A pirated car would just be a more free way to access the $10k/yr pay wall you live your life behind. Car-dominant infrastructure is vendor lock in.

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  • LovesTha🥧@floss.social
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    8 months ago

    @FireRetardant @n2burns Remote start can mean different things. I’d hope a subscription based one was via a server and works where normal direct RF fobs wouldn’t (like from another country).

    If it is just direct RF based remote start that shouldn’t be a subscription.

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      So what happens when your car has no cell service? Or you don’t own a phone that supports the app? The only use case I can see is long distance remote start but I’m struggling to determine why someone would reasonably need that.

      The only reasons they went away from RF is to justify subscriptions and further push the smart device trend where everything can connect to your phone.