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Sometimes tech feels like ... How would people like it if car manufacturers changed which side of the car was the drivers seat every other year, periodically switched the steering wheel to a control stick, which pedal was gas and which was brake, how the gear shifter was laid out, a few manufacturers tried out letting you just vaguely gesture at the road to control your car, others said you can sit in the back seat and control each of your wheels independently through microcontrol levers tied together. Sometimes you gotta climb in and out through the roof, other times you crawl in through the trunk.

Oh you can't refill your car at stations that don't have Fueling Station Standard Pump C anymore, but don't worry, the pump C will fill your car so much faster, and they'll all be switched over to that within a few years. But then if you're still driving a type A or B car, you're going to have to carry an adapter with you in your trunk, otherwise you can't get more gas.

Oh you want to buy yourself a new car? Here's the 583 different possible combinations of piston size, piston number, gearbox ratios, transmission, brake types.

Your car is out of wiper fluid? Now it won't start. Oh, delayed applying your car's update for too long? Well it's just going to shut down in the middle of the freeway now to apply it. Too bad. Hope you weren't doing anything important.

I even work in computers but our rampant and unchecked fucking with people's preestablished workflows chasing some bullshit metric of "progress" to add features nobody wanted in the first place is Hot Horseshit.

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