A righteous RANT Resist the siren song of superfluity subscription services

I have two red light therapy devices and you know what I love about I don t have to pay 9 monthly for them to continue working, they don t have software that needs to be updated, and I don t need to worry about Bluetooth misconnections with them. They don t need permission to my smartphone s location services settings, and they don t have a username, password that I need to keep track of. I just plug them in, flip them on, and they work. I think that we, the biohacker community, should demand that MORE, biohacking products be like this. I m increasingly uneasy about the trend of biohacking products that cost a few hundred bucks upfront and then have a smaller ongoing monthly membership cost. You may say It s only 5 a month I don t mind paying that for a product that actually empowers my health, happiness, and But there are a couple of problems with the subscription