Sindarina, Edge Case Detective"I have updated your car over the air. Pray I do not update it any further."
What I hear when Volvo touts Google Gemini integration, and the ability to add new features to your EX60 after you have already bought it.
We have fucked up Computer so badly, in that regard. Instead of building user trust, allowing for swift deployment of necessary fixes and new features that genuinely makes the user's life better, The Update has become something to be feared.
For pretty much anything with a connection to the internet, too; your mobile phone, your laptop, your television, your fridge, your car, your thermostat.
Everything you use might suddenly start showing ads. Or stop working entirely because whatever 'cloud' service it depends on stops being available.
Such potential, all wasted for more ad revenue.
J. Steven York RESISTS@sindarina
And any feature or program of a net-connected device could, at any time, vanish, or be locked behind a paywall.
And any feature or program of a net-connected device could, at any time, vanish, or be locked behind a paywall.
Tanquist@sindarina
I am happy that all of my appliances and car are "dumb". When I need to replace something, the salesperson will get an earful if the only options are enshittified. I'll shop around for something used.
I am happy that all of my appliances and car are "dumb". When I need to replace something, the salesperson will get an earful if the only options are enshittified. I'll shop around for something used.
Tim@sindarina er, you‘re basically drescribing #capitalism, right?
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency@sindarina Also, as someone here* pointed out earlier: This is done by the same people conspiring to put all of us out of work & into desperation - basically ruining our lives, just to be able to show us ads for shit we don't have the money to buy...
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*I can't remember who & can't find it...
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*I can't remember who & can't find it...
Greem (Graeme. Not Graham!)@sindarina A hypothetical future Volvo driver pulls up at an intersection. Lights are on red.
They put on the handbrake/parking brake.
There's a "ding" from the console; new terms and conditions which must be accepted. They include subscription services, including the ability to take the handbrake off.
Across the world, Volvo cars are abandoned because the extractive rent model applies, and drivers won't pay it.
Dystopian yes, fictional - for now!
Stage name Jay Peach@sindarina No more Volvos for me. They lost a customer that’s been purchasing Volvos since 1986.