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Re:Software-dependent devices: do they now need expiration d... by bluGill on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:18PM (#22271068)
I want to pay once for something that works as advertised. If I buy a car and the airbags are bad they will fix it. If I buy a device and the software fails I expect it is fixed too. I'm not asking for features, I'm asking for bug fixes, which if you had a perfect text plan would already be fixed.
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Re:Software-dependent devices: do they now need expiration d... by winternett on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:09PM (#22272152)
At the bare minimum, products should be engineered so they can function at a reasonable level "manually" independent of software systems. These devices should also allow owners to take themselves off the network any time they want in order to ensure REAL OWNERSHIP. That maybe is the happy medium that can get you home if the network goes down?
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Re:Software-dependent devices: do they now need expiration d... by imoverclocked on Friday February 07, 2020 @05:57PM (#22272051)
You can't win at playing that game either:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22271306

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