Well, you know when you get around my age, technology gets confusing

Don’t refuse… Just casually forget

Depending on the business, some actually charge less if you are upfront on paying cash

So a bit of a long story.

Went camping over the weekend. Dude pulls in with a travel trailed and f150 truck. Dude leaves in a second car, but lights stay on. Dude didn’t come back til next day and of course battery dead.

This dude had no idea how to even open the hood of his pickup truck and was having a hard time looking in the owners manual for 10 minutes trying to figure out how to open. I never had a F150, but I still walked over and showed him how to open the hood. Then offered more help but he said we was good, and then saw him look and touch the engine with his finger for 20 minutes. I walked over and asked him what was wrong, to his response of confusion that his “truck broke” but he had no idea why (battery dead). I explained that I saw his truck lights on yesterday after he left and that his battery was dead, and he said “but this isn’t an electric car”… He finally understood from another good Samaritan with junper cables what had happened and we both helped him get his truck started. I asked him how long he had this truck, and he said he’s had it for a couple of years since new and always gave him problems, and I swear I am not making this up, one of those was that he ran out of gas.

All this to say that no matter how easy something might be for some, there will always be an idiot who can’t even manage that.

We need this in the US

Like he said, it buys you months or YEARS

Thanks, had no idea

Whats anti-2a?

Go to your public library and just sit there and read a book

There’s a few youtube tutorials, but not many. Also, dissableing these will break certain features of your car.

Sadly it seems our best bet would be to build it ourselves.

LOL WUT?

It was a fucking joke lol.

He said pellet gun, not roof mounted anti-air guns

And yet all of my friends and family refuse to leave whatsapp no matter what because everyone they talk to is also on whatsapp and they don’t want to deal with multiple apps.

🫤

Or worse, how about some horny singles in my area with moans for the whole plane to hear

Clearly you haven’t worked on new Dodge vehicles as they have completely locked their engine diagnostic behind a massive paywall that Dodge can revoke if they feel like to leaving you unable to work on that engine. VW, Merc, Volvo, BMW have all been calling home for the past 10-15 years now as a mandatory way to re-enable ice engines. Ford and Chevy are also looking to (if they haven’t already) locking their internal CPU behind a paywall as well.

TL;DR - All new cars (ev or ice) are getting “features” that lock you out of “working on the engine”

That’s fine. No one said the contact information needed to be accurate

The fcc DOJ is actually launching a lawsuit into Apple’s walled garden

UPDATE: Thanks for the correction