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My phone so far can't kill me, at least it's extremely unlikely, "my" car if does not obey a command might kill me or kill someone else leaving me as responsibl
by kkfx 5y ago
My phone so far can't kill me, at least it's extremely unlikely, "my" car if does not obey a command might kill me or kill someone else leaving me as responsible for that. That's an important difference.
Also my phone need a certain level of complexity "my" car have NO REASON to from my own personal perspective: I do not need a connected car. I do not need a car where the OEM have the control and I have not. Such choice for cars are made for the sake of OEM, of surveillance capitalism, not for end users.
Also I do my best NOT using "my phone" exactly because of the crappy crap it is, I'll do my best to be desktop-bound, FLOSS desktop, I can't do much for UEFI and other fw crap, but at least they are less invasive and untrustable that Android/iOS.
For me, for cars and social evolution in general there is only one option: a big push from the people that mandate open hardware and free software making surveillance so heavily punished that no one have interest to steer in that direction.
- brainwipe 5y agoIt's true that a car can kill and that is an important difference but I don't think that is what's new here. What appears to be new is you're being asked to trust something new. My heating system can kill me and my family. I trust the engineer to do a good job. That's no different to my car. My 2006 Yaris has a computer that could cause the engine to explode. The engineers where my car is serviced have must trust. But truly, in either of those cases my ownership is beholden to others. I don't truly own it without support from others. Your FLOSS desktop will receive updates from people you don't know. So the difference here is trust. I completely agree with the social evolution statement; that is inevitable.