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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah likely, and I'd be super pissed about this. You're (ford) telling me you cheap fucks couldn't be asked to install two like, shit, even cheap-ass comsumer-grade 100gb ssds or something at the cost of like $10 a pop, before 'economies of scale', in my fucking 50k vehicle. I want the tow bill comped, I want the repair comped, I want an equivalent rental vehicle comped for the entire duration of the repair, I want it in writing that if this shit happens again that I'm going to get the same treatment as I am now, and my time isn't free either so I want complementary maintenance the next time I'm in here; or I'm driving straight through the front window as soon as the repair is done, and I'm not stopping with the first vehicle I crash into.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, I've worked on embedded systems (some projects involving automotive and heavy machinery), and the amount of penny-pinching they used when selecting components was pretty crazy. On one project I worked on, they didn't want to spend an extra 30 cents for a microcontroller with more flash, so we had to be very cognizant of every byte we used. Flash was so tight, our firmware would only fit if we used the highest optimization setting on the compiler (making debugging very difficult).