Simless phones can make emergency calls because the towers are configured to accept a request for an emergency call to any device that handshakes sufficiently (in Europe and most of Asia anyway, I assume also true of USA because it does work).
The phone is able to contact the nearest tower and initiate a call because it scans for the nearest towers in the boot process in order to go to the next step (check sim details and connect to configured provider). In the process of determining available towers it provides the IMEI to each of them.
If you live in a country where you have to provide ID to buy a handset then this definitely isn’t anonymous, but even if you are in a country that doesnt, all the manufacturers track where every IMEI is shipped, and sku numbers on POS will easily allow determination of exactly when the device was sold. Even if you paid cash there will be CCTV footage of the purchase.
TL;DR this will work mostly until you make a mistake against corporate tracking but will absolutely not protect you from three-letter-acronyms and law enforcement.
Consider your threat model carefully before relying on it
That depends on your threat model. All lemmy posts are publicly visible and can be scooped up by Farcebook, google et al. Discord is very definitely not properly private but all posts aren’t public. They are undoubtedly doing the same thing FB does and selling a semi anonymised set of meta data about you, but the world doesn’t have direct visibility
I know the three letter acronyms have access to everything I do, hidden or not, I don’t like it but I don’t see anyway around it.
I can however do my level best to keep FB, google, M$ out of my stuff to some extent
Techcrunch article is misunderstanding the meaning of freely given. It means not under duress and with full understanding. Paying for a service categorically doesnt contradict that.
However the odds of facebook explaining in plain english the egregious privacy breaches they do is unlikely so there’s prob a get out there anyway.
Can’t see how it breaches consent unless, as above they don’t explain what they’re doing to gather info for “personalised” ads.
Am lawyer, not gdpr /EU specialist though.
Every time you take your car to be serviced by tge dealer it’s plugged into a diagnostics computer which reads the ECU, with the price of storage it is entirely possible that disabling the cell connection just causes the ECU to write it to local storage for upload at service read. The diagnostics machines are definitely connected to manufacturer servers.
Doing so is trivially easy the telematics is going to be caching before sending, all you need to do is manufacture that cache storage to be large enough (and it’s flatfiles we’re talking megs not gigs) and tell the software not to delete until it has an an acknowledged receipt of transfer.
Ethernet over hdmi
https://thehometheaterdiy.com/hdmi-with-ethernet/
https://www.cmple.com/learn/learning-center-hdmi-cables-with-ethernet