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Autoenshittification - How the computer killed capitalism. (doctorow.medium.com)

submitted 1 year ago by seasonone@opidea.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket.

The car manufacturers got so desperate for chips that they started buying up washing machines for the microchips in them, extracting the chips and discarding the washing machines like some absurdo-dystopian cyberpunk walnut-shelling machine:

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love touch screens on my car for stuff like settings and gps entry. As long as a car has knobs for the basic stuff like volume and AC controls then the touch screen greatly enhances the UX. It's the mouse operated screens like the ones Lexas uses that are terrible, or when they only have touch screens and no knobs.