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Why are we buying this account-linked physical shit. Just pretend the headsets are not a viable product to purchase if they can be remotely bricked by a company
by quickthrower2 5y ago
Why are we buying this account-linked physical shit. Just pretend the headsets are not a viable product to purchase if they can be remotely bricked by a company you have no leverage over. Get a competitor product or go without.
- moolcool 5y agoDo you use a smartphone?
- quickthrower2 5y agoYeah smartphones are unfortunate since with COVID now you have to have one to check in in my country, but the second test is reputation. I’ve not heard of apple or android bricking a phone like this but FB/Google account bans and limitations are common. I guess we can’t be purist anymore but being pragmatic is still possible and you can divert funds away from FB this way to a company that cares about the headsets they sell and the user experience
- grishka 5y agoYou can disable Google services on Android. There's literally a button to do that if you know where to look.
- betwixthewires 5y agoMy smartphone cannot be remotely turned into an overpriced wheel chock by someone in a call center.
- throwaway2048 5y agoApple at least can absolutely do this, that's what the purpose of reporting a device stolen is.
- josephg 5y agoApple also has phone numbers you can call with a human at the other end who can help resolve stuff like this.
- betwixthewires 5y agoOK but that's a very different story, one is stolen and at the request of the owner, the other is for some ethereal vague hard to pin down rule that was broken with no way to resolve it. My use of my property that I own should not be contingent on some behavioral rule on some website that could change at any time. Don't give money to companies that can remotely brick your property without your explicit request.
- fulafel 5y agoYou can use a smartphone without linking to a faang account. Though it still has a device ID which it uses to talk to some infra if you keep the stock firmware.
- taneq 5y agoPretend? They're NOT a viable purchase due to this garbage.
- zuppy 5y agobecause we’re, or at least I am, inherently lazy. i would rather pay a markup on a playstation digital download that would allow me to not move from the couch. i’m a pretty active person outside the couch. the bad news is that they know this :)