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I aggree that the situation the author describes is unacceptable. But I am wondering why the author does not value his personal time. I can‘t help but think of
by submeta 5y ago
I aggree that the situation the author describes is unacceptable.
But I am wondering why the author does not value his personal time. I can‘t help but think of opportunity costs. He spends a lot of time writing this article, reverse engineering backups and whatnot instead of shelling a hundred dollars to get a new device? I see this pattern so often in the tech world.
- subhro 5y ago> But I am wondering why the author does not value his personal time. Maybe, because it is fun reverse engineering stuff?
- submeta 5y agoI agree. I like tinkering myself. But then why mention avoiding spending a hundred dollars for a new device, but spending a couple of hours as if those hours are worth less than said amount of money.
- adamauckland 5y agoI'm not sure if you're trying to be funny for jokes, but we all know you don't get paid for hours which you can't bill, so...
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
- rgj 5y agoOut of principle maybe?
- A_non_e-moose 5y agoShould customers of a product be forced to either spend 100$ for a new product and generate more ewaste, or tinker with their device leaving it in an unsupported perhaps even out of warranty state? Maybe some people are happy with either option, but it sure is unethical to force that choice, especially when all the effort it could have taken from the manufacturer was to add a boolean flag. I'd complain too, not everyone is in the same situation, and this is dodgy behavior anyway regardless of me liking the workarounds or not, simply having to workaround is bad enough in principle.
- tibu 5y agoMaybe he wants to make other aware of the strange things TP-Link does. Which is a huge help, now I won't buy any TP-Link device either unless I can reflash it with OpenWRT