Browsing washing machines
Sales person shows one
100% touch interface
“We need to wait a few seconds until it’s booted”

@volpeon "oh there's a software update hang on"

@arch @volpeon
salesperson: lemme just update right quick
opens terminal
sudo pacman -Syu
me: I’ll take 10

@volpeon why do you need a washing machine for browsing the web?

@puniko @volpeon

- Posted from Mastodon for Samsung Smart Washing Machine

@Houl @volpeon don’t post too fluffy stuff on that samsung washing machine, or it will explode

@puniko @volpeon
:samsung_smart_washing_machine_floof_explode:

@volpeon Touch interfaces are the worst unless way you’re doing is complicated, modal, and the settings are all tightly interrelated. I just can’t imagine a washing machine being that.

@Zulikath It’s useful to select options directly instead of cycling through them with a physical button, but they also changed the program selection wheel to a touch-based one and that just screamed awkward to me

@volpeon I always considered a knob to be pretty direct, unless it’s a rotary encoder that can’t handle a swift sweep to exactly what you wanted painted on the label behind it, in which case that’s the problem. Knobs > buttons > touch

@volpeon I want a washing machine that uses an actual Arduino with open source firmware and I'm not joking, I'd pay for that shit, I've actually considered building something myself or using a project like this one to revive/upgrade a second hand one: https://www.hackster.io/roni-bandini/dead-washing-machine-returns-to-life-with-arduino-mkr-81a970

@volpeon tbh Quelle bester Shop für Waschmaschinen :3 Hab eine ohne Touch mit Rädchen und Knöpfchen bekommen und net zu teuer

@volpeon @stefan Quelleist doch pleite?

Aber die günstigen Linien der Hersteller haben meist noch gute alte Knöpfe und Drehregler.

Touchscreen kommt mir bei einer Waschmaschine nicht ins Haus

@Erpel @volpeon Könnte man meinen aber die Marke is still around. Waren wohl Insolvent und wurden 2013 neugegründet (danke wikipedia!). Gehört jetzt zu Baur, was ein Teil von Otto ist