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@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaWell electric cars, hell, cars in general these days come with proprietary software that totally screws over the buyer's ability to fix their own damn car. It's bullshit, plain and simple.
Right to repair isn't just some fancy slogan, it's a fucking right. Period. I'm all in on open source software and the freedom to dig into the code, learn from it, and yeah, fix it if I need to. That's how it should be, not this locked-down crap they're pushing on us.
Sadly, this is the world most people are forced into with big tech companies owning and operating most of the software we and many companies use today.
I would recommend anyone reading this to give #Linux a try if you haven't already used it. It's open-source, customizable, and gives you the freedom to really make your system your own.
In short: I love the right to repair my own stuff!
@midtsveen personally, the #Enshittification of #cars is why I refuse to buy or drive anything new.
@midtsveen Sigh. I am still driving my 2008 Mazda because I Do Not Consent to tracking.
I've been watching reddit and other fora to see if any instructions for disabling the cell modem seem practical for me.
The mechanic of my mother's car retired when she sent it to the bin.
It was the last one he was able to really repair, without asking for costly electronic material from each company.
@midtsveen Yeah, all this AND the cars are now collecting data, phoning it home and then it’s being sold off to insurance companies. And I think to myself.. What a wonderful world.
@midtsveen I've just recently installed Linux and begun the long process of switching all my computing off of Apple. Loving everything about getting free of them and the others.
On the issue of cars and repair, I've long despised cars. BIKES are the ultimate in easy repair, low maintenance, low resource use. The ideal transport in a better DIY solar punk future where humans are empowered and the big tech monolith is a nightmare of the past.
@dennyhenke @midtsveen bikes may work where you are but my school is 20-30 min away by car and there's no public transport there that i can take from where i live
@wes @midtsveen Very little bike infrastructure here... I'm in rural Missouri. Sadly in the US there are a lot of areas where cycling is really dangerous and not at all practical.
A part of the larger infrastructure built to serve a doomed way of life that was never about human-scale technology or health.
Nevertheless for many others it can be an immediate solution if they choose to make it so. Cheaper, more accessible (in the right areas) healthy and a fun way to get around.
@wes @dennyhenke @midtsveen Every time I see someone advocate for more bike riding, this response comes popping up as if OP said bicycle riding works for everyone 100% of the time.
Just because you can’t bicycle to school doesn’t mean you can’t bicycle to the store or pub, so do you?
@kevinhippert @dennyhenke @midtsveen no. The roads to my local grocery store are too busy and unfit for something like a bike, and the road to the nearest walmart is a highway.
@wes @kevinhippert I grew up in such an environment in a small suburb/town outside of St. Louis. A "subdivision" about six miles from the town and any kind of business. Housing developments outside and separated from businesses.
40 years later and that area is still being built and developed the same way, it's just much bigger, busier and faster. To say that it is dangerous for cyclists or pedestrians is to put it mildly.
Isolated, suburban dystopia.
@midtsveen with that right to repair comes the necessity to fimd out how shit works. In itself this is not a problem but rather a good thing, the problem comes from the time squeeze of living in the ‘work your butt of to earn enough to be able to buy enough’ world AND find the time to learn shit and decide stuff consciously to move out of that world.
@morfil oh? Welcome to my neurodivergent brain I guess! 
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