RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116377687987470957
“But you can still read your existing books! And jailbreak it to upload more!”
Imagine having a car that the manufacturer one day just declares that you can’t put gas in anymore.
To get gas you’d have to cut a hole into your car so you can sneak some in bypassing the inlet. But you can’t go to real gas stations anymore so you have to get gas in a back alley from some random guy.
And there are others like Fisker and more recently Nissan that have partially or fully dropped support for their cars that are still on the road.
This is one of the major reasons I'd be reluctant to buy a modern car, especially an EV car. I'm happy that my 14 year old Ford Focus continues to run well. I doubt I'd be able to drive something newer that long. Manufacturers are cramming more and more tech into cars, often with a lot of creepy surveillance features, but none of them are future-proofing them to last a decade or more.
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