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Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
If shit like this keeps going, soon my car is going to be homemade out of 2x4s and a backyard-forged 2 stroke engine, while I try to turn sand into chips so I can stay connected to the Internet...
I've already resolved to not buy cars newer than the ones I already have (from the '90s and 2000s).
(It sucks 'cause it means I can't have an EV unless I find one of those super-low-volume '90s fleet compliance cars or build my own.)
My ebike odometer ticked over 1000 miles a couple weeks ago.
I am not beginning to drive any time soon so not much knowledge on cars, but seen from videos and discussions that at least in some models telematics are done by a box that can be unplugged, and it depends what functionality you can lose from this. Buying only old is probably not a longterm option, so would instead be looking at disarming upcoming ones. We really need a database on how eadily it is done by model and what impact it would have.
You can always install an EV conversion kit to old cars.
I count that under "build my own."
https://www.openmotors.co/product/tabbyevo/
Bit out of date, but it's a framework to start with.