UPDATE: Busted by the Verge, sorry everybody. Fuck.
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Article: Tesla Allegedly Disables Rapperβs Cybertruck After Song Critique.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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Clippy moment ππ¬
Unacceptable. It should be illegal to even build the capability to brick someone else's property
This is a major feature of nearly all cars now. Dealerships can remotely track and disable cars when people fall behind on their payments. That's because so many people fall behind on payments nowadays, they need easy mechanisms for dealing with it. America is cooked.
Got to love it. My crappy car doesn't even have Bluetooth, but it does have a CD auto changer. Can't brick my car.
This should indocate to everyone that you cannot rely on any car to work that has this capability.
So here's the neat part! They just make it so that you technically are renting the car and so they can brick it up all they want since technically they own the vehicle!
that's not the case here though
They'll pull the same crap they do with digital content you "buy." Technically you're just buying a license to use the vehicle, not actually buying the vehicle itself.
I don't disagree, but in this case that is not true, because that is not what the terms and conditions say.
same with the F-35s sold to other countries. and those cost a lot more than even a cybertruck. imagine it being disabled mid-flight. probably entirely possible.
I mean, that's a tiny bit different. That's something you want to be sure will never end up aiding a terrorist attack against you.
Cybertrucks only kill people accidentally.
as far as I know (which is not a whole lot) terrorists only fly commercial planes. though I'm sure you can probably find the F-35 Handbook on the War Thunder forums.
That's the great thing: the government then get to decide who or what a terrorist is! - including oil rich middle East countries
Im pretty sure usaf flies f-35
You say that, but your avatar is not Clippy.
Oi! Don't bring clippy into this! He was an innocent clip from a better era! More like a qevlarr@lemmy.world moment ππ!!
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Edit: lol my poor clippy just getting hated on
I agree. I was referring to Louis Rossmann's Clippy campaign that we should not accept this as consumers but we want technology to help us, like Clippy
Edit: let's not mass downvote for an innocent misunderstanding, even if they worded it a bit strongly. C'mon now
Those monsters can't downvite clippy, he's being held captive against his will.
Honestly, I kinda want to make a clippy bot, hook it into a self hosted LLM and have it roleplay as clippy trapped by Microsoft. It would be a hoot for 30 minutes or so.