And boy - what a great way to ensure that nothing is learned!

Here’s a post from someone trying to learn, and get a bit of context from more learned people, and you just shit all over them?

Shameful.

Thanks at least for showing me that actually - the feddeverse isn’t for me. Ta ta!

Fun fact - those are not entirely unrelated entities.

I’ve never had a car with a touch screen or whatever fancy centre panel - but I have scrapped old cars because the ECU decided that there was an airbag fault which was not resolved with a new airbag. I’m a full time sysadmin/developer - my car does not need a computer to go, and if it must have one, it shouldn’t be a brick covered in epoxy.

I somewhat long to return to dumb electromechanical components like distributors, rather than unimaginably expensive, irreparable, interdependent systems.

#RightToRepair

😑🖐️ “increase productivity”

😎👉 “Protect workers from harm associated with repetitive physica labour”

I don’t feel like this is a technology post, purely another anti-consumer business decision being levied against us.

As for the whole “piracy has rejoined the chat” “hello old friend” discourse - pirate what? The One Piece live action? Post-Cavil Witcher? TV hasn’t been worth watching in a good while, netflix even longer. I barely turn mine on anymore.

I hit a lot of American sites that want to process my data in a malicious way that would be illegal.

Rather than fix the issue, the side just redicts to a “we’re sorry to our European friends” - like fuck off, it’s been years you cunts.

Anyway, to answer your question - it protects them from legal liability.

If it’s always $350 a month, just let the debt ride.

Over 6 years, $350 in year 1 is worth more than $350 in year 6 thanks to inflation (350$ in 2017 would be able to buy you $435 worth of goods or services today). If you have $12.5k sitting around - Invest that into something stable, collect the interest and just keep paying off the loan slowly because that’s the cheapest way to do it (unless we end up with negative inflation in the next 3 years - which seems unlikely, but who knows??)

Cars tend to be financial liabilities, depreciation on a new car is just tremendous - next time just get a beater with working AC for as little as possible, do your maintenance and run it into the ground.

Ahh, more reasons for people to leave teaching.

Honestly, I think the only teachers I know that are still teachers today is because they’re under the thumb of this system - specialised training that isn’t much use elsewhere, so they have to stay and continue to work in increasingly impoverished conditions.

Any teachers reading this - I’m sorry for what you have to go through, and even as a childless individual, I am greatful for the sacrifices you’re making to ensure the future of our society.