I did this as well and have liked it for the most part, but would also recommend using an older, established TLD.
I went with `.email` because... it just seemed fitting at the time and it's been depressing how many sites won't allow it because it's "not a valid domain". Or worse, I've been able to register an account successfully only to be blocked by the login form which uses a different validation configuration (looking at you, REI).
All of these aren't quite the same though. Charging to use hardware that is already present in a vehicle and contained to that vehicle (heated seats) is not the same as charging to use an app that requires a network of hardware behind the scenes to start a vehicle remotely.
The latter has continuing costs and it's foolish to believe that would be free forever. Should you be _forced_ to pay this? No. But that's a different problem.
Any vehicle that was available with "telematics" already collects and transmits a huge amount of information, regardless of whether you have a telematics subscription, including location, speed, interior and exterior temperature, whether the wipers are in use, engine parameters, accessory settings, you name it.
Whether you're paying for any services or not your vehicle is generating a substantial amount of data, so the notion that remote start needs to 'earn its keep' is nonsense.
There are multiple different kinds of remote start.
Recurring payment to start your car over the internet? Maybe.
Recurring payment to start your car by hitting a button on your key fob from 50 feet away (vs having to be in the car)? Not so much.
Furthermore, it would be perfectly reasonable for the maker of a $60k car to include in that price the cost of supporting internet connectivity for the lifetime of the car.
Command & Conquer (RA2 Yuri's Revenge or Generals style play) + FPS where I start the game in RTS mode and at any time I can click and "assume" a unit on the ground where I'm dropped into an FPS version of the map I was just viewing. If I die, I resume the commander role. Or if at any time I want to command again, AI takes the unit back over and it either stops or resumes doing whatever it was doing before.
I guess Renegade might be what FPS looks like, but I'm unaware of a game that combines both.
the Dungeon Keeper games sound similar. it's an RTS and you can control individual units in FPS mode and use their powers. the first person fighting isn't that great really, but it's still fun. and was way ahead for its time.
Most of the spam I receive these days comes from DNS registry contact info. I always select the domain privacy option when possible, but certain TLDs like .us do not allow this option.
I’ve been using unique addresses for almost everything for several years now and I don’t get nearly as much spam as I anticipated when I first set it up. There’s one app I used years ago with a custom address and still get consistent spam from different people… I always wonder if the data was sold or stolen.
It is a bit humorous when a sales person asks for an email address and I give them something like theircompanyname@mydomain.com and they’re unsure if I’m openly blowing them off or that’s my actual address.
There we go, thanks. The most useful comment buried at the bottom.
I'm not in disagreement of the ethical issues pointed out by the top 20 top comments here. But I think it demonstrates how many people here are from the ivory tower of IT rather than the gutter like the rest of us enlisted IT folk. If industry could be trusted to self-regulate I'd be all uppity about supporting them, but they can't and I'm not.
I've found k3s (https://k3s.io/) to be extremely easy to use for setting up and running kubernetes on a group of Raspberry Pis. Specifically, I followed this guide to get my clusters up and running quickly and it's worked out pretty well: https://blog.alexellis.io/test-drive-k3s-on-raspberry-pi/
Its easy, but it uses 50% CPU idle and it would probably use more if it weren’t blocked on SD card writes (it uses 100% SD card bandwidth). I tested this multiple times on a RPI 3B this last week with different individual Pis and different SD cards. There are also many bug reports to the same general sentiment.
