After exploring the wonderful world of “State of repair“ from the Motherboard, I kept a  Close eye on other documentaries they put online.
And today I spotted a fantastic item (with a great title): “The Rogue Tesla Mechanic”.

It shows (in a painful way), what direction we are heading with our own capabilities to diagnose and fix stuff we buy (and though we fully owned)

The more I think about it, the clearer it gets that this really is an issue. Not only for professional users like the farmers and their tractors, but also for us, consumers who buy produces and automatically are ‘held hostage’ (in a friendly way…) by the companies that makes the products. It has been like that for many years, but recently I feel it has become part of the business plan / strategy. Before it was more the unwillingness or lack of interest to do something about it.

Just like with trying to improve the safekeeping of our private data with GDPR, I could be an idea to legislate diagnose and repair capabilities on a larger (European) scale, to force companies to design differently.

The reality is that new technology (upcoming IoT products) are so bad when it comes to ownership / control / secure that it becomes funny. just check “The internet of shit“.
(or check their Facebook page)

Eye-watering funny (and sad…)

The below example shows that selling you expensive headphones (300 euro) is only the beginning of the milking process…

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