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Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure (headlinesmonitor.com)
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[–] 21 points 10 months ago (11 children)

I feel like I got my car at the perfect time:

It has Android Auto and CarPlay, and it's a manual so there's no way for it to turn on or off remotely.

Now I just have to make sure it survives until I die.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (10 children)

    It's a voluntary anti-theft measure I believe. Prevents it from being started without the owner's consent. Which immobilizers are also supposed to do, but we all know how well those work.

    If I owned a Porsche in Russia, I would also get something like that tbh. Luckily I don't live in Russia, nor do I have a Porsche anymore and mine was too old for this kinda shit anyway

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Feature is based on the same tech implementation as these SOS/Service call buttons almost every modern car has. It uses IoT sim.

    People who have SOS/Service call button in their cars are also falling under this issue except it would only affect cars that has been outside of russian cellular towers for over 72h.

    Also, maybe this is happening due to Porsche not willing to extend IoT sim subscriptions for russian citizens making their sims essentially to be disabled. But I am not sure how car manufacturer IoT sim contracts work. For a typical company/private person IoT sim contract is for 10 years with typically 1gb of data for the same timeframe. If car manufacturer contract is similar to that, this may be the reason why their cars are bricking.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Living in Russia in Moscow/Petersburg is actually really nice these days.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    I mean if I was a rich ethnic Russian in either of those cities, I'd probably love it.

    I'm Estonian though, don't speak any more Russian than yes, no, please, thank you and go fuck yourself. Of course I also understand when being asked for a cigarette - an absolute necessity in Estonia (though these days you're very unlikely to get attacked for not providing said cigarettes - 20-30 years ago was different, but I wasn't exactly old enough to smoke then)

    But overall I'm glad I don't live in Russia because I don't agree with the politics. Even before the current war, I'm sure I would've been seen as a dissident. I'm sure the people of Russia are actually mostly very nice. It's also cheaper than a lot of western countries so working remotely, I'm sure I would've been able to live very comfortably before the war. I just wouldn't ever want to live under Putin rule and I wouldn't really want to live in a country with so many nationalists (US, if I ever moved there, would be a bit easier, because it's more about race than nationality and I'm white)

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Living in Petersburg being nice? I dunno

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    The one in Florida certainly sucks.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I was thinking more about all the dismemberment and depression jokes about the one on Neva with the Aurora cruiser docker yadda-yadda

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It's the weather, probably. Something for the natives, and Finns maybe.

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

    Yeah, but at the same time - the weather in Vyborg is fine by me, and the weather in Narva\Ivangorod. But the place between them (one the coast) is somehow far more depressive.

    And I don't think I've heard Helsinki being called depressive.

    It's something about planning, perhaps? Streets are laid out so that you feel as if you were in a military location. People live in those historical beautiful buildings as if they were birds making nests under the roof, as if people were not the main thing there.

    And places around SPb, like Strelna, are also not depressive at all. At least in my perception. That air flavored with Baltic salt, every sea smells differently, the Baltic water smell is nice, in some way similar to Coca-Cola.

    It's the city itself.

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