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No, a software switch is not enough. We need to be able to physically unplug the cellular modem entirely and have the vehicle work with 100% functionality (barring features which inherently require cellular connectivity like turning the heating on remotely)
Car manufacturers' features are mostly useless anyway thanks to Android Auto/Apple CarPlay
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With i3wm, tmux and helix with clangd it is a capable development machine with a surprisingly modern feel, only the compile times give away that the machine is from the early 2010s. Even WiFi is working, and pkgsrc is fast and well-stocked with the newest software.
Dissatisfied with the state of the vendor SDK for CH32V003 microcontrollers (ultra-cheap RISC-V MCUs), he created his own [1], which is a pleasure to use. He also has a header-only RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (and Doom!) [2], and hacked an ESP32 to emit valid LORA frames with clever use of aliasing [3].
[1] https://github.com/cnlohr/ch32v003fun
I hike a lot and started running races in alpine territory (e.g. this one [1]) about a decade ago and think if you take into account fatigue (mental, muscle, tendons) and exposure to the elements (sun, rain, wind, snow), a light running pace can definitely make you arrive at your destination less exhausted than walking the same distance, given that you can move confidently in the given terrain.
So it is a multi-dimensional optimization problem (as opposed to only optimizing for energy expenditure) and very dependent on how comfortably you can move at the given velocities.
I've been around the tech industry long enough to see companies dogmatically pursuing certain ideas only to switch to the opposite ideas later... And, at all times, everyone is 100% sure that this way is the only way it should be done. Nobody ever gets any credit for saying "Hang on, maybe we should find a middle ground."
The root problem is that most humans are a mix of crazy and stupid. We go from one crazy extreme to the opposite crazy extreme.
Ah, the game turned into a big corp job!
Just for AI image generation i would rather recommend krita with the https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion plugin.