Anyone who tried to pay for anything in Canada on 8 July 2022 knows that it's not that simple. The entire Interac network was shut down for over 15 hours, which meant that debit and credit payments through POS terminals were halted nationwide. It was chaos, I was away from home and was unaware that anything had happened because I had no phone service. There were long lines everywhere, and a stranger paid for my coffee with cash, because the single toonie I happened to have wasn't enough.
The cause of the failure was multi-fold: all of Interac's Internet links relied on the Rogers' network in one way or another, so when one went down, so did the other.
For your last sentence, do you mean "to this day"? "Until today" means something that ended/stopped today. Or are you a good enough swimmer now that you feel comfortable swimming in deep water?
It works fine. I've been doing it for ages with no problems. Note that I added node_modules, etc. to the ignore file so that it's not always syncing thousands of tiny files, which always tend to take a long time for some reason.
It's not a separate part, it's part of the pad itself with a 2-pin connector. I've never bought brake pads from the dealer, but aftermarket pads include it, effectively for free. And it's a pretty useless feature that my old car didn't even have (same model), so I just cut the plug off before installing the pad. You can just manually close the circuit if you don't want the dash light to light up.
I love biscuit joiners. What model do you have? I wish I could get a Lamello but they are insanely expensive. I have a Porter Cable that is actually pretty good, but I want something cordless.
The wear sensor? My car (a VW) has that. It's literally just a loop of wire embedded in the pad that wears through and breaks the connection once the pads get too thin. I would hesitate to even call it a sensor, because that implies some level of sophistication.
If you never use them for calling, you can go into Bluetooth settings and disable Calls/Phone access for that device. At least, this is possible on Android.
The cause of the failure was multi-fold: all of Interac's Internet links relied on the Rogers' network in one way or another, so when one went down, so did the other.