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   SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈 :bisexual_flag: (saramg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jul-2025 22:58:24 JST SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈 :bisexual_flag:

   20th century process meets 21st century tech.
   Always good for a sensible chuckle.

   TL;DR - Just fucking let your car automatically update its software, already.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jul-2025 22:58:23 JST Rich Felker

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     @saramg No thanks. Car automatically updating its software possibly in the middle of driving (I don't trust these chucklefucks to avoid that) or to brick it somewhere dangerous and strand you with no safe way home is a much bigger risk than not having an "essential" safety feature many folks have never used.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jul-2025 23:09:56 JST Rich Felker

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     @saramg I think if you're not technically inclined, you should be entitled to recall service at a dealership where they're liable if something goes wrong for ensuring you have safe transport.

     OTA fixes are a way to scam them out of that and leave them with big towing and diagnostic bills they can't get dismissed as caused by the bad OTA recall service.

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     SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈 :bisexual_flag: (saramg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jul-2025 23:09:57 JST SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈 :bisexual_flag:

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias Well quite. *I* don't have automatic OTAs enabled, but I do apply them semi-regularly. But like... for the non-technically inclined, the neurotypical borings of the world. Happy to let them risk exposure.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jul-2025 23:11:15 JST Rich Felker

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     @saramg Also if their cars OTA update on the highway and malfunction, they're the ones barreling towards us...

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     SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈 :bisexual_flag: (saramg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Jul-2025 00:08:57 JST SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈 :bisexual_flag:

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias I don't know Teslas, but my Volvos will knly update if the car is turned off *and locked*.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 04-Jul-2025 00:08:57 JST Rich Felker

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     @saramg Yeah but can we trust how they make that determination? Nobody's going to do it with expensive hard lockouts when not mandated by actually enforced regulation. They're going to have the buggy software itself making the assessment of when it's ok to update.