• qevlarr@lemmy.world
    128·
    2 days ago

    Clippy moment 📎💬

    Unacceptable. It should be illegal to even build the capability to brick someone else’s property

    • turtlesareneat@discuss.onlineEnglish
      24·
      2 days ago

      This is a major feature of nearly all cars now. Dealerships can remotely track and disable cars when people fall behind on their payments. That’s because so many people fall behind on payments nowadays, they need easy mechanisms for dealing with it. America is cooked.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        13·
        2 days ago

        Got to love it. My crappy car doesn’t even have Bluetooth, but it does have a CD auto changer. Can’t brick my car.

    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
      10·
      2 days ago

      same with the F-35s sold to other countries. and those cost a lot more than even a cybertruck. imagine it being disabled mid-flight. probably entirely possible.

      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I mean, that’s a tiny bit different. That’s something you want to be sure will never end up aiding a terrorist attack against you.

        Cybertrucks only kill people accidentally.

        • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
          4·
          2 days ago

          as far as I know (which is not a whole lot) terrorists only fly commercial planes. though I’m sure you can probably find the F-35 Handbook on the War Thunder forums.

          • NotJohnSmith@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            That’s the great thing: the government then get to decide who or what a terrorist is! - including oil rich middle East countries

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
      121·
      2 days ago

      So here’s the neat part! They just make it so that you technically are renting the car and so they can brick it up all they want since technically they own the vehicle!

        • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
          61·
          2 days ago

          They’ll pull the same crap they do with digital content you “buy.” Technically you’re just buying a license to use the vehicle, not actually buying the vehicle itself.

          • cole@lemdro.id
            3·
            2 days ago

            I don’t disagree, but in this case that is not true, because that is not what the terms and conditions say.

    • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
      1514·
      2 days ago

      Oi! Don’t bring clippy into this! He was an innocent clip from a better era! More like a [email protected] moment 👎🖕!!

      Edit: lol my poor clippy just getting hated on

      • qevlarr@lemmy.world
        32·
        2 days ago

        I agree. I was referring to Louis Rossmann’s Clippy campaign that we should not accept this as consumers but we want technology to help us, like Clippy

        Edit: let’s not mass downvote for an innocent misunderstanding, even if they worded it a bit strongly. C’mon now

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Those monsters can’t downvite clippy, he’s being held captive against his will.

          Honestly, I kinda want to make a clippy bot, hook it into a self hosted LLM and have it roleplay as clippy trapped by Microsoft. It would be a hoot for 30 minutes or so.