I always buy the dumbest appliances....................
Couldn’t agree with you more.
What the %$#& do I need a programmable coffee maker for.
I have the cheapest 5-cup Mr. Coffee. I figure that if I can’t roll out of bed, put in the water and filter and measure two scoops of coffee, I don’t DESERVE my morning cup.
Yeah great, can’t open a can of beans at 3am because the internet is down and it can’t scan the label for marketing purposes.
I don’t need the damned refrigerator to have an opinion on what i eat!
And I don’t need the Dish Washer bitching about me not pre cleaning my dishes either!
Like the refrigerator that’s linked to the Internet.
Just... why?
Are you saying I’m too stoopid to look in my refrigerator and figure out where to buy eggs?
And now I’m off to go get my 3D TV....
“I am very utilitarian about appliances and like. Do the job you were built nothing more nothing less. Superfluous features just mean more things that can break.”
Precisely what I was going to post. The more gadgets the more that can and will go wrong.
We got an LG smart tv and it asks me to agree to T&C’s before it will turn on the microphone. I decline. I also cover the camera. Physically.
“I am very utilitarian about appliances and like. Do the job you were built nothing more nothing less.”
I take it you do not have a smart phone?
I got a garage door with wifi because my wife and I would always forget if we checked the door closed.
It also has a motion detector to turn the light on when we go into the garage.
aside from spying on me, i remain skeptical that i want a machine to call a repairman for me and incur charges for me because of the new form of planned obsolescence.
Knowing the government is spying on me through my appliances kinda make me feel important.
I don’t want “Hot Tea. Erhl Grey”
Anyone have any good suggestions about a good, powerful, but simple dishwasher?
Mine is getting a bit old...
I always buy the dumbest appliances....................
As I often tell people, I was perfectly happy living in the 80’s.
Sometimes I’d like to hop in the DeLorean and head back now.
Every time some salesperson tries to upsell me on the latest and greatest appliance that I can “control with my smart phone” I simply show him/her my “smart phone” and it shuts them right up!
My smart phone is a Doro flip phone that I got through Consumer Cellular.
Yep. I’m a grouchy old curmudgeon that only “wants to pay for what I use”!
I already waste a lot of my time with the ice dispenser in our fridge. You either get one small chip of ice, or an avalanche!
I don’t have enough time in the DAY for any MORE, ‘conveniences,’ LOL!
Until I can operate my Samsung TV, Blu-Ray player, Amazon Fire TV Stick, and Cisco cable box with a single remote control, the Internet of Things is a hoax.
I thought I would be clever when I purchased my last TV. I bought the same brand for the Blue Ray player and the external speaker. It had the special plug it so the three devices could “talk”
When it was all set up I discovered I still had four remote controls - one I need to use just to change from the cable box to the Blue ray player.
And the cherry on top was that the external speaker was out of sync with the TV - Following the instructions I still could not get the two to be in sync. You would think that the same brand would be able to talk to each other and sync itself.
When I see the fancy refrigerators advertised on TV my only thought was it will be very expensive to get repaired.
"...Internet Of Things..."
I work for a tech company that has made major capital investment in IoT and robot cars. Huge investments.
To top it off, Verizon has announced their first city-wide deployment of 5G wireless will be where I reside, Sacramento.
Each of you, listen carefully: You don’t want ANY of this crap. None of it.
If you think there’s no privacy now, just wait another 10-15 years. The “internet” will know the dimensions, consistency and weight of every turd you drop. “It” will know the hours you keep, what you watch and read...and it will link it all with your purchasing data. How often you wash whites vs colors...whether you’re heating your water beyond “recommended” and how often you run your AC.
The “internet” will know when you are home and when you are not...and where you are. Who you talked to and what was said.
Your fate will be a lifetime in a fishbowl.