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Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app(arstechnica.com)

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Rain World: Slugcat Game@lemmy.world
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companion app for 10 year olds

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Rain World: Slugcat Game@lemmy.world
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in no way related to the sous vide cooker

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pedestrian@links.hackliberty.org
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The subscription fee will only apply to people who make an account after August 21. Those who downloaded the app and made an account before August 21 won’t have to pay. But everyone will have to make an account; some people have been using the app without one until now.

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Chozo@fedia.io
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It’s 2024 and you need a subscription to make water hot.

Just end me.

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artemisRiverborne@lemmy.world
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Great short story called Unauthorized Bread Abt that exact thing, it’s a weirdly realistic look at what a dystopian corporate future would look like

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KingJalopy @lemm.ee
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You don’t need it make water hot even. Just to have recipes and guides and other useless shit that loses its novelty after 3 minutes.

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NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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Don’t buy “smart” cloud-connected appliances, ever. Even if they don’t start trying to charge for shit like this, eventually the service will go offline breaking the product. (should we call this forced obselescence, somewhat different from planned obsolescence?)

We need more buyer demand for “dumb” appliances. Vote with your wallet.

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njordomir@lemmy.world
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I like it. I’m going to start calling it that now. Why are we tiptoing around their corporate feelings? They forcing these things to become obsolete in contravention of what is best for the consumer.

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cymbal_king@lemmy.world
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Agreed! This is just the beginning, I’m convinced this was the plan all along for most smart devices. I will make an exception for products that can be conveniently operated when an account/app is optional at least.

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B0rax@feddit.org
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I am all for smart appliances, as long as they are local and work with things like home assistant

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NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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But see, then the manufacturer can’t charge you a monthly rent to use the product you already bought.

Absolutely it’s great if local connectivity is an option, there just isn’t really an incentive for manufacturers to prioritize that.

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a4ng3l@lemmy.world
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Or make sure you can hook it to something like home assistant without reliance on cloud…

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PaulieDied@lemmy.world
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On top of that they spy on you and sell your data

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AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social
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I’ve still got my old Anova, Bluetooth one. I don’t even use the app ever, I can set it up with the wheel and buttons. Still works great after like 5+ years. That said, I won’t be recommending them to anyone going forward.

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tux@lemmy.world
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Not a lot of need for the app. But it’s horse crap they’re ALSO removing Bluetooth.

As someone who owns a bunch of their products I’m bummed that it’s another company to not buy from anymore. It’s like every good product gets ruined by a greedy CEO

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Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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Hot take: this is why Android > iOS. When an app developer removes offline features you just manually install an old APK and you’re done 👍

“But you can sideload apps and manually renew the self signed certificate every week on iOS too” - is going to be the reply to this post. Sure, because renewing the certificate every week from my Mac is so convenient (it can’t be done from the iPhone itself - unless you configure a VPN to use someone else’s computer and give them your credentials)

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