content: Congratulations, you are the consumers electronics manufacturer's worst nightmare.  I bet you also make small repairs to your car when you're capable, which means the auto industry wants you dead too. There is way more money to be made by forcing you to buy new shit.  They've been doing it with cars for 20 years with a clusterfuck of sensors and computers all controlling parts hidden under plastic or completely inaccessible, and now they're moving on to the rest of the shit you buy.  They're taking care of the software side with "licenses" that forbid you from making any modifications including replacing the software, one of the best examples being the current proposal in the FCC to make it illegal to modify routers and modems with custom firmware.  The claim is that it will prevent people from breaking regulations by increasing signal strength, but any half-educated person knows it's really a cash grab and a chance to force you to use compromised firmware since the largest networking manufacturer in the world (Cisco) has confirmed NSA backdoors in its equipment.  Then they take care of the hardware side with proprietary screws, voided warranties, threats of legal action, or proprietary parts that can't be acquired without a special license or being an "authorized" repair person (like that code you need from the dealer to program that $300 key fob for your car that you bought online for about $20.  But don't worry, an authorized mechanic will program it for you, for about $250.). Welcome to the future, where you don't own anything you buy and everything is just being licensed for use.