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Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds (arstechnica.com)

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago

But the short-lived, expensive nature of Moxie is exactly why some groups, like right-to-repair activists, are pushing the FTC to more strongly regulate smart devices

Which will be harder in the next 4 years. On the other hand, maybe it sensibilizes more towards cloud-indepent operation and Open Source.

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