Comment on When tech hardware becomes paperweights
Quazatron@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s not a new phenomena, but it seems to be growing.
I remember when perfectly functional scanners and printers were ditched because the new Windows version would not support them and the vendor would not provide OEM drivers either.
Nowadays they unplug some servers and you are left with an expensive doorstop. That’s progress, I guess.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The part that is growing is how many tools rely on apps and other connected features.
I have a blood pressure monitor, and it just outputs the result to a built-in screen. I can then log the values however I want, and it’s probably easier and quicker to manually enter the three numbers each consisting of 2-3 digits into an app than to wait for the bluetooth connection to be established.
This battery monitor will never be remotely shutdown, because there is no remote function. And if the blood pressure tracking app shuts down, I can just use any other.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I have a CO² meter that logs to a .csv on a fat32 formatted sdcard. Beat that.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I made a physiotherapy game console for kids that logs physiotherapy executions to a .csv on a fat32 formatted sdcard ;)
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Ok, let’s call it a tie.