cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de/t/2476878
Update also blocks compatibility with popular third-party apps.
Well, this is definitely the wrong direction.
All devices should be required by law to provide a path for customer-installed firmware.
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Stop buying shit that requires online access to use. Or if no choice first thing disable the feature. The owners should be able to sue the fuck out of this company.
An effective way to boycott this terrible activity is to take to the second-hand market wherever possible. Thrift stores, FB marketplace (yuck), craigslist, and old-fashioned yard sales. Old exercise equipment is everywhere. Engage with makers and support networks to repair and maintain that stuff.
Keep the flow of money out of the hands of these corporations that just want to lease you things.
This has GOT to be illegal in the EU
$20,000 bounty to un-fuckulate this mess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zayHD4kfcA
$400 A YEAR to use a product you ALREADY BOUGHT AND OWN??? WTF???
These animals are betting on shifting baselines with this crap. They seek to train a whole generation of consumers that owning anything is pointless fiction.
Which is hilarious as it can take one guy to wreck their market by just coming out and saying “Yeah lol once you buy our stuff you own it”. There’s a reason why there isn’t really a large market for applications that can play media formats. VLC has everyone covered for free.
Yeah, bought a wifi-enabled olympic bar and it’s permanently set to 0lbs until I connect it. Supposedly, the app has a cupon for free weights, but idk, I think I’m gonna install a VPN on it.
ETA: Unfortunately (or fortunately for society) this is a joke.
All of this makes me mad.
Please tell me that’s all satire. The current state of affairs makes it impossible to tell.
The fuck is a wifi enabled olympic bar and why would you buy one? It’s just a fancy 20kg rod ffs
wifi-enabled olympic bar
The what? A bar for olympic athletes with Wi-Fi?
Seems like a vulnerability a competitor could use to bankrupt them with a shady DDOS
I’m guessing the board didn’t do much of a SWOT analysis
I feel like the spirit of the antichrist is behind the whole “you must connect to the internet in order to use this product”
