Post #3143620

2026-05-22 00:27 UTC

@gabriel@fedi.gvisoc.com @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au @odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange @Gargron@mastodon.social People dislike subscription pricing; and car makers are getting a lot of pushback for that. But cars as a black box? Absolutely. If I ever have to open the hood something has gone terribly wrong. A car to me - and to most people - is an appliance. A fridge is a device that keeps our food fresh. A car is a device that takes me to work. I don't want to care about what's going on inside, I just want it to work. Computers are the same for most people.

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@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au 2026-05-22 01:30

@jannem@fosstodon.org @gabriel@fedi.gvisoc.com @odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange @Gargron@mastodon.social Cars and home appliances that can't be repaired is a horrendous idea. It means if even one component has an issue, the whole thing needs to be replaced. It means you might need to replace the whole thing at the manufacturer's whim. It means you need to pay them an economic rent to use the thing you have already purchased off them. That's great for corporations. For customers? Not so much.

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@gabriel@fedi.gvisoc.com 2026-05-22 02:03

@jannem@fosstodon.org @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au @odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange @Gargron@mastodon.social for me they are more of a gray box. I know what are the main components, how they wear off and why, and I know what is meant to be reviewed and serviced any time I check the car in for service. I can't fix them but I can have an educated conversation and spot abuses to judge if I should take the car somewhere else. The amount of people that relate to the above re. cars is overwhelmingly higher than the amount of people that know how much RAM their computer has.

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