Far more than c/mildlyinfuriating

  • hOrni@lemmy.world
    59·
    6 days ago

    You have already flushed 3 times today. Wait 22 hours, or upgrade to FlushApp premium to enjoy unlimited flushing experience.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    64·
    7 days ago

    you jest but I recently bought a stove that breaks some UX functions unless you use their fucking app.

    I refuse to. fuck em. it does 100% of what I need but that extra 15% would have made it the best ever.

    now it gets 2 stars and a bad review for paywalled features.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          9·
          7 days ago

          Unfortunately, you always have to look now.

          And give it a few years and you’ll always have to look for “AI” too. We really are approaching Red Dwarf Talky Toaster territory.

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 days ago

        there’s imperfections in the UI on the stove. like for example there’s no number pad. just up and down arrows. this means I can’t input a timer for 17 minutes, I can go to 15 or 20.

        others features like using the air fry broiler will only work with the app, but the regular broil setting works fine. the difference is the fan runs 100% of the time on air fry mode vs intermittently on regular convection mode.

        designed inconveniences are the rage for product development now.

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 days ago

        I have a stove with optional app support, but I tolerate it because the app doesn’t add anything. The local controls can do everything. If you use the app, you have to hit a button on the local controls anyway to confirm you are physically there anyway before it listens to the app for most things.

        The only thing that was somewhat convenient was phone notification when timed cooking was done, because the stoves own chime wasn’t that loud. However ultimately I stopped bothering and just set a phone timer when I set cook timer, because keeping the oven on the network was an active maintenance activity that wasn’t worth it.

    • Joelk111@lemmy.world
      5·
      5 days ago

      I just thought of a brand new completely different and revolutionary product. A toilet that flushes automatically when you get off the toilet using my patented technology Aii, Artificial Intelligence Infared. I’ll call it the iToilet AI^2. I’m going to be rich.

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
    49·
    7 days ago

    And when the company stops wanting to pay the webservice hosting costs, you have to pay the plumber to come back and throw your useless toilet in the trash.

    Worked for a company that made a kitchen appliance that had zero buttons. Needed an app. If you unplugged it without shutting it down in the app, it’d send you an alert notification. The app took at least three taps to fucking turn it off.

    And the company was paying something like $1MM/yr to AWS to keep this thing running.

  • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    7 days ago

    Fun tip, you can dump a bucket of water to flush the toilet. Useful if you’re ever working on your water supply after taco night.

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
    23·
    7 days ago

    Ok, sure, why not, but wait, hear me out:
    A.I.-powered toilet, on the blockchain, and call it Shitcoin!

  • jj4211@lemmy.world
    21·
    7 days ago

    Once that frustrates me greatly is eight sleep. My wife had been trying various products and unfortunately eight sleep was the best executed one. But they are openly hostile to local controls.

    From the time they have released people have been complaining over and over about zero local controls, suggesting buttons on the base, a remote, or even local wifi or Bluetooth controls and their people keep coming online and patronizing by claiming their engineers are working on it, but it’s hard. Truth is they are passing a fucking subscription plan to use your damn bed.

    Finally they came out with their local control “solution”. No, buttons should not be on the base, that would be inconvenient. No, a remote control would be too easy to lose. So they implemented super dodgy earbud type controls, two taps for a tick colder, three taps for a tick warmer. Ok, janky as hell, but finally, local controls. So you get things going and do the tap and long buzz meaning “reject” the request. Turns out the taps will only process if the cloud server says it’s ok, and the bed will usually be “off” and not receptive to taps unless you turn it on via Internet app or you have an Internet arranged schedule that has it on at the time you want to adjust it.

    It’s a shame since they otherwise had fantastic execution, but their monetization through an app strategy is maddening. So my home has one cloud based device and it pisses me off.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      7 days ago

      Now I want to take an eight sleep apart and see if I can lobotomize it…

        • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          6 days ago

          Stupidly enough, if you read their warranty policy, they got around the fact that it’s not legal for a warranty company to remove a warranty for modding the equipment, by forcing you to have a subscription in order to use the warranty. Their website states

          The Pod is a product designed to be slept on every night – and designed to last. We stand behind our product with a 2-year limited warranty, meaning if you have any issues or problems, our team will replace your Pod device as long as you purchased directly through Eight Sleep and have an active membership.

          Since this membership is the same thing that is connected to controlling the bed through the app from what I understand, it sounds like even if you did mod it you would still be stuck with that remote solution due to the fact that if you canceled your subscription you wouldn’t have a warranty, inviting a warranty on a at minimum $2,500 bed is just no bueno

          This is definitely a device that I would be putting my States warranty law into effect, because this sort of shit ain’t legal in my state

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          6 days ago

          It’s gotta be what, a thermostat, a peristaltic pump and a heater/heat exchanger? Replace the brains with an arduino or a pi and a couple of relays.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      7·
      7 days ago

      I’ve never heard of eight sleep and I went to their web site, and immediately the site is super fucking annoying

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      my opinion, I would have returned it for that reason. Having a bed that doesn’t work if I lose power or have an internet outage is a hard no for me. Especially concidering the price range a lot of those start at 2k+ USD. The lack of an ability to use it without an app is a deal breaker, the lack of an ability to use it locally is almost as bad

      edit: holy cow the more I read the site the more red flags I see, $2,500 minimum for a bed that doesn’t even have a warranty unless you have an active subscription that hasn’t expired since you bought the bed, the extended warranty is a 5-year warranty that is of course an additional amount of money with the same conditions. I’ve never seen a bed that didn’t have an at least 10 year warranty on it out of the box, most offer a 15 to 20 year warranty.

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 days ago

        Well, even a locally controlled bed would have “not worked” (well, it’s still a bed obviously, just not heating/cooling) in a power outage.

        Note our household got it when it was significantly cheaper (still expensive-ish, but not nearly as bad as now) and grandfathered into being able to use it without a monthly subscription. In a bit of bad/good luck, because replacements kept leaking, we got warranty-upgraded to the current offering. So get to know how the new stuff is without having had to pay as much or maintain a monthly subscription. When we bought it, at least, they had good warranty coverage for leaks.

        So I get to see how good the hardware design fundamentally is while also knowing how anti-consumer the business and software side is going.

        Ultimately when/if I lose sane access to the capabilities, I’ll probably start poking around to see about hacking at least the heating and cooling, since we did struggle to find a good comfortable design for such a thing before getting here. They really did at least nail the mattress pad part, and the heating/cooling is pretty good without being obtrusive. The vibration and sensors might be nice, but ultimately I don’t care too much about that.

        • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          Yea power outage makes sense given what it does. It’s good that you got it cheaper, currently see the pods starting $2500 and the higher end is $5500, for a bed that requires a $17-27 a month subscription, and doesn’t work if you lack internet is insane to me. excluding the warrenty part of it. Sad to see they downgraded their protections and quality

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 days ago

    Subscribe and we reserve the right to throttle flush speed/volume after 6pm.

    Standard app doesn’t cover diarrhea or menstruation - those are luxury secretions for our plus members

  • nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    21·
    7 days ago

    My last ISP demanded I use an Eero router that had no web interface, it was only accesible via an app.

    • Emerald@lemmy.world
      5·
      7 days ago

      My grandma has a mesh wifi thing provided by her ISP and I couldn’t find a web interface on it either. I wonder if that’s why.

    • exasperation@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      3d scanner that generates a 3d printing file that automatically creates one in your friends’ inboxes. It’s just plastic for now but they’re working on adding new materials and artificial scents to really capture the whole experience.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    It doesn’t count as satire if it’s literally the situation word for word, you have to exaggerate it at least a little. smh

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      I love little adventure/Twine-style games like this, thanks for sharing! Very lovely.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    I found a “smart” Wi-Fi bulb in the trash and used a throwaway phone to pair it through its app. It was adjustable white and RGB, so I put it in the bathroom and thought I’d trigger it to be dim red (cicardian rhythm, you know) whenever it was night (using a built-in RTC, NTP or light sensor, whatever it was capable of). Well, nope! It only connects to Wi-Fi when powered on (understandable) and only takes orders from an external server god-knows-where, with limited local functionality (party-light cycling, WB matching, optionally remembering the last setting). It does not notify the server when its power turns on (only when switched via app or smart button) so it cannot be configured as a “smart event”. The closest I could do would be to create a time event every minute:

    22:00 turn on 25% red
    22:01 turn on 25% red
    22:02 turn on 25% red
    •••
    04:29 turn on 25% red
    04:30 turn on 100% warm white
    04:31 turn on 100% warm white
    •••
    21:59 turn on 100% warm white

    I’m pretty sure there is a limit to timed actions so I can’t just do it this way. I guess I know why it got trashed while still working as intended.

    I’ll be looking into Home Automation *Assistant and see if there is a compatible firmware to flash on this piece of shit. Or I’ll just use my electrical engineering skills to combine red and orange LEDs into another bulb and give it a separate switch. *(Edit)