I’d guarantee that they’re already doing that now anyway. If you buy a new car but don’t choose the heated seats optional extra, the seats will still have the capability, just that they won’t enable it. This has been going on for decades; I recall an old Peugot 405 my parents had when I was young, there were various placeholder areas on the console where some switches would have bee on the more expensive models. All the wiring would be there, but just no phsyical switch on the console. They’ll standardise as much as possible to make the production process as simple and cheap as possible.

I can see the appeal from a potential customers point of view as you don’t need to stress about picking the wrong options and later regretting it.

I’m not totally against a subscription for features, as long as they provide the ability to purchase it outright and it stays on permanantly throughout the life of the car.

This is not saying that the source for this is Radio Free Asia, but that they’ve also reported similar.

Fucking awful. Where’s the sense in doing this? I don’t know how one human can do this to another.

Somewhat reminds me of Dr David Kelly in the UK. He was a key scientist involved in finding WMDs in Iraq in 2003, however he leaked to the BBC that the intelligence report given to the government was “sexed up” (the phrase used at the time) in order to favour an invasion into Iraq. It was discovered he was the source of the leak to the BBC and then was suddenly found dead in some woods near his home.

The official story is that he commited suicide, probably from the pressure and stress he was under, but the timing was so suspcious that obviously people think the government had him bumped off.

However you’re on Debian stable and the latest version of the package that came out 24 years ago is still too new.

It’s the upper house of parliament.

I love the juxtaposition of the ads and the content of the article (on work laptop which manages the browser & controls extensions before anyone chimes in about adblockers)

Freedom(fromtaxesandregulationsforbillionaires) City

The headline is accurate though. What’s misleading about it?

Looks cosy!

I’ve never heard the word rutabega, it’s what we’d call a swede in the UK

stiffyGlitch’s mum should have her own category on PornHub

I dunno why people care what position the seat & lid are in. It takes like 1 second to put it into the required configuration.

Same for saying “the only good nazi is a dead nazi”

When you log into the console and all your shits gone and you start to have a mild panic, when you suddenly realise it’s switched you to a different region.

Laser - pilots look down at the ship I guess.

gets to the front door, searches for the keycard to get in…

“oh no…”

plane that got them there departs overhead

I love bonfire night. Controversial opinion but it’s way better than Halloween.

Why would they have to come in at 7am?