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

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[-] Damage@feddit.it 39 points 10 months ago

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

[-] TheSealStartedIt@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

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

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

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