We need a law that companies provide device owners root access for every end of life device.
That’s something the EU would do, but never America.
How about a free gun at the end of life of any device?
NOW we’re talking!
I think medical device manufacturers should have to support their products for some definite length of time—maybe 10 years?—or not be allowed to make devices at all
Medical devices are already supported for a very long time. At least the official ones used in hospitals.
Supported? Maybe. Making sure that it works with the latest technology? No.
I was thinking about implanted devices, e.g. Second Sight https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60416058
For software too, if a company has sold software and then goes out of business, it should have to give all licensed users permanent access to use it. Preferably also the source code. (Ideally we’d have open source options for everything but that’s not always practical or possible right now.)
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GrapheneOS is your savior. I should donate, their work is only getting harder.
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It would be one thing for a corporation to misuse the term open source as they’ve been doing lately. It’s pretty bad for one of the biggest and oldest tech news sites to be doing it.
More like ArseTechnica, eh?
Basic documentation does not equal open source.
Toaster ovens from 40 years ago did better. They came with a technical diagram.
But that means you’ll repair it rather than just buying another. We can’t have that! Think of the GDP!
That’s a pretty cool thing to do
They didn’t open source anything.
Yes, but at least documenting the API and saying “have at it” is better than dropping it
The headline is still misleading.
And they didn’t do it. The headline is misleading.
PDF reference of the API here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025.12.18-SoundTouch-Web-API.pdf
Is there any quality, real open-source speakers? Or it’s way better not bother with it and get dumb speakers and an SBC?
For passive, and even now some active loudspeakers, very much so.
Links for passives: https://sites.google.com/site/undefinition/diy https://www.zaphaudio.com/ https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/speaker-kits/ (etc)
Active speakers are usually things like this and use commercially available parts with commercial software. But if you want you can build a DIY DSP and DAC and DIY amplifier. Note that there are tons of other designs for both available.
The DIY audio community is very vibrant. There are tons and tons of forums collaboratively iterating. You can build DIY headphones and DIY headphone amplifiers. Hell, you can even build DIY speaker drivers.
Anything I missed was not an intentional omission, lol.
Chad Bose.
They’re never getting those integrations back though, e.g. Spotify. Those are usually implemented in each company’s servers rather than something that can be brokered locally through an API. That needs to change
No.
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That kinda sucks, especially since even the older ones work with Home Assistant etc directly now
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You sound like an extremist brother. If they lie and dont do it (seems like they already have made it open-source) then get mad. But it sounds like you are upset because you got screwed by Sonos and Bose actually are attempting to do the right thing for their customers.
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