• sorghum@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Shit like this only makes me want to never buy commercial cars ever again. I’ll buy every piece of a car and put it together myself before subjecting myself to that kind of abuse. I’m never going back to a renter lifestyle.

    Repeal DMCA section 1201.

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      1 month ago

      Eventually vehicles will be more like the other tech in your life, sorry you want to but tires from a company that we don’t approve of, not going to happen because we approve the tires to work with our system and the tire pressure monitor is only compatible with Bridgestone tires. Plus they add 30% to the price of the tires for their testing and making sure that they work, nothing to do with profit.

      Or like the cell phone industry, you go and fill up with gas, now there’s still gas remaining in the car near the end of the month, next thing you know the gas station employee is there to siphon out the gas you didn’t use. Well that might be a bit far fetched.

      Throw a stupid chip into anything and then someone else has the control, which really is what the governments of the world want, they’ve had it with people getting ahead and questioning their decisions after all they know better than you and they will lead you.

      • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca
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        1 month ago

        Don’t laugh, but BMW in kinda like that with their BMW approved “star spec” tires. Transfer case blows up with non approved tires? Too bad. But the star spec version is different than the normal retail version, they are actually better.

        https://youtu.be/cR47GRWuPb0