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This is not about pettiness: users should be able to opt out of updates that remove functionality. We are still in the prehistoric age of consumer rights for software and it shows. Would you be okay with your dishwasher dropping high temperature washes because the manufacturer decided so?

Or a more dystopic example: your fridge actively jamming the wifi of your washing machine because they are from two warring brands

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Not sure in the case of Hammerhead (I've got a Wahoo and a Garmin), but mostly You can opt out of updating Your head unit. Problem is, it's an all-or-nothing. By not updating You also lose whatever bugfixes will be coming in the future updates.

I tend to update my Karoo pretty quickly, but I have never seen any indication that it would force an update, so I think people could stick with last week's version for as long as they want.

That being said, this week's update that removed Di2 also added some nice location-based auto lap features, which are way more useful than an icon telling me which gear I'm in, which I already know, so I updated.

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