Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi
Products like this make me furious.<p>Selling a product whose interface/API/whatever is deliberately obfuscated so that the manufacturer also has a monopoly on a subscription service or an app for said product is blatantly anti-consumer, anti-competitive, anti-environment, and should be illegal.<p>Fuck Peloton. Fuck Flywheel. Fuck all the proprietary IoT companies.<p>And apparently fuck <i>me</i> for having the gall to want to control my air conditioner from my computer rather than GE Android app #12 that has God-knows-what baked in and that's going to be abandoned in two years anyway.<p>Nobody should ever feel like they have to throw out an otherwise functional refrigerator-sized appliance because of software obsolescence.<p>I am absolutely willing to die on this hill. We need a GDPR-sized hammer to fix this.