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All this complex user-hostility for a fan with a filter. Just like with ink cartridges that only count and don't have any actual sensors, they could make an air

All this complex user-hostility for a fan with a filter. Just like with ink cartridges that only count and don't have any actual sensors, they could make an air purifier which has a differential pressure sensor to tell you how much the filter is really clogged, like many HVAC systems have, and even vacuum cleaners (some work entirely mechanically), but then they wouldn't be able to squeeze more $$$ out of the users.

lispisok 3y ago
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- kvdveer 3y ago
  For most consumers, there is no good way to know ahead of time if tge device pulls DRM shenanigans. It's not on the packaging, and there is no online database of this kind of things. Reddit threads are too full of technobabble to comprehend for the average consumer.
  - nfriedly 3y ago
    It'd bee neat if we could get a labeling requirement for DRM, similar to "Made in China".
  - hammyhavoc 3y ago
    I'm not convinced that most consumers understand or even care about the ways they're abused by corporations. Most actually seem to enjoy ecosystems because things "just work"—for a time, some of the time, at least for a while—sometimes.
  - zelon88 3y ago
    You can pretty much assume that if your simple fan+filter has a screen, Bluetooth, wifi, an app, and proprietary filter media that it's going to have some means of vendor locking the user. Let's face it, that's the goal behind all of this stuff. To give you a pathway to purchase more products and generate brand awareness and engagement. It's the same people who buy $350 Bluetooth Air purifiers with fancy screens and then try in earnest to disable the fancy screen who also make asides about how backwards ICE cars are. Then act surprised when their drive by wire steering refuses to work, or their seat warmers don't work because of an "account problem" (their credit card was declined).
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago
  > I blame the consumer Has any problem ever, from food safety to the plague, ever been solved by blaming the consumer?
  - hedora 3y ago
    Credit card fraud. To see what I mean, try issuing a chargeback against your operating system's or email provider's app store.

lispisok 3y ago

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kvdveer 3y ago
For most consumers, there is no good way to know ahead of time if tge device pulls DRM shenanigans. It's not on the packaging, and there is no online database of this kind of things. Reddit threads are too full of technobabble to comprehend for the average consumer.
- nfriedly 3y ago
  It'd bee neat if we could get a labeling requirement for DRM, similar to "Made in China".
- hammyhavoc 3y ago
  I'm not convinced that most consumers understand or even care about the ways they're abused by corporations. Most actually seem to enjoy ecosystems because things "just work"—for a time, some of the time, at least for a while—sometimes.
- zelon88 3y ago
  You can pretty much assume that if your simple fan+filter has a screen, Bluetooth, wifi, an app, and proprietary filter media that it's going to have some means of vendor locking the user. Let's face it, that's the goal behind all of this stuff. To give you a pathway to purchase more products and generate brand awareness and engagement. It's the same people who buy $350 Bluetooth Air purifiers with fancy screens and then try in earnest to disable the fancy screen who also make asides about how backwards ICE cars are. Then act surprised when their drive by wire steering refuses to work, or their seat warmers don't work because of an "account problem" (their credit card was declined).
ClumsyPilot 3y ago
> I blame the consumer Has any problem ever, from food safety to the plague, ever been solved by blaming the consumer?
- hedora 3y ago
  Credit card fraud. To see what I mean, try issuing a chargeback against your operating system's or email provider's app store.