@cachondo "Our stupid washing machine needs to talk to a server in Germany before you can put a load on with the app, for example." 👏 🤣

I don't know what this surveillance capitalism fetish is to plug everything into IoT. I'm fine with dumb devices.

Why would I ever want to chat with my washing machine? 🤔 :shrug: By the way, no diss to you. This is my opinion and I'm not referring to you with my opinion.

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:) agree with you 100%. We only have an app because we can't use the touchscreen very well, being blind. But it grinds my gears when they're doing server maintenance and I can't use the thing.

In terms of mitigation, I can rerun the last cycle or a quick wash from the dial without sighted help, so it's not as bad as I'm making out. But the very idea of needing to communicate with a third party just to load laundry is ridiculous.

":) agree with you 100%. We only have an app because we can't use the touchscreen very well, being blind. But it grinds my gears when they're doing server maintenance and I can't use the thing." Oh I'm sorry I just looked now at your profile picture — in this case of course #meaculpa 😅 🙏

Maybe companies should implement screen to speech or tactile accesiblity features that would be cool imho. 😁

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@cachondo :D meh… a lot of people have eyes my friend — yet they stil refuse to see.

Btw I would be rather blind than deaf. Blind I could work with that but deaf… nope.