Watches

I never saw the point of them. I don’t see the problem with analog or digital watches. Everything is regressed to a tiny square of a screen, that you barely look at. I just find it as an unnecessary distraction.

Light Bulbs

I work in retail and I stock these things all of the time. We have light bulbs, that are smart now because why? They’re stuffed with wireless functionality, just so you can simply change a color or maybe dim it through phone. More unnecessary apps, more unnecessary functions just for cheap attraction.

Kitchen Appliances

I’m bundling them all here.

There is nothing you’re gaining an advantage of, when slapping a screen on any appliance and relying on some unsupported app on your phone for basic functions.

  • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    That’s why you get a computer, slap it under a large TV or display and watch online videos with ublock origin on. The computer gets the ethernet while the TV gets the HDMI.

    • Pyrixas@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Dude, I’m glad to know someone else who does this because I’ve got it set up too this way. I’ve got 3 monitors in my apartment, two of them are for PC that are spread apart (because I found that my attention seems to not work well when they’re close together) and I have a TV in the center of the living room. I have an HDMI cable going from PC to that TV while the other ports are taken from DVI-Displayport adapters from the other monitors.

      I can watch any streaming service I want with next to no ads, as it was intended and should be intended.

      • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Besides, regular TV channels and their programs suck. Nothing of value was lost when I decided skip connecting my TV cable. It’s basically a glorified display now, and the computer provides all the videos I could ever want.

        You could think of it as a “smart TV” setup of sorts, since the computer is smart and can do so much more than any smart TV out there. You can watch all sorts of streaming stuff on it, it can block ads, and even YouTube is barely tolerable now that I installed sponsor block. I’ve even installed Steam on the PC and played some simple games on it. It’s not quite a console yet, but after a few upgrades it could be.