I maintain that governments should require any company that bricks a device via software should ALSO foot the bill of recycling it, if not more bbc.com/news/technology-5358…

Google offers refunds after smart glasses stop working

The North Focals smart glasses will lose all special features, but customers will get refunds.

bbc.com

Jul 30, 2020 · 2:25 AM UTC

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The cost of that has to be collected ahead of time, though, as half of these are made obsolete by the company failing and then no services being available. An alternative would be to sell devices that are able to be configured to connect to some alternative endpoint on failure.
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That would be a good start. An alternative would be requiring it when hardware companies merge like this.
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That would require those in government to understand technology first...
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Governments outside of the US are doing just fine with that
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Or at least require they release the source code so it can be reprogrammed by a more responsible party.
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They should have to replace it if it was an outright purchase a lot more.
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every rock that you mine away from earth should be returned after it no longer serves a purpose
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I prefer that when the servers go down, the source code for both the device and the server is released to the public.
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That sucks they’re doing that
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the government should bill the companies of recycling anything they manufacture.
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