The fact that it's borderline impossible to slowly adjust some appliances without a remote already bothers me.

I love my air conditioner but it leaves precision adjustments to the app despite coming with a fucking remote

Please Soulless Venture Capitalists, Finance Me to start a company that makes Dumb Technology. No circuit boards. No screens. It has knobs and buttons and is so simple it will never fail and a monkey could fix it.

I cannot believe that captialism genuinely turned me into a Luddite. I hate smart tvs, smart toasters, smart printers, smart dryers. I hate it alllll.

Yeah, "smart" and wifi features are the first sign the whole thing is a shitshow. It's AWFUL.

Also because the security on all these “smart devices” is so ass, they’re often targeted by hackers to add to botnets and shit

I'm pretty sure my oven is smart and there's an app for it, but I prefer to turn it on and off manually, when I'm home. I've even un ai-ed my devices as much as possible. I still use paper lists written with a bic pen!!!

I bought a sound bar for my tv. To get it to work on my specific television required it to access my WiFi… to get it to do that required an app I had to download to my phone to send it instructions. It had its own WiFi connection, but still needed a phone app to work. Infuriating.

And create a login to our website to enable the AI features.

At least the haircut place I use has a website that you make your appointment on before arriving, then tells you when to come in.