The Exigent Duality
Beholden to Toddlers - 07:10 CST, 3/03/22 (Sniper)
There is an immense amount of truth saying in this Eric Peters blog post, and it extends far beyond cars.

I just read that Electronic Arts is patching out all of the Russian teams and players from their products, such as FIFA. Regardless of where you stand on that war, consumers paid X money and were promised Y number of teams and Z number of players-- which can be changed on a whim by the publisher, so they can virtue signal to other idiots on The Twatter, because the player doesn't own a copy of the software, but merely a temporary license to use the software, which can be revoked or have its terms modified at any time.

Gran Turismo 7 can not be played without an internet connection. They can't even change that behavior via a patch, because in fifteen years when the servers are gone, how would the patch be delivered? This is where we're headed.

The Davos crowd wants to do this with everything: your car, your house, your food, your clothes, and on and on. You'll subscribe on a EULA basis to get stuff. Then if you say something mean on The Twatter or donate money to peaceful trucker protesters or buy a firearm or practice your religion without a face diaper on-- or whatever-- you will find your subscriptions terminated. Some conflict comes up? You're not allowed to have an opinion: you will be punished either directly or indirectly, if you don't agree with Nasty Pelosi or whichever lizard creature is in charge at that moment.

The same goes with development technologies. I wrote this web site in January of 2007, and in the fifteen years that have followed, I have only had to touch the code once due to "obsolescence", where I had to replace like three lines of code which performed MySQL calls. Frameworks like .Net are driven by a commercial need to continually drive people towards new products and services-- planned obsolescence, baby. Whereas languages like PHP or Python aren't continually pulling the rug from beneath you, because the motivations and incentives are different.

In general, the more we can disconnect ourselves from multi-billion dollar corporations, governments, and weirdo hipsters, the better off and more independent we'll be.