Link: https://www.ifixit.com/News/115528/bmws-newest-innovation-is-a-logo-shaped-middle-finger-to-right-to-repair

Adafruit: From Ultimate Driving Machine to Ultimate Rent-Seeking Machine: The BMW Logo Screw Patent.

If you haven’t already heard, BMW’s R&D teams have been busy “innovating.” Unfortunately, they aren’t focusing on the things that actually matter—like stellar engine performance or the legendary driving dynamics that gearheads love. Instead, the C-suite execs decided that the best use of their engineering budget was to design a proprietary security screw specifically intended to prevent BMW drivers from fixing their own cars.

I'll never buy a car that has subscription features

Clippy would never do that!

Until they force you. Like how pretty much all new housing developments have oppressive HOAs now.

I would like to get my hands on those Engineers. Do we have a term for engineers who design pro-capitalist enshittification tech ?

UPDATE: Looks like I got my answer, here's the video for it.

Enshitineers?

I am so happy to live in a non-HOA neighborhood...

Nice catch lol

VW made these funky triangle topped bolt on TDi injection pumps ( or maybe it was Bosch who cares). My buddy who's a mechanic said "don't mess with those ,you need special sockets".

I took 12pt sockets and used a dremmel to grind out every other two points in the socket and had my own set to mess with the bolts they didn't want me messing with.

Alright, we'll just buy Chinese electric cars instead.

Ding ding ding, we have a winner!

As an engineer, I second this. Unfortunately, many engineers fail to ever acquire a conscience.

It's a choice to live there. And you have a choice on how you spend your money. No one is holding a gun to your head making you buy a shitty car.

Depending on their place in the chain of command, either a capitalist or a wage slave

The day when the only options are subscription based cars will be the day jailbreaking your car is as common as jailbreaking an iphone.

it’s your choice to live there

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not because that is an awful argument. The housing market isn’t this perfectly liquid thing where there’s always another house to choose from that fits all your requirements a reasonable distance from your workplace.

Especially when private equity is fucking everyone

radical innovation. proprietary screws. un-standardization. de-industrialization.