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Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw... by bambax on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:42AM (#30148359)
> but now you know to do it later

Nobody wants to update the firmware of their dishwasher! (or anything, really)

I'm sure one can think of "benefits" to this, but as this incident shows, the annoyance far, far outweighs any possible benefit.

This is really getting out of hand. "Right to repair" should include "right to dumb down".

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Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw... by EricE on Monday January 31, 2022 @11:58AM (#30150260)
>"This is really getting out of hand. "Right to repair" should include "right to dumb down"."

Yes! Especially with cars - Toyota backed down but they are full of crap; they fully intended to do it until people objected: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLlzAv2GTdc

I love how the only people that were going to be exempted were peoples who's cars cellular modems already didn't work. How convenient.

I hope I can be buried in the cars I currently own. And if I have to buy a new one if it won't work with the cellular modem being pulled out I ain't buying it.

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