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Right to Repair/Ownership

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde "oem" parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1539142

LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”::Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you're ready to cough up after buying hardware

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

A lot of these companies don't realize they're opening the market for upstarts willing to upseat them with better business models.

Only fear is the manipulation in the business world making this difficult for new ideas.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Given that they recently updated my LGTV to have more ads with no way to disable them, well... not surprised.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love my LG TVs but they have never once been connected to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Got a new LG TV for Christmas, and never once put it online. Smart TVs always remain dumb in my house, and I just use a Chromecast with Google TV. Never had a single ad and it works just fine displaying what the Chromecast shows

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess it comes down to who I want tracking me, no? I lack a Google account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, there's always the more private option of a Raspberry Pi or similar as a streaming box that you put Kodi or Jellyfin on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True. I isolated the LG and such in a DMZ so its at least not mapping my internals. And with it being isolated, all it knows is that I have a PS5 and I like murder mysteries and fantasy.

I do have a spare Pi, though. Hmm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Always isolate networked functionality for any “smart” device however you can. They will never update with better features. Only enshittify things.

I use an NVIDIA shield pro with a custom launcher as my dedicated stream box so neither Google nor NVIDIA can make it worse as time goes forward.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soon we are going to see the toilet subscription model. You get 1 flush per day for free. After that, it's 1.99 per flush. If you subscribe to Lite tier of service it goes to 3! 🤬

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can get a free flush for reciting the Charmin jingle*

*Limited time offer, limit one per household

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You get an extra flush courtesy of the hegetsus.com jesus campaign if you watch the full ad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Get three free flushes with your next purchase of the preparation-h family sized pack!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Straight out of Cyberpunk Edgerunners.

Where everyone else saw a corporate dystopia, LG saw profit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They should just rename the service to "Appliance Systems Service", so the acronym makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is so ridiculous. Continual growth just can't work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The place to discuss rooting your LGTV to install adblocked YouTube (for example) is the OpenLGTV discord channel: https://discord.gg/kum3JQSvv6

I'll be glad to see you there :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can make a post about this discord server to get more attention if you want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I haven't owned an LG product since they made flip phones and now I guess I never will again lol

Imagine buying a washing machine for $800 and being told it comes with a monthly subscription fee... I'd rather go wash my clothes on a big rock down by a river

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