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What kind of engineers keep building these anti-consumer, anti-competition DRM systems? Someone should call them out publicly, by name. The world doesn't need more DRM systems.
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I'll start: Keurig
No, I mean the individual engineers.
What kind of engineers keep building these anti-consumer, anti-competition DRM systems? Someone should call them out publicly, by name. The world doesn't need more DRM systems.
From this I guess that weak DRM is very often entirely intentional.
As for the kind of engineer that does it, you do. Or more accurately, every engineer who has ever been asked to place their ideals ahead of their paycheck -- and realized jumping ship simply wasn't worth it
Alternatively, we could stop wasting so much packaging and take 5 minutes to make a pot of coffee.
It's an amusing video, but note that that same barcode is also what provides coffee/tea-specific brewing parameters to the machine. Using the same barcode for all cups breaks that. (Using a barcode from one coffee on another seems unlikely to seriously affect the results, though.)
What kind of engineers keep building these anti-consumer, anti-competition DRM systems? Someone should call them out publicly, by name. The world doesn't need more DRM systems.
In other news, I'm excited to announce my social dating startup just got acquired for a bunch of money! We'll be deleting all the data and shutting down.
I have owned two Nespresso machines. They were both great for about 8 months. Then no matter how much I 'cleansed' them they made terrible tasting coffee. You can never get the insides completely clean. I suspect the Keurig has a similar problem. I'm now back to my ceramic filter cone (one-time $20 cost) and the coffee has never tasted better.