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who needs free software or getting rid of planned obsolescence?

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[–] toilet_wolf@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’d expect the same out of a machine I might potentially have to, say, deliver a pregnant wife to the hospital in.

lol first thing I thought of too. I've been in emergency situations where I needed to get to a hospital immediately and if my car did this I'd be fucking livid. As dangerous as motorcycles are at least I know that mine will never fail a software update or some shit, and if it doesn't start I can just bump start it to get it going and then figure out what's wrong later.

I'm no luddite but there's beauty in a machine that's designed to be as simple to operate and maintain as possible

[–] M68040@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, for something like a car I need a certain amount of reliability - We're looking at something that could potentially turn into a 20 year life cycle. (Never owned one less than ten years old at time of acquisition, anyhow)