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How Spotify destroyed Car Thing: 'You Will Own Nothing' & what to do about It
How Spotify destroyed Car Thing: 'You Will Own Nothing' & what to do about It
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Currently flashing my Spotify Car Thing with DeskThing. I’m sad that Spotify killed these off, but am excited to play around with hacking it a bit!
Nino BenvenutiForgot the axe dropped on the 9th. Didn’t think it was four days since I used it last. Now off to GitHub to find new firmware…
MacGenerationLe Car Thing de Spotify s’est transformé en presse-papier, comme prévu http://dlvr.it/TGhgmh #Spotify #CarThing
Le Car Thing de Spotify s’est transformé en presse-papier, comme prévu
C’était prévu de longue date, c’est désormais concret : le Car Thing de Spotify a cessé de fonctionner hier, 9 décembre 2024, et les quelques clients qui lui étaient restés fidèles n’ont plus qu’à le ramener à la déchetterie et contacter le service d...
Brad LinderLilbits: New software can breathe new life into discontinued hardware
Google announced two years ago that it was killing its short-lived Stadia game streaming service. and while the company was refunding customers who’d purchased games and hardware, folks who’d purchased the Stadia Controller weren’t thrilled that Google’s original plans would have led to the device becoming useless once the servers shut down.
Fortunately Google later released a tool that would let users convert the Stadia Controller into a Bluetooth game controller that could be used with other devices. And while the tool was only supposed to be around for a year, Google later extended its lifespan… and now the company has quietly done it again. So if you’ve got a Stadia Controller lying around, or find one in a garage sale, you’ve got at least until the end of 2025 to turn it into a Bluetooth controller.
Stadia Controller (Google)Meanwhile Spotify is taking a very different approach with its short-lived Car Thing accessory that was designed as a wireless display and controller for streaming music in an automobile. After announcing earlier this year that it would discontinue all support for the Car Thing, the company has indeed begun to shut down its servers, and users are seeing messages letting them know that their devices will no longer work.
There is an active community of hardware hackers that have found ways to repurpose the CarThing for use as a DeskThing or for other purposes. But there’s no particularly easy way to get it to serve its original purpose… at least not yet.
Stadia Controller Bluetooth mode [@Wario64]
Google has quietly extended the deadline for turning the discontinued Stadia Controller into a Bluetooth game controller that can be used with a wider range of devices. The utility will now be available until at least Dec 31, 2025.
Car thing is officially dead [/r/CarThing]
Spotify is killing off support for the Car Thing today. It appears to be a phased rollout, but many users are now seeing a message saying their devices are no longer operational. Hackers have found new uses for the hardware… but not in cars, for the most part. via /r/CarThing (reddit) and Thing Lab (Discord)
/u/ballsandbiscuitsWhat’s next for Surface in 2025, including a possible 11-inch mini Surface Laptop? [Windows Central]
Report: Microsoft could launch new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models in 2025 with Intel Lunar Lake chips, as well as a new Surface Laptop Studio (might be Intel or AMD) and maybe a new 11 inch Surface device with Snapdragon X.
The Luckfox Pico WebBee RV1103 looks like a USB flash drive, but it’s a tiny computer with a RV1103 processor with a 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A7 CPU and a RISC-V microcontroller, 64MB of DDR2 memory, a128MB of SLC NAND flash storage, and a microSD card reader and 10/100 Ethernet port. It sells for $14.
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Brad LinderSpotify is killing off support for the Car Thing today. It appears to be a phased rollout, but many users are now seeing a message saying their devices are no longer operational. Hackers have found new uses for the hardware... but not in cars, for the most part. https://buff.ly/3Vv5Rjm #Spotify #CarThing
Spotify : un jailbreak ressuscite le Car Thing
Malgré les suppliques d’une poignée de clients désespérés, Spotify désactivera tous ses Car Thing d’ici au 9 décembre prochain. Tous ? Non : une petite communauté d’irréductibles passionnés bidouille encore et toujours pour libérer ce petit gadget do...
DeskThing turns Spotify’s discontinued Car Thing into a PC controller and display
DeskThing is a free and open source application that breathes new life into Spotify’s discontinued Car Thing accessory by transforming it from a Spotify controller for cars into a desktop device that controls a wide variety of applications running on your PC.
It’s one of a number of tools that have come out of the Car Thing hacking community in the wake of Spotify’s announcement that it will […]
