Rants and Stupid shit in Orange County

[TheFishsd]

Actually, most new cars are trackable now, electric or not.

Of course. My new car is trackable as well. But it's a different brand than my wife's and she doesn't have the app on her phone for that reason. She doesn't even know the password, so she can't look it up online.

[Member #2210]

Bro. Please resond. Which Amy? The viet on in OC GFE only?

Yes, the Amy everyone's been talking about.

[Grimmy23]

"Obviously Elon doesn't do any mongering of his own. ".

Yes he does. With his employees. LOL!

Yeah if I had Elon's money I'd probably be boning my female employees too. All of the single ones and at least half of the married ones. LOL.

[Plasma Spray]

And yes I have to drive her in my car. On occasions.

[Plasma Spray]

Don't be such a cheap ass. This is an expensive hobby, flip phones don't work. You need a smart phone. I've had bookers send pics and maps on how to get to the apt. With a flip phone, the screen is so small you can't see the pic. And how the heck are you texting on a 10 key pad. Get a decent smart phone and a decent phone plan. Tmobile coverage is dismal. Stick with verizon or ATT. I've tried Goggle voice / text and it's not that reliable. Just get a pay as you go phone; I pay $35/ month with ATT and never have an issue. That works out to $400 a year. That's one session. It's worth it.

Maybe cheap. But I need something small and easily put away with a long charge. I do not want to explain where that extra phone is for while being charged in the car.

[Plasma Spray]

"Obviously Elon doesn't do any mongering of his own. ".

Yes he does. With his employees. LOL!

[Ingots]

I am just sad that folks some folks have poisoned the well, or our minds, without any hard evidence. For some of us, who really enjoyed seeing Amy and are / were planning to repeat, it sure sows a doubt in our mind. I can't help but look at her feet next time I see her.

To be honest I was planning on seeing her when she gets back since I wasn't able to see her last time. Which bummed me out cause she was booked solid. All this new information doesn't seem factual enough to make it real. It's a lot of speculation and "trust me bro" knowledge. I still plan on scheduling a visit because I'm just not convinced all these rumors are true. I plan on reporting back with my results to y'all.

[Lift Her Up]

You are not going to get a good answer because it is very complicated. . .

Thank you for your thoughtful observations.

It's tough to get a constructive dialogue going on-line (lots of flame-throwers around), but we do see some useful and thoughtful exchanges here in this Rants and Stupid thread. Thanks, guys!

Lift Her Up.

[Grimmy23]

You may be able to get a text forwarding app for your main phone that forwards texts to your burner. Obviously, test it extensively prior to use.

Is there another electric car with less obvious tracking? Feign disgust with Elon and buy something else.

Actually, most new cars are trackable now, electric or not. I got my daughter a new non-electric car for college just a few months ago and it's fully trackable as well. I can even turn on alerts if I want to notify me if she's speeding or driving recklessly. I don't do that but I could. It's just one of those things with technology now.

As far as I'm aware, all EVs have the same issue. Your phone is your car key and it controls everything. We already have one Tesla and the home charging infrastructure. If we added another brand we'd have to add another charger for it and it adds a couple thousand dollars to the cost. Yeah I could use the Tesla charger with an adapter plug but that's not ideal either.

The other thing about EVs, not to turn this into an EV pros and cons thread, is that still the only EV that you can realistically take on a long distance road trip is a Tesla. Nobody else has the charging infrastructure built up yet. If you want to drive up to say San Francisco it's difficult to impossible to do it in any EV that isn't a Tesla. In a Tesla it's super easy. While everyone else was sleeping, Tesla quietly rolled out a network of conveniently spaced super chargers so you can take a long road trip. It just means that you plan your lunch stop around where the next supercharger is. Hyundai is getting there with its Ioniq, but even with that you're more or less at the mercy of what you can do on a full charge.

Obviously Elon doesn't do any mongering of his own.

[TheFishsd]

You may be able to get a text forwarding app for your main phone that forwards texts to your burner. Obviously, test it extensively prior to use.

Is there another electric car with less obvious tracking? Feign disgust with Elon and buy something else.

The beater car that I was driving around town finally bit the dust. It needs $3000 in repairs and it's only worth $1600 KBB value so I'm not fixing it. Ironically it broke down just as I was pulling into my neighborhood after some hobby fun. If it had broken down 20-30 minutes earlier I would have had a fun time explaining to family why I needed to be towed from Little Saigon, so dodged a bullet there. Wife and I already knew we were on borrowed time with that car (15 years and 200 k miles) and decided a long time ago that we would replace it with a second Tesla when the time came. Well the time has come and we're abojt to become a completely gas free household.

Awesome, except Teslas are trackable. The last thing I need is for my wife to open the app and see that the other car is in Little Saigon or at some random hotel. It's possible to turn that off, but when you turn it off the app shows that you turned it off. That throws a bit of a wrench into this hobby for me. I haven't figured what my workaround is going to be yet. Maybe I turn it off and call it a "glitch. " But then we have location sharing on our phones too, which I turn off when I'm hobbying. The phone and the car can't both have glitches at the same time.

My other thought is get a burner phone and leave my regular phone in my office when I'm out, then the car can have a little glitch. The only thing I'd have to explain there is why it took me 2 hours to respond to a text.

Technology giveth and technology taketh away.

[Mr Plumber]

I have a few smart phones laying around since upgrading. Samsung s8 etc. (all unlocked). But the the tracfone sim does not work (not detected) in the samsung. I need to keep the same number as it has already been vetted by quite a few providers and orgs.

You can port your existing, vetted cell number to any service you choose. This has been an FCC mandate since the early days of mobile phone tech.

[Domelike2020]

The beater car that I was driving around town finally bit the dust. It needs $3000 in repairs and it's only worth $1600 KBB value so I'm not fixing it. Ironically it broke down just as I was pulling into my neighborhood after some hobby fun. If it had broken down 20-30 minutes earlier I would have had a fun time explaining to family why I needed to be towed from Little Saigon, so dodged a bullet there. Wife and I already knew we were on borrowed time with that car (15 years and 200 k miles) and decided a long time ago that we would replace it with a second Tesla when the time came. Well the time has come and we're abojt to become a completely gas free household.

Awesome, except Teslas are trackable. The last thing I need is for my wife to open the app and see that the other car is in Little Saigon or at some random hotel. It's possible to turn that off, but when you turn it off the app shows that you turned it off. That throws a bit of a wrench into this hobby for me. I haven't figured what my workaround is going to be yet. Maybe I turn it off and call it a "glitch. " But then we have location sharing on our phones too, which I turn off when I'm hobbying. The phone and the car can't both have glitches at the same time.

I wasn't even aware you could turn it off. If anyone has a way to get around the Tesla tracking, please share the knowledge.

I recently saw it could be disabled if you were in dangerous relationship, but I wasn't able to find it in the settings. Could be country specific.

[Grimmy23]

The beater car that I was driving around town finally bit the dust. It needs $3000 in repairs and it's only worth $1600 KBB value so I'm not fixing it. Ironically it broke down just as I was pulling into my neighborhood after some hobby fun. If it had broken down 20-30 minutes earlier I would have had a fun time explaining to family why I needed to be towed from Little Saigon, so dodged a bullet there. Wife and I already knew we were on borrowed time with that car (15 years and 200 k miles) and decided a long time ago that we would replace it with a second Tesla when the time came. Well the time has come and we're abojt to become a completely gas free household.

Awesome, except Teslas are trackable. The last thing I need is for my wife to open the app and see that the other car is in Little Saigon or at some random hotel. It's possible to turn that off, but when you turn it off the app shows that you turned it off. That throws a bit of a wrench into this hobby for me. I haven't figured what my workaround is going to be yet. Maybe I turn it off and call it a "glitch. " But then we have location sharing on our phones too, which I turn off when I'm hobbying. The phone and the car can't both have glitches at the same time.

My other thought is get a burner phone and leave my regular phone in my office when I'm out, then the car can have a little glitch. The only thing I'd have to explain there is why it took me 2 hours to respond to a text.

Technology giveth and technology taketh away.

[SCJohn]

I Have a tracfone burner flip phone but that POS kills the $19.99 plan I am on after I retrieve some pics that providers send me.

Used to have older flipper that tracfone decommisioned and offered me this POS "upgrade. " I disabled the data use feature but have to tuen it on to download the pics and immeidately turn data off. But I cannot send or receive texts after as "funds are insufficient. " This did not evwr happen with the old flipper.

Any other recs gents?

Don't be such a cheap ass. This is an expensive hobby, flip phones don't work. You need a smart phone. I've had bookers send pics and maps on how to get to the apt. With a flip phone, the screen is so small you can't see the pic. And how the heck are you texting on a 10 key pad. Get a decent smart phone and a decent phone plan. Tmobile coverage is dismal. Stick with verizon or ATT. I've tried Goggle voice / text and it's not that reliable. Just get a pay as you go phone; I pay $35/ month with ATT and never have an issue. That works out to $400 a year. That's one session. It's worth it.

[Plasma Spray]

I don't remember the last time I had a flip phone.

Go to Walmart, spend the $25 to 50 bucks, and get a "smart phone".

Here's one:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Tracfone-...8?from=/search

I still use the $20 card for 90 day use, annually that's $80, the best deal out there.

Don't know how Tracphone will end up now that it's owned by Verizon.

My opinion time to get a new phone, it will let you surf the web for new gals and much better IMHO than a flip.

Best of luck.

I have a few smart phones laying around since upgrading. Samsung s8 etc. (all unlocked). But the the tracfone sim does not work (not detected) in the samsung. I need to keep the same number as it has already been vetted by quite a few providers and orgs.