is permanently embedded in my brain. Also when my mom picked up the phone and I got disconnected lol.
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