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> I'm just sitting over here hoping there's blowback that keeps some reasonable stuff on the market. Otherwise, I'm gonna have to become some sort of personal expert on keeping things from 1990 or older running.

I'm at the point where I'm considering physically disabling the radios in my appliances.

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"Error: cannot start (no connectivity). Please call a licensed repair technician to service your vehicle."

In case you're not aware, this is a thing that's happened (well, without the error message, I assume)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/zipcar-int...

Too helpful. More like "Failed with error 0xC0000005".

That's a real error Windows 11 gave me this week. I know, never install a Windows version less than two years old. It's been so long I forgot.

As if any Windows or in general Microsoft product gives useful error messages.

Hex error codes, or generic "Something went wrong" errors are the norm at Microsoft.

Not quite as bad, but when I tried out a car in 2008 with Ford/Microsoft's SYNC system (voice interface), there were cases where pressing an unconfigured button would disable the sound system until you restarted the engine. See number 8:

http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2008/07/setting-sync-strai...

Also, whenever the power goes out, I always express thanks that the toilets still work, and they didn't introduce some npm-style pointless dependency.

'In the land of internet-connected devices, the man with the soldering iron is king.'

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