Fucking why?

Its actually really easy to opt-out to all of these big tech features: don’t buy from big tech companies. Or if you must, root them and install your own OS.

The news stories blew the issue way out of proportion. There were claims that anything with a computer in it would stop working at midnight. Cars would crash, planes would fall out of the sky, etc. Y2K was really just a finance and IT problem. The fact is most electronic devices of the time, even ones with a clock, didn’t know what the year was and couldn’t be effected by a short-sighted engineering problem.