It's not tech. It's capitalism.
God damn, I feel like this is the same as that other shit article.
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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Why are people so stupid, lol. Oh wait life is literally marketing in 2020. I don't even know if I'm alive anymore. Do me a favor and check my seo and engagement.
It's like every issue is just privileged assholes complaining that the way they raped Earth and lives didn't work out for their good.
Dude. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's 2023 now :(
Shit. Are we still on lockdown?
The article is literally about the problem of ownership being too concentrated and wealth overruling people with knowledge of businesses. "Tech" here doesn't mean technology it means the big tech companies.
Somehow people haven't been convinced that just because a phone or computer is inserted it's a totally different thing. Crypto is just money with extra steps and a digital device, ride sharing is just splitting a cab, streaming is just cable split into a few pieces. Products barely changed, just shiny new conmen out front pushing the products.
I, for one, do want to go back to wind down windows, manual transmission, and dials on my stove top. A lot of modern technology is flashy but shit in practice. Touch screens in cars for example. It will always be better to have physical buttons you can memorize the locations of and navigate by feel.
I have knobs on my stove and you are right, its better
I honestly want to smash my stupid fucking stove top with it's bullshit touch buttons that decide to activate when I happen to move a hot pan across them. I would smash it if I wasn't renting.
My dishwasher has that. Every time I stand at the counter, it turns on and off and starts by itself. I hate it.
Oh god. New stoves don’t have knobs? Are they touchscreens now too? I will pretend I did not just read that information and be a ‘old man yells at cloud’ when the time comes to buy a new stove.
Our electric cooking plate is touch only, and our oven has touch buttons in combination with physical dials for temperature/timers.
Bought a microwave with analog dials a little while ago. Surprisingly rare and more expensive, but operating microwave is never easier now compared to inputting numbers on a shitty keypad. Just turn the power level knob and the timer knob and it's on.
Yep, two simple mechanical knobs is easily the best microwave oven interface. Although I do like the fancy Samsung microwave I have that is almost completely silent and lightweight, I think it uses an inverter instead of a chonky HV transformer. I wish I could get a combo of that inverter with a couple of simple knobs for controls.
Bought a brand new car without a touchscreen and you know what? It’s fabulous! The 4-way jog wheel is so much better than trying to touch an app or a button on a screen. Oh and it has a physical volume knob! It’s just great to use.
Ooh, what car is that?
Mazda CX-90 PHEV
Nice, thanks!
I'm confused, the CX-90 has a big touch screen in the center?
On the lower trims the big screen isn’t touch and honestly it doesn’t need to be. Also note, the CX-90 and CX-90 PHEV are treated as separate vehicles with separate trim levels.
Tech / innovation for its own sake has been an issue for as long as I can remember (back to the 80s) and I wouldn't be surprised if it dates back to the first stone tools. So you end up with a mix of useful, helpful innovations and idiotic ones at any given time. Tech nerds like me tend to try to find ways to apply what we know whether it helps or not...