cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/28090390
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/35018512
Far more than c/mildlyinfuriating
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The remote bidet feature could be fun at parties!
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There’s also Insular which lets you clone apps and run them in an isolated sandbox. It’s open source and available in F-Droid.
Correct! I use it whenever I am forced to install some apps. I always loved the android architechture
Enshitification intensifies.
Just 9.99 per month
For the basic plan, based on usage though it looks like you’d save more with our premium tier that allows unlimited flushes per day and includes our smellfesh scent subscription.
Until the company shuts down its servers and your toilet stops working.
And that’d be “only” a toilet. People out there euphorically buying cars like that.
Most people are idiots. You cannot change my mind.
And it goes down mid-use, and the toilet has tamper-proofing that stops you from emptying it any other way “for security”.
And then you “unfortunately” have to buy the newer version for just a couple of bucks more
Unrecognized toilet paper roll detected. Please make sure to only use authentic rolls.
What happens when the company goes out of business? You no longer can flush?
As long as they can convince their shareholders this will eventually make money and you buy into their eventual $30/flush subscription they won’t have to go out of business
Precisely
Funny how this is supposed to be absurd - upside down duck, cake, “bizarro” and all - but it’s actually pretty accurate. So many products out there that require you to download their shitty spyware in order to do the things they are supposed to do.
If you buy garbage products you get garbage products. That’s on you.
Find me a new car in 2024 that doesnt store every GPS coordinate you’ve driven at for eternity. Genuinely, I’d like to see the non-garbage option because my '04 is getting old.
If I buy a new car, I’m going to have to figure out how to lobotomise it. At the very least, you should be able to mess up or cage any transmitters.
I have no idea if that’s possible without taking the whole thing apart, though.
As far as I am aware, most of them aren’t directly transmitting data back to the manufacturer, but the data is stored on the car so if you ever have it worked on the dealership can just pull that shit without consent. I could be wrong though, maybe there are cars now that are doing that. I do know that a a lot of cars are taking the iPhone route of having “encrypted” parts, where if one is missing or replaced, the car just won’t work.
Yep. Until you can’t find non-garbage products anymore because 95% of everyone else is dumb enough to fall for it.
I think there’s a reasonable case to be made against buyer beware here, we need to ban this shit.
I was just making this point with a laissez faire capitalism coworker. Bro just cannot understand the invisible hand is very often wrong.
That’s funny to hear. I’d actually say this kind of thing that happens with electronics is unusual, and people do know what’s in their own best interest the vast majority of the time. Dunno if that puts me in the picture or not.
and people do know what’s in their own best interest the vast majority of the time.
Is that true if the vast majority of people are either uninformed or apathetic?
For example, try buying a television in a retail store that doesn’t have “smart” features at all, just inputs, outputs, and a digital tuner.
I wish. I really do. I want it so badly. My TV upgrades over the past 4 years have all been thrift store finds because I refuse to be forced to buy a device that WILL be obsolete one day.
From what I’ve heard, the move is to substitute in a monitor.
but 30"+ monitors are extremely expensive :(
That’s what you get for not paying by watchind ads
You can buy display panels, and Sceptre TVs still have non-smart options.
I laughed a lot when I saw this and I sent it to my parent who laughed too. This is my parents house right now. They want buttons for their lamps but they were forced to get an app for most of them and had to fight the company to put in buttons. They also got a ventilation system without buttons and they could not get buttons except if they payed for a very expensive hub, so they went for the app. But only one person can be connected at a time and you have to unpair before someone else can pair, so the app act as if it is the hub… it is very strange
My parents had a house built a couple of years ago and it’s the same with them. It’s real hard for me to say “I told you so” like every time I go over there and see them fighting with some app bullshit on one of their appliances. It pisses me off so much because there was nothing wrong with their old house and now I’m going to be stuck inheriting the new one that’s worse in every way. Probably right around the time all the cut corners in the construction start coming out as the place falls apart.
I’d love to inherit a house even if it had no appliances and was falling apart…
Yeah I know I’m fortunate and this is pretty much the only route to home ownership for me it’s just frustrating to think about what could have been and what’s waiting in the future.
it’s just frustrating to think about what could have been and what’s waiting in the future.
Modern existence in a nutshell.
Set up Home Assistant on a Pi or something for them. It can likely control everything from a central app
Funnily enough, my toilet has it’s own app.(“Japanese style” shower toilet by a German company)
It’s non-cloud, Bluetooth only, all functions work without it,but it tells you when preventative maintenance is due and enables you to configure the user profiles easier.
So there’s that.
Wouldn’t have bought it otherwise.
too many household appliances need an app
What a shitty idea.
Is nobody gonna mention the blueberry pie sitting in the middle of the hallway?
“FlushMe: Have You Shat Today!?”
Don’t worry. I’m on a streak. If I keep it going for 30 days I will unlock the flushing feature without having to pay for premium.
NOOO!!! This is the Torment Nexus of toilets… now some company is going to do this…
Some company surely already done this.
Free trial exhausted. Subscribe now to keep using server infrastructure. After all, all you bought was the toilet, you can’t expect the server space for free.
The first thing to be flushed down that drain would be the plumber.
