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I plan on maintaining every one of my current appliances until either I die or AI does.
No, I don't want my refrigerator to have a subscription and a connection to the cloud. I want it to keep my shit COLD. TVs are the freaking worst. Just display pixels, bitch. No body is asking more of you.
You can still buy new dumb appliances in 2026. Including TV if you go for a business display panel. The stuff McDonalds uses to display menus.
Maintaining old stuff is better really. Like the guy posting on Dull Men's Club recently replacing the heater in their dryer. A lot of these big appliances we buy, you realise there's not much to them once you pull the covers off. Any idiot including myself can do a simple parts swap.
My most recents to inspire others:
I intended to replace dishwasher pump on a 2011 Sears model. Took half an hour. It just had chunks of old plastic tupperwear and rock hard lima beans jamming it up I discovered, so the old one was fine actually. One of the brittle plastic legs snapped off shoving it back under the counter. A chunk of old 2x4 solved that.
I replaced failing blower motor on 2004!! furnace last summer when there's no time pressure or cold weather. Half an hour, it was easy to get to. I bought some extra spare parts from ebay and a spare logic board. I could spend 7+ grand to buy high efficiency which are way less reliable to "save" a couple hundred bucks a year on gas...or do this. The heat exchanger looked fine I check annually.
Roommate and I got a broken snowblower locally for free. Soaked up varnished bad gas. Bought new carb and replaced rotted gas line. 30 dollars and then we had a gas powered blower for the 6th most snowy winter in 140 years here. I don't know much but it's just stinky legos really.
I am inspired. Maybe we need a Lemmy community for this type of stuff. I know dull mens club exists but maybe one more gender neutral.
There's quite a few DIY communities here too already.
I forgot to mention I usually find someone on youtube has made a repair guide for pretty much everything out there if it's common enough.
Oh and there's usually a schematic taped to the underside of the control panel in stuff like dishwashers, dryers, washing machines, etc intended for home repair techs.
I've seen this claim on and off. I had trouble finding any in the wild the last time I went TV shopping. The handful of "dumb" models I have found (Emerson still has models with built in DVD players, ffs!) tend to be on the smaller side and poorer quality. I've got a living room that would kinda dwarf a 40" set. Shy of going to a projector system (which... eh, mounting those things can be a real pain and all the new ones are also riddled with AI) I was stuck with different flavors of "Smart" TV for anything 60"+
Ended up just wiring my computer to the HDMI and using the PC/web browser as my primary interface for watching anything. That's side-skirted a lot of the AI annoyances. But it's not perfect.
Illegal take but I actually do like smart TVs. Unless you never use any streaming services, it's a useful feature that would otherwise require an external device to do the same thing. Now if you have your own home server or something, that's cool too, but that's more hassle than I want to deal with.
Smart TVs are, for sure, easier to setup, but TV manufacturers are starting to inject their ads to anything that is showing on the TV. Sorry, but I don't want to see any ads while watching a movie, or playing games.
I don't care whether the TV is smart, or not. I will just not connect it to internet, and I'll use it as a monitor. No one is messing with my boss fights!
Yeah fuck smart tvs. I've got a lower mid range one that actually has a decent display but probably was the last series to not have any smart features. I'll go back to crt before I get a smart tv I swear
I went out of my way to find a dumb TV locally for my grandfather and it was literally impossible. He just needs TV channels, but noooo - now every time he turns it on he has to get past a million screens trying to sell him shit or launch Youtube before he can watch the 6 oclock news followed by the football.
Yeah, my have similar issues with my Grandma. Problem is she won't ask anyone for advice, go out, buy something way more expensive than she needs with more features and more confusing interfaces than she can handle. Get frustrated with it and not use it, thinks she needs something else, repeat ad nauseam. It's her money, she can do what she wants, but every time she gets something I have to teach her how to use it for her to just forget what I say and end up getting something else. Like Grandma, please let me just buy you an old TV and stereo on eBay that you can actually use and just be happy with it. Getting her to figure out streaming services (by her request) is impossible. She really just needs a classic cd player
Emerson 40" is pretty good.
You can get a projector, they’re usually as dumb as they come.