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This reminded me of the screenshot I took the other day and forgot to post
flaki.social/@flaki/1150161393

Important context: Anker's power stations can be accessed via Bluetooth & their app. They really want you, though, to create a cloud account, to the point that they nag you every time you start up the app, but you can skip it. The one thing you *need* to have a cloud account for is connecting your power station to wifi: and while they will tell you you have a pending firmware update, you can only install it by connecting to wifi (which requires linking to a cloud account).

With that context now you can really see the beauty here: please install this latest firmware update that fixes important security issues arising when connecting your fucking SOLAR POWER BANK to the cloud by... being forced to connect said overgrown phone charger to the internet.

Fuckin A+, brilliant, no notes. :ratdrum:

internet of shit at its finest

this morning Samsung Smart Hub servers went down today due to outage, and as a result Smart TVs became pretty much useless

worse, company didn't issue any official statement, and users were scrambling to do unnecessary tweaks

at this point there should be a law that forbids having internet in household appliances. you don't need internet in a fucking oven, washing machine or TV