Note for those not reading the article: it’s not even some sort of special battery in the machine they refuse to change: it’s the standard battery in the watch that controls the machine!
Surely he must be able to find an outside shop who can change it? It’s not like that will void the warranty…
They know they have a vise grip on the customers. There was no mass exodus of users following the password sharing crackdown, despite the many threats. Subscriptions went up. It’s been proven that enshittification actually drives growth and profit for them, and they’re doubling down. This sucks.
“I cancelled Netflix over a year ago when they cracked down on sharing. Live alone and if not even my parents could use my account, wasn’t worth it. I find other ways to watch stuff… never looked back!” another exclaimed.
This is the way.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/30/life-finds-a-way/#ink-stained-wretches
Just don’t buy HP printers, but this is such a neat little hack.
cory doctorow about why medical care in the us is ridiculous expensive and keeps going.
How could a product so manifestly unfit for purpose be the absolute market leader? Simple: as Robert Kuttner describes in an excellent feature in The American Prospect, Epic may be a clinical disaster, but it’s a profit-generating miracle…At the core of Epic’s value proposition is “upcoding,”…
In April 2020, Caitlin Wells Salerno – a pregnant biologist – drove to Poudre Valley with normal labor pains…Nevertheless, the hospital recorded her normal, uncomplicated birth as a Level 5 emergency – comparable to a major heart-attack – and whacked her with a $2755 bill for emergency care
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/02/upcoded-to-death/#thanks-obama
comment by nicosaurus;
What angers me the most is the charger had a local api and home assistant connection until just a few months ago when they took that functionality away
rule of enshittification confirmed again. fucking exhausting.
Tolerated, my ass. I dumped that service over ads (and bricking my device). Since then, I’ve been doing all of my shopping elsewhere.
“cannot, as a technical matter, be ‘ported’ from the Fisker server to which the vehicles are currently linked to a distinct server owned and/or controlled by”
