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Herniated discs in back. Postponed surgery hoping for self-heal. Getting better but tried to climb under car to change oil and realized that my ability to get back up was limited. I understand dealerships are relying on pumping to change oil, no lift time, no cross threading drain plugs. Some cars being manufactured without drain plugs? Anyone have experience using something like THIS? Seems like less mess, draining directly into a waste container. No ground time. Filter is on top in the 2019 OB. Won't need to call 911 to get me off the ground.

Sure, you're doing the best you can with what you have. But as long as the power control is "soft" i.e. there are still things in there powered when it's in the "off" state (vs. a "hard" power-off, which means a switch that actually disconnects the battery) and in some kind of low-power "sleep" state, it's quite capable of enabling the network interface periodically to transmit its location, etc. My point is that the OS - IOS or Android - is able to do things that you don't want it to do and you think it can't. And that behaviour tends to come and go. It'll be in there, quietly doing its dirty work without anyone noticing, then some security researcher will pick up on something odd, look into it, and blow the whistle, and then gapple (I just coined that - does it work?) will issue an update accompanied by a feigned apology, and it'll behave itself for a while, and then sometime later a new OS update will be broadcast, and...

Well... you told it to turn it off, and you think it's turned off, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's turned off. The OS may be turning it back on (and maybe back off again) in order to send whatever data apple or google wants to keep accumulating from/on you. Or they (or others) just keep accumulating that data in real time (including detailed location info), then sending it the next time communications are enabled. There's a well-documented history of this sort of behaviour. You just can't trust it to behave in a predictable or transparent fashion.

it is now tomorrow.....

Absolutely. And even if that wasn't the original intent behind it (i.e. the old "If you're getting the service for free, you are the product" maxim), eventually everyone comes around to wanting to clean up in this surveillance economy. There are a lot of reasons for my not carrying a tracking device (or engaging in "social media"), but not wanting to participate as the poorly- or un-compensated source of what is ultimately very valuable data is a big part of it. And don't get me started on IOT, which is a network security nightmare. About 15 years ago I appeared on the first (and fourth, but I withdrew my permission for its airing) season of the Canadian version of Dragons' Den, pitching to a couple of the asshats who are now on Shark Tank (O'Leary made it personal, calling me "evil" for reasons that remain a mystery) et.al. . I was pitching a home server I'd designed that included an early version of what was later coined IOT. Those idiots laughed me out of the studio, but in retrospect (as much as I wanted to get that company off the ground), I'm much happier, seeing what a fetid cesspool almost everything associated with the internet has become. But, as they say, I digress. I strongly urge anyone interested in any of these subjects subscribe to RISKS Digest, a forum that's been around for nearly 40 years and rolls up, every week or so, all the worst things happening around the world thanks to the internet, badly designed and implemented control systems and user interfaces, etc. Over the last few years, unsurprisingly, Tesla has featured regularly. And though most of the contributors are computer scientists and engineers, it's very readable even by the nontechnical. p.s. And I wouldn't be caught dead with any of that alexa-smart-home shite in my house, either. In addition to the surveillance-capitalism aspect, that stuff's really about "reducing friction" in getting you to buy stuff, mainly from amazon and apple. My girls know that they're going to get yelled at if I catch them saying "hey, siri" within earshot of me. And see previous post about the EMP HARD '64 Rambler.