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  • I ran into this with my 2013 Kia Sorento ICE (which was subsequently totalled. :( )

    When you replace the on-board infotainment system, there’s an interoperability package that has to be installed to make sure the existing functions of the vehicle continue to work.

    Think of it like a translation layer, everything on the dashboard that went through the old system, has to be hooked up to the new system. Also complicated by steering wheel controls.

    When it was all said and done, I had the full array of cameras that I wanted (turn signal cameras are amazing!) and everything worked…

    Except the one little button that changed the interior lighting. It was forever stuck on red.

    Now, for an EV, it’s essential everything work properly. I can totally see GM shutting that down.

    This is kind of like the complaint about EVs not having AM radios… yeah, there’s a reason for that!

    https://www.autosinnovate.org/posts/blog/not-cheap-a-3.8-billion-fix-for-am-radio-in-evs







  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldThe visit
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    I’d love a variation where a time traveller goes back to see Jesus and can’t find them. So they start asking around… “Jesus of Nazareth? No? Sermon on the mount? ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God’? Ring any bells? Come on! Raised Lazarus from the dead? Loaves and fishes?”

    And in so doing, generates the Jesus myth…










  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMtoComic Books@lemmy.worldLove and Rockets
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    Punk is a small part of the whole story…

    Think of the early issues as using the same stable of actors in multiple projects.

    Yeah, Maggie is a space mechanic and yeah, she’s also living in a run down part of LA with her crust punk friends.

    It’s like watching Wes Anderson movies, yes, Bill Murray is a scuba diver here and a millionaire businessman there… Same actor, different stories.

    The First Fifty set is worth owning.