Enshittification. Naming your enemy is the first step and we already have a name, use it.

I have to wonder if the irony is lost on the author with how ad ridden and barely usable website they posted this article on. Replace Smart Devices with Websites and the article mainly remains the same.

Android police needs an editor. This guy out here casually throwing

around in an article like it’s cool.

Okay I don’t love Lemmy’s implementation of spoiler tags.

The thing I’ve never understood is even just looking at Google, they’ve killed so many products when they could have monetised them better with a little thought.

Instead, we have a phone thats useless for music unless you subscribe, photo storage is headed the same way and its whole ‘smart’ eco system has been ruined because of shareholder greed!

Except if Google pulled there head out there arse and built a platform people wanted to use, they’d likely make more money than they’re making now. Yet they clearly don’t get it and think ‘cloud’ solves everything!

Sadly Apple knows it has no competition so they’re just screwing with anything that they can and claim it’s ‘revolutionary’ so they can re-sell the same devices and while home assistant works ok for those of us who like tinkering, it’s a long way from being user friendly. Never mind the lack of anything smart, like speakers, displays, that work out the box.

It’s just sad to see so much potential being ruined because of seemingly clueless companies!

What?! Nooooo

Use home assistant. Its not very difficult to setup on an old laptop or pi or whatever you have. Its agnostic to whatever system you have. Talks between networks.

Come join us at /homeassistant

I can’t buy into Smart Devices unless paying for the smartness lets me actually use it how I see fit.

So often there is little benefit except companies extract data from you, or to enforce some licensing or rent-seeking scheme. You’re just paying to get screwed over.

Technology generally is not a good investment

You bought a devices give corporations back door access and control over your leisure and now you’re surprised that they’ve used that access to make the experience worse? Why is anyone surprised? I learned my lesson with the Kindle over a decade ago, never made that mistake again.

Water is wet.

[insert shocked pikachu meme]

Oh no, if only those people that kept shouting at every opportunity how terrible these “smart” devices were had been listened to shouted louder, maybe people would be aware. But alas, everyone nobody could’ve seen that coming, it’s truly a surprise.

we are left with the remains of a dream unfulfilled and electronics that respond to the whims, fancies, and ever-changing business decisions of corporations

Reads straight out of !aboringdystopia

Wasn’t that clear since the start?

To me a smart device was supposed to be a normal device that you could control ‘smartly’ over wifi.

Mini SoCs with their own apps and an optional subscription built in for some proprietary shit? That goes past smart straight into dumpster trash.

We replaced ours with a refurbished business desktop, installed Linux and Jellyfin then use with a wireless keyboard with built-in track pad

Plays media great, emulates up to Wii and can use for general web browsing too