Would be good if rest of the world did some of that too
The only reason this actually comes to mind is my own experience updating my HA instance recently. I’m not a big HA user - I only control 3 bulbs and a BedJet and a Yale smart lock, and expose it back to HomeKit to my Apple devices. But even something simple as an HA update can cause integrations to break or require additional behind-the-scenes repairs that an end user just would be too confused to do.
You or I can sit down and understand that the error message means we need to reconnect our Yale integration’s OAuth after a HA upgrade, then figure out that it didn’t work, then figure out that we had to delete and re-add the whole integration, but will Bob and Jill figure it out just as easily in half an hours’ time?
So it just kind of works somewhat.
I’m even in that boat; and part of it is a Home Assistant that is somewhat still connected, enough.
As everything becomes a subscription and all items are just rented (even if you purchased them) people owns nothing, and the real owners of everything are the corporations that build them.
That is unsustainable, wasteful and abusive behavior. Only new laws can stop tech corporations lack of long term support. I can buy a normal lamp and use it 40 years later. Tech products last less than a decade and force updates and upgrades all the time. Everything is just getting worse.
But not because laws make it that way. Because of sufficient lack of innovation leading to competition in other areas (e.g. stability).
These companies are fucken happy to use USB, Bluetooth, Wifi, etc specs because it benefits them. So we should be forcing them to have everything else interoperate.
But eh, it's too late for that.
archerx•4mo ago
rokkamokka•4mo ago