• bitofhope@awful.systems
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    6 months ago

    Good he found the right gadget for the job. I’m happy it works and has improved the mother’s life.

    It’s frustrating that subscription-based product enshittification is so ubiquitous that avoiding it needed to be included as a constraint, and even pointing that out feels banal and trite for how much it’s the default.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah, this was uplifting! It’s kind of terrifying to think that she could just feel abandoned and anxious 5 minutes after talking to her children. But this looks like a good counter to that.

      I hear digital photo frame advertisements on podcasts all the time and they all trumpet how easy it is to send pictures to relatives and friends! My first thought is: what happens to the frame if you stop paying? Worse , what if they go bankrupt, get bought out, change terms, etc? I’m sure you won’t be able to send pictures anymore and that everything’s locked down and proprietary…