alt Hacker NewsI love how it has become a trend now to take some device that required a cloud subscription, reverse engineer it, then connect it to your own server you control.
Suddenly there are so many products to play with that would have previously been undesirable! This is one of the good things AI has enabled.
Enjoy it while you can. You can see the AI companies have already started the process of locking us out of this, with Opus 5.5.
God forbid our fans, our fans of all things, might be broken of their dependencies on the internet. The plebians can't be allowed to do that. Every relay must be cloud-connected so it can be monetized and disabled for whatever dumb ass reasons someone might want to disable it.