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This is the complement of the BifL (buy it for life) communites. Here we call out products (tech and non-tech) that:

  • are designed to fail early
  • feature anti-repair tactics (booby traps, self-destruction mechanisms, circuit boards submerged in silicon or plastic, denied documentation access)
  • are designed to make you needlessly dependant on an unsustainable proprietary service (typically in the cloud), which risks:
    ① remote kill switches where a supplier pulls the plug on singled-out individuals (e.g. Amazon sabotaging service to your thermostat, doorbell, vaccuum, etc whenever you have a billing dispute),
    ② the company disappearing, or ③ the company deciding to decommission a server and boot everyone who depends on it.

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Unsustainable and short-lived goods !unsustainable_products@slrpnk.net
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Solid State Disk drives (SSDs) have a short life and worse: manufacturers nanny users after blocking write access to old drives 1 activistPnk 1 »
USB-C Swivel Cord - Fragile and breaks easily (m.media-amazon.com) 0 Shifty Eyes 1 »
[CAT] Consumer Action Taskforce - Halp build this wiki documenting anti-consumer practices 0 Shifty Eyes 1 »
TomTom desktop s/w phones home (and nobody home).. self destructs. 0 activistPnk 1 »
Sony Ericsson / Xperia (proprietary s/w “phones home”… and nobody home; refuses to operate) 0 activistPnk 1 »
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About this forum

This is the complement of the BifL (buy it for life) communites. Here we call out products (tech and non-tech) that:

  • are designed to fail early
  • feature anti-repair tactics (booby traps, self-destruction mechanisms, circuit boards submerged in silicon or plastic, denied documentation access)
  • are designed to make you needlessly dependant on an unsustainable proprietary service (typically in the cloud), which risks:
    ① remote kill switches where a supplier pulls the plug on singled-out individuals (e.g. Amazon sabotaging service to your thermostat, doorbell, vaccuum, etc whenever you have a billing dispute),
    ② the company disappearing, or ③ the company deciding to decommission a server and boot everyone who depends on it.

Related communities:

1 members · 7 topics · 1 posts
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