JuhisAug 11, 2024

When the company calls their home appliances "smart", what I hear is:

- they spent money on features I don't care about
- those features will be worse than standalone devices but will drive them out of market (looking at you TVs)
- the appliance is more likely to break
- my data is likely being sold to advertisers
- when the company loses interest in it and cut support, I will need to buy a new device

So no, I don't want "smart" home appliances.

Show threadPhil Davis
@hamatti
- a non-trivial amount of your time will be spent waiting on updates
- you will be served advertising directly from the device (cursing at you, TVs)
Aug 11, 2024 at 2:59pmWeb
Show threadJayAug 11, 2024
@rekiwi @hamatti - Worse than not caring about them, all of the “smart” features actively work against what you want to do, and the 2 seconds it saves you in one area will be paid back by the 40 minutes of increasingly frustrated menu navigation, looking for the manual, craning your neck at painful angle to see the item number so you can google its manual which has clearly been scanned and uploaded by a bored 7 year old