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Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update
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FenrirIIIcross-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.
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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.
I think the issue now is there's less and less device that doesn't have IOT build in, and then some that doesn't require internet to function might suddenly get roped into a requirement, and then they can time your product obsolescence this way. Their next step is to put out product that can only work via an app so you're required to connect it.
Honestly i don't mind having some device like a robot vacuum to have internet requirement, because it expand the usefulness with it, but gym equipment? Cookware? TV? AC? Heck no.
Set up a raspberry pi with HomeAssistant (or buy their premade one) and then nothing should need to connect to the internet (as long as you buy stuff that doesn’t require it).
Smart devices don’t need “the cloud” to be smart - all of that shit is a scam.
I'm contemplating this given the upcoming EOL for Nest thermostats. Would you have any advice on how to get started?
When will people learn to never buy smart devices.
manufacturers don't make the fully dumb ones anymore !
your comment is 10 years late
Right???
That's why I buy a lot of used stuff now or repair the ones I got.
Repair shops will be like "a new one'll cost less" and I'm like "don't care, fix it."
I really hope my early 2000's Sony Bravia 720p tiny ass TV never dies on me. It's a dumb TV but has all the connections for retro gaming consoles.
Conference room monitors are still (mostly) dumb.
yeah, and advertising ones may also be. but they're often bad for gaming / movies...
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.
And this is why I will always own a normal outdoor pedal bike. Pay for it one time, and I have the tools on hand to modify and repair it. Get one of these babies and pop your bike in it and book instant indoor spinning.
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
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
The what? A bar for olympic athletes with Wi-Fi?
I feel like the spirit of the antichrist is behind the whole "you must connect to the internet in order to use this product"