‘Tesla Syndrome’ Explains Why Tech Is Making Us Miserable::There’s a class war that’s leading to worse innovations—but it’s not between the sides you think it is.

  • P03 Locke
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    1841 year ago

    It’s not tech. It’s capitalism.

    God damn, I feel like this is the same as that other shit article.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Why are people so stupid, lol. Oh wait life is literally marketing in 2020. I don’t even know if I’m alive anymore. Do me a favor and check my seo and engagement.

      It’s like every issue is just privileged assholes complaining that the way they raped Earth and lives didn’t work out for their good.

    • @Womble
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      151 year ago

      The article is literally about the problem of ownership being too concentrated and wealth overruling people with knowledge of businesses. “Tech” here doesn’t mean technology it means the big tech companies.

    • @Astroturfed
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      131 year ago

      Somehow people haven’t been convinced that just because a phone or computer is inserted it’s a totally different thing. Crypto is just money with extra steps and a digital device, ride sharing is just splitting a cab, streaming is just cable split into a few pieces. Products barely changed, just shiny new conmen out front pushing the products.

    • @FapFlop
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      71 year ago

      Posted by the same person. Hmm.

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶
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    631 year ago

    I, for one, do want to go back to wind down windows, manual transmission, and dials on my stove top. A lot of modern technology is flashy but shit in practice. Touch screens in cars for example. It will always be better to have physical buttons you can memorize the locations of and navigate by feel.

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶
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        191 year ago

        I honestly want to smash my stupid fucking stove top with it’s bullshit touch buttons that decide to activate when I happen to move a hot pan across them. I would smash it if I wasn’t renting.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          My dishwasher has that. Every time I stand at the counter, it turns on and off and starts by itself. I hate it.

      • @[email protected]
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        181 year ago

        Oh god. New stoves don’t have knobs? Are they touchscreens now too? I will pretend I did not just read that information and be a ‘old man yells at cloud’ when the time comes to buy a new stove.

        • Da Bald Eagul
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          31 year ago

          Our electric cooking plate is touch only, and our oven has touch buttons in combination with physical dials for temperature/timers.

      • @[email protected]
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        Bought a microwave with analog dials a little while ago. Surprisingly rare and more expensive, but operating microwave is never easier now compared to inputting numbers on a shitty keypad. Just turn the power level knob and the timer knob and it’s on.

        • @TitanLaGrange
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          31 year ago

          Yep, two simple mechanical knobs is easily the best microwave oven interface. Although I do like the fancy Samsung microwave I have that is almost completely silent and lightweight, I think it uses an inverter instead of a chonky HV transformer. I wish I could get a combo of that inverter with a couple of simple knobs for controls.

    • @QuarterSwede
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      151 year ago

      Bought a brand new car without a touchscreen and you know what? It’s fabulous! The 4-way jog wheel is so much better than trying to touch an app or a button on a screen. Oh and it has a physical volume knob! It’s just great to use.

    • Justagamer
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      11 year ago

      I say down one day and designed my ideal no frills car, and even thought of going to see how much components would be for everything 😄

      We need a Kirkland brand Costco car or something.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    Tech / innovation for its own sake has been an issue for as long as I can remember (back to the 80s) and I wouldn’t be surprised if it dates back to the first stone tools. So you end up with a mix of useful, helpful innovations and idiotic ones at any given time. Tech nerds like me tend to try to find ways to apply what we know whether it helps or not…

      • @Biff
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        31 year ago

        Maybe not the worst on the road, but apparently pretty close.

          • @DoomBot5
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            21 year ago

            It’s also miles ahead of most cars that have nothing more than lane keep assist that doesn’t work half the time.

              • @DoomBot5
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                21 year ago

                Where the fuck are people getting $15000 a year from?

            • AphoticDev
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              01 year ago

              Why do you want to pay a yearly fee for something that does a shit job driving for you, anyway? You can be a shit driver for free anytime you want.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Fair enough! Doesn’t exactly prove his claim but atleast there’s a kernel of truth there.

  • @DarkLogic
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    -281 year ago

    This seems terribly biased. Your broken elevator isn’t Tesla’s fault. Also I love my fucking Telsa, its slick as fuck. Don’t compare my space car to your broken ass building.

    • Zoolander
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      201 year ago

      It’s ridiculously biased and 100% ragebait for all involved. The problem today is shit like this article, not Teslas.

      • @DoomBot5
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        21 year ago

        As soon as the author started absolutely trashing on the looks of the car, I was done.

    • @MeanEYE
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      41 year ago

      You car is a space car as much as his elevator is a shuttle.