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by ElijahLynn 298 days ago
Damn...

And also,

> We’ll reach out to eligible users in the US and Canada for the Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen) at a special price: $149.99 [219.99 CAD] (nearly 50% off).

However, we got a Nest from the Oregon Energy trust for $50 I think. So, not a great price.
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mentalpiracy 298 days ago
Telling me that you’ve unilaterally decided to lobotomize a product I already paid you for, and then thinking that I’d like the privilege of purchasing additional goods from you - even at a discount - is certainly something.

Gotta juice those numbers before moving on to the next role.

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protimewaster 298 days ago
This kind of thing drives me crazy, and I think it helps to highlight some of the money-grubbing nature of the tech industry.

Years ago, you'd buy a cheap thermostat and it'd last 30 years or whatever. But the tech industry had to improve that by instead making them last less than half as long and cost substantially more.

I understand the idea that smart stuff is cool or whatever, but it feels like it'd be smarter if it lasted as long as the thing they're trying to replace...

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Fezzik 298 days ago
Those same bulletproof thermostats are still sold everywhere. And are dirt cheap. I blame the consumer more than the producer for the proliferation of these products. This is one area where your options were never limited and you’d have to be a dunce and/or been paying zero attention to how tech companies have operated for decades to think these devices were not going to be made useless at a regular rate.
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anon6362 298 days ago
It's one of the problems created by allowing billionaire technofeudal overlords to do whatever they want. They believe they are entitled to anything and everything, and so everything they make turns to shit to fool you into maintaining it and rebuying it faster and faster.
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daymanstep 298 days ago
Planned obsolescence is as old as the light bulb.
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anon6362 298 days ago
That's a given. It is, but it's not a binary on/off. It's a sliding continuum of enshitification and the current trend is to rapidly increasing towards worse. It rarely/never goes back the other way.
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