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BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat

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The AutopianBMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The AutopianYou know what would be terrible? Terrible in a sort of dystopian, capitalism-run-amok sort of way? Imagine buying a brand-new, fancy, premium-grade car. From an automaker with a respected name. Like, say, BMW. This is a machine with some status! Let’s say it costs, oh, $61,500, and you’re paying, what, about $1300 a month? Something […]

Replying to @⁨schizoidman@lemmy.zip⁩

This is one of those things that might actually serve to push the notion that digital devices (including cars now) should be required to be capable of installing independent operating systems, especially open source ones.

I’d absolutely require military devices to be driven by open source software. And yes, that’s a security liability, but security-by-obscurity is an even greater liability.

In the case of consumer devices, open-source access would be a means of protecting the end user from predatory software rife with dark patterns.