The internet has become more and more complex. I miss the early 2000s when I was a kid and everything was open and easy to use. No need to register ,no need to download this or that app. Everything was easy, even the laws.
Everything is a problem
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MicrobiomeEnthusiast@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
myotheraccount@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Try plugging in a fork. Those still do what they are supposed to do
Juliebones@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Omg yes preach !!! I feel it’s everything these days, coffee maker…app Vacuum…app Scale…app Electric shower nozzle…fucking app Everything needs a password and an account and my mind is crumbling because of it.
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
I recently renovated and said fuck no to all the smart home shit. Just the idea of having to troubleshoot the WiFi because my kitchen light won’t turn on drives me into a rage.
LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Good call.
I took over for a previous manager who installed all smart lights controlled via Alexa. Every week…every fucking week…there would be a section not working, lights with disco colors, Alexa was offline so we could give the command to turn on lights…
When I took over, 1st task was to rip out all the smart shit and I put in regular LED bulbs controlled with the light switch. Works every time
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 hours ago
I remember when games asked you to register and it was optional… and people joked that they never did because there was no benefit to them whatsoever.
Now it is obligatory. No wonder I prefer retrogaming.
roserose56@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
I totally agree! I’m trying to avoid logins and download this and that, as possible as I can.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I’m half on one side, half on the other.
The line I draw is between safety and convenience. On the safety side, I want things to be very manual. I don’t want some app or external system managing whether or not the lights stay on, or whatever, on the convenience side, I 1000% want a way to manage things like the lighting from an app.
So anywhere that safety is a concern, like the kitchen, bathroom, a handful of other places… There’s zero “smart” anything. Everywhere else, yeah, I can turn off my lights from an app.
When I’m in my office/living room, where safety isn’t really a concern, I don’t have to get up to turn on the lights, I can yell at my Google home to do it for me, or use an app. If I want the lights to be some shade of turquoise, I use the app…
In the kitchen, as an example, no such control exists. You have to push the light switch, and you get basic bitch white light. You don’t get an option. You want the light off? Take your fingers and do the thing that makes the light switch go click and turn off the lights.
The decision to make anything smart relies on whether or not I’m going to be in danger if the lights go out and there’s no way to turn them on again because the Internet is down.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
I want everything as dumb as possible. I will register whatever I buy with the manufacturer for warranty purposes, but other than that: dumb toaster, dumb fridge, dumb washing machine, dumb robot vacuum cleaner, dumb doorbell, dumb locks, etc…
If it doesn’t need internet to function, it’s not getting any.
Burninator05@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
And if it does need internet to function…I’m going to try to not buy it.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I want quality buttons and knobs that let me control all necessary functions manually from the device. Smart features are for convenience and tracking stats. Never should the device talk to any party but me.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I agree completely. But now I can’t get the image out of my head, of the maniac that has done the complete opposite of this. Like putting the sink disposal unit, door locks, and flush toilets, all on a publicly accessible “smart” network.
Draegur@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
No waiting for firmware updates
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Wait, I just have to reboot my watch
morphballganon@mtgzone.com 13 hours ago
Buy old stuff
Use open source
Downdate
etc
LodeMike@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
It is incredibly difficult for me to describe just how powerful a Linux desktop experience can be. You can buy a cheap computer that suports emulation and put QubesOS on it. Bonus points to putting a GPU in it and playing on either Windows or Linux with that GPU.
echodot@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
I don’t think Linux people entirely understand just how uninviting the prospect of messing around with an operating system is for the vast majority of the public.
As bad as Windows is, and it is it getting worse by the minute, it honestly does just work. I dual boot my computer, mostly into Linux everyday and even now I occasionally come across problems that don’t exist on the Windows side. The community need give up with this idea that Linux doesn’t have major usability issues.
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I went to a coffee shop yesterday thag tried to tell me they only accepted orders through their app. I almost walked out, until the finally poured my coffee, but continued to give me shit about it, “ok but next time you have to use the app”
“Yea no. There will be no next time.”
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
There’s a Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode for exactly this situation
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It’s so good. Best of theirs in a long time.
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
I havent watched Sunny in ages. But yes, that was my experience lol
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
A QR code and a website I could understand. But app? No.
Strider@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
No. Not even that, that’s just shit and the site brings a plethora of formatting issues and accessibility issues.
Just give me a fucking paper menu.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 day ago
No, even QR I can only accept as an option, as in completely optionally. I’m out and about without a phone quite frequently.
Sergio@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
“It’s a work phone. I’m not allowed to install apps.”
Meron35@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Luckin Coffee, the extremely successful Chinese competitor to Starbucks exclusively operates via their app. Sadly, users prefer it because of all the discounts and coupons it offers. So really, just surveillance capitalism as usual.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Dennis??
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This isn’t a shit post IMO.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Yeah. It’s straight fire.
Booboofinget@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
This describes my reality nowadays.
TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication (a bit ironic when you consider this quote comes from Apple).
Steam is fun and all, minecraft is a great game, but goddamn, i have a 10kbps at home, and network is unstable where i live, why can’t i play my fcking
game“licence” which is not even online based, because the network decided to stop??I prefer from far a simple folder with assets and a .exe that i will put on my desktop with a shortcut.
What an application is supposed to be anyways.
5too@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Steam works fine for me offline, though I can’t speak to all the games - what are you running into with it?
I hear you on Minecraft, though…
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
Steam has a “Go Offline…” options for pretty much that. Indeed it sucks that you have to do that before you go offline, but it sounds like a good idea with your setup and just switch to online occasionally to update.
Furthermore it depends heavily on the games, not on steam. Some steam games work without the steam client, though for some of those you have to fiddle around or execute different binary.
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Simplicity is easy to pirate though.
If the product is a program that executes 100% of its functionality on your computer, it is impossible to make it pirate-proof. Even if all the functionality is client-side and the server is used only for authentication, it can be pirated.
The only way to make a program pirate-proof is if it runs on the server with a thin client.
That being said, some products execute on the client. Therefore if they want to prevent piracy, the only thing they can do is security through obscurity. That is, make it as complex as possible so the pirates take as much time as possible to reverse-engineer it.
incogtino@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Luanti is a credible replacement option for Minecraft single-player
echodot@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
You don’t need a network connection for Minecraft single player. I’m not actually sure what they’re on about.
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
I don’t think it’s ironic, it just doesn’t say the quiet part out loud. Everything just works if they control the entire ecosystem, so if you want ‘sophisticated’ let us control everything and it will all just work.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I helped my dad install a new dumb thermostat last winter. We just had to drill a couple of new holes to mount it, and moved the wires over. Boom,there was heat again. I thought about how much of a pain in the ass it was to get my Ecobee working, and how refreshing it was to just have something work immediately.
It’s a very similar feeling to playing my GameBoy Color again after messing around with retro gaming linux handhelds. You just turn it on and play, then just turn it off. No boot sequences, no emulator settings to tweak. No SD card corruption that ruins your game library. Just on and off.
uuldika@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
No boot sequences
(being annoyingly pedantic) technically there is a boot sequence: the Gameboy logo. on the DMG there’s a little blob of code from 0x0000 to 0x00ff that clears some memory, sets up the screen, reads the logo from cartridge memory and scrolls it. the loader only jumps to the game if the logo is byte-identical (the idea being that unlicensed games could be sued for trademark infringement.)
on the GBC the loader is a little beefier but mostly the same.
t. made a horribly broken FPGA core for the GBC that got just far enough to load the Tetris intro
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yes, but that’s pretty miniscule compared to booting any of the linux based retro handhelds. An Bernice, Powkiddy, R36S, they all have like a 30-40 second boot time.
drgeppo@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
it’s the reason why the original Odroid Go it’s so special to me… it’s all built around an ESP32 microcontroller and it does emulate only NES, GB, GBC and a couple more, while honestly not even being perfect at it, but goddamn… it boots in like 1 second, even directly to the last game you were playing, it has no settings whatsoever, the battery lasts for like 7 hours it’s such a neat little device.
and it’s funny because in my head that it’s the device that kickstarted this whole retro handheld emulation craze, but it is the only one to take such a minimalistic approach
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
It’s not comparable. Nintendo must have spent millions on developing the Game Boy, meanwhile retro handheld is a hobby project someone did over the quarter. Ever try to port and run an RTOS on those ARM chips? And port a mainstream Game Boy emulator to it? “What do you mean you have to have MMU support?Just work, damnit?”
It doesn’t work like that.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
It’s completely comparable in this circumstance. They are performing similar functions, playing handheld games. My R36S is a pretty impressive little device, and it performs excellently at playing games. But using it is much more complicated and longer than popping a game in a gameboy.
Gameboy: insert game, turn on, play, turn off. R36S: turn on, 30-40 second boot time, locate game, play, exit emulator, shut down, 10 second shutdown time.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I rented a car, a Mercedes B class or something
Everytime I started it, it would ask me to sign up for some bullshit Mercedes service Half the features of the car were disabled due to requiring subscriptions
I will NEVER buy that car nor rent it ever again
asbestos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
the fuck
ebolapie@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
My guess would be heated seats and driver aids.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 20 hours ago
OP is now a proud BMW owner!
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
What fantasy world are you living in? How could my glass hold water if I didn’t sign up for a service that sends me spam? How could my table hold a book if I didn’t sign up for the monthly subscription that prevents it from ejecting books into the air? Even my cat came with a ToS that said that by petting her, I give her access to my bank account and first born child. Hasn’t it always been this way?
loomy@lemy.lol 1 day ago
I used a normal wired phone the other day.
I picked it up and called people.
It blew my mind.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
what the fuck is your mobile phone like? i just click the calls app and click the contact and bam i call the person
chunes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
click the calls app and click the contact
Two things you don’t have to do on a dedicated phone. I bet you had to unlock your phone first, too.
papalonian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No you don’t understand, you can’t do that anymore. Because um, everything is actually really bad and enshittified. Wait you bought a not-smart TV to avoid the wifi and ads and such? Um yeah you can’t do that… same with kitchen appliances and everything else. You HAVE to get the wifi version so you can complain online.
I had to watch a 45 minute ad to post this
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The government uninstalled my phone app and punished me to only receive calls from spammers and old people.
I don’t notice much of a change on the last part.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 hours ago
I really wanna ditch the smart TV I have and just get a display that only displays the picture of the devices I have plugged into its inputs and doesn’t get online, doesn’t receive updates or “improvements” and has inputs for everything:
3.5mm AUX audio
Composite
S-video
RGB
Hdmi
That optical audio jack made by (IIRC) Sony I can’t remember the name of right now. It’s what my stereo uses and it’s amazing. Used to be super common on TVs.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
I mean I have that. It’s called a smart TV that I never use the smart functions of, connected to the HDMI output of a PC. It’s great for watching stream content and I don’t have to worry about ads and stuff.
In actual fairness to the TV it isn’t too bad in that respect but the interface is just god awful and I hate having to type with a TV remote so I still use the PC.
ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I recently got really tired of my TV constantly nagging me to update the firmware for all the newest features. I just disconnected it from wifi instead. I do not use my TV for smart features, I use it as a display. I update the things plugged into it, because that’s their job. If i need to stream something, I will use a box. A box that can be replaced or easily updated or changed out.
A display has one job, to display whatever.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 hours ago
I’d do that except that every few seconds, a big pop up that takes up 1/4 of the screen from top down tells me that the network is disconnected. 😬
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
TOSLINK might be what you’re thinking of. And yes, it rules! I have a surround system that uses it and it sounds amazing
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The standard optical audio jack was developed by Toshiba.
myrrh@ttrpg.network 14 hours ago
…TOSLINK can’t handle atmos bandwidth; you need eARC for uncompressed multichannel digital audio…
echodot@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
I had fun with eARC a while ago, my TV definitely supports it because it was on the box but what it doesn’t say is the fact that only one of the HDMI port supports it and it doesn’t tell you which one. At go online into a random forum to find out, It’s port 3 by the way, because that makes perfect sense.
KingGordon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hello fellow old person. I too miss things that just work.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Shit either has no buttons, with an capacitive touch surface, or if it has buttons, it’s never immediate response, you have to press it for an extended amount of time.
it’s fucking infuriating.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 17 hours ago
You just described my Chevy Volt so accurately. All the buttons are touch surface except the parking brake switch, and I usually have to pull that twice.
metalaco@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Yes long press needs to be relegated to the most obscure functions of a device, not the main uses.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 day ago
It used to be that when i got a new video game for Christmas, i could just put it into the GameCube/PS2 and play it. No need to wait for everyone to alwo try and download the 40gb update that morning.
potpotato@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Blows into cartridge.
windpunch@feddit.org 21 hours ago
This is one of the reasons why I still only use wired headphones.
MisterOwl@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yup.
Comcast “updated” their network yesterday and broke every fucking smart plug in my house. None of them will work anymore.
ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
After trying to get my new automated kitty litter box working with a POS app that can’t sync with the poop machine and the PM can’t connect to my 5 GHz wireless network (only 2.4 GHz) nor does it have any way to enter the password for said network I have resorted to deleting the app and just pushing two physical buttons in sequence on the PM twice daily to clean the litter area.
TehWorld@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I love some connected devices, and own a LOT of them, but some things are just stupid. I don’t need my blender to be connected. Washer, dryer? Unless it’s going to move my laundry from one to the other, nope. Stove, wtf? I have to go stir anyway so who gives a crap.
oyzmo@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
car
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I’m road tripping through northern Europe. Staying at Airbnbs and every fucking tv is a smart tv and not one can I pick up a remote and start surfing channels. And if I find tv most of them are slow to react. So it’s press ch+ wait 5 seconds on black screen see that it’s in a language I don’t know and press again.
Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Return to Analog!
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I bought a fan the other day, cause it warm. Cheap as I could find. Plug the thing onto the wall, can’t figure out how to get it working. Read the manual: I need an app. I download the app, logged in with Facebook (had to create a Facebook account, for I had none. It was the only option), filled a form with my information, agreed to the Terms of Services and Privacy Policy. Gave it location access, to connect to the fan. It needed a few other permissions, which I had to give it. Now I can turn the fan on and off, from my phone (the fan has none). I can set a direction, turn the spinning on or off. Set the RGB light colours. I can even give it an image, and it’ll display on the fan as it spins (probably why they demand entire system file access). I can even turn it on and off from the Quick Settings Tile. And make some changes from there as well. All in all, I must say, this fan is defin
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
you can still have this, you just have to not buy the shit things
the only thing i’m aware of that has no non-shit option anymore is TVs, but then who the fuck watches TV anymore?
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
My poor tv is like, “connect to the internet? I need to call home! Help, i’ve been abducted by a luddite!”
Tv, you are never getting my wifi password.