The question isn't wrong or right, the question is do they belong on this site - one that has it's primary basis in tech and nerds.

What makes your tablet obsolete? The desire to run some latest shininess? I notice you said "obsolete" and not "broken" or "non-functional". Are you concerned you will buy a new fridge every couple of years because you don't like the existing one? That seems to be a you problem.

There's nothing wrong with obsolete hardware. Obsolete just means no longer supported by the vendor. I am under no delusion that I could get complete replacement components for everything in my fridge either, and just like a tablet with an aftermarket battery there's a healthy array of aftermarket parts for things.

Funny you mention that. It would seem like integration with a phone is a pointless optional extra that has nothing to do with driving your car. You're supporting my point while rallying against it at the same time. Also why would you be miserable if your car worked like the day you got it and didn't have an optional new shiny extra? It sounds like you REALLY WANT a fridge with a screen in it. I doubt you'll be happy with a device that just cools based on how you treat your car.

No it's not. Multifunction devices existed long before enshitification. The two concepts are not remotely related.

Your phone's main purpose is to make phone calls. If you own a smartphone I'm going to call you either a hypocrite or an idiot, but I'll give you the curtesy of choosing which label.

Obviously you meant fridge, but then given this is an optional extra that costs money it is clear that someone deemed it a benefit. The fact you don't understand it is not withstanding. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to grab my tablet and take it down into the kitchen and start cooking dinner. Man if only there was an internet connected screen in the kitchen from which to pull up my recipe...

False equivalence. A leatherman directly trades off primary function against additional functionality. Having a screen on a fridge doesn't affect the fridge in any way what so ever. The compressor is likely the completely identical model to the fridge without a screen.

You don't understand this ads competition. Can you imagine what it would be like if Ford set the price of the cars themselves? /s

Maybe that's because there's so much slop being generated, and because you surround yourself with questionable people (or maybe you're the questionable one which is why you hear the word so often?)

I can tell you were desperate to comment without actually looking at the video. There are no rails. This is the exact opposite of the automotive industry where the part being worked on goes to the robot, not the other way around.

Please do everyone a favour and every so often educate yourself before posting.

This has literally been the case now for 40 years, and yet the open source movement is stronger than ever. So why now? Also charging for access? Stallman will rip your balls off.

It's not. There's nothing about news which requires it to be a surprise. Why do you think anyone finds it surprising? TFS and TFA don't. The only surprise was the cancellation of SORA which very much came out of nowhere.

This isn't just AI. Since launch $100 would be accounted for due to inflation alone. Add to that Trump's tariff war which would have added over $100, and then add AI on top of that, and AI looks like the least of the actual contribution to price rise (it's not, to be clear AI = bad and hardware prices are out of control).

Also reminder that there's no connection between hardware price, and time in the console war. Consoles have never been priced according to hardware prices as (other than Nintendo) everyone else produced them as a loss leader to sell games. The idea that console prices go down over time caught COVID and died.

In the current politico-economic environment in the US Valve has committed as recently as 2 weeks ago that it will be brought to the market this year.

At this point though it's a matter of faith, I agree it is at risk, but right now Valve has shown they are still committed.

If he clearly meant morally he would have used the word morally. He didn't clearly mean anything. He wrote an ambiguous statement to be interpreted in a number of ways. If that wasn't the intention then he fucked up.

Frankly you're an idiot for making assumptions, and an arsehole for labelling those who disagree with your assumptions. Be a better person.

This isn't subservience. Subservience is the end user adopting something optional. It's no different than seeing two different downloads on websites in the early 00s when encryption was export controlled. The GP fundamentally screwed up due to not understanding how and why something was failed. The optional inclusion of something in a software does not help support nor defeat any legislation. That is up to adoption of the end users.

I pride myself on downloading the "US version" of software back in the day. Stick it to the man, showing that despite legal avenues I am in fact a rebel. The same applies here. Adopt Systemd with all it's age verification goodness and then demonstrate to the world how you give it the middle finger ignoring the field.

There's a very big difference in approach here and specifically about *who* was responsible for doing something. Encryption wasn't illegal, it was subject to export controls. The onus was exclusively on those exporting a product, and that fundamentally fails in the world of the internet.

It's fun to think that some open source coders standing their ground ended this, but the reality is it was big corporations. Those who offered "US version" and "International version" downloads on the same website. The "Here's a complaint one, pretty please use it" approach to adopting the law. This change here in Systemd is very much along the same lines: An entirely optional field. You want to be a rebel end user, don't use it. You want to be a large corporation who actually has legal departments that would otherwise ban the product from being used internally? Do use it.

These have always been about maximising availability while minimising risk. Gen-X rebels didn't kill the encryption debate. The entire concept of an internet which knows no borders did.

Someone else already pointed out the fridge is running Linux but you missed some other crucial fact. No the fact that something is open source doesn't not impart you magic powers to do what you want with ease. This is not a computer that you slot an SSD into, change some UEFI settings and watch it boot to a FDE (Fridge Desktop Environment). You can't just throw a memory stick in to boot from your fancy custom distro and click an install button.

This is an embedded system. Changing the OS on an embedded system will require you to either be blessed to have a vendor management interface exposed (and hope it's non proprietary and not password protected), or required probing and accessing certain areas of a circuit board. End users won't do that.

My TV runs Linux as well, yet I have ZERO way to install something custom on it without completely disassembling it and getting out a soldering iron since the initial firmware was baked in during production.

Yeah Android could do that in theory, but in order to do that you'd need some very deep integration with Android Auto and the car system so that the interface is unified. I'm not sure anyone would go to the effort of doing so since 99% of that effort is the same as implementing Android Automotive, which at that point... why would they make their own system and implement their own API when they can outsource it?

WRT controls I agree. Buttons need to exist (and they do on my car too). But my demand here is to have functional options. Fun fact the small space in the car means that a HVAC system is fundamentally able to control the environment to a tighter tolerance. There's less lag time, etc. The reason I prefer voice control for my HVAC system is that I probably change a setting maybe once every few months and as such haven't even bothered committing to memory where those buttons on the dash are. The system just regulates the temperature that well that summer / winter the car is just comfortable. The only time I touch it is if I do something weird like have thermals on when I get in the car and can't cope with the temperature it's set at all the time.

For functions used very infrequently, voice control is superior. I can do things without taking my eyes off the road.