norwegian consumer council

[Nick Briggs]

The link I mentioned in the Monday meeting.

Pathways to a fair techonological future...

[pixel...@gmail.com]

Seems pretty accurate.

Society is in a state of perpetual rental through services.
Most times companies eventually choke your smart TV or phone to death with worse and worse preforming updates.

A minor parallel for me personally, I've always collected console games.
I made the mistake of purchasing digital games back in the Wii era and lost them all when Nintendo discontinued their store. (I could not redownload my purchases)
And now history repeats with Nintendo requiring that you pay monthly to even access the games you've purchased digitally.

Then you've got the white glove of John Deere saying owners can not work on their own multi million dollar equipment.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/right-to-repair-farmers-challenge-john-deere-control-equipment-rcna199651

Have you heard of DRM locked printer paper? Dymo has.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/worst-timeline-printer-company-putting-drm-paper-now

I've always said "If enough stupid people fund a bad idea, that bad idea becomes the norm.".
The hard part is facing culture, it's been normalised and a generation has (mostly) grown up not owning anything.

- Ryan