Mark Francois talks about Neville Chamberlain "denuding the British forces of funding until it was too late."
This is wrong. Even while Chamberlain was signing the Munich Agreement in 1938, he was agreeing to a huge increase in spending to increase Britain’s armament in preparation for war.
We're living in the #enshittocene, in which the forces of enshittification are turning everything from our cars to our streaming services to our dishwashers into thoroughly enshittifified piles of shit. Call it the Great Enshittening:
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no more ads when I want to control my garage door (really: the myQ app keeps pushing ads for add-on hardware and subscriptions)
my garage door opener will now be locally controlled via ESPHome
it will be fully integrated with my #HomeAssistant system
notifications will be immediate (myQ notifications are not instant, which renders them useless)
no dependency on third-party cloud servers (I don't need to worry about myQ servers being down or worse, compromised)
I am also going to disable integrated wi-fi connectivity and delete my myQ account to make sure that my opener never gets an OTA "upgrade" without my consent
A brilliant thread by Cory Doctorow again. This time on #enshitification of garage door openers.
I use an OpenGarage door Automator on my garage door. The firmware is open source and the device is like $35. It integrates trivially with #HomeAssistant. And it can’t be taken away by a company suddenly deciding it wants more money from me.
How could this happen? Owners of #Chamberlain#MyQ automatic garage door openers just woke up to discover that the company had confiscated valuable features overnight, and that there was nothing they could do about it.
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Enshittification hits garage door openers. My garage opener has the ability to open remotely through the app. Now, they want to use the app that has ads so they can sell you more products.(no wonder my workaround to make it work with Homekit hasn't been working)
Isn't this an abuse of monopoly since they control like most of the garage door opener market.