Speak for yourself, there's nothing wrong with my carburettor!

My distributor on the other hand is a pain in the ass. Electronic ignition has its upsides...

There were a few sites that tracked manufacturer adoption of when the telemetry black boxes got installed, but I cannot find the specific ones I referenced a few years ago. You can “shop” for telemetry insurance and check that way too. The car won’t be eligible if it doesn’t have the hardware.

I most certainly don't write faster than I type, and sending an email or a chat message certainly doesn't take longer than finding something to write with and something to write on. There is a big factor of habit and lifestyle - I don't usually write stuff down, so I don't have prepared/assigned tools for that, but I use my computer a lot, so I do have software installed and tools/commands memorised.

And, frankly, out of many possible options, plain text is something computers are really good at - there's basically no risk of running out of space, it's indexable and searchable, it's editable, and it's very universal.

Things do get a bit more complex when you include formatting, and a lot more complicated when you start adding annotations or illustrations, or even just more freeform writing styles, but there's still a major factor of habit - I don't know what my note taking would look like if I had a habit of pen and paper, but I know I'm very comfortable with using tech for that, and it works great for me!

Honestly that exists. Just bought a BMW i3 (their first electric) and you can disable just about everything, even the sound it makes to alert pedestrians, the infotainment warning screen everyone hates, and seat belt chimes, through an app and a BT OBDII dongle. The 2014-2017 models all have 3G cellular antennas so they mostly don’t work anymore (3G is totally gone in my area). It also has buttons for climate and their great iDrive infotainment controller. It’s a fantastic quirky electric at dirt cheap prices.

BUT, your point stands since that’s 1 out of how many electric vehicles? Yeah, sucks.

I like this. It’s kind of the same vein as “we like being comfortable.” That’s the main issue. Until we aren’t comfortable nothing will change.

If they're less tech inclined they should use YUNOHOST. Its a Debian based distro thats been around for years. They've got preconfigured packages and everything is done via the webUI. Theres no reason to involve an LLM that frequently gives outdated and bad information.

Yeah you said that, until a doctor hand you a handwritten letter.

"Telling people to use an LLM to figure out how to X is like telling a 16yo to play GTA to learn how to drive" is my new catchphrase, thanks internet person (I presume person, could be mistaken....)

I am and probably always will be a tech enthusiast, but as time goes on I find myself more and more looking for old technology to avoid planned obsolescence, anti-repair bs, telemetry & tracking, lack of consideration for quality of life....

This is not how things were supposed to be. But this is how things will be if we don't do something about oligarchs and certain CEOs.

I get the idea, but I am kinda stuck on the letter writing bit. They do know that the post getting delivered is kinda built on middlemen right?

Weren't those a thing to admire? Chicken scratches on the ground could be more readable.

Luddites got a bad rap from capitalists. The Luddites were not anti-technology, they were against technology destroying people’s jobs. Their whole thing was destroying industrial machinery and sabotaging factories because they were replacing human labor without any alternative in place for the actual people. Hundreds of thousands of people were turned off the land, unemployed, and starving because of greedy capitalists trying to not pay for labor.

If the same people were around today, they’d be trying to blow up AI server farms.

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I'm going to take a risk and say you write faster than you type

I have a very hard time believing this. From some quick googling, it seems that experienced writers can do 40 wpm, which is really slow in comparison to an (even an inexperienced) typer. Also, typing has no risk of being unreadable, unlike writing (e.g. doctor's written notes).

and reaching for a pencil is quicker than launching a program.

Maybe if your computer is really slow.

It was a long time ago I watched an DVD, but I very clearly remember some of them having unskippable ads.

Why self-host messaging when there are so many good options?

Big tech does have consent. They hide it in the TOS that hardly anyone reads.

Technology can develop in various directions. This is exactly what it looks like when technology is developed for consumerism. Buy more now, it doesn't need to last, stimulate the economy. Rent what you can, everything else as a service.

Those things can feasibly be better. I pay the delivery human with anonymous cash once I've got my order. The store has my stuff ready to go right now. The taxi is right here and they're unionized.

Can't dispute file sharing though, analog copies suck.

All my friends chat over our self hosted matrix server. There is always a way.