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Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 months ago by GreenEngineering3475 to c/hardware
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Smart display will soon default to showing ads after three hours.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 8 points 2 months ago

It’s like no one can figure out anything except how to stuff ads in everything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

How's people still buying this proprietary shit?

[–] Alphane_Moon 3 points 2 months ago

Thankfully "smart"/IoT devices is one area where it is somewhat easy to roll out your own system using low cost SBCs and open source software.