you come across headlines nowadays and have no clue this was even a thing people were grifting children about, man..

I hate people.

Its 2024 and you cannot use a product the way you want to. Can't you just use openAI api as the backend??

Sorry Sally, Geoffrey has to die because a company wanted to make their products utterly dependent on their servers. We'll bury him in the yard next to Gertrude.

Jesus Christ it's like the SNL Pongo skit in real life.

I already experienced this with that one small robot a few years ago. It was resurrected a few years later but required a subscription.

That was the beginning of me not caring for subscription based products and being weary of products that relied on servers instead of being locally hosted.