I would like it to come with an open source firmware that I could connect to my locally hosted servers.

I would enjoy mapping out load weights, water and electricity consumption, and cross reference that with a lot of other stuff. Plus some remote controls, and a better interface to choosing washing programs and scheduling start/end…

I just don’t want any of that data to leave my house, ever.

There’s got to be a git repository out there that has a smoking gun in its history…

Cool story bro.

You’re utterly delusional. If this system has done anything is to stiffle small, independent producers and consolidate power in megacorporations.

This is the kind of crap you’re defending: https://patents.justia.com/patent/12268585

This is a random, recent patent from P&G. Read that bullshit, and then tell if if what they’re describing isn’t the most generic design for a diaper or sanitary napkin ever?

“One permeable layer facing the wearer, then a semipermeable layer that tries to only allow liquid to move away from the wearer, then an absorbing layer, then an outer impermeable layer”

Oh boy, if it wasn’t for that patent, I’d be pumping 500 million dollars into building a factory so I can flood the market with my cheap fake products! - said nobody when they read that.

It’s hilarious how far removed from reality your ideal of patents is…

it costs millions of dollars to get a manufacturing process up and running and in a good enough state to where it can actually work out financially. Without patents, your competitor can just take all of that work and investment and just copy it with the benefit of doing it right the first time, so they’re able to undercut you on cost.

This argument makes no sense. Manufacturing lines are built all that time for unpatented products, plus a competitor can’t just “take all of that work and investment”, they will need to put in money to create their own product, even if it’s a copy they still need to make it work, as well as build their own production capacity.

They’ll be second to market, and presumably need to undercut price to get market share… This is a very risky endeavour, unless the profit margins are huge, and in which case, good thing that there’s no patents…

If the research is so costly and complex (pharmaceutical, aeronautical,…), then it should be at least partly funded by the government, through partnerships between universities and companies.

Patents are not a solution.

Companies already issue digital boarding passes. I have a government issued digital ID in a phone app. These are convenient.

But facial recognition? Hell no, f that.

Isnt that like all phone makers recently?

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The supply of leading world economies who are friendly and democratic is now * does some quick math * zero.

you people

You reminded me of something I’ve once read. I hope you’ll come to terms with your anger some day.

It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told the children bed time stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.

Do you realize how you’re quite literally advocating for genocide, and you see absolutely nothing wrong with that?

How are you any different from Europeans? Because you’ve been victim of oppression doesn’t make you any less likely to oppress others when given the chance, as you’re clearly demonstrating.

If we’re going for historical reenactment, they would be waiting for their chance to do a surprise invasion and nab a couple of provinces…

I mean, shall we look at all countries’ track record of starting direct or proxy wars in the last 70 years or so to determine who’s more likely to attack?

Well well well. Won’t you look at who would have done exactly the same thing as the european empires did, if they had the chance?

You’re not mad that it happened at all, you’re mad that it happened to you. Hypocrite.

Well I mean, you’ll be hard pressed to find any empire in history who didn’t dab in a little bit of genocide here and there, it’s not like european countries have a monopoly here.

Name me a civilization that didn’t commit genocide, and you’ll have found a civilization that didn’t have the chance to do it…

Just to be clear, you think that being wooed with enticing promises, and being sucker punched in the teeth and told to bow down, are the same thing?