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

[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.

[creaturr@app.wafrn.net]

@smn@l3ib.org @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

if buying isn't owning…

[luboganev@androiddev.social]

@thomasfuchs it would suffice if the law doesn't punish hacking or reverse engineering them. Too many countries have followed the US laws that basically result in "you don't own what you bought". If those disappear, people will find ways to continue using those products.