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[-] wheresmypillow@lemmy.one 32 points 1 year ago

Just don’t upgrade your firmware so you can jailbreak it later.

[-] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 60 points 1 year ago

Or just don't buy a car that needs to connect to the internet. This is beyond stupid

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Virgin car ownership vs chad mass transit

[-] grue@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Virgin car ownership

On the contrary: letting manufacturers extract rents for capabilities that the owner already paid for by virtue of having bought the physical device is the opposite of "ownership," and that's the problem here!

Using mass transit is great, but it does nothing to stop this attack on our property rights.

[-] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Which is all of them. All of them need to be connected, it's how they operate now. Most of them have decency to not do shit like that, but that might change at any point

[-] StringTheory@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

Time to pull up my big boy undies and start riding my bike. That sucker ain’t controlled by anyone but me. <middle finger to the car companies, wobbles down the road on a two-wheeler>

[-] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I doubt even all new cars require internet connection and there's a shit ton of older models that don't either. Definitely not "all of them"

[-] grue@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I still own only cars from the '90s and 2000s because of this issue (along with stuff like telemetry spying on you, etc.). However, even if just driving old cars forever works for me, it's hardly a solution for society in general simply because there aren't enough old cars for everybody to have one, let alone all the other problems with it.

These companies are trying to destroy our property rights in order to engage in unethical and abusive rentiership. The correct solution is legislative, not just to ignore them and hope they'll stop!

[-] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, maybe not 100% of them, you are technically correct. For example, some Chinese companies are selling very cheep cars that are basically a reskin of the older cars from 1960th.

[-] deadsenator@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

1960th.

That made me chuckle.

[-] Rentlar@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

I gotta put a Faraday cage around my next car if it's going to try to connect to the internet.

[-] Tom_bishop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Until a hacker decided to disable the brake while you speeding 100mph

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