Edit: I guess this post is free advertising for these shitters, so I will describe what I previously linked.
There is this TV you can get for free but it has a ads on screen constantly and it has a camera pointed at you to record your reactions to ads and to ensure you don’t cover up the ad portion of the screen.
Isn’t it time to stop being polite and start relentlessly mocking anyone who voluntarily buys this shit?
For free? Surely there’s some way to get that shit out… Or at least, the panel.
I’m sure there’s some gotcha in the contract that says you don’t actually own the hardware and modifying it is a breach.
Of course you don’t own it, you didn’t even pay for it
I lost the second monitor in a boating accident.
“It broke”
People encourage this as “I got the device for cheaper, so it’s you who’s wrong.” you can’t stop morons with logic or mockery, you need laws restricting companies. It’s something the US has big trouble with and that’s not supposed to be bashing.
Up until a few years ago, I honestly thought that the best thing we could do with stupid people (conspiracy theorists, flat earthers, fundies, etc…) was to bring back public shaming. Make them so damn embarassed to believe what they that do that they just shut the fuck up about it for fear of mockery. As a result, at least their children might see them as being the backwards ones and we nip that shit in the bud in a generation or two instead of each new generation seemingly witnessing their parent’s idiotic beliefs being seemingly validated in public by being treated with any validity at all.
But then MAGA arrived, and I realized that many of these people simply have no shame, so ruthlessly mocking them won’t work.