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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Products getting shittier and counterfeits running rampant. Sometimes the original might as well be a counterfeit. Amazon doesn't care because it makes them money. I try to buy things from actual stores these days, but even then the quality of products is just so bad sometimes.

Like, not "oh this kitchen scale feels cheap and flimsy" but "uhh this scale doesn't weigh things right half the time"

Bruh it's a scale, how hard could it be

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Ugh, I noticed this too. Everything nowadays is designed to break after 2 years and doesn't even work well during those 2 years.