• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    This has been a gripe of mine for a looong time and not just in cars. For fuck sake, my fucking oven is touch screen and has wifi. why?

    Every time I wipe it off, it thinks I’m touching 37 buttons and it overwelms the CPU, and the system restarts

    Never again

    • no banana@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Same with fucking electric stove tops. Why am I to use touch controls on the same surface that heats my pots and pans? Idiocy.

      • max@feddit.nl
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        11 months ago

        I guess I disagree on that one. If you’re talking induction, that is. For me, it’s a magical slab of glass that heats my food and is ridiculously easy to clean thanks for the touch buttons. Wipe wipe and it’s clean.

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            11 months ago

            Ah, that makes sense. I’m only used to induction and the regular old gas stoves.

      • Damage@slrpnk.net
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        11 months ago

        Well, touch controls on appliances make more sense because they should last way longer than mechanical buttons, and it’s not dangerous for you to focus your attention on them like it would be while driving.

            • Nudding@lemmy.world
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              11 months ago

              Lol there are mechanical buttons who still work who outlive any touchscreen alive today by 200 years, what are you talking about lol?

              • Damage@slrpnk.net
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                11 months ago

                First of all, touch buttons don’t necessarily mean touch screens. Second, survivorship bias.

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                  11 months ago

                  First of all, I absolutely do not believe that a capacitive sensor + control circuitry + whatever firmware that requires + the OS that I’m sure is running somewhere inside the device + the myriads of technically unnecessary software + OTA update functionality + IoT (the S is for security) integration + enormous attack surface as a result of all of the preceding points is going to last longer or work more reliably than a robustly-engineered switch or rheostat. Second, planned obsolescence is a fairly recent “innovation”.