Exactly.
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Such a weird thing to have, except... The Taurus did change Ford, and was a massive impact on the industry too.
Thought they were ugly when they debuted, then a family member got one, and I found it was a good car - one of the best American cars I've driven or worked on (especially for the era). Still a homely car, had to look at it's ugly ass for 300,000 miles. Yep, that good of a car.
Probably my only mechanical complaint is how they implemented the front suspension - the combination of a less-than-ideal subframe mounting and unequal length half shafts meant it was a bitch to keep aligned and suffered some awful torque steer.
Lol, thanks for the tip...it's bizarro world
Meh, DRM has been repeatedly circumvented. It's a cat-and-mouse game, with very few cats (DRM developers/vendors) and many mice (DRM circumventors) who are very motivated.
DRM is to prevent the average consumer from sharing stuff.
You don't even need to have the cell on your own account - location data for most any mobile device can be purchased from vendors that sell such data.
Verizon has had this since flip phone days.
As you noted, it uses cell tower data, so anything that has a SIM can be located pretty accurately. (Technically anything with a cell radio, as towers will track that).
It's how they had mapping on flip phones.
I remember talking to peers about location tracking with the first digital cell phones circa 1996. We were concerned then, but couldn't get any non-tech folks to hear us.
There's a reason it's recommended to put kids in the back seat: it simply doesn't have the risks of the front. The other requirements for front safety and rollover have a knock-on effect of making the rest of the vehicle safer (can't improve rollover without improving the strength and energy distribution of the lower half of the car, which means improving impact protection too) . Note that cars have side airbags in the rear, they don't have forward ones because they simply aren't necessary, since there's no dash to impact in a frontal collision.
I'd much rather be in the back seat in any accident.
Doesn't remind me of a Tucker at all. Here's a Tucker front. (Also, what a gorgeous car the Tucker was).
But that rounded front is pretty much the design element of the times.
Looking at the Nash, I see "streamlining", which was a pre-war concept akin to what we'd call aerodynamic today (though it wasn't necessarily aerodynamic, just a visual style). Streamlining is more associated with art deco period to me - it appeared on things like train engine designs in the early 20th.
So an already shitty app will double down on enshittification?
Using a mesh network like Wireguard/Tailscale enables you to have a public interface that's not on your home router, but the VPS instead.
This is great news.
As an early Android user, the F-Droid app is challenging enough that I don't recommend it to people, because I don't have the time to hold their hand everyday. This is unfortunate as F-Droid repositories are the easiest way for non-technical people to get more privacy-friendly apps.
About once every 10 years. Though I have a 20 year old dryer that just started squeaking on occasion. It's because they use bushings instead of a proper sealed bearing.
You can get the kit on Amazon for $15-$20, depending on the dryer.