I’ll start: printers.

I bought an HP in March 2020 when my job went remote and HP bricked it remotely after only 100 pages because I wouldn’t sign up for their subscription program. Ended up trashing a perfectly good printer.

Luckily my library’s close by and I can print there remotely.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      31·
      1 month ago

      And software, while we’re at it. Web plugins included. Basically just Facebook.

      It could’ve stopped at “Lets people share things with friends and family” but they’ll never be satisfied, until even if they have the entire world’s money, attention, and data in their clutches.

      What they’ve done to VR pisses me off to the core.

      • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        I never understood why people think VR can be a mass market product. It’s literally single user. It cannot be looked at by two people at the same time. Such a silly concept. It’s good for gaming, some work, robotics, remote access, etc. But mass market? iPhone-killer? Price-accessible to all? I don’t get it.

      • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
        4·
        1 month ago

        There is some open source software that is associated with Facebook, like compression with Zstandard, a very common and useful compression format. Don’t care that it’s from them in that case.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      63·
      1 month ago

      False.

      The Facebook Portal TV was, and still is, gorgeous. The voice control is dead, the streaming services removed, the Alexa link dead, but as a video conf device that uses your TV really well, it’s a life-changer.

      We chat with people on the other Coast weekly, and we get to see people in their living room from ours. We can’t go visit, but we can stay in touch.

      We paid like $100 each for 4 of these. I’d’ve paid 5 times that for one with upgradeable assistant access and vanilla open video chat so it’s fb free. They’re all still running but they tether us to Fb since the zoom was ass.

      Edit: downvoting something as cool as the portal TV is bizarre. It really is a stand-out product and I’m sad that its connection to FB ruined its reception.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 month ago

        What’s “false” here exactly?

        Also at the end you’re like you’re like “but they force us to keep connected to fb” which sounds very disqualifying for many users here…