Comment on Just.....why?

solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it’s anything like mine, it works just fine without the app. The app just does brush tracking and shit. I don’t need any of that, so I never set it up. But I suspect even if I had, it would still let me use it without being logged into the app.

  I suspect the same is true here. That the function of the toothbrush is available regardless of whether it’s logging data to your phone.

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  • xylol@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I got mine on sale a few years ago and totally forgot it had that until it showed up on my home assistant when I got a ZigBee USB dongle for my pi

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  • raynethackery@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The function is available for now.

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    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I cannot imagine the value to the company from whatever usage data they get from their toothbrushing app is anything close to the value they get from selling brush heads. So it would be immensely foolish to lock down the toothbrush.

      The app is a selling point, and they do it because others do. They’d lose the portion of the market that wants to track which parts of their mouth they’ve brushed properly. But that isn’t their main market, and they’d be idiots to kill their product chasing that niche.

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But that’s way too rational and doesn’t let me rage, I don’t like it!

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• Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We should not be shaming the consumers, but educating them. The blame is on the companies for making such a terrible product in the first place, the consumer only found out how bad it was after. Sometimes, you can no longer return a product because its X days out of policy.

  Not that I don’t completely agree with your sentiment, but to make people start advocating for themselves, you have to make them see you are a friend, and the company is the enemy.

  (not that the oop would ever see this post, comment or reply because who on twitter is also using lemmy, but you get it right?)

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  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sometimes, you can no longer return a product because its X days out of policy.

    🤣🤣🤣🤣 I bought this $50 brush than didn’t use it for 6 months 👌👍

    I weep for all 5 of you that happened to.

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    • Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t have to not use it. You just have to not consistently use the app for 6 months. This is not about the users. Its about the abuse of the users. Regardless of if they did or did not use it for 6 months, the company should not force things upon you at random. I don’t understand the mentality of attacking people who are ignorant of the evils companies do. We all walk different paths, and no one learns without being taught.

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• frunch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Right? I buy only open-source wifi toothbrushes. Still waiting on the year of the Linux toothbrush, tbh

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you can’t run Doom on it, is it really your toothbrush?

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you turned a Raspberry Pi into a toothbrush? lol

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    • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Redtooth? 🙃

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  • Blooper@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My esp32 vibrator-toothbrush is up on GitHub. Might take it down later, idk.

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    • lilsolar@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s no one maintaining the repo. St this point, the brush is gonna be archived </3

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• teuniac_@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But… how else am I going to connect my toothbrush to my smarthome…?

  Just kidding, I use home assistant and my oral-b toothbrush broadcasts using BLE, which Is capture using the oral-b integration. You don’t need to be logged in

  I agree. It’s super dumb to buy IOT toothbrushes that require you to be logged in. Luckily I’m not one of those people, so that doesn’t apply to me. Phew…

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  • Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No it hasn’t. Nerds spend all day looking for edge cases with mostly unsuccessful dumb ideas then screech while having the option of 40 different branded regular brushes in every grocery store.

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  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just kidding, I use home assistant and my oral-b toothbrush broadcasts using BLE, which Is capture using the oral-b integration. You don’t need to be logged in.

    Oh god I hope this is sarcasm. I’m good with my old, dumb oral-b that does nothing but brush my fucking teeth.

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    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The oral-b integration has been installed by 13,611 users.

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    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I imagine getting a notification on their phone reminding them if they’ve not brushed their teeth by a set time might help forgetful people to remember to brush their teeth, and if it’s via Home Assistant, which is self-hosted, entirely local, and open-source, there’s no downside other than having to set it up in the first place.

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• WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People keeping buying it because they don’t know this shit exist. And once they already buy it… Hey, as long as it works…

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• redditor_chatter44@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Exactly

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