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‘Tesla Syndrome’ Explains Why Tech Is Making Us Miserable
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I, for one, do want to go back to wind down windows, manual transmission, and dials on my stove top. A lot of modern technology is flashy but shit in practice. Touch screens in cars for example. It will always be better to have physical buttons you can memorize the locations of and navigate by feel.
I have knobs on my stove and you are right, its better
I honestly want to smash my stupid fucking stove top with it's bullshit touch buttons that decide to activate when I happen to move a hot pan across them. I would smash it if I wasn't renting.
My dishwasher has that. Every time I stand at the counter, it turns on and off and starts by itself. I hate it.
Oh god. New stoves don’t have knobs? Are they touchscreens now too? I will pretend I did not just read that information and be a ‘old man yells at cloud’ when the time comes to buy a new stove.
Our electric cooking plate is touch only, and our oven has touch buttons in combination with physical dials for temperature/timers.
Bought a microwave with analog dials a little while ago. Surprisingly rare and more expensive, but operating microwave is never easier now compared to inputting numbers on a shitty keypad. Just turn the power level knob and the timer knob and it's on.
Yep, two simple mechanical knobs is easily the best microwave oven interface. Although I do like the fancy Samsung microwave I have that is almost completely silent and lightweight, I think it uses an inverter instead of a chonky HV transformer. I wish I could get a combo of that inverter with a couple of simple knobs for controls.
Bought a brand new car without a touchscreen and you know what? It’s fabulous! The 4-way jog wheel is so much better than trying to touch an app or a button on a screen. Oh and it has a physical volume knob! It’s just great to use.
Ooh, what car is that?
Mazda CX-90 PHEV
Nice, thanks!
I'm confused, the CX-90 has a big touch screen in the center?
On the lower trims the big screen isn’t touch and honestly it doesn’t need to be. Also note, the CX-90 and CX-90 PHEV are treated as separate vehicles with separate trim levels.