cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/2362831

I don’t know how extended this is, but apparently there are car makers selling cars with no keys. Instead you download a proprietary app and use it to access your car.

I like being practical and talking to a car to turn the volume up or down, to open the door or to turn the temperature higher are things I don’t need nor want. Give me mechanical levers, reachable stalks and no proprietary bloatware. I don’t need a movie theater on wheels.

Imagine an early 2000s car running on an electric motor. That’s what I want.

  • lime!English
    12•21 days ago

    the latest Citroën e-c3 is super-stripped. physical key, no frills at all. the range also takes a hit to keep costs down though.

    • Ricky Rigatoni
      11•21 days ago

      I hate the mentality of “people who don’t want premium features just can’t afford them”. No bro we don’t want them because they suck.

      • KrudlerEnglish
        -4•21 days ago

        I was given a smart watch yesterday

        I wore it for 20 minutes and immediately gave it to a crack addict

        All the fking doodads that exist nowadays are just trash - I literally cannot comprehend why anybody wants them in their life! They do not really seem to add anything, they’re just a meaningless trifling distraction and another shiny toy that ends up in the trash heap, as far as I can see

        • @AA5B@lemmy.world
          2•20 days ago

          You’re certainly welcome to your opinion, any new doodad that’s one persons shiny new toy that ends up in a trash heap is someone else’s useful tool.

          Personally I could argue my smarremovedch is better than my phone: it can do almost every phone can, almost everything I used to carry a wallet for, plus warn me if I’m dead …. And it doesn’t let me waste an evening doom scrolling