Companies should be required by law to completely open devices when they end support for them

[edebill@wandering.shop]

@thomasfuchs all of them.

[mce@mefi.social]

@thomasfuchs love it.

More practically - if it’s end-of-life’d and isn’t opened then at the very least those products should be recalled and/reimbursed as breach of [implied] contract.

[thriftwicker@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs Billionaires. Nothing but greedy wasteful swine.

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@thomasfuchs I think this is an acceptable path forward.

[dnparadice@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs Yes this is great and if they don't do it, in the future you can simply not give your money to billionaire a holes and their shitty companies with shitty policies in the first place. Try a free open source alternative and forego watching your gadgets turn into e waste.

[smn@l3ib.org]

@thomasfuchs I agree with you completely. However, also in this case:

‍️ "Oh, no! Anyway..."

[decapitae@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs Maybe, end support for amazon? B

[magnetichuman@cupoftea.social]

@thomasfuchs Tech companies "Say hello to our new CEO, Terry the Industrial Waste Mulcher!"

[mbr@blahaj.zone]

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io don't buy stuff that's locked into an ecosystem. there are great ebook readers that aren't kindles. you can for example modify the ones from Kobo to sync with a calibre-web server by editing a freely acessible config file (or just put your epubs on it directly, which is almost a bit too trivial).

[unlogic@hachyderm.io]

@thomasfuchs all that will do is make them create edible devices

[ninestonesclose@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs everyone should ditch kindle after this and move to Kobo or some other option.

[juliehowlin@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs Not only are they greedy b****s forcing people to buy stuff they wouldn't otherwise need but also abject cowards since the news was broken to customers, as always, with a no reply e-mail. They are scared of people telling them what they think. I dread no reply emails because they are mostly telling me I'm being forced to do something onerous/massively inconvenient or something is being taken away from me.

[bubi352@mstdn.social]

@thomasfuchs typical EOL stuff. Download your library on the device and you can still use it. That's not a surprising thing a user of that service should complain about.

[foxontherun@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs I already changed.

[brad@1040ste.net]

@magnetichuman @thomasfuchs We'll let 'em use tomato sauce, we aren't monsters

[bithive@social.tchncs.de]

@thomasfuchs sadly didn't made it completely into the CRA but EU is on the right track there

[mijndert@toot.community]

@thomasfuchs same for Roomba… sigh.

[trimtab@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs
A helpful reminder that digital goods don't "exist". Access is only at the benevolent grace of EvilCorp ass-hats, non perpetual untouchable for your children and friends.

Give real books a try. They're easy on the eyes and never become e-waste.

[m750@better.boston]

@thomasfuchs I can tell you what I won't be doing, and that is buying a replacement. Like my nest thermostat, I'll be replacing it with a device off their network.

Less reason to have Amazon devices in my house.

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs Also EOL plan - what exactly happens to the obsolete device (recycling etc.). This would be valid for all products, not just devices.