Microblog Memes

I wish we could go back to the 90s as far as this shit is concerned.

Just take it out of the box and it works.

Send in a registration post card if you feel like bothering, but thats about it.

I am so sick of everything, especially shit that has no conceivable need to be online, not only demanding an internet connection, but demanding accounts and shit too.

Cause you know why they do it. They want to track you, harvest your data, and monetize it. Its not about selling you a good product, its about selling you a good listening device.

It's called data mining

"Tomar, what would you say if a lightbulb in your house grew a mouth and asked you to make an account to make it purple?"

With Philips you don't need to only make an account, you'll need yet another "Bridge" device (costing about as much as your lamp give or take) to get all the features.

Finding a fucking living room lamp where you can change brightnes, was quite a search to exclude all the iot devices. That most online shops have no filters for iot, doesn't help.

Minimal effort to investigate before you buy. But i guess most tech is bought on reflex.

Meanwhile in my password manager: 727 login accounts 😶

I was going to buy a really sweet drone. Then I watched the Getting Started video and there was an app and an account thing, and I realized the second they shut down the service, that drone would be a paperweight.

I'm back to building my own because I'd like to use it for more than a year or two.

Create an account so you can do anything with your purchased device? That's just plain abusive. How about: thank you for using your hard-earned, post-tax funds and choosing our product. Let's get you going as fast and easily as possible, then go as far as we can to make things work before having you stop and create an account?

Only reason to create one is so you can save a persistent context for multiple types of interaction. Support multiple users, or different mobile devices, maybe groups of devices. But for a single device, out of the box, no sign up should EVER be needed.

Unless the company's priority is to hoover all your usage data, analyze it to death, invade your privacy, and sell it for profit.

Fuck that. I don't give that shit out either. Completely unnecessary.

Heh. This was me when I was shopping for a new Sonic toothbrush. WHY ARE THRER APPS?!?!?? Seriously though, spending $100 for the (questionable) quality toothbrush that had zero need for my info. I don’t want stats. I don’t want to know the battery percentage.