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  • Honestly it’s sort of the principle of it.

    Like the car has it, it’s already cost the manufacturer to install it sure there are ongoing dev costs for some things, but not all.

    On top of that many manufacturers are locking the features to the one person.

    So for example I pay for heated seats. Then I sell the car, and the new owner has to “buy” heated seats again.

    I’m sorry I’m not supporting that bullshit or the manufacturers who are doing this one bit even if I don’t pay for a feature.

    On top of that there are issues with servicing and also forced firmware updates.

    A friend was late to work the other day because his Tesla was doing an update when he tried to leave, like what happens if someone was trying to rush a partner to a hospital or something and you happen to jump in the car as it’s mid way through an update.

    I want to be in control of the things I own and pay for, that’s the whole point of owning something. Car manufacturers these days seem to be under the delusion that they still own our vehicles and we are just the money sacks they are renting them to.

    This has been going on for a while, but seem much much worse on the electric cars.

    Also frankly the infrastructure isn’t there in many places around the world.

    It’s not just waiting to charge the car that’s the issue, it’s waiting for the charger… when each vehicle takes up to 30min-an hour to get a meaningful amount of range back suddenly you need like 10x as many charging stations as you had petrol/diesel pumps.

    And while this may be in place in some places in the world it’s not in most. Add this to the fact that charging points are often out of order well you start to see the issue.








  • I wouldn’t block them, but I’d be leaving the group chat.

    As if i want my default sms texting app to be getting spammed by a big group chat.

    Also the default at least here in Australia is pretty much Facebook messenger or maybe WhatsApp not because anyone likes it, but because everyone already has a Facebook account even if they don’t use it much.

    Also it means you can easily have group chats with people who you need to communicate with but you don’t really want to have your number.

    What a ridiculous notion to be using a platform specific service for a group chat, unless you are deciding your friends group or work colleagues based on the phone they use which again seems unfathomable.

    I am an iPhone user, in Australia and i have seen precisely zero iMessage chat groups even attempt to be created. Because everyone knows it’s a shitty pain in the ass service if someone doesn’t have an iPhone.

    We all blame apple for that as we should not the android user. How it ended up inverted in the US is beyond me but it’s backwards af.

    This whole thing is a non issue being caused by lack of thought and logic of the users apparently almost exclusively in the USA

    Personally i wish the default here was discord or signal but messenger is still far better than iMessage at least from a cross platform usability standpoint.






  • A lot of the major anger is coming from businesses and government and to be completely honest…

    If the system your business or government agency has implemented requires 100% up time and relies on a cellular network or any network or power grid for that matter, guess who’s responsible for ensuring that there is adequate redundancy to insure a outage does not occur or is very unlikely to occur…?

    Ding ding ding that’s you, you are the one responsible, or the person who you had design it and set the standard and enforce it…

    Business and government agencies/services implemented systems with a single point a failure to cut costs, when I absofuckinglutly guarantee that a network engineer brought up that maybe they should add redundancy and was shot down by bean counters.

    And now that it’s blown up in their fucking face they have turned around and are trying to redirect attention from shareholders and the public back on to Optus.

    Optus fucked up, but no more than if a power line came down when the power company had one of their trucks back into it and the power went out.

    If people are going to die if the shit you are designing doesn’t work, or you business is going to loose tons of money, that’s your responsibility to design and implement something that does not have a single point of failure.



  • I just want my operating system:

    1. To have a logical settings layout, perform well, be stable

    2. Be fully and easily compatible with most mainstream programs and games without having to screw around too much.

    Give me back windows 7, add dx12 support, update the back end with any kernel and scheduler updates, call it windows gamer edition. Then fuck off out of my life Microsoft.

    Nobody wants to “use an operating system” we want to run programs and do it efficiently, i feel the vast majority of changes Microsoft has made since windows 7 ended has been to the detriment of that.

    I can only hope that now with Vulcan becoming more popular and the rise of steam os on the steam deck that we will start to see native Linux aaa games being a thing.