we have reached a point in time where "no ai" is actually a valid marketing tactic that makes me want to use something.
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we have reached a point in time where "no ai" is actually a valid marketing tactic that makes me want to use something. my toaster had no ai, but assuring me on the box? mm
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@puppygirlhornypost2 a while back I bought a pack of "voice activated" stickers and started putting them on random objects around the office -- a research lab where it would be totally plausible that some random object would be voice activated.
I might have to get some new stickers that say "AI enabled" and try that again
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We bought a toaster/convection/air fryer oven a couple years ago, not only does it not have AI, it doesn't even have digital circuits, it's all knobs and springs and switches. When the timer ends, there is a little actual metal bell that gets struck, instead of those insidious beeping piezoelectric speakers. Anyways, it's glorious and I don't have to update the fucking WiFi password, or set the clock when the power goes out or anything. -
@[email protected] I fucking love electromechanical devices. We need more of them, they’re interesting as fuck and a lot easier to replace than millions of transistors on a silicon wafer etched to absurdly small sizes.
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@[email protected] https://youtu.be/o1qRzKuskK0 Easy to repair intricate machines? Yes please! My god it’s incredible what one can do with a simple relay
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@thezerobit @puppygirlhornypost2 gods I do wish they advertised the pure (electro-)mechanical nature more. They are not perfect (timers usually off) but reliable.
My thermostat is just a bimetallic strip and it just works I don't even know I can buy a new one here without a shitty complicated timing and scheduling system with a touchscreen. -
@[email protected] @[email protected] my god my mom replaced her glass stove to that had knobs bc she broke it… ALL we can find are these shitty capacitive touch models. I literally breathe next to the thing and suddenly all the burners are on and I’m sitting there pressing 500 buttons to cancel it
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@[email protected] @[email protected] I fucking hate that shit so much I’m going to go take a picture of this thing it makes me SO mad.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] I just want to talk to the inventor of this… I just want to talk to him…
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@puppygirlhornypost2 Like this but for AI
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@puppygirlhornypost2 @thezerobit yeah that looks... A bit nuts tbh.
I always have had a glass stovetop even in the 90s with capacitive touch so I know this technology isn't bad but the proper interface design ones are super simple and don't randomly trigger. I would never use a timer on those and the heat should really just be 3 or 4 states (but there usually 0-9 cuz 7seg display) -
@[email protected] @[email protected] people get confused when I tell them capacitive touch has been around since the 90s. there’s this monitor model at work from like 2005 all the buttons are capacitive touch and people complain to me "it just does weird things when I touch it" and I explain well this is the power button and they go "huh?! I thought that was something the iPhone invented" (not kidding)
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@puppygirlhornypost2 imagine me sighing for like five wholeass minutes
