Steam also places DRM and states in their EULA that you pay to license the title and not own it. Looks like you’re a Steam fanboy. We shouldn’t be fanboys of anything but simply notice the good and bad thaf companies do because either way they aren’t our friends

Yeah no kidding…

There are lots of fairly standard high end cars that go for more money than that. So the potential is quite high for these to sell well

To add to to info here, be sure to check Consumer Reports

Next we’ll all see more legislation to make 3D printer software monitor everything you make and auto-report anything deemed dangerous to the elite

This is a much appreciated overhaul

I totally agree. Luckily for me I have an old mechanically operated car that I plan to keep forever.

So the family being delivered to ICE has to hope a benevolent hacker community can somehow hack that particular vehicle within the 20 minute window of a drive to a concentration camp? Does this sound reasonable to you?

I suppose maybe in the future as car hacking gets more common and attrocities from our government worse, there might be hackers viewing protests from the sidelines specifically waiting for these situations.

Does Biden’s law, or any for that matter have real impact today?

I haven’t heard of a situation in which a kill switches was activated. This does not mean it hasn’t happened. The fact that it exists can only lead to exploitation in the future. It’s also being normalized as people don’t speak against it.

Is this 3rd party control easily removed with a software update?

No. I’m a mechanic and learning to hack. All car systems are different. One day when I’m confident in my abilities I’ll share my knowledge to help others.

Your answer is deeply disatisfying.

Unfortunately yes

There are researches who have already shown it’s possible to see a cars location, stop it, and unlock it’s doors. People have also hacked into car cameras and seen in peoples homes etc. Also due to Biden’s 2024(?) Infrastructure Act all new cars built have a kill switch that’s accessible by a “3rd party”. Besides the 3rd party, no backdoor can be made that can’t also be accessed by good hackers

LMDE? Hahaha

It does work just fine and that’s okay. One feature that’s killer on Plasma is auto theme switching (and night light which they both have) so you don’t burn your eyes out after dark. Would be sweet if Mint had this feature too

I’ve been using Mint Cinnamon for years and after having used Plasma on a number of different setups Mint feels so antiquated. It’s not even close, Plasma is far superior. It’s so much more modern and snappy feeling and you can do so much more with it if you want. Cinnamon makes you have to figure to look in applet settings to then find the setting to modify the start menu. So unintuitive. Among a bunch of other examples I could give

The government’s unlimited resources