Lmao they put drm on cars I hate this so much
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2024
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This could have been an Onion headline years ago.
Ninja edit: Was it?
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
Business idea 
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.
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.
you love to see it
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
try to DRM my carburetor, I dare you
Creeping ever onward toward child-me's dream of pirating a car
Russians pls
Those car systems have so many vulnerabilities it's trivial to hack past any DRM.