We need laws that make this illegal. I get it that they don’t want to support it for whatever reason, but electronic waste is already a big problem and you can’t convince me everyone is recycling their used electronics.
you can’t convince me everyone is recycling their used electronics.
Amazon bricks your expensive new-ish device and now you have to pay to have it recycled? Hell no people aren’t recycling them, and that too should be illegal. Amazon should be legally required to take responsibility for recycling those devices, and how the device is recycled should be part of the device design process.
Amazon did this with their cloud security cameras as well.
Spotify did it with their “Car thing”
It’s common and I agree, should be illegal.
Should be required to open source it and unlock everything before sunsetting products.
This is what gets me. Why don’t they do this? They’re turning down profit by discontinuing support, but probably their logic is someone else will benefit from the hardware without bringing in profit, so that’s bad forsomefucking reason.
This is why you don’t buy any hardware that requires “the cloud” to function with no option to self host. At least they are giving refunds this time, but that’s usually not the case.
I bought a Rabbit R1 for half off used on eBay, but only after I learned you can install full Android on it.
Why? Its hardware is dog shit.
I mean, it can be fun to tinker regardless. I have a shitty Dell Inspiron from 2012 that I run Linux in CLI-only mode just for fun.
In fact it used to run my entire smart home, run long-running background tasks (like syncing huge files from an NFS share to Storj); hell at one point it was bringing in passive income as I rented out hard disk space.
