Legislation is Way overdue for this nonsense. My home security cameras are all being disabled and unable to record videos as they have for years because the company (fuck you Arlo) has decided they want users to just suddenly start paying subscription fees. If we let them every company will eventually move to this model. Even staunch capitalists need to recognize that this is an issue begging for legislation. Stop this insanity.
Legislation is the only way to reign it in, of course they’d scream “but prices would go up!”. I’d rather pay a few bucks more up front to not pay 10x as much in ink later. The whole subscription model is awful too. They are turning our whole lives into rentals.
I’m sure if they did legislate it they’d do everything they could to try to work around it.
My home camera was exactly what prompt me to learn how to reflash IoT devices, and set up a Home Assistant network that’s entierly self-hosted. It’s way easier than I though.
Want to drop some links for where to get started? I only sort of understand what you just said but I like the idea of my own network and it being easier than it seems!
It needs to be eWaste prevention law. Perfectly functioning hardware should never become a brick due to license/subscription. Period. I don’t care if your business model is based on it. Fuck you.
Legislation is Way overdue for this nonsense. My home security cameras are all being disabled and unable to record videos as they have for years because the company (fuck you Arlo) has decided they want users to just suddenly start paying subscription fees. If we let them every company will eventually move to this model. Even staunch capitalists need to recognize that this is an issue begging for legislation. Stop this insanity.
Thats absolutely outrageous. Thats a brand I’ll never be purchasing.
Legislation is the only way to reign it in, of course they’d scream “but prices would go up!”. I’d rather pay a few bucks more up front to not pay 10x as much in ink later. The whole subscription model is awful too. They are turning our whole lives into rentals.
I’m sure if they did legislate it they’d do everything they could to try to work around it.
Sure it’s cat and mouse, but the mouse doesn’t do well if it just let’s the cat bat it around the room.
My home camera was exactly what prompt me to learn how to reflash IoT devices, and set up a Home Assistant network that’s entierly self-hosted. It’s way easier than I though.
Want to drop some links for where to get started? I only sort of understand what you just said but I like the idea of my own network and it being easier than it seems!
It needs to be eWaste prevention law. Perfectly functioning hardware should never become a brick due to license/subscription. Period. I don’t care if your business model is based on it. Fuck you.
That’s why I never cry for Adobe when they get pirated.