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mesa to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment

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Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment

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mesa to [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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Smart devices were supposed to make life better, but constant updates have made them worse
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    Open-source is the only way to get a decent product. Being locked down by proprietary software from a few companies with an oligopoly over the market and the growing culture of disposable devices means they don’t give a fuck if works well or if it works past a year or two.

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      3•1 year ago

      Reminds me of MyQ garage door opener’s fiasco. I wonder if the RatGDO project is still doing good, they were flooded with orders last year.

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        I’m not familiar with this. What happened?

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          The Home Assistant blog covered the whole thing very well: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq-integration/

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            damn, that sucks. similar to why people are averse to getting a Lucid car right now. people don’t trust that the company will be around in the near future and they’ll be left without any support.

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