Pro tip, if this happens to you split your tickets up into smaller chunks! It has two effects:
One is that you will see progress from one sprint to the next, even if it's 1 story point at a time.
It also has a psychological effect! If you're like me you will avoid the huge, nebulous tasks. But if it's something manageable with a defined start and end, you will do it. You could probably even schedule it.
This is the subtext of the Nolan trilogy. Batman makes everything worse and literally everyone tells him that to his face, but he doesn't listen due to belief in his own exceptionalism. The only good thing he ever does is at the end of the third movie he fucks off forever.
This article was annoying to read. I think they're misusing the term "bricked", right? Like the toothbrush still works, they just decommissioned the app which allows you to set up the Alexa part?
It's still shitty behaviour and people should still never buy closed source IoT devices, but I really struggled to figure out what the actual story is.
This is a good comment, I think. Authoritarianism is defeated with democracy, not economic systems.
That's so funny, I was thinking "they made more than two??"