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Re:Why are new devices dependent on the Internet but made wi... by Broken_Hippo on Monday December 14, 2020 @03:02PM (#25422457)
Old thermostats died from time to time, even when they weren't very old. Same with cars. They just had different problems than the modern ones.
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Re:Why are new devices dependent on the Internet but made wi... by falcolas on Monday December 14, 2020 @03:03PM (#25422473)
Absolutely! But their failure cases weren't due to the inability to access a network or a server. This is whole new set of failure cases which exists over the top of the old ones.
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