It sucks because this comic is right and boomers are right to be pissed off at stupid shit like needing wifi to power a grill and whatnot. It’s just it’s usually the worst people on earth screaming about it.
I wish appliances lasted 2-3 years. I bought an airfryer a year ago and while it didn’t run on any app/IoT slop, it still had a touch-based control screen and half of it quit working after about 4 months. It was essentially bricked because the side that had the buttons that controlled the temperature and cook time was the side that wasn’t working. The whole process to send the thing in to get it repaired under the warranty would have cost me almost as much as buying a new one (including paying out of pocket to ship it by Fedex/UPS/etc to the service center).
The airfryer was admittedly nice while it lasted though. It was especially great for those few months in the summer because I didn’t have to use my oven to bake certain foods, which would have overheated my already hot house.
I’m with the boomers: bring back knobs and switches, fuck digital buttons.
Umm physical buttons are nice and all but have you ever considered this point: fuck the blind.
(It’s actually because the touch panels are cheaper at scale than the extra parts involved plus manufacturing complexity of physical buttons. Buttons last significantly longer, are more durable, and are are more appropriate in a kitchen setting (where you may have wet/greasy fingers that won’t register correctly/at all on a capacitive touch panel) but they are more likely fail during assembly and simply cost more when you make 10,000+. Plus people love their “sleek” designs)
And that’s why your 2025 car is significantly more dangerous to drive than a 1998 ford taurus, where you could muscle memory the whole dashboard after like 2 hours of driving it. Eventually our whole world will be flat capacitive glass and require our gaze (and again, fuck the blind, I guess)
It sucks because this comic is right and boomers are right to be pissed off at stupid shit like needing wifi to power a grill and whatnot. It’s just it’s usually the worst people on earth screaming about it.
but what if you need to check the status of your grill from your living room? Did you ever think about that? Did you think about the horrors of not owning a $350 toaster that connects to your wifi so it can display the weather and will inevitably break in 2-3 years because its exponentially more complex than a $10 toaster
I wish appliances lasted 2-3 years. I bought an airfryer a year ago and while it didn’t run on any app/IoT slop, it still had a touch-based control screen and half of it quit working after about 4 months. It was essentially bricked because the side that had the buttons that controlled the temperature and cook time was the side that wasn’t working. The whole process to send the thing in to get it repaired under the warranty would have cost me almost as much as buying a new one (including paying out of pocket to ship it by Fedex/UPS/etc to the service center).
The airfryer was admittedly nice while it lasted though. It was especially great for those few months in the summer because I didn’t have to use my oven to bake certain foods, which would have overheated my already hot house.
I’m with the boomers: bring back knobs and switches, fuck digital buttons.
Umm physical buttons are nice and all but have you ever considered this point: fuck the blind.
(It’s actually because the touch panels are cheaper at scale than the extra parts involved plus manufacturing complexity of physical buttons. Buttons last significantly longer, are more durable, and are are more appropriate in a kitchen setting (where you may have wet/greasy fingers that won’t register correctly/at all on a capacitive touch panel) but they are more likely fail during assembly and simply cost more when you make 10,000+. Plus people love their “sleek” designs)
And that’s why your 2025 car is significantly more dangerous to drive than a 1998 ford taurus, where you could muscle memory the whole dashboard after like 2 hours of driving it. Eventually our whole world will be flat capacitive glass and require our gaze (and again, fuck the blind, I guess)
blind people probably shouldn’t be driving cars but yeah touchscreens should never replace buttons
Don’t pick on blind people, “Le woke”. That’s some terrible prejudice. What you should’ve said is “nobody should be driving cars…”