Does it really?
In my opinion, if it stops working and it's under warranty, why not send it out for repair? They did no changes to the actual device, and apparently it was working fine for a few days without network connection, so if it suddenly stops working and it's under warranty that's the manufacturer's/store's problem, not theirs. Trying to fix it/reverse engineer it takes time, and I can see someone with these kinds of skills wanting to spend it on something else than trying to figure out how the manufacturer bricked their vacuum.
In addition, _someone_ is paying for the repairs under warranty, so if enough people were to do it, hopefully it would disincentivize completely blocking devices just because they can't reach a server.
Author here: I did send it send the device for repair repeatedly like 4 times until the warranty ended and the company charged me huge. So decided to spend time on it. I am usually interested in knowing how my devices work so I couldn't resist. Leaving a bricked device at home was one option, learn from it was another, so I picked the second.
You can always put some extra protection on the external interfaces. Won't make it impossible to fry if you really do something stupid but would reduce the risk significantly.
Roon seems great but the pricing is really steep in my opinion... Costs practically as much as a streaming service, but you still need to get your own music.
At least they have a lifetime purchase option, though it costs $830!
It is not cheap, but it is clearly made by people who care about music. In those days where "slop" is so common, for people who can afford it, it is a nice refresher.
Another minor inconvenience is that it is memory hungry for large libraries. In my case, for ~1 TB of flac, the docker takes 5-6 GB RAM on my debian NAS. Limiting it at 4 GB definitely crashed w/ OOM, at 8Gb never had issue.
NVIDIA's stance on Linux aside, from a practical point of view the one thing I've had the most issues with in practice while using them together was the abomination that is Optimus. Considering they mention a mux for outputting directly to the display, it sounds like this might be a bit less of a pain to get working since it sounds like you should be able to just have one GPU active at a time (instead of both of them having to work together).
F-Droid is great, but it doesn't update your OS. I'm less worried about application availability than system security patches. (And, to a lesser degree, I do eventually want some degree of features from the newer systems as well. I don't mind slightly older versions of Android as long as they're still getting security patches, but after 5 versions I think we're starting to get a little bit painful.)
Did not know about this, thanks for pointing it out. It is not precisely what I had in mind, but appealing none the less.
The phone I had in mind is akin to Motorola's RAZR Ultra. As opposed to opening like a book the way Samsung's latest does, unfolding the "top" half provides a smaller-than-average smartphone screen, leaving room for a Blackberry-style keyboard below.
I'm in that niche market where I do not need a large screen on my phone since I am mostly reading text as opposed to watching media. It's not likely I'll ever get precisely what I want due to practicality of both manufacturing and what the general market demands are. I've come to terms with it, but if someone ever drops such a device, I will get in line for it.
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