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We Finally Have Proof That the Internet Is Worse::High-profile lawsuits against Google and Amazon have revealed Silicon Valley’s vise grip on our lives.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Its much more than "the internet is worse". Everything technology is worse, can't have nice things.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have a microwave/air fryer/convection combo that I can't use unless I install a phone app. It came with the apartment. It has only a few "buttons" on its face. The UI is almost completely non-intuitive, but the app makes it easy. Every time I bake bread I fight the urge to blow my brains out as I navigate to the app. I have become that which I mocked.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I yearn for the days when my toaster just made toast.

There's a line that needs to be drawn between things that benefit from IoT and things that should've remained dumb

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have a smart toaster? What's it do, write tweets on the toast?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

"Anyone want any toast?"

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't believe this is true. Show pictures and link to the vendor. I wanna see this for myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So I've just had a look out of curiosity and every single result for smart microwave (there's not that many) has buttons on its face as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Use an old phone with no user accounts in it.

God, what garbage.

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