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Cars, TVs, most home appliances -- These all suck so loving much. There *must* be a market for making [thing] that isn't dogshit. I've said it before in this here thread, but you could charge me an extra $500 for a TV with ZERO smart 'feature' and I'd buy it for the privilege of not having to deal with software. This exists to some degree - Bosch Dishwashers, Miele stoves, etc. but that market is very narrow in some places (appliances) and actually doesn't exist in others (TVs).
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Dec 1, 2023 20:52
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cars suck now, for the most part, due to compliance with government regulations. mandates for minimum crash safety metrics and "smart" features like lanekeeping and backup cameras have made modern cars heavy, expensive to build and complex in their maintenance. all in an effort to make it so the driver has to be less and less attentive and can feel free to crash their car whenever because they (the occupant, certainly not pedestrians or cyclists) will be safe. couple that weight with mandates for minimum fuel efficiency + emissions standards and you have all sorts of wacky tricks to meet those requirements. turbochargers on every engine, more complex engine management, etc. they've advanced automotive efficiency technology in some ways but ultimately these bloated expensive pieces of poo poo are even worse for society, even if they're "better" for motorists
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Dec 1, 2023 20:58
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It's time to get rid of cars
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Dec 1, 2023 20:59
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deep dish peat moss posted:It's time to get rid of cars
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Dec 1, 2023 20:59
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deep dish peat moss posted:It's time to get rid of cars
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Dec 1, 2023 21:00
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deep dish peat moss posted:It's time to get rid of cars The Age of the Segway is upon us!
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Dec 1, 2023 21:02
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I use public transportation whenever I can and every time I tell someone that I commute on the train or the bus or whatever they immediately start apologizing and telling me how awful that is. But really it's just time that I get to sit undisturbed and turn my brain off while I read or listen to music and watch the city pass by and it kind of owns. I do a lot of good thinking & writing on the bus/train.
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Dec 1, 2023 21:04
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Cars, TVs, most home appliances -- These all suck so loving much. Just calling out, I got an Insignia 'dumb' TV from Best Buy for Black Friday - it was down to $130, normally $170. It's nothing amazing, just a 1080p LED screen, but it works fine. Better than the smart tvs I've used, it starts up right away. I also found an Insignia CD player boombox while there. Like, new in box, for 2023. For all your...CDs you buy, in 2023. Insignia is almost single-handedly holding up the old electronics market lol
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Dec 1, 2023 21:07
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Anyway they're doing this bc then they sell advertising on these devices. They're phasing out devices that DON'T advertise at you because to these companies, leaving that advertising stream of revenue behind is folly. And they don't want you to have access to devices that can't advertise at you or their whole system falls apart. They've basically made the deals with the advertisers by promising that people won't have a choice of escaping, and they can only make that real by giving people no chance of escape. Eventually, probably sooner than we think, they wont sell 'dumb' devices and we'll all be googling ways to destroy the TV screen in our fridge without bricking the thing.
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Dec 1, 2023 21:10
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i actually think dumb tvs have slightly trended up over the years you just got to look up stuff that isnt the big named brands.
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Dec 1, 2023 21:12
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Just don't connect your tv to WiFi. I did it once to update my Bravia and then I turned it off
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Dec 1, 2023 21:12
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Just calling out, I got an Insignia 'dumb' TV from Best Buy for Black Friday - it was down to $130, normally $170. It's nothing amazing, just a 1080p LED screen, but it works fine. Better than the smart tvs I've used, it starts up right away. I guess for me personally, I want a nice panel attached to the dumbest controller possible. The dumb TVs that do exist don't really have nice panels attached to them  .
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Dec 1, 2023 21:29
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Yeah to get the nice panels you have to search for, like, commercial display screens (think the sorts of screens that display menus for fast food places), which are $$ bc of the market they're for.
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Dec 1, 2023 21:34
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Has this one not been posted yet? I'll post it again anyways https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/ Also, deep dish peat moss posted:It's time to get rid of cars
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Dec 1, 2023 21:41
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You should be able to call south east Asia directly and get a TV. Or wherever they are made
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Dec 1, 2023 21:42
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I'm making a change.org petition to get rid of cars RIGHT NOW!
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Dec 1, 2023 21:51
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Honestly, if you buy an IoT anything, you kinda deserve all the bullshit that comes with it. It's the most obvious grift in the world combined with a privacy nightmare, so Iunno what to tell you. When your SMART TOASTER rejects loving bread, it's kinda on you for buying such a stupid device to begin with...
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Dec 1, 2023 22:11
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I got a replacement credit card so the subscription expired on my IoT lightbulbs due to non payment and I fell down the stairs in the dark halp plz fake edit: as evil as subscription services are I'm really struggling to understand why anyone could possibly give a poo poo about starting your car from anywhere but in your car. Warming up cars hasn't been a thing since like the 70s
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Dec 1, 2023 22:24
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I got a replacement credit card so the subscription expired on my IoT lightbulbs due to non payment and I fell down the stairs in the dark halp plz It's for people who live in a place where winter is serious business. Not that I necessarily agree that they should do this but that is the use case.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:28
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I got a replacement credit card so the subscription expired on my IoT lightbulbs due to non payment and I fell down the stairs in the dark halp plz I live in AZ and if the car is parked anywhere outside half the year its absolutely miserable getting into the car. Letting it cool for a few minutes before you arrive is nice. Not anywhere near nice enough to pay a subscription for, though. I imagine the same is true in reverse in places like Minnesota, less about warming up the engine, and more about making the interior of the car not feel like death when you first get in.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:30
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skooma512 posted:It's for people who live in a place where winter is serious business. i mean its nice to have a warm cabin to step into, but imo its better to minmax winter driving with winter tires and an engine block warmer
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Dec 1, 2023 22:33
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If it's like seriously cold it's not a terrible idea to let the car idle for a few minutes, but look, man invented coats and gloves for a reason, just turn the key and go back inside you big baby. Or brush the snow off the car.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:34
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Just calling out, I got an Insignia 'dumb' TV from Best Buy for Black Friday - it was down to $130, normally $170. It's nothing amazing, just a 1080p LED screen, but it works fine. Better than the smart tvs I've used, it starts up right away. Yeah, people have been saying you can't buy a dumb TV for years and maybe it'll be true some day but it isn't yet. Maybe what they mean is "you can't buy a dumb tv [with all of these performance parameters I want to hit]", idk. Smart TVs do suck poo poo though. It's sort of incredible how like 80% of all consumer good were just objectively better 20 years ago.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:45
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Rochallor posted:If it's like seriously cold it's not a terrible idea to let the car idle for a few minutes, but look, man invented coats and gloves for a reason, just turn the key and go back inside you big baby. Or brush the snow off the car. lol this. Cars are making us soft! Think of your ancestors!
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Dec 1, 2023 22:48
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Rochallor posted:If it's like seriously cold it's not a terrible idea to let the car idle for a few minutes, but look, man invented coats and gloves for a reason, just turn the key and go back inside you big baby. Or brush the snow off the car. Yeah I was going to respond with something like "oh no imagine enduring all of a minute to a minute and a half of sub optimal temperatures" but let's be real here, these guys are remote starting their car while still in bed hitting snooze twelve times and letting the car idle for 45 minutes If you live in Phoenix I feel for you but also please move out of that literal hell on earth. There's nothing there of any value and it's not fit for human habitation.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:55
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My remote start only runs for 5 minutes until turning off. I think its configurable but its not indefinite. I also sleep in my car on camping trips and its kind of nice to hit the start from inside the cocoon of a sleeping bag so the cabin warms up enough to get dressed Really its more of a luxury than anything else, which is probably why they're trying to paywall it
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Dec 1, 2023 23:04
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800peepee51doodoo posted:fake edit: as evil as subscription services are I'm really struggling to understand why anyone could possibly give a poo poo about starting your car from anywhere but in your car. Warming up cars hasn't been a thing since like the 70s My gf has cold urticaria and all the trim levels that have seat warmers so she doesn’t break out into hives are leather which also gets really cold so I had to get remote start for her so she could warm it up
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Dec 1, 2023 23:09
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deep dish peat moss posted:It's time to get rid of cars I can't tell if it's confirmation bias, but the way people are driving lately around me makes me believe this more than ever. Just last night when I was crossing the street at a red light some rear end in a top hat slowly drove around the cars in front of him into the oncoming lane to blow through the light and make a left. Just to get stuck in traffic again. These days, I don't even cross the street immediately when I get the signal because some shithead will always blow through the solid red light. If the city would crack down on lovely driving with citations and use the money on our public transit, I'm positive we could gold plate all of our trains. I guess it's more important for NYPD to demonstrate how useless they are.
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Dec 1, 2023 23:14
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In the hospital they used to have these dope rear end insulated mugs that I have a collection of. Now you get paper cups. Pictured dope rear end mug 
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Dec 1, 2023 23:15
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A lot of those terrible drivers are off duty cops
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Dec 1, 2023 23:15
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Drivers became generally terrible in my area back when COVID first hit, and I figured it might take a while to get better but instead at this point I think it's just been normalized cause poo poo isn't getting better.
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Dec 1, 2023 23:24
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bossy lady posted:I can't tell if it's confirmation bias, but the way people are driving lately around me makes me believe this more than ever. I live on a one-way street, where a lot of people drive on the wrong way because if they do it fast enough they can knock about thirty seconds off just driving the long way around. The problem is that I'm a loving pedestrian, and the cars going the normal way look like normal cars and I can gauge how fast they're going and how far away they are. Coming from the other side, it's a loving maniac trying to beat oncoming traffic who may not know where the actual turn is and they have pedestrian-blindness because they're mostly trying not to hit other cars or be seen by cops.
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Dec 1, 2023 23:30
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Mischievous Mink posted:Drivers became generally terrible in my area back when COVID first hit, and I figured it might take a while to get better but instead at this point I think it's just been normalized cause poo poo isn't getting better. I also think driving in general has gotten appreciably worse because/since Covid. In my state, it seems like they don't enforce speed limits as much as they used to. For one example, I used to see speed traps on the highway fairly often. Haven't seen one since 2019.
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Dec 1, 2023 23:32
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the effect that COVID had on the long haul trucking industry has been very appreciable after driving to Denver twice and Lubbock once in the last 2 years
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Dec 1, 2023 23:35
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shazbot posted:In the hospital they used to have these dope rear end insulated mugs that I have a collection of. Now you get paper cups. Oh man, that takes me back. I used to have one of these that I got at a thrift store got for the express purpose of taking to the movies. I would fill it with soda or water beforehand, take it with me, and when somebody called me on it I would gesture at the name of the hospital and say, "I have diabetes," and hope they didn't ask any follow-up questions. 100% success rate.
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MrQwerty posted:the effect that COVID had on the long haul trucking industry has been very appreciable after driving to Denver twice and Lubbock once in the last 2 years
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Dec 1, 2023 23:47
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nice obelisk idiot posted:Condolences on having to drive to Lubbock it was terrible
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bossy lady posted:I can't tell if it's confirmation bias, but the way people are driving lately around me makes me believe this more than ever. I bike 4.5 miles each way to work. I don't know if its something we're putting in the water at work but I almost got hit three times. Twice by people turning into the flow of traffic and only checking the traffic in one direction. Had to shout at both of them for them to see me. The other was someone making a turn perpendicular to my direction of travel. Again, had to shout to make her see me. Hit the brakes hard enough to skid. I was obeying all traffic laws pertaining to cyclists in my city. I know because I work for the city and there are posted signs. Its loving wild.
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Beastie posted:I bike 4.5 miles each way to work. I don't know if its something we're putting in the water at work but I almost got hit three times. Twice by people turning into the flow of traffic and only checking the traffic in one direction. Had to shout at both of them for them to see me. The other was someone making a turn perpendicular to my direction of travel. Again, had to shout to make her see me. Hit the brakes hard enough to skid. I was car-free for six years leading into the pandemic, I feel your pain. People are so goddamn oblivious it's disgusting. I have to drive a lot more since moving to the infrastructure wasteland that is the greater Baltimore area and tbh it's just as bad as biking. I had two close calls this week; in both cases the dipshit drivers pulled out of perpendicular side streets (one of them running a stop sign in the process) while looking in the entirely wrong goddamn direction. Like heads fully turned 90° away from my profanity-spewing face. I don't know what the gently caress happened to people's brains during the pandemic but they now seem to lack even the most basic of self-preservation instincts, which as it turns out makes them incredibly hard to predict. I loving hate car culture in this stupid loving country.
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