I’ve never had a car with a touch screen or whatever fancy centre panel - but I have scrapped old cars because the ECU decided that there was an airbag fault which was not resolved with a new airbag. I’m a full time sysadmin/developer - my car does not need a computer to go, and if it must have one, it shouldn’t be a brick covered in epoxy.

I somewhat long to return to dumb electromechanical components like distributors, rather than unimaginably expensive, irreparable, interdependent systems.

#RightToRepair

😑🖐️ “increase productivity”

😎👉 “Protect workers from harm associated with repetitive physica labour”

I don’t feel like this is a technology post, purely another anti-consumer business decision being levied against us.

As for the whole “piracy has rejoined the chat” “hello old friend” discourse - pirate what? The One Piece live action? Post-Cavil Witcher? TV hasn’t been worth watching in a good while, netflix even longer. I barely turn mine on anymore.

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Separated only by expressing it.

Companies with an advertising budget larger than all the currency that will come through me in a lifetime, especially as they’re all owned by more or less the same parent corporations totally eliminating competition or variance, don’t need my voice.

I’m not paid to shill for the tool company I buy my kit from. They all use the same battery, so it’s cheaper to not mix and match.

I would probably only recommend my Bosch sliding compound mitre saw of all the tools I’ve owned - my only complaint about it is that the laser is not adjustable enough, but cuts are quality, angles are repeatable and I’m broadly very happy with it.

Anything else is much the same as every other tool on the market.

Same story here. Just waiting on my GDPR right to erasure request to be executed before I kill the account entirely.