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I'll start: printers.

I bought an HP in March 2020 when my job went remote and HP bricked it remotely after only 100 pages because I wouldn't sign up for their subscription program. Ended up trashing a perfectly good printer.

Luckily my library's close by and I can print there remotely.

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[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ugh, yes, good point. Bluetooth is not the height of security.

[–] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I replied to another user about this, but aside from Bluetooth being a privacy nightmare, there's also the limited lifespan, the bad quality dacs, the lithium batteries and increased e-waste. Not to mention the expense. For $500 you can get genuinely very good wired headphones that will last the rest of your life. For the same price you can get mediocre wireless headphones that will eventually fail to hold a charge and become useless in X years

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

idk, my $90 earbuds that I use for meetings in the office and occasional personal use are almost five years old and doing fine. can't say I've noticed an issue with the battery life because they live in the charging case and only get taken out for use periods that are max a couple hours. and the quality is more than good enough.

I've got some nice proper headphones. they're not the right tool for that use case, for me.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

bluetooth got real fucking creepy once you had to start having location enabled to use it.

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What device? Never heard that before

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Samsung Galaxy phone, admittedly years ago, cause it made me stop using bluetooth.

But a quick sanity check, to make sure i was remembering correctly, by doing a search for variations of bluetooth cant be used without location on do return results showing that I was not out of my gourd and that it does happen.

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thats absolutely insane. Have they ever bothered with an explanation?

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Google changed something in android 6 and its been like that ever since, apparently.

[–] michaelalf@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

For real? I just tried on my P10 Pro XL running GrapheneOS and I could pair, forget, re-pair with location turned off.