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#3411276 4-Sep-2025 17:18

Lenovo. Even with Premium Support, repair has taken 8 days and counting. Multiple communication failures, but even more annoying it asks you for your serial number and the first thing you get from the agent who you speak to is "can I have your device serial number please"!

Argh.

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#3411278 4-Sep-2025 17:22

richms:

By the way, this is totally an unrelated thing, but the GPS jammers that you can get from the likes of wish and similar are totally effective but illegal.

Out of curiosity - are GPS jammers seized by customs like illegal 2 way radios?

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#3411279 4-Sep-2025 17:24

johno1234:

Out of curiosity - are GPS jammers seized by customs like illegal 2 way radios?

Those are seized? I was going to write something here but second thoughts better I dont.

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#3411287 4-Sep-2025 18:07

Handsomedan:

Ultimately, my emplyer is looking to reduce their fleet and this data is a great way for them to do so.

The words thin, end and wedge come to mind. Also wall and writing.

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#3411292 4-Sep-2025 18:20

networkn: Lenovo. Even with Premium Support, repair has taken 8 days and counting.

Lenovo doesn't do onsite in NZ anymore?

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#3411345 4-Sep-2025 22:39

Handsomedan:

geoffwnz:

Do they actually do anything with said data though? Do you get any warnings etc? Or just "here's your use".

If you were so inclined and they were actually doing things with it, you could do all manner of malicious compliance, create the vehicle equivalent of Strava Art, try and see if there's a maximum limit to the data generated etc.

If there's a period longer than 20 seconds where the speed limit is exceeded by 10km/h or more, there's a flag in a specific column on the spreadsheet, which then means that a report of that specific data goes to a GM.
My boss gets the same data I do (and does nothing with it at present).

Ultimately, my emplyer is looking to reduce their fleet and this data is a great way for them to do so.

Previous employer utilised a GPS tracker that would occasionally glitch, and report drivers doing 220km+ in residential areas.

I know this, because I have the emailed proof...

Manager rolls eyes, not again

But, GIGO, GPS data no longer trusted .

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#3411476 5-Sep-2025 09:20

Traffic light car window washers.
At Greenlane/Gt South Rd intersection this morning a homeless guy with likely mental health issues wandering around the stopped traffic with a Coke bottle of unknown liquid. Chucks it onto someone’s car bonnet then sets about rubbing it with the palm of his hand.
There’s a lot wrong with this.

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#3411477 5-Sep-2025 09:20

SepticSceptic:

Handsomedan:

geoffwnz:

Do they actually do anything with said data though? Do you get any warnings etc? Or just "here's your use".

If you were so inclined and they were actually doing things with it, you could do all manner of malicious compliance, create the vehicle equivalent of Strava Art, try and see if there's a maximum limit to the data generated etc.

If there's a period longer than 20 seconds where the speed limit is exceeded by 10km/h or more, there's a flag in a specific column on the spreadsheet, which then means that a report of that specific data goes to a GM.
My boss gets the same data I do (and does nothing with it at present).

Ultimately, my emplyer is looking to reduce their fleet and this data is a great way for them to do so.

Previous employer utilised a GPS tracker that would occasionally glitch, and report drivers doing 220km+ in residential areas.

I know this, because I have the emailed proof...

Manager rolls eyes, not again

But, GIGO, GPS data no longer trusted .

It's interesting - I have a few on my report that I have had to email them about as it shows me driving at 100km/h in a 50km/h area - I am on a motorway and the GPS is marking me in an adjacent residential street.

Quite annoying.

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#3411480 5-Sep-2025 09:26

There's a walking track a few km from my house and sometimes I drive over to the carpark. When I go to leave, the car GPS will invariably show my car on the track itself for a couple of dozen metres until it'll suddenly pop back into the right place. The thing that makes it really strange is that the track is perpendicular, not parallel, to the road!

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#3411481 5-Sep-2025 09:30

Most GPS receivers output dilution of precision messages. The tracker should use those and annotate or filter low precision readings. When the DOP is low the measured precision and speed should be very accurate.

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#3411484 5-Sep-2025 09:40

Handsomedan:
It's interesting - I have a few on my report that I have had to email them about as it shows me driving at 100km/h in a 50km/h area - I am on a motorway and the GPS is marking me in an adjacent residential street.

Quite annoying.

We had a Holden rental in Aus a few years back. If the GPS lost sight of the sky in a forest the apparent track on screen would be off to the left by about 100m and even out in open country again it could stay that way. No problem with Big Brother but the attempts to get back to the road you were actually on were annoying.

>10km/h over for >20 sec is generous. My BiL drove for Fonterra, he'd have his manager on the phone long before that.

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#3411493 5-Sep-2025 10:18

johno1234:

Traffic light car window washers.
At Greenlane/Gt South Rd intersection this morning a homeless guy with likely mental health issues wandering around the stopped traffic with a Coke bottle of unknown liquid. Chucks it onto someone’s car bonnet then sets about rubbing it with the palm of his hand.
There’s a lot wrong with this.

When police don't solve this problem, people sort it out themselves.

Man charged after allegedly stabbing two car window washers in South Auckland

Richard rich.ms

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#3411505 5-Sep-2025 11:05

richms:

johno1234:

Traffic light car window washers.
At Greenlane/Gt South Rd intersection this morning a homeless guy with likely mental health issues wandering around the stopped traffic with a Coke bottle of unknown liquid. Chucks it onto someone’s car bonnet then sets about rubbing it with the palm of his hand.
There’s a lot wrong with this.

When police don't solve this problem, people sort it out themselves.

Man charged after allegedly stabbing two car window washers in South Auckland

Something bad is going to happen to the guy I saw this morning. Some gang banger won't appreciate dirty water getting splashed on his pride and joy.

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#3411511 5-Sep-2025 11:27

In Hastings we have had a great window washer for years. He stations himself near a major intersection, never gets in the way of any traffic whether vehicle or pedestrian, uses hand signals from the kerb to solicit signs of interest, steps out quickly during the red light when he gets a response, does a quick but sufficient job, accepts whatever people want to pay him, is always pleasant, and yes, I am a fan. My windows get very dirty coming in from the countryside and I have gladly made use of his services on multiple occasions. He is a hard-working gentleman and never causes problems. I know this is not the case with all of them, but they aren't all bad either.

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#3411512 5-Sep-2025 11:37

Rikkitic:

In Hastings we have had a great window washer for years. He stations himself near a major intersection, never gets in the way of any traffic whether vehicle or pedestrian, uses hand signals from the kerb to solicit signs of interest, steps out quickly during the red light when he gets a response, does a quick but sufficient job, accepts whatever people want to pay him, is always pleasant, and yes, I am a fan. My windows get very dirty coming in from the countryside and I have gladly made use of his services on multiple occasions. He is a hard-working gentleman and never causes problems. I know this is not the case with all of them, but they aren't all bad either.

Yeah, that is the complete opposite of what happens in Manukau. They will use their water bottle with whatever in it, squirt the window, tap it with the brush stolen from a service station and then intimidate people.

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