“There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks.”

  • jabjoe@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    Surely repairable doesn’t mean no tech, just open tech. I’m sure there is tech features that are worth having. It’s the vendor lockin and enshitification that isn’t.

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      1 day ago

      so the squeezening of tech into vehicles seemed to happen at right the same time engine compartments stopped having enough room to change the headlights without having to bust out a cherry picker. at least from the “i can fix a carburetor but maybe not a self parking system why does my grain thresher have one of those anyways” perspective over here.

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        12 hours ago

        In a decade or two, they will be electric and there won’t be a carburetor. It will all be more like that parking system. The moment software comes in, much easier to lock people in. That needs to not be the case. It’s always made out that somehow working on software of these things is dangerous, but somehow working on a mechanical machine of controlled explosions of flammable liquid is not. Most people are just going to flash on firmware someone else did.