Disney has admitted they aren't trying to please Star Wars fans. Amazon has admitted they aren't trying to please Tolkien fans. Fans already consider these new developments of timeless classics to be non-canon no matter who technically owns the rights. It'll be a lesson taught in brand management for eons, until the heat death of the sun - don't acquire a property which is only valuable because of fans, just to discard the very thing that gives it value - the fans.
They truly will learn their lessons, or somebody else will.
This is awesome. If everybody keeps canceling steaming subs, stops watching garbage, etc. we can literally force all entertainment companies to merge into one, unweildy, slow, and useless mega-beast and finally shake off videoized entertainment forever. It's retarding the species.
You can punish car companies by buying used. It's much more sensible on your pocketbook too. And if your used vehicle's old enough, the automaker won't track your driving, in-car conversations, cell phone use, etc. Really the only possible downside is reliability but a full rebuild for engine and tranny is probably, at most, a sixth the cost of a new car.
The best thing to do at this point is use one of the privacy-enhanced forks, Firefox is desperate for more cash and will sell you, the user, out for a song.
Capitalism has failed, it's true. But communism and its handmaiden, socialism, have too, and this is provable mathematically. It's time to return to either fascism or monarchism. Discuss.
Isn't the most obvious answer that Apple, like other US tech firms such as Google, simply creates these wild backdoors for the NSA/GCHQ directly? Every time one's patched, three more pop up. We already know Apple and Google cooperate with the spy agencies very eagerly.
Ultra compression like Matt Hahoney has worked on and keeping the distribution to the source code, rather than built packages for all supported architectures, could probably squeeze this down onto 1 DVD. Debian doesn't really support truly antique computers any more, pretty much everything out there that it runs on now can compile everything it needs. Binary packages made a lot more sense when you were running Linux on a Zaurus with 16-32MB RAM which isn't enough to compile large programs or the kernel.
Thanks, I have to admit I just wrote the whole thing off from the get-go. But then again I've been around long enough to see things like X10 take off and then get abandoned. Like IBM's Home Director and other products in that space, which from where I sit, is the exact same market as smart homes but without the mobile focus.
It's good to see that people are able to hack this stuff and make it less reliant on the companies. Heck they're probably selling some of it at a loss and hoping for recurring revenue from usage stats and other spying.
If I want a light to be on, I turn it on. I don't go much for mood lighting, I have lamps and overhead lights and depending on the level of illumination I want or need at the time, one, some, or all might be powered up. But I've never thought of getting up from my ass groove on the couch and going over and operating a switch is a huge deal. And I'm pretty lazy.
It's amazing, they simply decided that "old, white men" had long ago decided upon the definition of recession, and they changed it recently because it must have been racist, and certainly wasn't inclusive. Much like how the definition of the word "vaccine" has recently changed.
I just don't trust smart home stuff, it all seems like a big data collection nightmare at best, at worst you could have criminals and government nannies both spying on you 24/7. I still use incandescent lights though too.