Literally not the point. Companies being predatory, and using literal misinformation, and deception tactics to bend the law and screw up consumers to drive consumption is the point. Good for you being a brainless consumer who is totally fine being cucked by the “rent your hardware” industry, the many of us prefer to actually own our tools.
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cv_octavio@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Oh look another Rossman PSA to show us how evil some company is. Also, the sun rose today.
I stopped giving this guy credence after his series of videos on how “dangerous” onewheels are (I now own 2, and…GASP also drive a Hyundai with an EPB). I don’t fault his motivation, but his propensity to assert that edge cases are likely mainstream is just far too much to be taken seriously.
Risks exist. Be informed.
mal3oon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Lol you do you then. Lingo like “cucked” speaks literal volumes about your character, and…. fuckin’ ew.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Lol you do you then
Actually, people wont be able to “you do you” when car repair is gatekept from the consumer.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Cool cool. I’m 100% sure who I take my car to won’t have this issue and I will continue to be able to do me.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One wheels aren’t shit for being dangerous, they’re shit for bricking the device if you try to replace the fucking battery, as well as other anti-consumer practices.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Which is why I VESC’d mine.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Which manufacturers do this?
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
OneWheel is the manufacturer.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
What’s weird is I have replaced the batteries in both of mine. It’s actually easier than spreading FUD.
Alas, I must be imagining that they still work; surely your version of reality is canon.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sounds to me like you haven’t had a board ghost into a stranger’s car. It’s fucking terrifying. Ask me how I know.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
A board ghost into a strangers car?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Onewheels are self-balancing electric skateboards. They have a sensor on the footpad that activates the motor while you’re standing on it. For quite a while the manufacturer of the boards was having an issue where the sensor would stay stuck on, so when you stepped/fell off the board it would just take off under it’s on power until it ran into something and broke or lost its balance and tipped over. The manufacturer kept denying and denying and denying and gaslighting. Then after enough negative press from people like Louis Rossman and a lady that got sent to the hospital after a board slammed into her, the US government stepped in and threatened to shut down the company if they didn’t acknowledge and fix the issue so they finally did something about it.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Oh I see the way you phrases it confused me lol. I have one, that would scare the shit out of me 😂
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
You are correct. I would not know about that, because I ripped out their hardware and put in open source stuff, upgraded the sensors and added a dead man’s switch.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
So then why the dog at Rossman?
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Because I personally feel that he is an alarmist who blows a lot of l shit out of proportion, despite generally agreeing with the principles behind him doing what he does.
It’s okay to not like someone’s content and take on things. it also doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m not aligned with the basic premise of his work in other cases. I just don’t like how he represents the topics or the degree to which he inflates their importance.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
He is revealing the risk, he is informing. He is indignant that it is a risk which is deliberately obscured by the manufacturer.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Lol all this talk if risk mitigation mingled with an assertion that one should DIY one’s brakes, and no mentions of qualifications or safety.
It’s foolproof!
fishy@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I think I had a stroke reading this.
From what I’m gathered, you believe no at home DIY mechanic should be changing their own brake pads? It’s not complicated, I completed my first pad change when I was 16 with a diagram and instructions a tow truck driver wrote on the back of a takeout menu. I did the sensible thing and tested them before moving and again at low speeds in a parking lot.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Single payer auto repair when then?