Or that exist solely to sell the data it collects about you. Living in the panopticon sucks.
Also, they push smart devices to sell you a subscription so that their revenue stream is unending. Eightsleep’s mattresses fall in this category IMHO. Also, remember Juicero?
Yep, so many things these days a very clearly a minimum viable product - it just barely does something, just enough that some will buy it, but the company is clearly just trying to steal yr dataz.
Yup. I was all in on everything technical. It’s been draining more and more over the years. And in the last 5 years I’m honestly looking at getting rid of my phone for a dumb phone, getting a stable linux install, pretending there are no new games or things by getting internet so slow all I can do is pay bills and fill forms or read text based forums, and fucking off into the sunset.
I just learned that there are alarm clocks that expect you to pay a 5€/month subscription to fully use their app…
I was looking for a sunrise alarm clock to not want to snooze as much. Ended up buying a 12 year old model second hand for nothing. Does exactly its job.
