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‘Tesla Syndrome’ Explains Why Tech Is Making Us Miserable::There’s a class war that’s leading to worse innovations—but it’s not between the sides you think it is.

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[-] [email protected] 182 points 2 years ago

It's not tech. It's capitalism.

God damn, I feel like this is the same as that other shit article.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why are people so stupid, lol. Oh wait life is literally marketing in 2020. I don't even know if I'm alive anymore. Do me a favor and check my seo and engagement.

It's like every issue is just privileged assholes complaining that the way they raped Earth and lives didn't work out for their good.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Dude. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's 2023 now :(

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Shit. Are we still on lockdown?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

The article is literally about the problem of ownership being too concentrated and wealth overruling people with knowledge of businesses. "Tech" here doesn't mean technology it means the big tech companies.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Somehow people haven't been convinced that just because a phone or computer is inserted it's a totally different thing. Crypto is just money with extra steps and a digital device, ride sharing is just splitting a cab, streaming is just cable split into a few pieces. Products barely changed, just shiny new conmen out front pushing the products.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Posted by the same person. Hmm.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

What? The bot that is also a moderator on [email protected]?

[-] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

I have knobs on my stove and you are right, its better

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

My dishwasher has that. Every time I stand at the counter, it turns on and off and starts by itself. I hate it.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Our electric cooking plate is touch only, and our oven has touch buttons in combination with physical dials for temperature/timers.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago
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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Nice, thanks!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm confused, the CX-90 has a big touch screen in the center?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Tech / innovation for its own sake has been an issue for as long as I can remember (back to the 80s) and I wouldn't be surprised if it dates back to the first stone tools. So you end up with a mix of useful, helpful innovations and idiotic ones at any given time. Tech nerds like me tend to try to find ways to apply what we know whether it helps or not...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Teslas are the worst cars on the road. Usually driven by assholes.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Worst cars on the road? Care to elaborate on that a bit since it's quite bold claim

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe not the worst on the road, but apparently pretty close.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Fair enough! Doesn't exactly prove his claim but atleast there's a kernel of truth there.

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