<story><title>Spotify won&apos;t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/spotify-wont-open-source-car-thing-but-starts-refund-process/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bravetraveler</author><text>Conversely, stop voting for people that need coerced to their job. I know this is reductive - save your fingers.&lt;p&gt;Write, but do the not-vote-thing if they don&amp;#x27;t listen. The desire to not be hoodwinked has already been expressed. Just not this specific way.&lt;p&gt;Or, expressed more positively I guess, vote for those who don&amp;#x27;t need goaded to do the obviously good thing.</text></item><item><author>complaintdept</author><text>Write your elected representatives, preferably by snail mail (they take it more seriously that way). With Right to Repair being talked about so much right now, the time could be right to get this into the public mind. Car Thing could be what nucleates anti bricking legislation.</text></item><item><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>Are they just banking on people not caring enough or knowing about the refund process? Clearly it can&amp;#x27;t be better off for them to refund hundreds of thousands maybe even 1m+ people.&lt;p&gt;We need laws that step in to make this impossible. Hardware should be designed so that it can be reused. Make it so that people can just reflash the memory at a minimum. There&amp;#x27;s no reason for something like this to become e-waste. And the excuse being Spotify wanting to protect their brand should not stand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>There are a whole bunch of &amp;quot;Right&amp;quot; things to do. How does one choose? By listening to the people who they represent &lt;i&gt;in real time&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, how can they possibly set priorities once during election season &lt;i&gt;for the whole term for any possible future issue&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;p&gt;Democracy is closed-loop control. You need a feedback signal. It&amp;#x27;s a feature - not a bug.</text></comment>
<story><title>Spotify won&apos;t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/spotify-wont-open-source-car-thing-but-starts-refund-process/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bravetraveler</author><text>Conversely, stop voting for people that need coerced to their job. I know this is reductive - save your fingers.&lt;p&gt;Write, but do the not-vote-thing if they don&amp;#x27;t listen. The desire to not be hoodwinked has already been expressed. Just not this specific way.&lt;p&gt;Or, expressed more positively I guess, vote for those who don&amp;#x27;t need goaded to do the obviously good thing.</text></item><item><author>complaintdept</author><text>Write your elected representatives, preferably by snail mail (they take it more seriously that way). With Right to Repair being talked about so much right now, the time could be right to get this into the public mind. Car Thing could be what nucleates anti bricking legislation.</text></item><item><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>Are they just banking on people not caring enough or knowing about the refund process? Clearly it can&amp;#x27;t be better off for them to refund hundreds of thousands maybe even 1m+ people.&lt;p&gt;We need laws that step in to make this impossible. Hardware should be designed so that it can be reused. Make it so that people can just reflash the memory at a minimum. There&amp;#x27;s no reason for something like this to become e-waste. And the excuse being Spotify wanting to protect their brand should not stand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>croes</author><text>How does the not-vote-thing help?&lt;p&gt;The result is calculated on the basis of the votes cast.&lt;p&gt;So if you have 10 votes of 20 possible you get 50%, if 5 don&amp;#x27;t vote it&amp;#x27;s 10 out of 15 = 66.6%</text></comment>