Far more than c/mildlyinfuriating

  • @[email protected]English
    1•6 months ago

    Toilets are one of the easiest things to install. Why would you hire a plumber for that?

      • @[email protected]English
        1•6 months ago

        There’s a huge difference between wiring a house and plopping a new toilet over the existing hole in your floor.

        Your comment makes me think you’ve never installed a toilet before. They’re incredibly simple.

  • @[email protected]
    49•6 months ago

    And when the company stops wanting to pay the webservice hosting costs, you have to pay the plumber to come back and throw your useless toilet in the trash.

    Worked for a company that made a kitchen appliance that had zero buttons. Needed an app. If you unplugged it without shutting it down in the app, it’d send you an alert notification. The app took at least three taps to fucking turn it off.

    And the company was paying something like $1MM/yr to AWS to keep this thing running.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•6 months ago

      I mean I prefer the motion sensor things when I’m public, but I can’t see how it could ever be smart to get rid of the button. I would be fine with having a motion sensor at home.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•6 months ago

        The motion sensor on public toilets is fine… and yes, that little backup button is also critical. Getting rid of the button would be beyond stupid… this is because sometimes the motion sensor malfunctions.

        As for the stuff at home I am content with the 100% mechanical flush mechanism that I have. Sure it means I need to clean the handle every once in a while, but that is no great inconvenience.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•6 months ago

          Yeah, not sure how often those commercial ones go out. I know the chain, or the bobber or some other plastic pieces will often break in the tank, but not to often. I notice they have more issues with those newer ones that have partial and full flushes, as if you are supposed to use half a flush if you urinate. Went through 3 of those cannister systems in a couple years.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•6 months ago

            I never had that part break. The worst thing that happened is that the chain sometimes gets tangled and I need to open the water tank to untangle it. But it rarely happens and is kinda not a big deal.

  • @[email protected]English
    32•6 months ago

    Fun tip, you can dump a bucket of water to flush the toilet. Useful if you’re ever working on your water supply after taco night.

    • @[email protected]
      28•6 months ago

      How sophisticated can a stove be it needs an app?

      Also, how did you not catch that before buying?

      • @[email protected]
        17•6 months ago

        I wouldn’t even have thought to look. So unless it was prominent in the description, I wouldn’t notice.

        • Flying Squid
          9•6 months ago

          Unfortunately, you always have to look now.

          And give it a few years and you’ll always have to look for “AI” too. We really are approaching Red Dwarf Talky Toaster territory.

      • @[email protected]
        4•6 months ago

        I have a stove with optional app support, but I tolerate it because the app doesn’t add anything. The local controls can do everything. If you use the app, you have to hit a button on the local controls anyway to confirm you are physically there anyway before it listens to the app for most things.

        The only thing that was somewhat convenient was phone notification when timed cooking was done, because the stoves own chime wasn’t that loud. However ultimately I stopped bothering and just set a phone timer when I set cook timer, because keeping the oven on the network was an active maintenance activity that wasn’t worth it.

    • LiveLMEnglish
      3•6 months ago

      I love little adventure/Twine-style games like this, thanks for sharing! Very lovely.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•6 months ago

        This was such a surprise when I saw it posted to HN. Could not get phone calls to work though…

  • @[email protected]
    17•6 months ago

    Subscribe and we reserve the right to throttle flush speed/volume after 6pm.

    Standard app doesn’t cover diarrhea or menstruation - those are luxury secretions for our plus members

    • Joelk111
      5•6 months ago

      I just thought of a brand new completely different and revolutionary product. A toilet that flushes automatically when you get off the toilet using my patented technology Aii, Artificial Intelligence Infared. I’ll call it the iToilet AI^2. I’m going to be rich.

  • @[email protected]
    23•6 months ago

    Ok, sure, why not, but wait, hear me out:
    A.I.-powered toilet, on the blockchain, and call it Shitcoin!

  • @[email protected]English
    12•6 months ago

    Ok but like today I literally discovered someone HACKED THEIR TOOTHBRUSH TO BE A RICKROLL
    Technology has gone too far.

    • @[email protected]
      4•6 months ago

      Is it one of those that plays music through bone conductivity? Cause that’d honestly be a pretty hilarious prank.

      • Flying Squid
        2•6 months ago

        I think it would be even funnier if it just buzzed in time to the song, so it would take whoever was being pranked time to figure out what the hell was going on.

  • Queen HawlSeraEnglish
    12•6 months ago

    It doesn’t count as satire if it’s literally the situation word for word, you have to exaggerate it at least a little. smh