Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All devices should be required by law to provide a path for customer-installed firmware.

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  • LongLive@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Toaster set to random heat settings every other day prank gone wild busted watch now

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• cyborganism@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When will people learn to never buy smart devices.

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  • mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    manufacturers don’t make the fully dumb ones anymore !

    your comment is 10 years late

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    • cyborganism@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Right???

      That's why I buy a lot of used stuff now or repair the ones I got.

      Repair shops will be like "a new one'll cost less" and I'm like "don't care, fix it."

      I really hope my early 2000's Sony Bravia 720p tiny ass TV never dies on me. It's a dumb TV but has all the connections for retro gaming consoles.

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• Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Stop buying shit that requires online access to use. Or if no choice first thing disable the feature. The owners should be able to sue the fuck out of this company.

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    An effective way to boycott this terrible activity is to take to the second-hand market wherever possible. Thrift stores, FB marketplace (yuck), craigslist, and old-fashioned yard sales. Old exercise equipment is everywhere. Engage with makers and support networks to repair and maintain that stuff.

    Keep the flow of money out of the hands of these corporations that just want to lease you things.

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think the issue now is there’s less and less device that doesn’t have IOT build in, and then some that doesn’t require internet to function might suddenly get roped into a requirement, and then they can time your product obsolescence this way. Their next step is to put out product that can only work via an app so you’re required to connect it.

    Honestly i don’t mind having some device like a robot vacuum to have internet requirement, because it expand the usefulness with it, but gym equipment? Cookware? TV? AC? Heck no.

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    • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Set up a raspberry pi with HomeAssistant (or buy their premade one) and then nothing should need to connect to the internet (as long as you buy stuff that doesn’t require it).

      Smart devices don’t need “the cloud” to be smart - all of that shit is a scam.

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• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  $20,000 bounty to un-fuckulate this mess: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zayHD4kfcA

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    $400 A YEAR to use a product you ALREADY BOUGHT AND OWN??? WTF???

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    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      These animals are betting on shifting baselines with this crap. They seek to train a whole generation of consumers that owning anything is pointless fiction.

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This has GOT to be illegal in the EU

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• Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And this is why I will always own a normal outdoor pedal bike. Pay for it one time, and I have the tools on hand to modify and repair it. Get one of these babies and pop your bike in it and book instant indoor spinning.

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• Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Seems like a vulnerability a competitor could use to bankrupt them with a shady DDOS

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• Mist101@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, bought a wifi-enabled olympic bar and it’s permanently set to 0lbs until I connect it. Supposedly, the app has a cupon for free weights, but idk, I think I’m gonna install a VPN on it.

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Please tell me that’s all satire.

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  • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    All of this makes me mad.

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  • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The fuck is a wifi connected olympic bar and why would you buy one? It’s just a fancy 20kg rod ffs

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    wifi-enabled olympic bar

    The what? A bar for olympic athletes with Wi-Fi?

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I feel like the spirit of the antichrist is behind the whole “you must connect to the internet in order to use this product”

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