Job: cashier
Item doesn’t scan
Customer: “That means it’s free, right?”
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Only about 4 weeks in as a cashier and I’ve heard this enough to last me a lifetime.
Job: cashier
Item doesn’t scan
Customer: “That means it’s free, right?”
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Only about 4 weeks in as a cashier and I’ve heard this enough to last me a lifetime.
I think his point is that older and simpler can’t be equated like that, because new simple appliances are still electronic, not electromechanical anymore.
New appliances still don’t need to have ‘smart’ technology to work, but where the hell do you purchase a new air conditioner these days that doesn’t require an app to operate?
Seriously, you can’t even find a dumb air conditioner anymore, at least not in my area.
That was just the first step in enshittification, when they broke from available manuals and standardized parts. Now you gotta have a WiFi connection and online account to even access a new air conditioner, washing machine, etc.
The stores don’t even offer dumb appliances anymore. There’s no reason that a microwave should even exist online, especially after the borked update that bricked many of them with a bad firmware update that was meant for a food steamer.
Does that sound familiar? It should…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YEZCySVQHEU
Strangely, that sounds quite similar to CrowdStrike Falcon.
Fuck planned obsolescence, and fuck everything being connected online all the time, especially auto updates!
They still produce them in limited models. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Amana-3-5-cu-ft-Top-Load-Washer-with-Dual-Action-Agitator-White/1003201568?
They still make them, just limited models for consumers and commercial use like apartments. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Amana-3-5-cu-ft-Top-Load-Washer-with-Dual-Action-Agitator-White/1003201568?