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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago

Lmao they put drm on cars I hate this so much

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This could have been an Onion headline years ago.

Ninja edit: Was it?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Likely not. A few years ago, there were articles and documentaries made about farmers buying hacking kits from Russian forums in order to jailbreak their John Deere tractors to repair themselves because the cost and wait times for official service were unacceptable

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

Business idea trade-offer

A car with a ‘virtual’ body that can change paint jobs on the fly. Like Green Hornet. Except we call them “skins”, and we also sell “~~battle~~ driving passes” where you unlock new skins after doing different things, like filling up a full tank 3 times, driving at 90MPH for 20 minutes, and getting new tires installed.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

great. they turned cars into smartphones.

i was kind of excited for evs but looks like ancient shitboxes will be the way to go for the foreseeable future.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

you love to see it sicko-biker

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Murrica is when you have freedumb except if it infringes on corporate profit but at least I can still say the N word on Twitter because based epic bacon billionaire God bless the US of A

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

try to DRM my carburetor, I dare you

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Creeping ever onward toward child-me's dream of pirating a car

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Russians pls

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Those car systems have so many vulnerabilities it's trivial to hack past any DRM.