tldr; Smart home company went bankrupt. Got bought over, new CEO uploads new mandatory firmware to all their smart home devices to require a cloud connection which requires a subscription of 100+ a year. Previously, there was no such requirement for their smart home devices. People in the smart home community get outraged, Louis offers 5k to anyone who cracks new firmware
Also, I couldn't bear to listen to the video for too long because I swear it's fucking sped up by 1.5x
You have the option of changing the video speed, you know. I speed up most things that I watch on youtube to 1.5x, normally. You could just slow it down to 0.75x.
What the company is doing is inexcusable and Louis is 100% right and such as...
That said...
Anyone who buys 'smart home' devices is a retard. Not a retard who deserves to have to pay $100 a year for what he already paid for, but still...
It's not in any way 'smart' to replace devices that actually work with ones that you can control using buggy spyware that can be shut off at any moment.
tldr; Smart home company went bankrupt. Got bought over, new CEO uploads new mandatory firmware to all their smart home devices to require a cloud connection which requires a subscription of 100+ a year. Previously, there was no such requirement for their smart home devices. People in the smart home community get outraged, Louis offers 5k to anyone who cracks new firmware
Also, I couldn't bear to listen to the video for too long because I swear it's fucking sped up by 1.5x
No, that's just Louis' inner New Yorker shining through.
He actually didn’t used to be this fast. I watched a lot of his old videos back then and it wasn’t like this.
He's gotten exponentially more pissed off over the years. The angrier he gets the faster he talks.
Anyone who doesn't listen to Louis at 2x the speed is an amateur.
Fuck that shit.
You have the option of changing the video speed, you know. I speed up most things that I watch on youtube to 1.5x, normally. You could just slow it down to 0.75x.
What the company is doing is inexcusable and Louis is 100% right and such as...
That said...
Anyone who buys 'smart home' devices is a retard. Not a retard who deserves to have to pay $100 a year for what he already paid for, but still...
It's not in any way 'smart' to replace devices that actually work with ones that you can control using buggy spyware that can be shut off at any moment.
You know most smart home devices still work even if they’re not connected right? They still function as dumb switches etc etc.
But you should never ever buy wifi smart home devices if possible