Hopefully your phone is secured with a PIN or other means to protect it.
What modern things do you hate/dislike?
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This is definitely hateful for things that could operate without a connection, like heated seats for example.I've read that some appliances and cars *require* internet access and a subscription from the buying consumer to 'unlock' certain features.
So, you're paying for an appliance with features you cannot use unless you comply.
My 2024 Mustang does have some connection features that require a subscription, but they are all software things that logically need internet connection, nothing that is physically local to the car.
Something most people do not know: in the 1980s and 1990s, the functional differences between the highest model TVs and the next ones down the line were often a software switch accessible by a serviceman's remote control, because it was too expensive to make different chassis with different IC's. "Picture In Picture" was often one of these. Of course, the lower model might not have two tuners, but PIP could work with one off-air signal and a baseband signal from a VCR.
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Doghouse
Super Member
Yes, ours can, but it's a totally unnecessary for us, because we don't trust unattended domestic appliances.
Understood, and of course not, unattended. With Internet connectivity I'm thinking of other interests having control, like power companies to turn them off or limit times of operation for various reasons.
RVT1K
Super Member
I was going to post this also!
I have a bunch of LED work lights for the garage, also head lamps on a strap (those are a game changer for working on the car). The lights themselves are amazing in terms of brightness and (to a slightly lesser extent) how long they run, but user interfaces are super annoying. I haven't figured out how any of them work because they are all different, and I keep bouncing between them depending on what light I need. I just mash buttons until I finally stumble on what works. Some have a color temperature setting (cool/warm) in addition to brightness, then there are also flashing modes on some lights. It is really annoying to click through them -- usually you can't know you are already on the brightest setting until you click past it -- so then you need to take another "lap" around the modes..
Let's not forget the battery charging indicators on those lights that also vary wildly. The "no brainer" charging indicator approach would be to have a simple red (battery low) / yellow (partially charged) / green (fully charged) indicator, but that is NEVER the case. On some, a green LED mean it's charged, on others green means it's charging, and sometimes the status LED being off means it's charged -- sometimes red means it's being charged, on others it means it's fully charged, and sometimes red means it's discharged. There oughta be a law demanding uniformity on user interfaces!
I have a LED reading lamp that falls into the unnecessarily over-complicated group. It even has a freakin' remote with almost as many buttons on it as the one for the Firestick has. Making things worse is there isn't any actual words on the remote just a bunch of symbols that, apparently, make sense to everyone but me.
A simple toggle switch on the cord would have been just fine...
RVT1K
Super Member
Or by posting something deemed unacceptable by the current regime of the Thought Police
DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
The ultimate control point is money, and we lost control of that a looooong time ago.
Quadman2
Lunatic Member
My hate for the day, and NOT a dislike is...the d****ed commercials that break up the continuity/flow of a TV documentary or movie!
And to add to the "visual interruption" of the plot/plan of the TV experience, there's a barrage of several advertisements linked together so the interruption is even more severe!
And yes, one can pay out more "Protection Money" to avoid these above "visual parasites" (to a degree), but it's essentially...extortion for freedom!
Q
And to add to the "visual interruption" of the plot/plan of the TV experience, there's a barrage of several advertisements linked together so the interruption is even more severe!
And yes, one can pay out more "Protection Money" to avoid these above "visual parasites" (to a degree), but it's essentially...extortion for freedom!
Q
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DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
It looks like our human future is going to be boiled down to: Watching ads on screens and choosing which crap to buy.
It actually doesn't matter -- on most phones, the code can be read while the phone is still locked because the text popup shows the first few lines of the content
Been there, done that with overly complicated / overly obscure remotes, and have gone to EXTREME measures to fix it
My basement is a set up like a vintage wine bar (kind of a 1930's to 1950's vibe), and I use LED lights in many areas. The lights are brilliant because you can control dimness, color, color temp (to get proper vintage color) from the remote -- but (as you say) the remotes are overly complicated. Fortunately, the lights are "set and forget", so once you have the color and brightness set, they stay in that setting when turned on and off. The problem is that guests were hitting the wrong buttons, often. Also, the stack of bright white mini remotes with bright colored buttons couldn't look more out of place in the vintage setting.
So, I did what any sane person would do
, and built a mechanical remote box around them.I suspect this is the world’s first analog mechanical universal remote
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