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[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 33 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

I just bought a Toyota and they locked a lot of features behind an app with a monthly fee, absolute fucking pricks. The whole auto industry is going to shit.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 24 minutes ago

Join and/or fund Right to Repair advocacy organizations people. For my fellow Canadians: check out CanRepair, they are currently registering members and will have their first ever AGM March 18

[–] raptore39@lemm.ee 1 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

What did they lock behind the paywall?

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 24 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

The main things that bother me are maps, remote start (which can be done from the keys but it's a pain in the ass). When you start the vehicle a screen comes up that asks you to subscribe for maps, and then Android auto connects like 50% of the time and randomly disconnects when you are driving.

There's a bunch of other little features that are mostly convenience things, but I bought the vehicle, and I understand they have to run some infrastructure but it's not much and I could just connect through wifi or Bluetooth and they wouldn't have to run any infra.

https://support.toyota.com/s/article/Subscription-Plans?language=en_US

Also, it's $15 a month which is a rip off. If it was $20 a year, thats annoying, but it's more tolerable. $15 a month to be able to use the maps that are built in is a crime.

The big ass screen is worthless unless I'm using Android auto.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Seeing as cars and computers are increasingly shared platforms, where is the car-hacking community? As distinct from the car-optimizing or car-modding communities.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Modern cars, I think because of safety laws and "trade secrets", can be quite a pain the reverse engineer. It's notoriously difficult to even interface with any of the chips in any of the onboard computers in the first place, let alone reverse engineer what's going on and modify it. On top of that some car companies, like Toyota, are starting to add HMACs to all the messages they send on the CAN bus, so even if you did figure out everything, unless you get the signing keys every message will be ignored. On top of that, it'll void your warrant, which I know some people don't care about, but for a new car that you are having to depend on, its another hurdle.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

where is the car-hacking community?

In jail

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 56 minutes ago

You wouldn't download ecologically friendly things!?

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 16 points 10 hours ago

Stellantis? More like Stale Anus

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Everytime

Not a word. Nice journalism grad.

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 minutes ago

I thonk this one is pretty forgivable. Everytime should be a word imo. It has a lot more justification than some of the words that have recently been added and accepted into common use and vernacular. Everywhere, everyone, everyday, everybody are all words and set a hell of a precedent. How is everytime different, besides being a poster word for pedants to pick at.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 minutes ago

What is and is not a word? If it's being used by writers, and is understood by readers, it kinda is a word.

Linguistics is a desceiptive field, not a prescriptive one.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm seeing very simple grammatical mistakes in articles more and more. It's bizarre. Even if the author makes a mistake, where are the editors? Do we have a shortage of English majors somehow?

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

It only matters that ads get impressions. That's it

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 hours ago

Lang shift has snuck up on us, tsk.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 30 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

I can deal with ad when watching TV or YouTube. But ads in the car, even while stopped, is just begging for someone to get killed. Will never even consider getting a jeep. I'm probably gonna have to get a new car in a couple of years and I want something new, but dumb. I want as little smart shit as possible, which is probably not going to be a thing.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 4 points 3 hours ago

There’s still Caterhams and Ginettas.

Although on second thoughts they’re probably not allowed in a country where the inhabitants can’t be trusted with a Kinder surprise egg.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I can deal with ad when watching TV or YouTube.

i can't! i really hate ads, they're so loud and obnoxious, they're like jump scares every time they come on! ugh! this car would be like my idea of a nightmare!

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I use ad breaks in vids to answer texts/emails or take a piss or whatever. Intrusive ads that take up entire pages on a site are the worst tho. Those can fuck off.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

do you mute them or something? i don't think i could focus on reading anything with that shit blaring in the background!

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago

I just tune ads out. I got ADHD, so it's really easy for me to get distracted and completely tune things out. It's useful in some situations, but mostly sucks lmao.

[–] MisanthropiCynic@lemm.ee 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The ads aside, nothing from the Stellantis family should be on your radar anyway

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 1 points 3 hours ago

But I quite like the latest Maserati.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago

Get an old Jeep 40s-2001 were prim- ya know what don't get an old Jeep. I don't want the competition.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

How hard up for money could they possibly be? It's such an insane move.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 15 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The best thing about Saint Luigi is that one doesn't have to endorse an incel eco-fascist like Teddy K to call for "direct action."

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

Careful with ol Ted there, all his good points were accidental, dude bombed university offices because he heard a plane fly over in the woods.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"Wanna be furious every time you stop?"

"BUY A JEEP."

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

*BONUS ongoing electrical problems AND rust

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 5 points 12 hours ago

Maybe pull the fuse for internet

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 18 points 18 hours ago

Wait until Musk gets permission to use their Neuralink chips world wide!

[–] Zier@fedia.io 118 points 1 day ago (18 children)

We need laws on how intrusive ads are allowed to be. Advertising is out of control. Personally, whenever I see an ad too many times, I make sure to avoid purchasing that item or anything from that company. You're trying too hard to sell me junk.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 31 points 21 hours ago

"how intrusive" ?

We need laws to ban any sort of tracking, profile generation, etc.

Bring back contextual ads. If I'm on a gaming website show me a gaming ad ffs.

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[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 143 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Turning everything you use into a fucking ads platform is peak capitalism. Burn it with fire.

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 27 minutes ago

everything you ~~use~~ own

Consumer already paid for the damn vehicle. At least market that ad-bullshit as the cheaper freemium rental version and offer a no ads purchase version... They are not at all thinking about the consumer, only about filling their ever growing pockets.

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