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Technology needs to downgrade some things that went in the wrong direction

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  • #92
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,805 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123443133#Comment_123443133

    Its a load of nonsense. if you need access to a recipe i'm pretty sure most households these days have some form of tablet or laptop thus making the screen on the fridge immediately redundant.

    Its gimmicky BS thats probably an interesting novelty for a few days and then its forgotten.

    What happens if it breaks? Or refuses to update or develops any number of potential software / hardware issues … Could you really be arsed with that additional complexity built into your fridge? …



  • #93
    Raichų
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123443684#Comment_123443684

    yes- welcome to science and technology like?

    If we just reached a point in time and decided to drop tools where would the breakthroughs we have today be?

    Most ridiculous thing I’ve read in a long time. Good lord.



  • #94
    BP_RS3813
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 210 ✭✭BP_RS3813


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123443780#Comment_123443780

    And now are at the point of talking fridges. Talking fridges....…

    Congratulations, thats what advancing so far that technology becomes a parody of what it should be.



  • #95
    Raichų
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123443959#Comment_123443959

    and we didn’t have pointless features on appliances since decades now no?

    “This technology is stupid so we should just stop working on advancing it now”

    Load of garbage.



  • #96
    magicbastarder
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    There's not much advancement to be made with fridges, is there? Box makes things cold. So they stick on fancy looking but useless gubbins to make them look fancier and more feature laden than the competitors. That's not an advancement in technology.



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  • #97
    veryangryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123444097#Comment_123444097

    I'm all for improvements. However in the mentioned cases there hasn't been any. Change for changes sake is silly at best and breaks things at worst(like the car touch screens)



  • #98
    HBC08
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123443133#Comment_123443133

    There was a "demand" to scroll through screens to turn up or down heated seats.That kind of sh1te is being phased out now,I think most people are happy about that.

    We spend enough time on screens.



  • #99
    appledrop
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    Self scan check outs, fecking bane of my life. I absolutely despise them!

    No I don't want to go through my shopping and beep everything I buy one and try and find the bananas in drop down menu, while 3 times the thing beeps at me that their is unexpected items in the bagging area.

    No I'd prefer a chat with a human being as I pack my shopping.

    Now Penneys & Boots have them!

    The Boots one actually takes the biscuit, it's the only option now but the dopes have security tags stuck on all the make up etc( probably more people robbing etc) and no one to scan them so it delays everything and if you forget you spend rest of your trip around shopping centre setting all the alarms off😱

    Boots have messed up big time, I already do most of my make up, beauty shopping online and this certainly won't encourage me back into shops. If they want to keep busniess in physical shops need to make it a nice experience not a nightmare for shoppers.



  • #100
    thereiver
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    Ai uses an incredible amount of power and water so that it can cool the data centers every phone and windows PC laptop will have ai built In do we really need large to touch screens in cars. Students are using ai to write essays and programers use it to write programs

    They are building new data centers in states with low water supplys this is not going to work out well



  • #101
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,599 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123446110#Comment_123446110

    And costs a fortune, the companies don’t seem to have a path to profitability. They’re hardly going to make a fortune from people making crap pictures of people with six fingers.
    Have you heard of Ed Zitron? He’s a massive critic of AI, worth checking out.



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