This isn't necessarily the case anymore. They realized they could charge more money after all this parts pairing and proprietary stuff started.
Dealerships can make more money from repairs than selling. Especially if sales margin is lower due to online competitors selling cars cheaper.
This bill attacks one of the things preventing cheaper repairs and shops from helping .
Seems like meta views fediverse as a threat to monopoly.
I also wouldn't say fediverse needs to embrace meta. It can continue being what is wants and meta has to account for it. Fediverse doesn't have to be mainstream. Aside from Dev support, it's probably better to stay niche.
I'm guessing by the down votes this is better in a community for more specific IT, like sysadmin or homelab.
Also, the download link and password protection is a huge red flag.
Agreed.
Lemmy, you are biased. You probably don't intend to be, but it's true for now.
Going to sound weird, but I came here because of who I knew the vocal people were. I didn't understand many of their view points and reasons for being mad/hateful/etc. I am much more enlightened now and learn different perspectives everyday.
It is a giant echo chamber though if you are already very rooted in the spectrum here, and voicing decent usually leads to dog pile.
This is related to attitudes about news, politics, etc.
I watched that. Didn't surprise me one bit.
The overreaching government apparatus doesn't inherently bother me, but we're really placing a lot of power and trust in those people, and that does concern me.
Wow, that is weird. I honestly just made that up in my head when I wrote it.
The saying is true, if it's free, you're the product.
I don't actually know why I care about that level of privacy. Some of us are quite fine with companies or their government having any information about them. Some are very opposed.
Maybe I dislike the idea that information could be used against me somehow or they're making even more money than I'm already paying in some hypothetical case. Not sure.
Doesn't the Democratic party have complete majority control of most cities and the state legislature?
That's a party which usually claims to be about taking care of poor people or 'housing is a human right', but I keep seeing evidence that part of California's issue is residents eliminating any/all zoning that isn't classic single family homes in places where there's tons of good jobs, but super expensive housing.
It's hard to wade through political party propaganda, but I thought this was well documented.
I don't live in CA, so I don't really know more than articles publish, but it just seems like they voted for the more American liberal/progressive party and still aren't getting those values?
I'm sure corporations like this would give you free Internet if they could collect and sell all your data. I'm also sure people would still do it, regardless of how much they are being monetized as a product.
Since companies like Facebook own legislators, our only real choice is to stop using it. Unpopular opinion, but If you really want fuck Zuck, delete your account, and get all your friends and family to as well. Maybe there's some alternatives for the people who truly use the service to connect with friends/family?
More odd to me to see CNN publishing something against Biden, unless their goal is to scare people into action. I can't imagine people not being scared to vote for him regardless of whether they like Biden or not.
The party could have just picked a better candidate, but sure, let's keep putting lipstick on these pigs...and have to deal with things like possibly ending democracy.
I do t think I knew about that, interesting. Thanks.
It's hard to see, but I know people who went through the pig trauma program and it was huge. Way more real experience than any training aid ever. Just sucks.
Don't do this.
Downloading an exe from some random place is a huge red flag.
Windows lets you pause updates.
Might download some of these on an analysis workstation and run them through virus total and sandboxes. This could be fun.