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they were better before "always-on" connections became the norm.

don't get me wrong here. i'm glad that we're all online and can be without, say, having to go through the nightmare that was dial-up, or hyper-expensive data-over-cell.

but once always-on connections became commonplace, it enabled all sorts of really awful behavior. suddenly you could just phone home whenever you want. instead of it being something the user explicitly allowed, it was just always there. and so it was made use of.

it's funny to me that we used to classify things that did this as "spyware" or "malware", and now it's just how things are. watch your cell phone's traffic and see a bunch of apps you haven't used in a week constantly phoning home. every application assumes that it can and should update out from under you with zero warning or choice.


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in reply to @xkeeper's post:

plus so many apps requiring an Internet connection to even have basic functionality. like, why does this freeware diagramming software need to be online to work? Oh, turns out it's just yet another fucking browser pretending to be an application.

the hue stuff is the same way now. it used to be that it worked without an account, you just had to be on the same network + authorized using the physical button. now it's forcing us to use accounts.

there are several times where our internet went out where i would not be able to use an online account, but could still control things by manually connecting my phone to our wifi and disabling the internet. so now i guess that if we get disconnected they just don't work any more.

it's cool how everything keeps getting worse

on the bright (HEHHHHH) side, hue stuff is all zigbee afaik so you can use stuff like zigbee2mqtt instead, if you want to run your own infrastructure (obvious downside is you have to run your own infrastructure)