Their latest round of stupidity pops up a new EULA and forces you to take it or, again, you can’t access your stuff. But that’s just more unenforceable garbage, so who cares, right? Well, it’s getting worse.

It seems they are planning on dropping an update which will force you to log in. Yep, no longer will your stuff Just Work across the local network. Now it will have yet another garbage “cloud” “integration” involved, and they certainly will find a way to make things suck even worse for you.

If you ever saw the South Park episode where they try to get the cable company to do something on their behalf and the cable company people just touch themselves inappropriately upon hearing the lamentations of their customers, well, I suspect that’s what’s going on here. The management of these places are fundamentally sadists, and they are going to auger all of these things into the ground to make their short-term money before flying the coop for the next big thing they can destroy.

  • Tunawithshoes
    51•1 year ago

    The biggest gripe I have with this is that they are not cheep. Hue is one of the more expensive products smart lamp products.

    Why are they chasing pennies? I could buy 3 ikea lamps for price of 1 hue.

    Shame I really liked their color accuracy but guess I have to find new fancy lights.

    Luckily I use home assistant so my lamps are not ewaste.