Everything is a problem
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A QR code and a website I could understand. But app? No.
wrote last edited by [email protected]No, even QR I can only accept as an option, as in completely optional. I'm out and about without a phone quite frequently.
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I rented a car, a Mercedes B class or something
Everytime I started it, it would ask me to sign up for some bullshit Mercedes service
Half the features of the car were disabled due to requiring subscriptionsI will NEVER buy that car nor rent it ever again
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I bought a fan the other day, cause it warm. Cheap as I could find. Plug the thing onto the wall, can't figure out how to get it working. Read the manual: I need an app. I download the app, logged in with Facebook (had to create a Facebook account, for I had none. It was the only option), filled a form with my information, agreed to the Terms of Services and Privacy Policy. Gave it location access, to connect to the fan. It needed a few other permissions, which I had to give it. Now I can turn the fan on and off, from my phone (the fan has none). I can set a direction, turn the spinning on or off. Set the RGB light colours. I can even give it an image, and it'll display on the fan as it spins (probably why they demand entire system file access). I can even turn it on and off from the Quick Settings Tile. And make some changes from there as well. All in all, I must say, this fan is defin
Looks like the fan hopped up and murdered OP before he could finish his post.
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No you don't understand, you can't do that anymore. Because um, everything is actually really bad and enshittified. Wait you bought a not-smart TV to avoid the wifi and ads and such? Um yeah you can't do that.. same with kitchen appliances and everything else. You HAVE to get the wifi version so you can complain online.
I had to watch a 45 minute ad to post this
To be fair, I just bought a smart tv that has never touched the internet and doesn’t give me any problems. No prompts, no ads, just goes to my Apple TV and my steam deck.
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you can still have this, you just have to not buy the shit things
the only thing i'm aware of that has no non-shit option anymore is TVs, but then who the fuck watches TV anymore?
I use a 40" for a PC monitor and dual-monitor setup to watch movies on the 55".
But you're right. My wife and I keep talking about putting spare TVs in the kid's rooms, but they wouldn't watch them anyway.
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I carry a Fire TV stick with me that accesses my Jellyfin server. Just connect it to the internet and you're good to go.
^ OPs livin' the dream in 2045.
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I went to a coffee shop yesterday that tried to tell me they only accepted orders through their app. I almost walked out, until the finally poured my coffee, but continued to give me shit about it, "ok but next time you have to use the app"
"Yea no. There will be no next time."
wrote last edited by [email protected]There's an Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode for exactly this situation
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No, even QR I can only accept as an option, as in completely optional. I'm out and about without a phone quite frequently.
This sentence makes me realize I take my phone with me everywhere
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What fantasy world are you living in? How could my glass hold water if I didn't sign up for a service that sends me spam? How could my table hold a book if I didn't sign up for the monthly subscription that prevents it from ejecting books into the air? Even my cat came with a ToS that said that by petting her, I give her access to my bank account and first born child. Hasn't it always been this way?
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No, even QR I can only accept as an option, as in completely optional. I'm out and about without a phone quite frequently.
I have my phone on me all the time. Still no way im using an app to order. The screens I can tolerate at fastfood joints because it gives me time to decide.
But if you can't be bothered to come to my table to ask what I want at a real restaurant, I can't be bothered to go to your > resturant.
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I'm road tripping through northern Europe. Staying at Airbnbs and every fucking tv is a smart tv and not one can I pick up a remote and start surfing channels. And if I find tv most of them are slow to react. So it's press ch+ wait 5 seconds on black screen see that it's in a language I don't know and press again.
Do people under 60 still have flow TV? Why would you sit though a bunch of commercials to let other people decide what you are going to watch?
Streaming is becoming shit but for now it's still better than flow TV.
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I love some connected devices, and own a LOT of them, but some things are just stupid. I don’t need my blender to be connected. Washer, dryer? Unless it’s going to move my laundry from one to the other, nope. Stove, wtf? I have to go stir anyway so who gives a crap.
I like my washer and dryer being connected. I can load it in the evening a set my Home Assistant to start it when the price on power is low.
The other things I agree with
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I bought a fan the other day, cause it warm. Cheap as I could find. Plug the thing onto the wall, can't figure out how to get it working. Read the manual: I need an app. I download the app, logged in with Facebook (had to create a Facebook account, for I had none. It was the only option), filled a form with my information, agreed to the Terms of Services and Privacy Policy. Gave it location access, to connect to the fan. It needed a few other permissions, which I had to give it. Now I can turn the fan on and off, from my phone (the fan has none). I can set a direction, turn the spinning on or off. Set the RGB light colours. I can even give it an image, and it'll display on the fan as it spins (probably why they demand entire system file access). I can even turn it on and off from the Quick Settings Tile. And make some changes from there as well. All in all, I must say, this fan is defin
This fan of yours sounds fucking terrible, bud.
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I like my washer and dryer being connected. I can load it in the evening a set my Home Assistant to start it when the price on power is low.
The other things I agree with
how often is your electricity provider changing rate timing?
this could easily be done on the device itself with a timer/schedule
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To be fair, I just bought a smart tv that has never touched the internet and doesn’t give me any problems. No prompts, no ads, just goes to my Apple TV and my steam deck.
Well see I don't think that's accurate, if you bought a TV in the last 50 years it only displays content if connected to WiFi and the only servers it connects to are Google AdSense servers. It is known.
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click the calls app and click the contact
Two things you don't have to do on a dedicated phone. I bet you had to unlock your phone first, too.
on a dedicated phone you had dedicated phone. No call history, no phonebook, no call log. So yes, it is technically more taps to get to the dialing stage. But it’s faster overall
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How else are you supposed to see the live stream from inside it, and get progress notifications and ads?
I would actually like a live stream of the dishwasher. I bet it is gross as hell.
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Return to Analog!
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I rented a car, a Mercedes B class or something
Everytime I started it, it would ask me to sign up for some bullshit Mercedes service
Half the features of the car were disabled due to requiring subscriptionsI will NEVER buy that car nor rent it ever again
wrote last edited by [email protected]the fuck, which features?
