WhatAmLemmy
@WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 4 months ago:
It should be illegal to reduce or remove features sold with a product, including charging for features that were free at time of sale. Anything less is false advertising and predatory behavior (bait and switch). It’s either free forever, free for an explicitly advertised period (on every piece of marketing and packaging), or you can’t advertise it, period. And if you ever go out of business, all associated code should be open sourced so users can continue with it if they wish.
In this case everyone who purchased existing stock should get it free, regardless of when they sign up. Only once all advertising and marketing, including packaging, is updated, they can charge future customers who purchase the devices that are explicitly advertised as subscription based. If companies don’t like it, fuck em. They’re the immoral actors engaging in the bait and switch. You don’t ask a criminal whether a law is bad for their criminal enterprise.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 4 months ago:
I tend to avoid any hardware that uses an app, as there’s often little info about whether it’s required, and there’s always the possibility they could make it required or brick your device in future.
- Comment on EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support 9 months ago:
So, I’m guessing all it’ll take to keep Yuzu and Citra alive on future installs of EmuDeck, is any existing user creating a torrent of those dependencies from their own steamdeck? Not much more than a drag, drop, and chown for other users?
- Comment on Pixar will undergo significant layoffs in 2024. 11 months ago:
Yes. Automation is how we ultimately achieve freedom and post scarcity, but only if the value is distributed across the population. If it’s not, then automation is the harbinger of authoritarianism, global depression, war, and mass murder.
- Comment on Pixar will undergo significant layoffs in 2024. 11 months ago:
People don’t seem to understand that the final solution for capitalism is ZERO labor — ZERO human workforce — as humans are extremely inefficient. The problem is that the entire engine fuelling capitalism also requires a population of consumers making money through their labor, to pay (demand) for goods and services. Without that demand the entire engine shuts down, and we’re left with either some form of autocratic dystopia or Star Trek grade socialism.
- Comment on In the age of public salary-range listings, some jobseekers feel duped 1 year ago:
The problem is that they’re wasting the unemployed and jobseekers time and money, and depriving them of employment opportunities they actually want — sometimes dozens of hours, and hundreds of dollars per person.
Let’s not act like false advertising of job offers is anything but a crime that exploits the most economically vulnerable people… mkay