Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by crooked-v on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:05PM (#25876350)

> that may or may not do what they want to

Computers inexplicably don't do what you want them to do all the time, though. Modern cars, by contrast, are incredibly reliable even with extremely insufficient maintenance.

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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by Delk on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:06PM (#25878050)

Cars are also much simpler tools than computers in terms of the variety of things people want to do with them.

Car analogies applied to computing tend not to be very good, at least partially for that reason.

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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by mondoshawan on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:48AM (#25882571)

I beg to differ: my Mazda MX-5 has a lane departure warning system that flatly gets it wrong all the time. My prior car, a Scion iA, mis-triggered the "smart city breaking" on the freeway and nearly caused an accident. The infotainment system fails bluetooth connections inexplicably, and flatly refuses at accept CarPlay or Android Auto connections periodically. And I keep my cars clean and current with maintenance.

Are these parts not part of the car?

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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by AnonC on Sunday January 24, 2021 @01:07AM (#25889756)

Aren’t some of those parts actually computers in the car that don’t work as expected?

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