No arguments here :D

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I’m aware and meant what I said.

If the Tesla board has any intelligence left, they will push him out.

They deserve all the hurt incurred so far for not doing it yet, and will deserve to go under if they don’t in time.

He knows perfectly well why.

He’s gaslighting so the people who hate him hate him louder, which he can then use as validation that they’re crazy or irrational.

It’s fucking disgusting and obvious as hell. He deserves all of the shit thrown at him and he knows it but doesn’t care because he doesn’t have to face any real consequences for it, so he escalates.

Everyone’s anger is his weapon against them, sadly because his supporters are dumb enough to go with it. He needs tangible consequences or else this will just keep getting worse.

Where’d the motherfuckin Ween go at

They’re a country, with a flag and a government and everything. Not sure you ever knew that but there ya go.

Not sure their status matters anyway here, either.

So again, why shouldn’t any country be free?

Why shouldn’t any country be free?

If we’re even allowed to vote ever again.

Hmm, I wonder where it went /s

I had a 1st edition ID.4 and miss it so much, been waiting for the ID.7 but I don’t think they’re bringing that to the US anymore. TBH it’s a lot of car, too much for me anyway. Never had many issues with the ID.4 that VW didn’t cover, but I sold it because it was having some issues with the displays shutting off on hot days. Big safety concern, and I still don’t know if they ever came up with a fix.

Gone are the days of smaller cars. If they sold the ID.3 here I’d buy it instantly.

There aren’t many good EV sedans here unfortunately, which I could imagine makes it harder for some Tesla owners to find another vehicle to switch to. Elon, fossil fuels or an overpriced luxury EV SUV seem to be the only real choices.

For now I’m making do with my sister’s old Leaf but am going to need to find another car soon, and it sure as hell won’t be a Tesla but I’m at a loss as to what. Take away the shitty Nazi CEO and the cars are (at least spec-wise) a good value. Not enough for me to overlook the rest of their faults, but enough to be frustrating when looking literally anywhere else.

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AoE3 is best and the most overlooked, and I will die on this hill.

Also not realistic. Even if the UK government didn’t perceive that as fraud, Apple accounts (and most other businesses’ accounts) are region-locked and cannot be transferred elsewhere to prevent going around laws in this way.

This means that every user would also need to make new Apple accounts in their new country of choice and give up any purchases/subscriptions/data in their UK accounts. And possibly need new out of country phone numbers and service as well.

….or a government demanding a way in.

Even your alternative requires someone to give money to a tech conglomerate. There is no perfect alternative this late into capitalism Even if there was, it’s not realistic for millions of Apple devices around the world to suddenly be replaced.

By no means should that discourage anyone reading this from taking action to control your data better, however. I also self-host and am doing everything I can to minimize my reliance on big companies, but there are time, skill and monetary gaps there not everyone can overcome.

Apple’s choices here were:

1. Do what they did, and remove the feature for the UK only

2. Create a backdoor into their OS that can potentially be used by not just governments, but bad actors too, effectively crippling security for every single device they sell worldwide and bypassing the usefulness of on-device encryption entirely.

3. Exit the UK market, which is not realistic and would leave millions of UK customers without any further recourse than to replace their Apple devices, which is incredibly wasteful and expensive (not to mention inconvenient).

Apple chose the lesser evil. What more could you possibly expect in this situation? If you want to protest, protest the government demanding that level of surveillance on their citizens.

Yep. This is exactly what I expected them to do. They don’t want the liability of losing your data or enabling your privacy to be compromised on their devices, and the eroded trust of their customer base from that.

Unfortunately the UK put them between a rock and a hard place here. As shitty as it is, I’m glad they opted to remove the feature for only that market, rather than weaken it for everyone. It sucks, but it’s the lesser evil.

I don’t think they had any good choices here. Just like the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, they decided not to make the device’s OS inherently less secure with the inclusion of a backdoor and I can at least appreciate that much.

One more time and it’s a pattern.

Fuckin eww.

I’m currently driving a loaner Tesla….got yelled at charging it today to “sell your stupid fuckin car!!”

I’m fine with having no sympathy, but the harassment and calls for vandalism I’ve seen on some posts is a little extreme.

Would it be asking too much to direct the criticism at Tesla themselves? Not everyone can afford to get out of the car they’re driving (or like me, are driving one due to circumstance), and being an asshole to them isn’t productive.

For the record, I hate this car.