Download your data while you still can.
Serinus
joined 1 year ago
You can get an old version of the software without the features blocked.
They can sell colors and themes as DLC! Cosmetics for your home!
If you can open it, they can open it. There's not much of a point if it's something you can undo.
I would make sure the firmware can't be updated. Uninstall the Hue app for sure.
After they make the change, someone with an old Hue bulb should go to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Making this decision retroactive is clearly false advertising and anti-consumer. I don't really give a shit what their terms of use were.
They can do what they want with their future bulbs. The old ones need to be grandfathered in.
They were gonna raise the rent anyway.
enshittification is an inevitable late stage consequence
Maybe, but I don't think it is. Enshittification is a direct result of our tax policy that encourages cashing out, only looks at the short term, and requires constant growth.
There was a time when companies built a reputation and held onto it for a hundred years. We could go back to that.
Tax the rich.
Which is kind of weird because most C# devs aren't doing games.
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As a software dev, I don't think there really is a better way. One thing you could do to avoid this is to install a second drive and boot to completely different OSes. You could boot to a Linux drive for personal stuff, and only use Windows for gaming.
These gaming companies are pretty aware that they go bankrupt if they either get a reputation for abusing anti-chrst data OR are full of cheaters. They have some incentive to use data ethically. But it's still a good thing to keep an eye on.