VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough - eviltoast
Customers and critics alike have raked VW over the coals for its "frustrating" interiors.
  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    How many smart thermostats have become obsolete because their service providers stopped providing cloud services for them?

    Same goes for pretty much every IoT device that people seem to be filling their homes with.

    • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      11 months ago

      This is why, going forward, smart home products I buy have to be zigbee or zwave so I can integrate it with home assistant.

      • silkroadtraveler@lemmy.todayEnglish
        91·
        11 months ago

        I thought this comment was trolling then I realized that zigbee and zwave are real brand names. You can’t make this shit up.

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          Haha yeah they’re IoT protocols for smarthome stuff. But an open source software called Home Assistant can talk to it, so you can self-host your home automation without your home being subject to the whims of some fragile tech startup and by extension, their investors.

          • silkroadtraveler@lemmy.todayEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            Oh I see, that’s helpful and makes sense. I’m one of those newbs who took 15 hours to set up my own Jellyfin. Self hosting Home automation is a ways off in the distance for me haha.

            • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              Hey, same! Glad it was helpful.

              And hey it sounds like after 15 hours you DID get it set up, so congrats! The skills learned will keep transferring to your next projects. If you’re having fun, you’re winning. :)

              Home Assistant has a pretty rad community and guides on which devices it can use and stuff. They’re trying really hard to be accessible to the curious. So hey, never know!

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          11 months ago

          Yeah that’s how things are now.

          I was looking for kitchen scale and not a single recognisable brand was there on Amazon. No Phillips, Bosch, Siemens, Panasonic etc.

          Don’t know if these companies even make things like that anymore.

          • silkroadtraveler@lemmy.todayEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Yeah Amazon has opened the door to the lowest quality hardware out of China to put most name brands out of business for lower priced goods.