Not OP, but just to serve as another data point: mostly just exhaustion. I am a full-time software developer, so I just really don’t want to deal with configurations and set up complex systems at home. That’s why I haven’t gotten into any smart-home stuff, either - I just don’t have the bandwidth to deal with the issues that come along with the space.

The only outrage I see is in your comment 🙄

Yeah, at this point “Engineer” and “Developer” are 100% synonymous in the industry.

Ehhhh, depends on how your titles work, and I would argue that’s at least a little odd. Most senior engineers I know are ~50/50 code/oversight, at worst. Once you get to Principal or Staff, though, you’re lucky if you write 50 loc/week.

Senior rarely translates to something like architect anymore, it’s at least a level or two up from there.

I would think that in general it comes down to understanding what “ownership” is and that it has been taken from us, replaced with “licensing”

Your mistake is thinking that the average person

1. Knows that this is happening/has happened, since it’s rarely clearly or prominently stated,
2. Understands what it means, since it doesn’t often affect them,
3. And in the uncommon scenario where both 1 and 2 are met: actually cares at all.

It’s wild, because it used to be that you bought a movie and it didn’t matter that the rights ran out you could still watch your fucking movie in your own home.

I understand the concern and I’m sure it does happen, but I have literally never heard this complaint from a single person that I actually know. What movies/services has this actually happened to?

No argument against anything you said related to copyright laws, just to be clear.

Some real old-man-yells-at-cloud vibes coming from this comment

That’s a good way for their emails to all get marked as scams. They think they’re being slick, but are actually destroying their marketing campaign.