They're not even doing refunds or recalls, they're just giving people 2 free months of the subscription and telling them to only charge the device and the hotswap add-on batteries with the home charger.

This piece of shit has a 4 hour standby time if you're not using the case to recharge the batteries. Literally unusable.

peppino-ha techbros owned.

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    Currently, the company is offering consolation in the form of two free months of its $24 subscription service.

    Excuse me a subscription plan for a fucking charger? wtf-am-i-reading

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      The subscription plan is for the whole machine. It becomes a brick if you don't pay them $24 a month. Not just for the cell service that it relies on, but also because the "AI" shit that is its entire raison d'etre is all done on somebody else's computer in a datacenter somewhere.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        6 months ago

        Some of these models are so small they can run on a phone. My keyboard app has a local lite LM in it lmao. It also runs local voice detection. Imagine paying that much for a paper weight that measures the circumference of your asshole and reports back to the FBI when open source apps handle it locally for free

          • kristina [she/her]
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            6 months ago

            Its a new app in beta rn. Called Futo Keyboard. Saw it in a post on Lemmy the other day. They also have a voice entry app. All local. Runs very well despite the beta. It picked up on my typing habits very quickly

    • NuraShiny [any]
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      6 months ago

      It's fine! You subscribe to your very portable incendiary device only until it ignites.