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Ah yes, the classic “the stupid consumers are stupid” argument.

This was sold as being an offline-capable device. It even has battery slots for power outages.

Perhaps instead of shitting on people for buying something they thought would be nice and work well, we shit on the company that can’t even give a pet feeder an on-device offline schedule after selling people on a device that’s supposed to work offline and even during power outages.

And figure out how we can hack it and enable folks to control the hardware they own, because they weren’t stupid for buying a pet feeder. The company that runs it just does so in a moronic way.

(I don’t own one of these, but I have considered it a few times, and this just pisses me off)

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Ah yes, the classic “the stupid consumers are stupid” argument.

Perhaps instead of shitting on people for buying something they thought would be nice and work well, we shit on the company that can’t even give a pet feeder an on-device offline schedule.

And figure out how we can hack it and enable folks to control the hardware they own, because they weren’t stupid for buying a pet feeder. The company that runs it just does so in a moronic way.

And no, before you reply with some petulant argument accusing me of being mad just because I own one, I don’t.