What an incredibly bad take. Indeed, having properly inflated tires is a safety issue. How do you know if they’re properly inflated? Are you checking them every 3 minutes while driving? Because TPMS is…

Why would they care?

Why are we still talking about ethics? I’m not going to entertain this strawman any further.

It’s a nice thought but good luck not getting caught on the 3k cameras in the store and following you to your car.

This has nothing to with me.

Slides like a presentation? LibreOffice Impress.

TPMS sensors are in the wheels, not the tires. The only way they would no longer be there is if you had them removed.

Windshields!? That’s a new one

Does your GrapheneOS phone have a SIM? Because if so, the cell towers are collecting and storing your location.

If my car had LIDAR I would certainly take reasonable measures to ensure it continued working, yes.

They’re both dumb ideas. That’s the point.

For someone who wants to do nothing more than check their email and manage online banking, no specs matter

Almost no one uses their PCs that way. They will, at bare minimum, have a couple of applications, and several webpages open, and that’s enough to cause problems on a modern system with 8GB RAM. I have lived this experience too many times with friends and family members who complain that their computer is too slow, and the only solution I can offer them is to buy a new one, because their current one was intentionally crippled to create a price ladder, and intentionally designed so that they couldn’t fix it.

Repairing broken hinges on such a cheap laptop practically has to be a DIY repair.

It does. But it ain’t hard. Anyone with a screwdriver can do it.

indeed, you said this

Indeed, that had nothing to do with ethics.

There’s more to a computer than RAM

Sure, but having insufficient RAM sufficiently kneecaps it to the extent that the other specs don’t matter.

That cheap plastic HP laptop is destined to have its hinge mounts snap

LOL at least if it’s hinge mounts snapped you could repair them. Can’t say the same for the $700 Macbook.

Dear H,

GIMP is a private and ethical (free) alternative to Canva.

Love, U

I have no doubt that there’s demand for all kinds of stupid shit. The question is if it’s stupid, which this appears to be to me.

Show me a non arm $200 range product that can run games like mewgenics, deadcells, megabonk, etc.

There aren’t any $200 x86 handheld devices that I’m aware of, but that’s not what we’re discussing. This is a $600 device.

That light can be removed

LOL often times it cannot, because it’s not a “light” at all on modern vehicles.

How did we ever survive before 2008?

A lot of people didn’t. That’s why it was mandated.

Cool. Did you come here just to tell us that you’re proud to drive unsafely or what?

I could ask you the same question.

LOL who said anything about ethics? This is an unbelievably stupid strawman.