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gennepher said:
It turns out that I have a complimentary Bluelink free in my car until 2027. This runs the infotainment centre along with the sat nav and all the controls for other features and safety features which are within the car infotainment centre.

At various times something comes up on the infotainment screen when I turn on the engine and it says I cannot use Bluelink or satnav or all the features on the infotainment centre, unless I agree at the end of this lengthy document. Currently I have this complementary Bluelink up to 2027.

I was talking with my daughter in Australia this morning, and explaining about all my problems with the car and the noisy intrusive alarms. And explained that the software on the infotainment centre changed from time to time as though it had updated. I also explain that there is an icon on the right of the entertainment centre telling me that it is LIVE as I am driving as though it is connected up to something and some transmission is taking place. I do not use the radio.

The icons sometimes change place on the infotainment screen, as if it had had an update. I couldn't understand this because I didn't know it was connected up to something for this to happen.

Apparently there's an app to go with this, the car's infotainment screen did invite me to download the app when I first got the car, but I did not do that.

I have learnt that this is OTA software and it's updates my car's vehicles system software remotely and automatically and it keeps up to date without me doing anything or visiting a dealership.

I've had a look at the app but I have not downloaded it because there is a whole new world on that app to me... Things that you can do with your car that are way out of my knowledge. Like you can even make a digital key with your phone and the app to start your car.

I have had my fill of new technology today and I cannot take one more thing into my poor little brain.

I am just a girl who was brought up on a farm with no electricity, no sanitation, it was an oil drum in the pig sty. I didn't attend school most of the time (I couldn't hear what was being said anyway). I just roamed the countryside with my dog.

Life was simple back then.

I am a cantankerous old biddy and I want my life to be simple in my old age.

According to the app I can get alarm notifications if someone tries to break into my car, I can do remote diagnostic checks, and a whole pile of other stuff. But all I want to do is turn off all these alarms and safety alerts, which are unnecessary in my opinion.

Apparently I can even find my car up to a 1 mile radius, if I have forgotten where I have parked it, if I have the app...


Now I said that this car snitched on me (I was only joking when I said that last week), when I tried to turn off safety settings because initially it let me turn them off and did not reinstate them, but a day later the imfotainment screen now decides that it's going to tell me straight away that I cannot turn these settings off and it is going to recheck these safety settings immediately. It did not do that in the first place.


Now I am thinking of long term implications of this, what I am now going to call remote monitoring of your car. Say for example you have night blindness, but you still take the chance and drive your car at night because you think you can get away with it (I do not have night blindness but this is the example me and my daughter came up with). The car, assuming it has this information, is now going to not start when you get back in it next time and says sorry you do not have permission to drive this car between the hours of darkness of such and such, but at 8:01 in the morning you may drive the car again. And you are stuck 100 miles from home....

Oh, and apparently this Bluelink feature can be a battery drain, and cause failure in this 12 volt battery which runs a pile of things including the infotainment centre...mine failed a few weeks back...
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Are all modern cars like that? If so, I'm grateful that we have an old banger which still runs perfectly well. I hope I don't reach the stage of needing to get a new car - couldn't afford it anyway. It sounds as though even Neil couldn't sort that out, so I wouldn't have a hope.
 
0310 today - 10.6. Stayed high until I took insulin before breakfast, then dropped to 4.9. Stayed there until late lunch (RyVita and cheese) - took a small dose of insulin because of the carbs in the RyVita but now I'm struggling to get it back up to 4.0. I think the problem might be the antibiotic pills I'm having to take this week.

Finally tackled a huge basket of paperwork that has been looming over me for years. Most of it, I have to keep and file away but have managed to get rid of about 1/3rd, some to the bin and some for burning. Now I have to tackle the filing. At least I found my birth and marriage certificates @SlimLizzy. They were in a letter from the Merchant Navy Pensions Fund returning them after I claimed my widow's pension over six years ago. That's how long this pile has been waiting to be sorted.
 
Annb said:
Are all modern cars like that? If so, I'm grateful that we have an old banger which still runs perfectly well. I hope I don't reach the stage of needing to get a new car - couldn't afford it anyway. It sounds as though even Neil couldn't sort that out, so I wouldn't have a hope.
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Yes. From what I can gather @Annb That appears to be the way forward...
 
gennepher said:
Yes. From what I can gather @Annb That appears to be the way forward...
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Maybe we'll have to look into a horse and cart eventually. Go back to my grandfather's days when he was a "horsekeeper" in the census. Don't imagine it was his own horse and cart though. Not living in a flat in the Victoria Mansions in South Lambeth.
 
gennepher said:
Yes @Krystyna23040 precisely...

I will be contacting the cochlear implant team/audiologist etc and I will be bringing this issue up, and asking for another program, alongside my current program that could possibly deal with this car alarms/alerts issue. I don't know if this is possible. But if I can think something, then it is possible somewhere.

But first, I need to contact Cochlear itself, or some forum, to see if others have this concern, and if Cochlear have addressed it in any way...

Life was so much easier when I had no incoming sound....
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Hope someone has the answer to your cochlear implant issues @gennepher
 
gennepher said:
I thought you would have a good number this morning despite your concerns @Krystyna23040

When I am stressed or tired I do eat more when I shouldn't but for just the once my numbers are okay!
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Yes, you are so right @gennepher. Just the once is OK. It took much more than just the once to mess up my blood sugars in 2023.

I think that I was panicking that I had messed them up again.
 
Annb said:
Are all modern cars like that? If so, I'm grateful that we have an old banger which still runs perfectly well. I hope I don't reach the stage of needing to get a new car - couldn't afford it anyway. It sounds as though even Neil couldn't sort that out, so I wouldn't have a hope.
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I have a new Vauxhall and it isn't like that. Thank goodness.
 
Annb said:
Maybe we'll have to look into a horse and cart eventually. Go back to my grandfather's days when he was a "horsekeeper" in the census. Don't imagine it was his own horse and cart though. Not living in a flat in the Victoria Mansions in South Lambeth.
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Snap @Annb
I was thinking of horse and buggy.
Or my other idea was getting someone to make me a custom made 3wheeler. There are quite a few of those around here.
Or maybe I will get that 3wheeler Piaggio....
 
Good morning everyone. It’s windy city here and also “pack up and go home” morning. The ninky nonks and little miss pamplemouse left last night as they have school today and their school is overly keen in fining parents when a child does not attend unless something tragic has happened - parents ought to bill schools for child care on Inset days or whatever they call it. A child can only safely miss a day of education if the teachers decide to need a day doing stuff but not if they are going to be having fun. Oh well, the earth turns, the sun comes out somewhere and deep inside the depths of the Ministry of Silly Ideas, someone is squirrelling away at another list of pointlessness to make the teacher’s life more “enhancing”. Art bit - blow me down, a tree! Hope your day is a choice one. I need some koffy and then get the car packed.


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Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife camera
A busy night - Skinny Fox & Foxy Loxy - Ma & Pa Badger - Cat Jade
2min 4secs

Creative...pen and water brush, on a postcard, of a corner of my front room. It is an old (100 year old) terrarium (the door didn't close) which was J's (his father, a ship's Master, bought it for his mother in the 1920's, if the figures don't add up for you, J was 20 years older than me). The plant is a money plant. This plant has survived 20 years of neglect from me. I forget to water it, and so it grows longer and longer trying to find water...it is actually 3 times the length than I have shown...I don't know how it survives...if I have a cuppa tea that has gone cold, it sometimes get that....those two strands of money plant coming out of it are about four foot long!!!

Blowing a hoolie out there.

Ready for a quick nap to rest my eyes.

A cuppa first.

Enjoy your best kind of day.


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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone. It’s windy city here and also “pack up and go home” morning. The ninky nonks and little miss pamplemouse left last night as they have school today and their school is overly keen in fining parents when a child does not attend unless something tragic has happened - parents ought to bill schools for child care on Inset days or whatever they call it. A child can only safely miss a day of education if the teachers decide to need a day doing stuff but not if they are going to be having fun. Oh well, the earth turns, the sun comes out somewhere and deep inside the depths of the Ministry of Silly Ideas, someone is squirrelling away at another list of pointlessness to make the teacher’s life more “enhancing”. Art bit - blow me down, a tree! Hope your day is a choice one. I need some koffy and then get the car packed.


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Wow @dunelm these trees are absolutely amazing....
 
Morning all from a windy L.A. - no known fbg here to share with y'all. JKP was out early (for her) to collect a too poorly for the childminder 2 year old grandson from Cambs . Family meal went well yesterday.:two bottles of a very pleasant Rioja well. No, not me I only has perhaps 1.5 (normal sized) glasses over 3-4 hours. @gennepher thank you for sharing the creative. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art, safe journey home. I too miss Grumpy Old Men: time for a relaunch. I hope Monday brings you all at least some moments to add to life's scrapbook.
 
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ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a windy L.A. - no known fbg here to share with y'all. JKP was out early (for her) to collect a too poorly for the childminder 2 year old grandson from Cambs . Family meal went well yesterday.:two bottles of a very pleasant Rioja well. No, not me I only has perhaps 1.5 (normal sized) glasses over 3-4 hours. @gennepher thank you for sharing the creative. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art, safe journey home. I too miss Grumpy Old Men: time for a relaunch. I hope Monday brings you all at least some moments to add to life's scrapbook.
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Thank you Ian.
 
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