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Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers' stuff

(arstechnica.com)
83 points speckx | 3 comments | 11 Jul 25 19:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.432s | source
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tocs3 ◴[11 Jul 25 19:33 UTC] No.44536061[source]▶
Do not buy stuff you do not own.
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supportengineer ◴[11 Jul 25 20:16 UTC] No.44536406[source]▶
Rules out any vehicle for sale in the US today with a built-in cellular connection.
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1. quantified ◴[11 Jul 25 21:58 UTC] No.44537181[source]▶
I haven't bought for a long time, are these required to run the car? Or is it just prohibitively obscure to disable it (smash the antenna or connect it to ground, for example).
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2. Rebelgecko ◴[12 Jul 25 05:31 UTC] No.44539572[source]▶
Probably not intended to be required, but some implementations are buggy. IIRC when 2g was killed off some Subarus had a problem where they'd keep trying and failing to connect to a 2G tower until the battery died
3. ◴[12 Jul 25 15:45 UTC] No.44542868[source]▶