tapo cameras do. mine all went offline and factory reset themselves after not having internet access or even accounts for several months, all at the same time.

Seriously, MQTT on your home server or router or whatever and let things talk to eachother THERE. Keep the conversation INSIDE the LAN. This cloud shit is all about building expensive, unnesscarry dependencies.

All IoT devices do this to keep you from blocking their data collection. They won’t work reliably without a regular ping home. They lock up if they can’t phone home frequently enough.

All modern robot vacuums do this. Amazon and Zillow actually buy that data too.

Apple USA little too strict on what options they present to the user, I agree, but they do have 1 good rule they (usually) follow for it.

Does this solve a problem? If yes, try to make it idiot proof before letting others access it because we are going to have to support this thing. If not, don’t expose it to the user so we can keep that premium Fischer-price signal to noise ratio.

Those companies need people to believe they don’t have a choice present them with a choice and watch the ad people freak the fuck out.

They don’t need to know the technical side of it to understand “this is cheaper, it doesn’t have ads plastered everywhere”

Sam’s Club doesn’t use windows for their machines. The self checkout uses some pervert proprietary version of Linux and the registers for humans have some java powered thing. No windows.

Like it or not, Apple makes great hardware, especially now. They are evil though, and their software is definitely in decline. But the hardware is great.

“What you doing? You can’t wrap your hands around my dick!”

It’s so hilariously bad.

Went must you ruin this?

I’m a little too far north for that

I’m about really to install a camera in my toilet and just pipe the footage into something flock connects with. Surveil this!

Oh no! Who didn’t see this coming?

It kind of bothers me we don’t have a gay porn equivalent to this. We have some hilariously bad stuff that’s worthy of mockery and recognition. The porne ultimatum comes to mind as hilariously bad.

You have this, the butter statutes, and fucking your cousin.

Because it isn’t about art if they feel they can censor things.

The business majors are about to learn an important lesson about open source.

Gizmodork

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