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Sony Outage Disables DASH Devices, No ETA On a Fix
New submitter Jack Greenbaum writes: In 2012 Sony closed the developer site for the DASH, their version of the Chumby platform. Sony never officially killed off the product, and they kept the back end servers on line, until recently at least. About two weeks ago DASH owners started seeing their devices fail with a cryptic error message "Unable to download the Control Panel (No download information available). Please restart your dash to try again." Sony acknowledges that the issue is at their end, but no ETA for a fix has been provided. The passionate DASH community is not pleased that Sony is being so quiet about a fix. One user even overslept for work because they depended on the alarm clock feature. Now every DASH is dead until Sony decides to not abandon its walled garden.
I'm sure the 10 people that have these devices know already... Why do the other thousands care?
I would comment on that, but somehow I do not find the motivation for it.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
It seems to have noticeably dropped this week, despite the positive comments on the "state of Slashdot" thread.
Given that half of the comments are bitching and moaning about Slashdot itself, now that the problems are getting fixed there a good portion of commenters being disenfranchised.