• atrielienz@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I won’t be buying a new car. ICE or EV. Specifically because my old car doesn’t have a lot of the things that allow the car manufacturer to spy on me, and I won’t upgrade to any of the nonsense. Right now I can fix pretty much everything in that car for less than the price of a new vehicle.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      8 months ago

      I’ve managed to somehow make friends with the owner of a local junkyard. Not quite sure how I did that it wasn’t intentional but it’s quite useful because I can get parts for my car that the manufacturer would want hundreds of pounds for otherwise.

      In the future I bet they pull some apple style rubbish and start software locking components to individual vehicles so you can’t just pull them off a donor car to fix yours

      • Jarix@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Better hope donor parts don’t start getting used to by pass security features or this will happen in an instant