I mean my expectations of Elon is so low I am like "good job for not doing the stupid thing Elon!" where I normally would be like "Duh ofcourse"
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The absurdity of this headline makes "You wouldn't download a car" seem like a not-so-distant future PSA/ad campaign.
Yeah, with 3D printing, I can mostly download a 3D printer. If that tech gets good enough, I could conceivably download everything except the battery (FPGA for control logic).
I would totally love to download a car.
Anyway, who's dumb enough to buy a car that can spy on you ?
Good luck finding a new one that doesn't.
That's why dumb cars are superior
As are smart TVs.
If only there were 50" pc monitors for cheap.
The down votes on this comment really show how stupid people here are.
Yeah, but you can't keep buying second hand cars. Some brand really needs to start making dumb electric cars (it at least allow you to replace/upgrade the computer easily).
Yup. I'm looking into buying an EV, which naturally leads me to looking into disabling all the smart crap.
I just need it to go from A to B, and play audio from my phone on the way. That's it. I don't need weather reports, cameras, auto pilot, etc, I just need a pedal and an aux jack or something to connect to speakers. Oh, and the speakers are optional, I can bring my own.
There's a company in Los Angeles that will convert any ICE into an EV. Those are likely to be dumb EVs if you want the option now.
And that costs a fortune compared to what a mass produced new car with a basic open source stack would cost if someone built it.
Evey modern car can and does. Lawmakers currently sit on their hands regarding that.
Lawmakers are currently enforcing it.
Was Steam getting to woke for musk, or did a contract negotiation fail?
It was just that he already used it for the hype and now it no longer gets any attention just requires people to maintain it.
This is a lot more boring than any of that. Just tech debt
This just seems like a piss in the cherrios move. Like it wasn't hurting anyone?
Most likely they just don't want to continue having to support it at all going forwards.
Tech debt is a big issue with codebases as time goes on. Steam isn't necessary, and usage likely wasn't very high, so the time to maintain updating it was likely determined to not be worth it. So you end support where it's at with the currently deployed user base and let it die naturally.
The host OS needs to do very little to maintain Steam compatibility. Most is done by Steam itself.
That doesn't have any bearing on whether Tesla wants to officially support it on more vehicles.
If something breaks, people will blame Tesla first, even if they changed absolutely nothing. The average person has very little technical knowledge and essentially thinks of all of their electronics as a magic box that just works, until it doesn't. They don't care about the how, the why, or the who, they just care about whether it works or not. And if it doesn't, the first person they blame is whoever makes the box, even if they have nothing to do with the software the person was using.
If something breaks, people will blame Tesla first
Like when Tesla remove a feature they sold their cars with?
They're removing it before these cars are delivered. So not actually sold yet. Hence the notification to those buyers.
Drops as in adds, or as in removes?
Removed in new vehicles.
Quote from the article
Tesla is updating the gaming computer in your Model X and your vehicle is no longer capable of playing Steam games. All other entertainment and app functionalities are unaffected.
You ignored the sentences on either side of that:
However, we now learn that Tesla is dropping the feature. The automaker wrote to people taking delivery of new Model S and Model X vehicles:
Tesla is updating the gaming computer in your Model X and your vehicle is no longer capable of playing Steam games. All other entertainment and app functionalities are unaffected.
It doesn’t sound like current owners are affected by the change.
Notice the phrasing of New vehicles and writing to people expecting delivery of them, not current owners.
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