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solsangraal@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
if you’re not on your way to get a refund for that bullshit, then that’s entirely on you and i have no sympathy
that shit exists because people keep fucking buying it
Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 year ago
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sometimes, you can no longer return a product because its X days out of policy.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I bought this $50 brush than didn’t use it for 6 months 👌👍
I weep for all 5 of you that happened to.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If it’s anything like mine, it works just fine without the app. The app just does brush tracking and shit. I don’t need any of that, so I never set it up. But I suspect even if I had, it would still let me use it without being logged into the app.
I suspect the same is true here. That the function of the toothbrush is available regardless of whether it’s logging data to your phone.
Tja@programming.dev 1 year ago
But that’s way too rational and doesn’t let me rage, I don’t like it!
xylol@leminal.space 1 year ago
Yeah I got mine on sale a few years ago and totally forgot it had that until it showed up on my home assistant when I got a ZigBee USB dongle for my pi
raynethackery@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The function is available for now.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I cannot imagine the value to the company from whatever usage data they get from their toothbrushing app is anything close to the value they get from selling brush heads. So it would be immensely foolish to lock down the toothbrush.
The app is a selling point, and they do it because others do. They’d lose the portion of the market that wants to track which parts of their mouth they’ve brushed properly. But that isn’t their main market, and they’d be idiots to kill their product chasing that niche.
teuniac_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But… how else am I going to connect my toothbrush to my smarthome…?
Just kidding, I use home assistant and my oral-b toothbrush broadcasts using BLE, which Is capture using the oral-b integration. You don’t need to be logged in
I agree. It’s super dumb to buy IOT toothbrushes that require you to be logged in. Luckily I’m not one of those people, so that doesn’t apply to me. Phew…
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Just kidding, I use home assistant and my oral-b toothbrush broadcasts using BLE, which Is capture using the oral-b integration. You don’t need to be logged in.
Oh god I hope this is sarcasm. I’m good with my old, dumb oral-b that does nothing but brush my fucking teeth.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I imagine getting a notification on their phone reminding them if they’ve not brushed their teeth by a set time might help forgetful people to remember to brush their teeth, and if it’s via Home Assistant, which is self-hosted, entirely local, and open-source, there’s no downside other than having to set it up in the first place.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The oral-b integration has been installed by 13,611 users.
Photuris@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
[deleted]IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No it hasn’t. Nerds spend all day looking for edge cases with mostly unsuccessful dumb ideas then screech while having the option of 40 different branded regular brushes in every grocery store.
WereCat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People keeping buying it because they don’t know this shit exist. And once they already buy it… Hey, as long as it works…
redditor_chatter44@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Exactly
frunch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Right? I buy only open-source wifi toothbrushes. Still waiting on the year of the Linux toothbrush, tbh
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
If you can’t run Doom on it, is it really your toothbrush?
Blooper@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
My esp32 vibrator-toothbrush is up on GitHub. Might take it down later, idk.
lilsolar@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
There’s no one maintaining the repo. St this point, the brush is gonna be archived </3
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Can you turned a Raspberry Pi into a toothbrush? lol
frunch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Redtooth? 🙃