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   Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 00:33:48 JST Polychrome :blabcat:
   Activists including iFixIt and EFF sent an 8 page letter to the FTC in the US urging them to make manufacturers disclose minimum product support windows and enact federal regulations that ensure the product's core functionality will last even after the updates stop.
   
   https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/06/consumer_ftc_software_tethering/
   
   I like the one where Google collaborated with Levi's to make a smart jacket in 2019 only to kill the smartphone app that drives it in 2023 which removed all of the jacket's functionality.
   
   I've been avoiding "internet / smartphone app required" hardware because I assume it'll brick in 3 to 5 years or less when the company gets bored and shuts down the servers.
   
   So far I've rarely been proven wrong.
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 11:55:51 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • Irina
     @irina when you buy a smart jacket the jacket isn't the core function.
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     Irina (irina@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 11:55:52 JST Irina

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     @Polychrome Isn't it still a jacket?