Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi
Products like this make me furious.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.Fuck Peloton. Fuck Flywheel. Fuck all the proprietary IoT companies.And apparently fuck me 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.Nobody should ever feel like they have to throw out an otherwise functional refrigerator-sized appliance because of software obsolescence.I am absolutely willing to die on this hill. We need a GDPR-sized hammer to fix this.