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Agree. The whole dealership model is becoming increasingly less viable as more money is made on financing & service than on sales. They are desperate to identify new revenue opportunities, though I never would have guessed they would start chasing the older vehicle service market.
This is precisely what happened in the PC & electronics markets. Hardware moved from being the primary product & revenue generator to cost-of-sales (& disposable); the real revenue now comes from S/W & subscriptions.
Wow!
This is precisely what happened in the PC & electronics markets. Hardware moved from being the primary product & revenue generator to cost-of-sales (& disposable); the real revenue now comes from S/W & subscriptions.
Wow!
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If you have not as yet founded and set up your OWN "Mechanics's Off Line Library" with GMT Nation GMT360, GMT400 and GMT800 FAQs, PDFs and other Media to Keep In Reserve... Now would be a Very Good Time to Start.
The same thing goes with obtaining, downloading and installing your OWN Off Line "Oracles at Delphi" Large Language Models with enormous variety as FREE and Privacy Focused AI Gurus that you can OWN such as available from Nomic's *GPT4ALL* and keep all of that assistance at hand on a few Legacy Computer Systems to guard against the advent of having access to the Internet, limited, regulated, restricted ...or controlled entirely by Dominant Corporations:
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The same thing goes with obtaining, downloading and installing your OWN Off Line "Oracles at Delphi" Large Language Models with enormous variety as FREE and Privacy Focused AI Gurus that you can OWN such as available from Nomic's *GPT4ALL* and keep all of that assistance at hand on a few Legacy Computer Systems to guard against the advent of having access to the Internet, limited, regulated, restricted ...or controlled entirely by Dominant Corporations:
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Sounds good except us average Joes can't afford $40/month and have a minimum of 25 workstations in order to use it. You've got FREE in caps but I'm not seeing anything free about it. Am I looking in the wrong place?
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The Caveat Emptor here....is that naturally, it will help to have a Robust enough Laptop or Desktop with an nVidia GPU Card possessing between 8 and 16 GB of VRAM and a Base Box in the range of the Intel i7 to i9 CPUs along with 64 Gigs of RAM or better to allow enough 'roomy' processing power for these FREE AI Applications to work well on an NVME M.2 4 TB SSD. You can choose among the Big Three Operating Systems such as Windows, MAC-OS or Linux (I Run Linux exclusively)
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You seem to be focusing on the "Pay for Play" Enterprise Level AI available on a commercial level for Business Use via OpenAI's Chat-GPT. The "FREE" set ups I speak of are not on-line services... but function via Locally Installed UI (User Interface) set ups via the FREE Cross Platform version of Nomic's GPT4ALL UI that allows you to pick and choose from any number of LLMs (Large Language Models) that range from as low as 1.5 Billion Token LLM Corpus and practically work up to around 14 Billion Tokens (which are quite unlike the Enterprise size Corpus that can run from 400 to 650 Billion Tokens ...or even larger).
But while these ostensibly Basic Sizes of LLMs are a Mooncast Shadow and nothing compared with their larger brethren, their value and utility are surprisingly useful and accurate AI Resources for the Average User. The below examples display what can be had that provide a very reasonable array of LLMs to suit your General or Particular Writing, Data Research and Computer Code generation and Programming requirements... and again... ALL are Available FREE of Charge at the link I listed above... and just below... as Downloadable, Installable for use in a Privacy Setting that YOU can control and which do not require any Internet Connection(s) to function. Here are some Screen Prints of what the Opening Desktop of Nomic's *GPT4ALL* looks like.... On Linux Mint 22.3:
GPT4All - Private & Local AI Chatbot
Run open-source AI models locally on your device. GPT4All delivers private, high-performance AI with no cloud required—your data stays on your machine.
www.nomic.ai
The Caveat Emptor here....is that naturally, it will help to have a Robust enough Laptop or Desktop with an nVidia GPU Card possessing between 8 and 16 GB of VRAM and a Base Box in the range of the Intel i7 to i9 CPUs along with 64 Gigs of RAM or better to allow enough 'roomy' processing power for these FREE AI Applications to work well on an NVME M.2 4 TB SSD. You can choose among the Big Three Operating Systems such as Windows, MAC-OS or Linux (I Run Linux exclusively)
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Back on the subject.
It has always been a fight on our right to repair ever since OBD1. OBD2 made it harder but we overcame and learned to work with it with the assistance of the Internet and tech that's available to help us. Now, it's getting even harder but OBD2 has still been able to keep OEMs at bay except when some operations are needed, like programming replacement modules, which requires OEM programming access. GM has actually been pretty cooperative in that sense with reasonable subscriptions to allow programming and diagnostics with their software even with aftermarket interfaces. I was even able to diagnose and program on my 2021 Sierra. No experience with Ford but Chrysler is the worst where you need to pay for an annual dealer subscription for $1000s and a fee for something called AutoAuth that only certified devices can access.
I do know that GM has locked down their ECUs to tuning unless you pay to get it unlocked by the tuning software company for $500-600. I think that is more to protect them from emissions tampering and their warranty.
It has always been a fight on our right to repair ever since OBD1. OBD2 made it harder but we overcame and learned to work with it with the assistance of the Internet and tech that's available to help us. Now, it's getting even harder but OBD2 has still been able to keep OEMs at bay except when some operations are needed, like programming replacement modules, which requires OEM programming access. GM has actually been pretty cooperative in that sense with reasonable subscriptions to allow programming and diagnostics with their software even with aftermarket interfaces. I was even able to diagnose and program on my 2021 Sierra. No experience with Ford but Chrysler is the worst where you need to pay for an annual dealer subscription for $1000s and a fee for something called AutoAuth that only certified devices can access.
I do know that GM has locked down their ECUs to tuning unless you pay to get it unlocked by the tuning software company for $500-600. I think that is more to protect them from emissions tampering and their warranty.