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Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fuck Amazon, but also fuck journalists who abuse words: bricking is not a synonym for "removing"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right? Bricking is literally making (its only usage) a brick out of it. You would think journalists are good with using words...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well, we decided that we don't want to pay for journalism anymore and would much rather just have everything be funded by ad views because "information should be free". So no, journalists aren't good with words anymore because nobody wants to pay for it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hahaha I payed for their info and it got worse and worse until I stopped reading them at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because the majority refuses to pay and relies on everything being "free". But yes, let's all whine about how baaaad THE MEDIA is because it's all just clickbait fluff.

Which it absolutely is, but it's not like this entitled attitude of "I deserve to get news for free" has nothing to do with it