@emoltzen Also, it's a good thing thaf "joy" is a descriptor of some people's emotional state and a theme that people are touching on a lot in the speeches…and not their entire campaign strategy.

Why does the NYT hire and publish the absolute bottom of the barrel to fill their opinion pages?

@futurebird It depends. In my car or on a remote or something like that? Absolutely not.

The buttons on my stove, though? I actually like those being capacitive. So much easier to wipe down.

Also prefer them on ear wireless earbuds. The ones I had with physical buttons, I felt like I was driving them down into my ear canals when I operated them.

I think it really depends on the application and the thought and care that went into the design, and it's something that can be done well.

@futurebird It doesn't self fill or have the little dishwasher, so it's a very different sort of gadget, but this tea maker from Breville is available in a US model. It was the first appliance purchase my now-husband and I saved up for together (a real extravagance at the time), and it's served us well for over a decade now.

https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/tea/btm800.html

You can set the temperature and steep time, and it'll just take care of that for you. Can even schedule it so you wake up to a waiting pot of tea.