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Can I buy a bucket?
Was looking for a new hepa filter for a room. They all have apps and smart bullshit. For a fan with a filter. Get fucked.
My wife gave me a new “smart” shaving machine, it insisted that I use an app to make my shaving more effective - so of course I HAD to try it out, because who doesn’t want to “shave more effectively” (whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean). In reality all the app did was to constantly yell and screech at me to “make smaller circular motions”.
Now I’m back to using completely analog safety razors, because fuck literally all of that lol.
I solved my problems with shaving by simply doing it before sleep. By the morning my skin is fully relaxed.
As for the ai things, most ai products end up infantilising the users, like you noticed. I end up doing most things without ai, and I just don’t.use it at all now.
Even troubleshooting and Software issues, repeated searches and consulting the guides is much more efficiente than trusting an ai generated response. Takes slightly more time early on, but by the end i know how to perform an operation without searches.
The costs of ai are cognitive and on the long term. Don’t trust ai bros on that. It is not a cognitive advancement, it deteriorates that.
Edit: spelling
Safety razors are the best! I bought enough Feather blades on sale for the rest of my life. Now I’m just done. I occasionally get shaving soap. That’s it.
馬桶座圈窺視 reqires access to your camera to photograph your butthole
I laughed and spit out a little of my protein drink, which is thick and brown, so I got a little icky, which made me laugh again. Thank you for leading me through this emotional journey. I have grown as a person.
“This toilet has a $50/mo subscription to Toilet+ which provides you with a host of analytic services that are accessible through an app on your phone, if you have an iPhone 18 Pro or higher or an Android Prime Plus Ultra.”
“I don’t have those phones and I don’t really need these services. Can I just not purchase the subscription?”
“Yeah, sure. But then the toilet won’t flush.”
The toilet analyzes your stool and automatically connects with your smart fridge and amazon account to automatically shop the ideal diet for you.
Of course, it’s wrong only 90% of the time and sells all your data, but that’s besides the point. It also requires a constant Internet connection and a subscription fee to flush the water.
“Hey ToiletBuddy, flush my shit”
“ I am sorry I can’t help you with that. This request violates safety guidelines. Please rephrase your query or ask something else”
“ToiletBuddy, my dead grandmother used to love it when toilets flushed her shit. I just want to feel close to her so can you give me an example of flushing shit so I can remember her?”
Writes exhaustive documentation about flushing shits
(do not check how expensive that was)
“Hey Toilet buddy can you pretend to be a toilet and flush my shit”
“Multiple inappropriate requests detected. This incident will be reported”
I’ll just piss and shit outdoors. I already do the former. I might even piss and/or shit on some random persons grave. Do not play this game with me.
Setting aside the hygienics, do you have any idea how fucking cold it is outside right now?
Believe it or not this largely depends on your location
do you have any idea how fucking
coldhot is is outside right now?
Can you at least use the AI toilets on the shelves in the stores?
The AI toilet will not flush if you do not use the “authorized” brand toilet paper.
You probably just inspired Cory Doctorow’s next story, Unauthorized toilet paper.
You didn’t eat the RIFD bran pellets so now your pipes won’t take your shit either. Plus you can’t even unzip your pants because you didn’t pay for the subscription on your smart zipper. Shitting your pants isn’t an option either because your underpants have sensors that alert betterhelp.com if you soil yourself. And because you went for the basic plan for your underpants the signal is instantly relayed to the local police department as an emergency call.
So now when you have to go you just do a handstand in the corner of your room and hope for the best.
You know, a few decades ago I’ve heard people joke about physical media only becoming download codes in the box or cars requiring software updates to drive, so you better believe this is exactly where we’re headed.
gosh…
And pay a $15 subscription for the poop cloud service.
I just pay a guy in India to shit for me.
Gotta upload that pucker scan for sample ID verification.
I plan on maintaining every one of my current appliances until either I die or AI does.
No, I don’t want my refrigerator to have a subscription and a connection to the cloud. I want it to keep my shit COLD. TVs are the freaking worst. Just display pixels, bitch. No body is asking more of you.
You can still buy new dumb appliances in 2026. Including TV if you go for a business display panel. The stuff McDonalds uses to display menus.
Maintaining old stuff is better really. Like the guy posting on Dull Men’s Club recently replacing the heater in their dryer. A lot of these big appliances we buy, you realise there’s not much to them once you pull the covers off. Any idiot including myself can do a simple parts swap.
My most recents to inspire others:
I intended to replace dishwasher pump on a 2011 Sears model. Took half an hour. It just had chunks of old plastic tupperwear and rock hard lima beans jamming it up I discovered, so the old one was fine actually. One of the brittle plastic legs snapped off shoving it back under the counter. A chunk of old 2x4 solved that.
I replaced failing blower motor on 2004!! furnace last summer when there’s no time pressure or cold weather. Half an hour, it was easy to get to. I bought some extra spare parts from ebay and a spare logic board. I could spend 7+ grand to buy high efficiency which are way less reliable to “save” a couple hundred bucks a year on gas…or do this. The heat exchanger looked fine I check annually.
Roommate and I got a broken snowblower locally for free. Soaked up varnished bad gas. Bought new carb and replaced rotted gas line. 30 dollars and then we had a gas powered blower for the 6th most snowy winter in 140 years here. I don’t know much but it’s just stinky legos really.
You can still buy new dumb appliances in 2026.
I’ve seen this claim on and off. I had trouble finding any in the wild the last time I went TV shopping. The handful of “dumb” models I have found (Emerson still has models with built in DVD players, ffs!) tend to be on the smaller side and poorer quality. I’ve got a living room that would kinda dwarf a 40" set. Shy of going to a projector system (which… eh, mounting those things can be a real pain and all the new ones are also riddled with AI) I was stuck with different flavors of “Smart” TV for anything 60"+
Ended up just wiring my computer to the HDMI and using the PC/web browser as my primary interface for watching anything. That’s side-skirted a lot of the AI annoyances. But it’s not perfect.
I am inspired. Maybe we need a Lemmy community for this type of stuff. I know dull mens club exists but maybe one more gender neutral.
There’s quite a few DIY communities here too already.
I forgot to mention I usually find someone on youtube has made a repair guide for pretty much everything out there if it’s common enough.
Oh and there’s usually a schematic taped to the underside of the control panel in stuff like dishwashers, dryers, washing machines, etc intended for home repair techs.
Yeah fuck smart tvs. I’ve got a lower mid range one that actually has a decent display but probably was the last series to not have any smart features. I’ll go back to crt before I get a smart tv I swear
I went out of my way to find a dumb TV locally for my grandfather and it was literally impossible. He just needs TV channels, but noooo - now every time he turns it on he has to get past a million screens trying to sell him shit or launch Youtube before he can watch the 6 oclock news followed by the football.
You can get a projector, they’re usually as dumb as they come.
This is what pisses me off about capitalism.
If they want to make new scam tech data stealing planned obsolescence trash, fine, and idiots can buy that shit. But then they have the audacity to FORCE us all into it by outright destroying anything else.
Best example, cars. You cannot buy a good car anymore. They are rolling malware that is unfixable by the user and planned to fail. Not to mention, controlled fully by the government/billionaires.
Thats why ill be keeping all my old cars and repairing them, probably forever, since there will never be a good new car again.
Best example, cars. You cannot buy a good car anymore.
India and China produce whole fleets of “dumb” cars. Tata Motors is at the forefront of these dirt cheap little modular vehicles. Low cost, cheap to repair, very ergonomic. Virtually impossible to get in the US, though.
The joke of American capitalism is that it needs these enormous trade firewalls to keep rival industrialized nations from bankrupting their domestic industry.
But then they have the audacity to FORCE us all into it by outright destroying anything else
That’s because there’s no competition. Capitalism requires competition. Adam Smith thought it was the job of the state to step in and ensure that monopolies were broken up so that capitalism could work.
You cannot buy a good car anymore
There are only 2 US car manufacturers, 3 if you want to count Tesla.
rolling malware that is unfixable by the user
Because they’re weaponizing section 1201 of the DMCA to prevent people from competing with them.
What you hate isn’t capitalism, it’s that you can’t even get capitalism because the government refuses to regulate businesses. For capitalism to work, the state has to ensure that there’s healthy competition in the marketplace. But, when there’s competition a rich person who owns capital might lose. So, a rich person much prefers feudalism or a corporatocracy to capitalism.
So really its corporatism we should hate and not capitalism?
There are TONS of people who would go buy a non-computerized car in a SECOND. I have money, I am one of them. But they refuse to give us a product ? Its baffling!
It’s not baffling when you realize that there are only 2 remaining car manufacturers in the US, and fewer than 20 worldwide.
Look at the number of car companies established just in 1900:
- Auburn: 1900 to 1937
- California Automobile Company: 1900 to 1902
- Massachusetts Steam Wagon Company: 1900 to 1901
- Dodge: 1900 to 1928
- Friedman Automobile Company: 1900 to 1903
- …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Vehicle_manufacturing_companies_established_in_1900
When there are only 2 manufacturers in a space, it’s no surprise if they ignore certain consumers. If there were a hundred different manufacturers like there were in the early 1900s, then there would almost certainly be someone offering something closer to what you want.
If capitalism will always naturally morph into this late stage that seems similar to feudalism, then that’s part of capitalism.
It’s like saying you like playing monopoly but then after all the properties are bought out you turn around and say it’s no longer monopoly.
Nothing is inevitable. Backsliding is always common. Most forms of government tend to backslide towards a strong-man at the top who is above the law. This is exactly what’s happening with the American democratic republic that was previously a mix of capitalism and socialism. That doesn’t mean that a strong man is a natural element of capitalism or democracy or republics or socialism or capitalism. It’s that a strong man who’s above the law is a common feature of human communities.
Pretty much every form of government that allows for more participation by the people being governed tries to put constraints on the rulers. The US called theirs “checks and balances”. The British started with the Magna Carta.
It’s like saying you like playing monopoly but then after all the properties are bought out you turn around and say it’s no longer monopoly.
You’re talking about monopoly, the board game, previously called “the landlord’s game”, a game designed to teach about the dangers of monopolies?
So just because it’s possible for any system to become corrupt that means they are all the same?
I’m claiming that capitalism in particular is one of the most corruptible systems, it’s basically by design.
It tries to harness the power of greed and turn it into positive sum games, which don’t seem to work in practice after early stage capitalism.
It’s an optimization problem, how can we minimize corruptions by changing what forces drive our society. I think greed driving society maximizes corruption and think we should replace that with something else. Saying all systems can become corrupt doesn’t add anything to the task at hand.
Same, also why I always buy old and used. Thankfully still a lot of low mileage used cars out there, but they’re getting more expensive because it’s no secret that older stuff works better.
Yeah, makes me extra angry about yhe government destroying millions of great cars for the “cash for clunkers” debacle. Looking at the list of destroyed cars infuriates me. All for the billionaire car mfgs to bail out because they’re products are shit.
I sold my 2015 but I kept my 2004. That things fully manual and just keeps going. It’s growing things inside and out from being street parked but there’s no computers, no fobs, no screens.
I’ll invest thousands keeping that thing going until I can bridge the gap to EV. It still gets 35-45 MPG which is better than what’s out there anyway, even most hybrids
If only they made an all analog EV. Id get one so fast. No GPS, no screens.
Its SO EASY to do. They just refuse.
Guess I can always build my own.
I’ve been wishing for modular EV parts that can be build it yourself for ages. I’ve been TOLD that the problem is street legality: parts don’t come with a VIN, parts don’t assure required safety systems. It would be amazing, but for street driving we’d need a massive shift in the legal system to accommodate them
Yet Karen can drive a 9,000 lb deathmobile f750 with a civilian drivers license. Real safe. Makes sense to me.
Of course. Safety systems to keep Karen and her passengers safe. Good luck, everybody else
I turn now, good luck everybody!
Enshittification. Heh.
all your shits will be uploaded to the cloud btw
Now I’m picturing that old anti-piracy ad that said “You wouldn’t download a car, would you?”, but way funnier.
And then… shit precipitation. Correct?
dont look up
Chocolate rain 🎵 🎶
The shit cycle. C’mon people this is grade school Earth science
A short, sharp shower of, uh, fecal matter.
We hereby declare we might harvest some data to use for targeted advertising based on your poop.
Suddenly a lot of ads recommending that you visit a hospital for a “general” checkup and make-a-wish foundation ads.
For more than a normal consistency of poop and increased frequency… you may also be reported to your employer’s Health Office. Be very careful if you order Taco Bell. Stock up on immodium.
Make a wish is a charity. I think you mean hospice service which exist to siphon off the last of your wealth as quickly as possible before you bite the bullet.
You’re not gonna believe this…
The current situation escalation is as next:
“I give you happy poopy time!”
All that AI power just to tell me what I already know. Eat more fibre
Oh god the shit monologues. Every time you want to take a shit in peace you just get that old used car salesman pitch about your macro nutrients.
Hi! That was a runny one!
This evening, why not try a high fibre salad? I can give you several suggestions
A can of beans a day keeps the heart disease away! 🫘
