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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (6 children)

It sucks because this comic is right and boomers are right to be pissed off at stupid shit like needing wifi to power a grill and whatnot. It's just it's usually the worst people on earth screaming about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (4 children)

but what if you need to check the status of your grill from your living room? Did you ever think about that? Did you think about the horrors of not owning a $350 toaster that connects to your wifi so it can display the weather and will inevitably break in 2-3 years because its exponentially more complex than a $10 toaster

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I wish appliances lasted 2-3 years. I bought an air fryer a while ago and while it doesn't run on any app/IoT slop, it still had a touch-based LED screen that just quit working after about 4 months. The air fryer was essentially bricked, and the whole process to send the thing in to get it repaired under warranty would have cost me almost as much as buying a new one (in addition to paying out of pocket to ship the appliance by Fedex/UPS/etc to the service center).

I'm with the boomers: bring back knobs and switches, fuck digital buttons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Umm physical buttons are nice and all but have you ever considered this point: fuck the blind.

(It’s actually because the touch panels are cheaper at scale than the extra parts involved plus manufacturing complexity of physical buttons. Buttons last significantly longer, are more durable, and are are more appropriate in a kitchen setting (where you may have wet/greasy fingers that won’t register correctly/at all on a capacitive touch panel) but they are more likely fail during assembly and simply cost more when you make 10,000+. Plus people love their “sleek” designs)

And that’s why your 2025 car is significantly more dangerous to drive than a 1998 ford taurus, where you could muscle memory the whole dashboard after like 2 hours of driving it. Eventually our whole world will be flat capacitive glass and require our gaze (and again, fuck the blind, I guess)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

blind people probably shouldn't be driving cars but yeah touchscreens should never replace buttons

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Don't pick on blind people, "Le woke". That's some terrible prejudice. What you should've said is "nobody should be driving cars..."

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