Gregory's Server@danluu This is *excessive* computerization. A car from 50 years ago was *literally* more functional than this in the most basic of aspects.
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@1dalm @shimrrashai @danluu Indeed. Cars from 50 years ago were terrible in terms of reliability. My mum and dad regularly tell stories about her old cars and how they would fail if you just looked at them the wrong way. EDIT: For the victim-blamers out there, they have always had their vehicles regularly maintained by professional mechanics. @bananarama @1dalm @shimrrashai @danluu i think a bit like search engines we've passed the sweet spot and now cars are going to get worse and certianly more expensive to fix, huge amounts of enshitiftcation is already making it hard for garages to fix things without some kind of payment to the makers, you know the apple model of doing stuff @peterainbow @1dalm @shimrrashai @danluu Eh. The biggest issue for the mechanics I know is that people don't want to pay for repairs. They can still get everything they need from the dealers when they need them. @peterainbow @1dalm @shimrrashai @danluu @bananarama @1dalm @danluu Perhaps so, but my point was more about them being repairable and independent of the grace and survival of their manufacturer - more functional in *that* regard, not necessarily more so overall. We should have tried to improve the reliability, while keeping the independence and repairability. |
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See also "Survivor's bias"