You are absolutely right. But they are working on it for I think 20 years now. Which is really great, but not a new development based on recent political discussions.
Well. Buses and trucks are usually not as tightly integrated as, say, the operating system of a computer, or the inverter of a photo voltaic system. So to disable this telemetry and over the air update capability, you can simply unplug the connectivity ECU (or its fuse). It will likely trigger a warning indication on the driver instrument cluster, but that’s it.
An easy fix like this is not really there for windows or other Microsoft infrastructure.
And to your point that things are being done to reduce the dependency on Microsoft… I have yet to see any serious efforts in this direction. All I have read about are relatively small instances.
The start stop system (in any car) is not as dumb as you think. It will not stop the engine when it is cold for example. It has a lot of conditions to actually stop the engine.
Don’t worry, it is not a safety hazard. Plenty of smart people have spent countless hours to make pretty damn sure that it is safe in all thinkable circumstances
Lots of people use fusion360. It has a free license for hobbyists. Although it is a cloud-first software. There is always the risk of them canceling that free license.
Ach ist ja interessant. Ich hab dank dir mal etwas nachgelesen. Es ist wohl in der Tat so, dass nur in Baden Württemberg die Impfung generell empfohlen wird (frag mich nicht warum) und sie deshalb dort auch immer von den Krankenkassen übernommen wird.
Why though? When you run multiple services on your machine, conflicts between these can cause headaches. Updating them is also often not trivial on bare metal. Let alone migrating to a newly set up machine (I suppose you could automate that with something like ansible)
Das ist ja das tolle, auch die, die es schon geschafft haben sich von Gas unabhängig zu machen!