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      Genuinely everything. It’s like a whole program on just “how to find the newest worst way to be a human being”.

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    It’s 2024 and you need a subscription to make water hot.

    Just end me.

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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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      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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    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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      I am all for smart appliances, as long as they are local and work with things like home assistant

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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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      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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      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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      Or make sure you can hook it to something like home assistant without reliance on cloud…

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    I used to sous vide all the things but after seeing the report on microplastics in sous vide food…

    Yea, good luck with this plan

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      What report? Is it worse than the microplastics given in… everything else?

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        And you’re pooping out most of them. Sure, you have them in your blood, but at that point, it doesn’t matter anymore.

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          Aren’t they potentially linked to the global decline in testosterone? Too late, I guess, but I’ll still avoid obvious sources.

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      The most bastardly thing they could do, right? The explanation is that processing costs money, so wifi via cloud only bullshit is getting expensive. Also, we’re disabling the only other viable alternative, effectively bricking all remote features intentionally. Why? Fuck you, that’s why.

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      The app is rubbish & always has been so no real loss. But this, disabling a core hardware feature!? Dick move Anova, dick move…

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    these apps really don’t offer a lot in the first place. I have an anova and only use it’s dumb features. It beeps when its at temp, it beeps when its done cooking and it beeps if theres an error, so why would I need notifications? and cooking guides are largely pointless because the process is always the same; heat water, vacuum seal food, put food in water, wait. I don’t need another app harvesting my data, even if that data is just “eats perfectly cooked meat on occassion”

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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