I’ve bought two cloud connected devices that promised manual control. Only one did. It was the first thing I did was verify it was true by never using the cloud part of it.

Itdidnttrickledown
Yes. That is what I’m saying.
Any cloud connected device that stops functioning when there is a outage is stupid. Its stupid to buy one.
Sounds like a dumb way to feed your pet that the device can’t work without the cloud. Nothing new but still you have to be real stupid to buy a device that will one day be cut off when the company abandons support.
Replying to @Maldaya@sh.itjust.works
Two other things I don’t use.
Replying to @FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works
The scumbags are getting better at making sure they end up rich when it happens. The only important thing from their point of view.
Replying to @vegeta@lemmy.world
Has he picked a single winner since he stole the idea for facebook?
Replying to @musicalphysics@discuss.online
It isn’t. You just lack the basic knowledge and experience to make the statements you make. Because I rub you the wrong way you can’t imagine I get along just fine with people.
You have limited experience with a few apple products. I’ve had to deal with a sample of fifteen purchased at the same time from apple. My sample has a high failure rate. When I started having trouble with them I found others who were having similar problems.
Goodbye.
Replying to @musicalphysics@discuss.online
I have 110 dell 5420 AIO PC’s and fifteen 2019 mac AIO. I have had exactly one board failure, two screen failures and two nvme failures on the dells since 2019.
The 2019 dell AIO have had four bad screens which cost way more than the Dells to replace not counting extras like tape kits to reattach them. I’ve had five with bad ram. You have to completely disassemble them to change the ram. I’ve also had two of the macs develop non memory related failures. All of these were problems I had to fix after they went out of warranty. While they were in warranty I had one screen failure and one memory failure. So please tell me how good they are. I’m sure I will overlook the shit show time sink they represent for me to give your experience precedence over mine
Replying to @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
No one who has ever had to crack one open and work on it think they make nice hardware. Its consumer unfriendly trash.