@pluralistic While my experience pales in the scale to your (as usual, amazing) article, I experienced #solar #enshittification firsthand:

My installer bolted a third party #Sunpower charging monitor to my house, which worked great to see what my hourly/daily/yearly output was until Sunpower went bankrupt and was bought out by Enphase, who, you guessed it, wants me to pay a subscription fee to see the same monitoring data. Fuck that.

Fortunately, (#Reddit to the rescue): The data from the microinverters goes through my router, and someone found a hack:
https://github.com/krbaker/hass-sunpower

https://www.reddit.com/r/SunPower/comments/1awncew/alternative_apps_deeper_details/?q=SunStrong+alternatives&tabId=related

https://www.reddit.com/r/SunPower/comments/12w8rqs/sunpower_monitoring_not_accurate_compared_to_meter/

All I need to do is implement the hack and I get my data back, then reconfigure the router to cut off Enphase! Its like #UnauthorizedBread but for solar.

@Daojoan

* Laughs in #UnAuthorizedBread *

@kaltmamsell

Mich erinnert das schon sehr an die Story "Unauthorized Bread" von Cory Doctorow.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

#UnauthorizedBread #IOT

Quite ironically, this sounds like the beginning of the short story #UnauthorizedBread by @pluralistic

Smart appliances have not been created to make your life easier - they have been created to tie you to certain manufacturers at best, or to trade in one-time profits to permanent cashflow for the company of your choice at worst.

Installing smart devices and on-demand extras shows that you are not only stupid enough to buy a company's product, but also to pay for being allowed to use it.