The way Android Auto connects, your phone connects to bluetooth on the car, then they set up their own little WIFI between them. That's why it doesn't work on VPNs that don't allow split tunneling.

I mean forcing a reconnect to capture the handshake is exactly how I used to speed up WIFI cracking back in college. You would need that to break in a car's wifi in the time it's at a red light.

Where I'm from, France, it's not so bad I think. We have pretty strong privacy laws I feel. But now I'm in the US so yeah. I'm in cybersecurity so I see the difference with what employers are allowed to do. Also Flock cameras popping up everywhere. There are a couple near me that make me lose Android Auto's wifi everytime I drive by them so I'm thinking it's intercepting stuff.

Argh that was so useful in hotels. I'd take a little roku stick and poof.

They're 100% free in the sense that they don't ship closed code, ever. That is the goal to attain. However, we're not there yet. For that, hardware needs to be open. Hardware can't be as easily be made by a group of volunteers as software. Like at all. To solve this 'transient' state, all popular distros allow adding some sort of 'nonfree' repo so that, you know, shit can work. For instance, you are free to install Debian and not enable the nonfree repo, which is not enabled by default. You are also free to wonder later why your webcam doesn't work, you can't print, your bluetooth headset won't pair and your fancy gaming GPU outputs 10 FPS @800x600.

So it's gonna be ntfs so it's a matter of handling the permissions in fstab. Because it's not gonna link your user ids from the NTFS files and map them automatically to your UNIX users. So there are options in fstab for that. Easy to look up. For instance maybe your user is 'user' so you're gonna tell fstab to assign everything in a ntfs to partition to 'user'. Except maybe you have media files served by plex media server running under user 'plexmediaserver'. This kind of things.

+1 for matrix been using it for months on my own homeserver. I have bridges from discord, whatsapp and google messages so I can do all this from the same client (same setup as beeper really, same software stack)

Or even sue them

Yeah they can just say "patriot act" basically

Tx somehow I had never heard of that until now, it seems great.

Let me guess: a number of seasons so we can finally have a glimpse of a beginning of an answer to the question that was asked in the first episode.

Love it. Simple and clear with concise instructions.