Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app - eviltoast
    • primrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      you never know for sure until you try though, so if it requires an app, it’s dead to me and I don’t trust anything else the company makes.

      if it has an API i get very wet very fast.

      • kjaeselrek@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        That’s fair, but the point I was trying to make was that I have tried and, for the one I’ve got at least, the app isn’t required. I’m not trying to defend them or anything, I just thought it was worth mentioning.

        Tbh I’m kinda glad it doesn’t have an API, because I’d end up wasting a lot of time playing with it haha.

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        3 months ago

        About two phone changes ago I never reinstalled the anova app.

        It’s like pressing the buttons on top of the cooker with extra steps.

        • primrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          yeah there are apps I want on my phone, but if anything says ‘there is an app’ I’m instantly averse.

          even the things I do want phone apps for, I have to browse on fdroid because default options are all terrible. basic shit like file browsers and media players in commercial OS’s are just, like, vile and do not function. even if I didn’t care about the endoscopes they try to snake up every orifice, they are deliberately nonfunctional.