“You’ve just lost a LONGTIME and very faithful customer."

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      Sadly, people are only getting more local without stopping paying for them.

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    Open source means ownership. Trust means ready to be exploited. Proprietary is always theft of ownership.

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    Meh, I never used the app, I just set the temp on it when I turned it on since it’s, you know, right there in my hands…

    I dont think I even have the app on my phone

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      I tend to avoid any hardware that uses an app, as there’s often little info about whether it’s required, and there’s always the possibility they could make it required or brick your device in future.

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    Useless app anyway tbh the stick works fine without it. And it’s not like you need an alarm when you get to temp with sous vide.

    Yet another instance of enshittification but not as egregious as, say, car manufacturers charging subscription fees for car apps

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    A sous vide is the last device in the world you need to be smart. Set the temp, turn it on and leave it for between an hour and a week. Turn off and serve.

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    Yeah. I’m not paying that money for something with absolutely rubbish wifi

    Not sure if they ever fixed it, but in the past, you couldn’t even add them to the wifi network unless you turned off any secondary APs.

    I stopped using the app because it is a pain to get going. But there are much cheaper ones on Amazon

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    No one should be using these anyway. Everyone rags on Keurig for how wasteful it is and how much plastic it adds to landfills and probably your coffee, but no one seems to talk about how this does the same thing :/

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    That isn’t that crazy. It cost them money to host the service.

    It is the price you pay for “smart”

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      Considering how many people don’t want ‘smart’ appliances, this sounds like the company’s self created problem

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        It’s actually not even that. The apk doesn’t do much except suggest cooking times/temps, for the most part. The cooker 100% works just fine if you never installed the apk at all. All the on and off and times and temps can all be set right on the cooker itself. You don’t need the apk for anything.

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      It should be illegal to reduce or remove features sold with a product, including charging for features that were free at time of sale. Anything less is false advertising and predatory behavior (bait and switch). It’s either free forever, free for an explicitly advertised period (on every piece of marketing and packaging), or you can’t advertise it, period. And if you ever go out of business, all associated code should be open sourced so users can continue with it if they wish.

      In this case everyone who purchased existing stock should get it free, regardless of when they download the app or create an account. Only once all advertising and marketing, including packaging, is updated, they can charge future customers who purchase the devices that are explicitly advertised as subscription based. If companies don’t like it, fuck em. They’re the immoral actors engaging in the bait and switch. You don’t ask a criminal whether a law is bad for their criminal enterprise.