RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117592857554097967
There is a part of me that gets what Jason is seeing here. The problem is that I can also see past that, and it's bad.
The problem is a near total lack of consumer protection. Your tv sucks, and spies on you, and is overflowing with ever more ads because courts and regulators refuse to hold them accountable for it. You bought a product, you had a warranty, and the people we empowered to enforce all that just didn't. This hyper-libertarian-free-for-all is not the solution to that. It just formalizes everyone being completely on their own. It's amnesty for samsung. It's not liberation for you.
Society is fracturing under the weight of capitalism. How do you think the response to that problem is to destroy society?
IOW, this story is like: "people are slopping up workarounds for shitty software in shitty electronics, and that's awesome"
But the proper framing is: "people are slopping up workarounds for shitty software in shitty electronics, and it sucks that's the only recourse available to them"
Maybe software and electronics should not be so shitty in the first place. But I dunno, I've just spent two decades building software that I refused to make shittier, and often being punished for it