Read the title as "Starbucks will brick..."
I was thinking that there's a lesson here in not buying things that are non-core to the companies operations
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
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Emotional support brick their CEO's face
you come across headlines nowadays and have no clue this was even a thing people were grifting children about, man..
No thanks. I'll get an emotional support cat and you can't brick my cat. Take that, big tech!
you can't brick my cat
Is this a challenge
It's not even a challenge, one drop of rogaine will brick any cat. All you have to do is touch them with it.
Edit: don't fucking do this you sickos.
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Somebody call SPCA!
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Christ, even Amazon refunded everyone who bought a Glow.
It sounds like they literally can't refund people because the company completely ran out of money and is gonna be liquidated. Sucky situation for all parties involved.
If only there was law demanding to refund broken products before liquidation.
Or a law stating that in the case fair refunds can not be provided that the software needed for running the hardware becomes public domain and is published and released on a git maintained by the library of Congress.
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Surely in that case they could open their software so the community can figure out what it would take to keep it running.
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What they probably can do is issue an update that lets owners point it at third-party servers, and publish the API. They might even be able to publish the source code, though there's a chance they don't own all of it.
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Welcome to the "brand new world" of IOT hardware where you are the product and continued service depends entirely on how you can be monetized.
I'm assuming it runs on AI and the company has to provide the backend. So yeah, if you purchase something that requires a company's infrastructure, it can certainly be bricked.
Which is why you should only buy stuff that relies on local APIs and on board processing.
99.99% of the people willing to buy an emotional support robot for their children will have no idea what the words you said even mean.
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