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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago

And when the company stops wanting to pay the webservice hosting costs, you have to pay the plumber to come back and throw your useless toilet in the trash.

Worked for a company that made a kitchen appliance that had zero buttons. Needed an app. If you unplugged it without shutting it down in the app, it'd send you an alert notification. The app took at least three taps to fucking turn it off.

And the company was paying something like $1MM/yr to AWS to keep this thing running.