Speaking as someone who was the father of a new born having to do the every 4 hour trip to the kitchen to boil the kettle and prepare formula, drop the previous bottle into boiling water, repeat. I had a system worked out. If the kettle had tried to offer my sleep addled brain witty bromides, well that kettle would be an ex fucking kettle and I'd be staring at the microwave going "you wanna start something, or will you just heat water and shut up?"

If I wanted to have a conversation with my home appliances, I would buy a fucking Furby. No one wants to have to deal with "the fridge can't get an Internet connection". It's a box that makes things cold.

No one actually *likes* to be forced to use this spicy autocomplete shit, so that's why they will continue to stuff it into everything. I give it 12 months before a company advertising "when you contact us, you won't have to deal with this shit" will be a competitive advantage. I mean one of the reasons customers of AussieBB are evangelists for them is that almost always when you talk to them, the front line folks can fix the issue immediately.

@swearyanthony Much like how "user replaceable battery" is extremely high on my feature requirements for a new phone. Similarly TVs should display stuff and tune into RF signals, not be really shitty computers that can't be upgraded or replaced, spy on you, and serve ads at you. Oh, and cars should move you around at your direction, not be moderately shitty computers that can't be upgraded or replaced, spy on you, and whatever else those car-shaped spy machines do.

@StarkRG @swearyanthony absolutely, a car shouldn't need an app & an internet connection...

@Vonskinnback @StarkRG "oh my phone is flat, I can't unlock my car"

@StarkRG @swearyanthony @Vonskinnback the nice cracker around the corner might be able to open it for you 😹

@mirabilos @StarkRG @swearyanthony I am hoping one day that this will be a thing, the ability to replace cells at a reasonable price rather than having to replace the entire battery at the cost of thousands, along with after market firmware/OS & traditional key opening without the need for an app, along with standard charging across the industry, we have only just managed that on mobile phones & that was because the EU put it's foot down...