@maccruiskeen @bhawthorne Well, of course I could open...

@maccruiskeen @bhawthorne Well, of course I could open it up to see what kind of battery is in there. That's kind of obvious, isn't it?

The reason I haven't is that in my experience these things are fiddly and apt to self-disassemble. I'd rather not open it up and put it back together again, drive to the hardware store, and then repeat the process when I get home. Nor do I want to leave it disassembled while I go on my shopping trip.

The point is, it shouldn't be hard to find out. But it is.

Like 18 Dec 2023 at 16:57 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.scot

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MacCruiskeen

@bodhipaksa @bhawthorne Sorry, I guess I didn’t account for the ‘remote is badly made junk’ factor.

18 Dec 2023 at 17:07 | Open on social.linux.pizza

Bodhipaksa

@maccruiskeen @bhawthorne LOL! Well, this one might be well-made, but the one I had on my previous car (a Mazda) tended to fall to pieces while it was being opened, and was very hard to put back together again. I don't want to take that risk with the key on my new car.

18 Dec 2023 at 17:11 | Open on mastodon.scot

Jay Stephens

@maccruiskeen @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne Yeah that's actually an interesting link.
The forces that make it profitable to algorithmically churn out junk content for tiny slivers of ad revenue are closely tied to the forces that make it almost impossible to profitably market a sturdy reliable remote.

19 Dec 2023 at 0:02 | Open on mastodon.social