Why We Can't Have Nice Software - Andrew Kelley
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  • reverendz [comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    And then there’s the subscription model. Where you don’t own or even license software. You just continually pay rent.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Not just software anymore, increasingly physical products too thanks to the whole IoT nonsense where every appliance you buy has to connect to the manufacturer to work now.

      • reverendz [comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        Yeah, that part is super fucked up. I have IoT in my ceiling fans. I had to call their support line to have them remotely turn off the beeping that accompanies a button press.

        The feature can’t be deactivated locally. I literally had to have my ceiling fan join my Wi-Fi network so that support could remote in and disable a beep that no one could possibly want.

        Oh yeah, my oven has Wi-Fi. What possible reason could there be for my oven to have network access? It’s beyond ridiculous.