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.