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Adafruit: From Ultimate Driving Machine to Ultimate Rent-Seeking Machine: The BMW Logo Screw Patent.

If you haven’t already heard, BMW’s R&D teams have been busy “innovating.” Unfortunately, they aren’t focusing on the things that actually matter—like stellar engine performance or the legendary driving dynamics that gearheads love. Instead, the C-suite execs decided that the best use of their engineering budget was to design a proprietary security screw specifically intended to prevent BMW drivers from fixing their own cars.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

I see they're taking notes from Apple.

That's shitty.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

BMW driver's can't even change a tire in my experience.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Is there no uBlock "captcha whitelist" around, for anything but default blocking mode?

[–] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online -2 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

As a bmw owner, it is complete horseshit that they don't let you change your own tires. I had to pay $400 to change the tire after getting a flat.

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