This isn't a shit post IMO.

I went to a coffee shop yesterday that tried to tell me they only accepted orders through their app. I almost walked out, until the finally poured my coffee, but continued to give me shit about it, "ok but next time you have to use the app"

"Yea no. There will be no next time."

Im with you, I dont need my dishwasher to have WiFi and an account

I rented a car, a Mercedes B class or something

Everytime I started it, it would ask me to sign up for some bullshit Mercedes service Half the features of the car were disabled due to requiring subscriptions

I will NEVER buy that car nor rent it ever again

Buy old stuff

Use open source

Downdate

etc

I helped my dad install a new dumb thermostat last winter. We just had to drill a couple of new holes to mount it, and moved the wires over. Boom,there was heat again. I thought about how much of a pain in the ass it was to get my Ecobee working, and how refreshing it was to just have something work immediately.

It's a very similar feeling to playing my GameBoy Color again after messing around with retro gaming linux handhelds. You just turn it on and play, then just turn it off. No boot sequences, no emulator settings to tweak. No SD card corruption that ruins your game library. Just on and off.

Hello fellow old person. I too miss things that just work.

What fantasy world are you living in? How could my glass hold water if I didn't sign up for a service that sends me spam? How could my table hold a book if I didn't sign up for the monthly subscription that prevents it from ejecting books into the air? Even my cat came with a ToS that said that by petting her, I give her access to my bank account and first born child. Hasn't it always been this way?

Shit either has no buttons, with an capacitive touch surface, or if it has buttons, it's never immediate response, you have to press it for an extended amount of time.

it's fucking infuriating.

It used to be that when i got a new video game for Christmas, i could just put it into the GameCube/PS2 and play it. No need to wait for everyone to also try and download the 40gb update that morning.

My poor tv is like, "connect to the internet? I need to call home! Help, i've been abducted by a luddite!"

Tv, you are never getting my wifi password.

Try plugging in a fork. Those still do what they are supposed to do

I'm road tripping through northern Europe. Staying at Airbnbs and every fucking tv is a smart tv and not one can I pick up a remote and start surfing channels. And if I find tv most of them are slow to react. So it's press ch+ wait 5 seconds on black screen see that it's in a language I don't know and press again.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication (a bit ironic when you consider this quote comes from Apple).

Steam is fun and all, minecraft is a great game, but goddamn, i have a 10kbps at home, and network is unstable where i live, why can't i play my fcking game "licence" which is not even online based, because the network decided to stop??

I prefer from far a simple folder with assets and a .exe that i will put on my desktop with a shortcut.

What an application is supposed to be anyways.

I love some connected devices, and own a LOT of them, but some things are just stupid. I don’t need my blender to be connected. Washer, dryer? Unless it’s going to move my laundry from one to the other, nope. Stove, wtf? I have to go stir anyway so who gives a crap.

This is one of the reasons why I still only use wired headphones.

I really wanna ditch the smart TV I have and just get a display that only displays the picture of the devices I have plugged into its inputs and doesn't get online, doesn't receive updates or "improvements" and has inputs for everything:

3.5mm AUX audio

Composite

S-video

RGB

Hdmi

That optical audio jack made by (IIRC) Sony I can't remember the name of right now. It's what my stereo uses and it's amazing. Used to be super common on TVs.

No waiting for firmware updates

I recently renovated and said fuck no to all the smart home shit. Just the idea of having to troubleshoot the WiFi because my kitchen light won't turn on drives me into a rage.

After trying to get my new automated kitty litter box working with a POS app that can't sync with the poop machine and the PM can't connect to my 5 GHz wireless network (only 2.4 GHz) nor does it have any way to enter the password for said network I have resorted to deleting the app and just pushing two physical buttons in sequence on the PM twice daily to clean the litter area.

car

Omg yes preach !!! I feel it's everything these days, coffee maker....app Vacuum....app Scale...app Electric shower nozzle...fucking app Everything needs a password and an account and my mind is crumbling because of it.

Return to Analog!

you can still have this, you just have to not buy the shit things

the only thing i'm aware of that has no non-shit option anymore is TVs, but then who the fuck watches TV anymore?

I remember when games asked you to register and it was optional... and people joked that they never did because there was no benefit to them whatsoever.

Now it is obligatory. No wonder I prefer retrogaming.

Yup.

Comcast "updated" their network yesterday and broke every fucking smart plug in my house. None of them will work anymore.