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While I don't doubt your enthusiasm, I don't want my car experience to feel like Arch Linux. I want something I treat like an appliance or utility to just work.
by echelon 2y ago
While I don't doubt your enthusiasm, I don't want my car experience to feel like Arch Linux. I want something I treat like an appliance or utility to just work.
- janosch_123 2y agoI am with you of course. What I am highlighting is that if enough people are affected by a bankrupt OEM, it is not the end of the world to fix them so all is not lost in that case. I also don't think it is a particularly smart idea to have your car needing to chat to the mothership before it decides to do it's job of driving you somewhere. At least for the consumer I see limited benefits of this trend.
- lambdasquirrel 2y agoIt’s definitely too much work for everyone to repeat and duplicate. The obvious solution (to those of us here) is open-source and right-to-repair requirements.
- yencabulator 2y agoThe "just work" people are the reason for the prevalence of phone apps and cloud services in so much today's gadgets, and that dependency on services is exactly why all these things fail as soon as the company who made them fails.
- the_snooze 2y agoI'm in the same boat, which is why I've soured greatly on a lot of things internet-connected. Internet connectivity almost always means needing perpetual updates (whether for security or just for keeping up with remote APIs changing). The economics don't make sense for providing that for free forever, so anything under that model must be either a rental/subscription or isn't built to last.