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   Sean Coates (sean@scoat.es)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 10:08:18 JST Sean Coates

   Ugh. One of the worst apps on my phone (which I use because the door controls are even worse), which controls the appliance that I *ALREADY* overpaid for, is switching to a subscription model.

   I get to maintain "free" access… for now.

   I'd hate this less If this app wasn't so terrible.

   "But maintaining an app costs money!" you say.

   Of course it does, but they need to do that to sell new ovens, anyway, and this is a secondary offering. They sold me the appliance, not the app (but now both…).

   • Cory Doctorow and Linda Woodrow repeated this.
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     DJFogbound (djfogbound@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 10:08:02 JST DJFogbound

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @sean @pluralistic Get ready to hack it when they go out of business. The future as predicted by Cory Doctorow: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 16:49:55 JST Aral Balkan

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     @sean Man, if you think that’s something, wait till you see what capitalism has in store for you next (no pun intended).

     (Hint: it’s fascism.)