Autoenshittification - How the computer killed capitalism. (doctorow.medium.com)

submitted 1 year ago by seasonone@opidea.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket.

The car manufacturers got so desperate for chips that they started buying up washing machines for the microchips in them, extracting the chips and discarding the washing machines like some absurdo-dystopian cyberpunk walnut-shelling machine:

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[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

https://archive.is/6mRkf archive of the pluralistic article in full, which lacks the shitty authwall.

[-] eleitl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

For cars specifically you can attempt to keep pre-digital cars alive though hostile legislation will eventually make them illegal. But a better solution is to lobby for open source EVs.

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