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Re:I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a LICENSE... by stavros on Monday April 21, 2025 @04:24AM (#43749534)
Or you can just disable the feature. Let's not brand every security feature as evil, please, it's disingenuous.
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Re:I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a LICENSE... by Zambyte on Monday April 21, 2025 @06:38AM (#43750337)
It was not clear from a recently posted article on the matter that this would be a setting, but from the change log it does appear that it can be switched off.

> Enables a future optional security feature, which will automatically restart your device if locked for 3 consecutive days.

https://support.google.com/product-documentation/answer/1434... (archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20250421103659/https://support.g...)

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Re:I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a LICENSE... by bambax on Monday April 21, 2025 @07:08AM (#43750554)
What's disingenuous is the opposite: using the excuse of security to force more and more user hostile spying features on every device. Same with children.
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Re:I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a LICENSE... by rvba on Monday April 21, 2025 @02:42PM (#43755084)
You can disable it now.

In few months the option will just disappear?

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