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Once upon a time the Internet would tell you what to press to make your dishwasher drain.

Now it wants to show you a video, about replacing your drain hose, by visiting their affiliate link, to remove the blockage.

It’s not blocked. I just want to know how to make it drain.

I gave up and just ran it on the shortest cycle on the basis that it will drain at the end.

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Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
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It pisses me off that domestic appliances with good user interfaces are simply not available. At any cost. You cannot buy good ones. They are not made. At all.

It’s a race to the bottom. Nobody fills the “I want to pay more for a quality product” niche.

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Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
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And you can no-longer work around it by looking stuff up on the internet, because nobody makes a working search engine anymore.

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vox popsicle vox dei
vox popsicle vox dei
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random plug for Kagi which has somewhat restored my belief in search engines
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gz
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Because everything is built down to a cost rather than up to a quality.
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BlueDot🇺🇦
BlueDot🇺🇦
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This!

Every appliance in the house beeps. Some loud, some soft, but it's always just "beep" instead of a synthesized voice saying "The refrigerator door has been standing open for five minutes!" which is what I need to know.

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Benton Greene
Benton Greene
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BuT tOuCh SeNsItIvE BuTtOnS aRe So FuTuRiStIc! Don't you want your appliances to look cool above all else? That's what's worth paying extra for! 🙃
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Rachel
Rachel
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I want dials levers and switches that go thunk, with raised or deeply etched legends that aren't just screen printed, and more metal everywhere.

I don't need 5 different very slightly different dishwasher settings, we all know I'm just gonna hit the "regular" one every time any

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Thomas Lobig
Thomas Lobig
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your precient words have manifested this toot of mine: (or maybe i just got inspired to it)
chaos.social/@Tom_ofB/11120693…
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Rachel
Rachel
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I want dials levers and switches that go thunk, with raised or deeply etched legends that aren't just screen printed, and more metal everywhere.

I don't need 5 different very slightly different dishwasher settings, we all know I'm just gonna hit the "regular" one every time any

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Thomas Lobig
Thomas Lobig
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@mkj nope, same bad UIs everywhere, Miele, AEG, Siemens, Bosch. They all suck in that regard.
@mkj
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GNU Too
GNU Too
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personally I feel like I've been getting better results by using a SearXNG instance and just changing the meta search settings to only use engines I've never heard of.
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