Re:Canadians name top appliance brands that break down
by donmcronald on Sunday March 01, 2020 @11:47PM
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I remember reading an article about point and shoot cameras becoming popular because most users don't adjust any settings away from defaults. I feel like appliances are the same. Ours have a ton of options on them, but only a few are used. I could literally use a washer with cold/warm/hot and that's it.
Re:Canadians name top appliance brands that break down
by ajxs on Sunday March 01, 2020 @08:02PM
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I could not agree more. I hope a market for brainless appliances remains far into the future. I would personally pay far more for appliances that have no DRM, no data collection, no intelligence of any kind.
Re:Canadians name top appliance brands that break down
by briandear on Sunday March 01, 2020 @10:38PM
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> The less they do, the better
You are g’damned right. I like purpose-built, high quality things/tools that do one thing perfectly. TVs are another example or where this goes wrong. Irons, toasters, blenders, microwaves — all products that I will happily spend more money for the fewer features they have.
Did it at least send you a message that it was leaking? Heh.
I'm a big proponent of 'dumb appliances'. The less they do, the better. All this IoT-ification of everything is madness. It just introduces points of failure, attack surfaces and privacy intrusions for no benefit for the consumer whatsoever. Oh, and they're nearly impossible to repair because everything's DRMed and microcontrollers actively prevent you from fixing things with 'unauthorized parts'.
My household still has 15 year old Maytag appliances that still work perfectly and have no DRM in them. I plan on fixing them until the day I die because I really don't want to deal with this new mess.