• Kuma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    I laughed a lot when I saw this and I sent it to my parent who laughed too. This is my parents house right now. They want buttons for their lamps but they were forced to get an app for most of them and had to fight the company to put in buttons. They also got a ventilation system without buttons and they could not get buttons except if they payed for a very expensive hub, so they went for the app. But only one person can be connected at a time and you have to unpair before someone else can pair, so the app act as if it is the hub… it is very strange

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      My parents had a house built a couple of years ago and it’s the same with them. It’s real hard for me to say “I told you so” like every time I go over there and see them fighting with some app bullshit on one of their appliances. It pisses me off so much because there was nothing wrong with their old house and now I’m going to be stuck inheriting the new one that’s worse in every way. Probably right around the time all the cut corners in the construction start coming out as the place falls apart.

      • DrDystopia@lemy.lolEnglish
        2·
        21 hours ago

        I’d love to inherit a house even if it had no appliances and was falling apart…

        • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
          2·
          20 hours ago

          Yeah I know I’m fortunate and this is pretty much the only route to home ownership for me it’s just frustrating to think about what could have been and what’s waiting in the future.

          • DrDystopia@lemy.lolEnglish
            4·
            20 hours ago

            it’s just frustrating to think about what could have been and what’s waiting in the future.

            Modern existence in a nutshell.