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   Archie 🔜 the fediverse (archiebantlers@meow.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 19:28:51 JST Archie 🔜 the fediverse

   Literally every single thing I learn about Teslas makes them hilariously awful, why would you ever own this car

   EDIT: I thought this was a Tesla from the screen size and it’s not but this is still stupid

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     Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC (lordcaramac@discordian.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 19:28:47 JST Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC

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     @ArchieBAntlers A while ago, car makers decided to turn every car, whether it's driven by combustion or electricity, into a network of computers--and they didn't do it in a robust, reliable, easy to maintain, way, which would have been possible, they decided to do it with all that DRM bullshit designed to make it impossible for people or 3rd party car mechanics to repair, maintain, or modify, anything about their cars. Every car part has a computer inside that needs to talk to all the other computers, and there are cryptographic chips inside those computers to make sure every part was made by the original car manufacturer, that you cannot just buy any standard part on the free market. You cannot even buy an original part from the original car maker and just replace it or have an independent mechanic do it because the new part needs to be entered into the local database of your car's main computer system, and in order to do that, you need the cryptographic keys that car manufacturers don't just hand out to anybody, just to their authorised partners.

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     Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC (lordcaramac@discordian.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 19:28:48 JST Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC

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     @ArchieBAntlers That's a Ford though. This kind of problem occurs across all car brands now.

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.
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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 19:34:37 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC
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     @LordCaramac

     Really awful. And not just on the user/TPM economics end. Also on the privacy end.
     Turning your mobile completely off won't give you privacy anymore.

     Sounds to me that there will be a considerable niche for combustin-engine car conversions of older models into electric cars in a mid-market segment in the future.

     And we should stop buying cars alltogether and use even more public transport and e-bikes, if possible.

     https://discordian.social/@LordCaramac/111643616456075264

     Tagging @SilviaMarton
     @nikita