So soon you'll migrate to patreon? :P

The iroony is that if "Internet of Things" actually meant what its name says, all of those things would be peers on the network and not need to connect to some canonical central service to have permission to function, right? "Terminal Services of Things"

Can some big brain help me figure out how to zigbee w a raspberry pi sort of peer to peer setup then

#iota is feeless

People need to get used to subscription pricing, because this stuff runs on software/firmware that needs constant updating. “But that’s not how I think of buying a lightbulb!” Well maybe you should, if you expect lightbulbs to do things like change colors by talking to them.

When you buy smart device and then the company demands payment that was not disclosed at time or purchase or device no longer functions as advertised, it's basically fraud and suits should be filed accordingly.

"Due to Covid-19" "A report published by The Verge in October 2019 described how Wink, which is owned by will.i.am’s technology company i.am+, hadn’t at the time paid staffers in seven weeks."

It would be free to run if the VCs hadn't insisted on operating models that made the companies dependent on VC levels of money to keep going. Because VC is all a huge fucking ponzi scheme.

Stop selling shit no one cares