I’ve got one, and it works well enough when offline. Sure, I’d love for manufacturers to have a downloadable server to self-host their physical product, but that’s literally never happened.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Customers shouldn’t need to be concerned because the company going down should not brick your PHYSICAL PRODUCTS
And yet, here we are
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 4 months ago
definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
But, clearly, a Google Home or Amazon Alexa needs cloud connectivity to function. And short of Stop Killing Games regulations forcing companies to release software to keep purchases functional after server shutdowns, there’s going to be no alternative when they shut down the servers.
But where do we draw the line?
A smart fridge should obviously keep working without cloud connectivity, since cloud features aren’t relevant to its core functionality.
A
spywarehouse-scanning vacuum robot, on the other hand, that stores video of your entire house on web servers “to map your home” may not have the processing power to model the home based on itssurveillancevideo recordings. So, is it reasonable, then, that these break when servers go offline?Without any regulations, the answer is just “consumers can go fuck themselves”, which clearly isn’t a good answer.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He said Home Assistant not Google home.
definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
You mean the person who posted 3 hours after me?
BlindFrog@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My lil neato bot from 2017/2018ish makes a perimeter map around my place each time it deploys, then makes back and forth sweeps. It’s got a built in weekly timer by the quarter hour to schedule sweeps. It beeps at me when its bin is full. Why do robot vacuums need the internet?
Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 4 months ago
@BlindFrog @Feathercrown Same. I buy broken ones of the same model off ebay and use them for parts when needed, because I don't want a newer vacuum with wifi. It *would* be nice to move off of NiMH batteries, but they're good enough for now.