[6c737133]

I continue to hope that people will vote with their wallets and kill this garbage... but then I remember, look at the current state of 'smart TVs' or even the dying industry of residential printer ... adware bloated fake-limited trash

Govs at a UN-level need to kill this shit... but sadly, capitalism is a core tenant of most UN members, and these scummy tactics generate revenue... so.... I've used a lot of words to 'fuck. we're fucked.'

:(

[vorador]

I had to look up the hack people used to do back in the day to have their cheap sennheiser basically become a model that's $100 more (https://hackaday.com/2011/02/12/uncrippling-lower-model-spea...). That was 10 years ago! So yeah, this trend is going to stay for a while.

[m463]

I remember when you could change 24x cdrom drives to the 48x version.

[sjsdaiuasgdia]

Punching holes in 3.5" floppies to turn 720kb double density into 1.44mb high density will remain my favorite removable media hack. Saved me so much money as a kid.