Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models

nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Smokeless7048@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unless your computer is from the 70s, it has a computer.

  That said, “always connected, getting firmware updates” is a new thing.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    TIL computers from the 1970s aren’t made of computer /s

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yes i mean completely without a computer. no fuel injection

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• innermachine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s are u driving an old mechanical diesel?

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it’s a giant carburetor with wheels attached to it

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    • innermachine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Slick keeping a spare set of points in the glove box and a match look to shim them? 😎

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      • bluGill@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Points don't fail that often, and I just need to file them every very months.

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      • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        what did you just call me

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  • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A bike

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    • innermachine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bikes are among, if not the, most efficient vehicular forms of transport if I’m not mistaken

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      • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yup. Readily the last form of transportation you’ll take too.

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