Maybe not smart but i hate touch buttons. Give us back the switches and buttons, why were they not enough? My bike light just broke because the annoying touch button barely works. And i hate turning on the light in my pocket.

• TVs (would rather have a tv box, not in built to the TV itself)
• Appliances (you mentioned it yeah, but this needed a second hey ho)
• Doors/Locks (do not digitize your locks are you stupid?)
• Cars (as an avid car hater, drivers do not need to be more distracted than they already are. Music/radio whatever but do they really need a fucking 24* in plasma TV in their dash??? (*satire on size))
• Vending Machines (saw some dumb people chucking AI into vending machines and that was a horrible idea)
• Security Networks (no thx on mass surveillance in any way esp ones that violate human privacy rights and use AI to ID people)
• Content (ai generated content or ai within content being video, images, blogs or what nots)

About all we can think of off the top our head. Probably more anti ai at the end but the smart features shoved down our throats have recently been ai this or ai that. Whoops ig lol

There is nothing you’re gaining an advantage of, when slapping a screen on any appliance and relying on some unsupported app

Hah, my smart range has physical knobs for most controls!

…. And has a stupid app that alerts my phone at work when the cleaners clean the stovetop

They’re stuffed with wireless functionality, just so you can simply change a color or maybe dim it through phone. More unnecessary apps, more unnecessary functions just for cheap attraction.

I got to disagree on this here, my smart lights introduced me to self hosting through Homebridge. I was able to enable HomeKit connections for non-HomeKit enabled devices which then lead me to create automations.

I get home lights turn on, I close a door at a specific time lights turn off. It’s not as terrible as you may think.

I used to have my lights change color when I had motion in the driveway, and dim at night.

I also had a button for bedtime, it would turn off the main lights, turn on dim red lights, then it would turn on the TV. When I was ready to sleep I had one button that turned the black lights UV light on for a minute, then it turned off the TV and the red lights. Then I would sleep with glow in the dark stars.

I gave up on smart watches. Pain to charge them constantly and I feel it’s another spying device.

An in-law of mine got a smart toaster and loves it. Her elderly mom was so excited about that she got one too. I couldn’t get either of them to express an advantage over a regular toaster, they each just like having it.

I didn’t bother mentioning possible privacy concerns, more power to them if it makes them happy.

My wife leaves lights on all the time. I gave up and just put in smart plugs and lights so I don’t have to get up and turn them off.

Typically I prefer plugs, but with things like a nightstand lamp that has USB charging ports on it, I don’t want to turn off the whole device, so I use smart light bulbs.

The only smart appliance that I’ve found useful is the oven. If my wife leaves it on I can turn it off from my phone.

I prefer to have dumb, discrete devices in near all cases. TV, appliances, bulbs AND switches. Watches (mechanical only, please). I don’t connect any game consoles to the internet. I can’t think of any devices that actually need “smart” features.

My washing machine and dryer: They’re 1990s Maytags that are nigh indestructible.

My Apple Watch is way better than a traditional watch. One reason I like it is because it’s not an unneccessary distraction. Before I had one I’d get pings from my phone and have to dig it out to see what the text/email/etc was, now I just glance at my watch briefly and go back to what I was doing unless it’s an important message I really need to act on straight away.

I don’t have a problem with smart devices. I’m a tech head. I LOVE GADGETS. My issues are that smart devices tattle on me to their corporate daddy without my knowledge or permission. My issues are if they aren’t online they don’t work. My issues are if their parent company goes out of business, or stops supporting the devices, or decides I’ve violated a TOS the device becomes a brick. My issues are a lot of smart devices are perfectly pointless and exist solely for the purpose of data harvesting. My issues are I don’t own my smart devices, I’m leasing them.

You know how nice it is to hit one button on your phone at night and for all needed lights to go off?

So nice to have them on a timer so when you get home your house isn’t dark.

I think smart switches are really nice but for lamps not on a switch. Smart bulbs work great

I prefer smart switches to bulbs myself, but not everyone is comfortable doing electrical work or setting up a local home automation hub.

I use them to simulate home occupancy. The lights in the rooms facing the road simply turn on and off at night so the house never looks empty.

I also setup my bedroom to simulate a sunrise with the lights turning on low and slowly getting brighter before the alarm goes off.

I was very dismissive of smart appliances but then again I have some skill in the kitchen. For people who manage to burn water in a microwave or just don’t have the time, the right smart appliance could be realy helpful.

I have mixed feelings on fridge screens. The concept seems great. It’s essentially free real-estate. Having a recipe visible but out of the eay, along with multiple, visible timers, could be great. But not when it comes with high costs, ads, add on expenses, lock in, etc.

its not really about watches. its about a two way wrist communicator. Its just a smaller cell phone. I don’t like smatphones but im kinda tempted by a watch I can make phone calls on.

My dishwasher doesn’t even have a proper screen, just an LED timer, some buttons, and a few status LEDs.

It stopped working about a month ago and I was livid when I learned why.

The tech who came to fix it, said it probably needed a software update, removed the toe plate, plugged a wifi hotspot into a network jack I didn’t know about, and the thing started working fine 5-10 minutes later.

I didn’t even know the thing had software to update.