My girlfriend started suggesting new high tech cars for when my 2009 crv craps out and i was horrified, this thing better outlive me bc if there’s a screen on my car im done
If it dies, just buy something older! My cars have gotten older at roughly the same rate I have. Late 90s was a sweet spot for low-tech but high reliability.
In the 70’s they had home intercom systems so that you could talk to someone in the kitchen from the bedroom, proving that really dumb ideas for the home are not new. No one ever used them of course, you just yelled at each other across the house
I couldn't rip the Nest out of my new house fast enough that had been installed to control heating and air. I told the install guy...I want a system that a log cabin would use. If it has the word smart in the title, throw it out.
Yup I know the feeling. Both my stove and dishwasher have wifi and Bluetooth. They want to connect and I see them broadcasting. Dunno whatll happen if they do connect 💀
I gotta tell you, though. I bought a simple Maytag gas stove. Paid over $800. for it. The oven worked for 3 months. I have had a $800. stovetop for 3 years. Absolute trash. Nothing is built to last anymore, and I hate it.
From what I understand, it's only the newer models that are trash. Apparently, they sold out to whirlpool 20 or so years ago. That was the beginning of the nightmare.
I'm going to keep this until I can electrify my kitchen and heating and ditch gas altogether. Not sure when that's going to happen. I only use 2 of the burners and they only get used to make dinner. One burner for the meal and one for heating a tortilla.
The crazy thing for me is the fact that the stove it replaced was the same one my Grandmother cooked on my whole life... 50+ years.
We have become a disposable world. We now build extremely cheap, and toss everything out and replace when it breaks.
All gas pro ranges exist (almost fully mechanical) expect to pay premium prices. Electric ovens are considered superior to gas ovens (especially for baking) but have more electronics and have higher likelihood of breakdowns. Pro tip rarely use self clean on ovens, it will last longer.
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Same here. Sick of all these "smart" things. I don't want it. I purposely drive old cars because I don't need all that computerized crap in them. I don't need my tv to be smart, my appliances to be smart, and I don't need an Alexa or anything like it.
Wolf has it, but it’s not as user-friendly as the Viking. On the Wolf, the low-heat simmer is on a separate burner and it’s hard to switch back to the regular burner.
Thank you. I dislike smart features because it let's outsiders control your home and l8ving conditions. Right now my networked HVAC is perpetually at least two degrees higher or lower than I programmed. Someone wants to run up my power bill and I can't cut off the power with the CB.
There has to be a market for this. Build it cheaper but reliable and don’t have to cut the price much because people will pay for ease of use and long term reliability. Some marketing person has to be able to make simple, long lasting, reliable into an attractive campaign.
and even extra for real buttons instead of shitty ass touchscreen interfaces; my air fryer stopped working only for it to be perfectly good, only the touchscreen that is the only way to turn it on got fucked up
That's what I figure. At some point mine will decide it's done and can't update without being connected via wifi. And I'll have a brick for an appliance. It'll do that right in the middle of cooking something critical
The most trucking thing about smart appliances is that they send data back to the manufacturers. Vizio makes more money from the data from smart TV's than from the TV's themselves.
Or "enlightened" self-interest? Greed is only good when enlightened, which calls for accounting. Accounting is seen as responsibility; cost internalization. The ass-opposite of incorporation, specifically designed to protect investors from having to take personal responsibility for their actions.
It's not capitalism if you can externalize costs. Inc.s are a creature of the state, & investors are hiding behind big government's skirt. That's hardly capitalism. Accounting is responsibility. It's hardly risk taking, bootstrapping, rugged individualism if an investor is protected by government.
I needed a new dishwasher and they had one with wifi- i asked what the wifi could be used for- two things: 1. If you in the app input how many dishwasher-tablets you bought it could tell when you had to buy new (so just like looking in the box when you take one) ....
...and 2. you could start the dishwasher from the app (he couldnt tell a usecase where you needed to start it any other time than "when its filled and you close the lid")
i had almost the same interaction recently :U but for a washing machine, it's smart and can be controlled from your phone, but i still gotta walk to the thing to load in the laundry, soap or to unload it after so whats the fucking point
Oh yeah! They don't make remotes anymore. You have to download the app to run something, and they can sell your data to marketers telling them what you do and when! 😡
Yes. I have Anova precision cooker, and after just a few years of using it, the app now threatens to stop supporting it soon and wants me to buy a newer model. Lesson learnt.
I didn't want a smart one in the first place, but most devices of this kind are "smart". It has physical controls, but you can only adjust temperature to 0.1c precision with the app for example.
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Oh man, I almost wish I was kidding.
People who have them are not letting them go! 🫣
If you find some, please let me know 🙏🏼
The crazy thing for me is the fact that the stove it replaced was the same one my Grandmother cooked on my whole life... 50+ years.
We have become a disposable world. We now build extremely cheap, and toss everything out and replace when it breaks.
Don't buy until we can root (jailbreak) it.
Thanks to it, your fridge might need you to buy a subscription plan to keep your stuff fresh.
Anything to screw the consumer, if you can't make it any better, attach 'proprietary' software to it.
Adam Smith wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" multiple times in Wealth of Nations. He used the word 'education' EIGHTY Times.
When have you ever heard "Capitalist" economists point this out?
The book is in Project Gutenberg check any time.
Consumers should know accounting to avoid buying crap designed to depreciate.
Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 35 times in the first two volumes of Das Kapital even though automobiles had not been invented.
What is the annual car depreciation for the United States?