Stuff thats over engineered

My friend has bought a new airfryer, great you might think, only he can't get it to work properly or rather in the way he wants it too, his old one had buttons for time and temperature and that was it, this one has all sort of preprogrammed options none of which seem right and he can't find anyway of over riding them, there probably is one burried in the bowels of the instruction book, but not easily accessable. One of the programs says 'raw fish' and dosen't give you any options for weight, type or anything, how does it know the difference between a thin flat fish like plaice and a thick round fish like monkfish?  The thing seems totally over engineered or over thought to the point of it being useless.

Another thing that gets over engineered are washing machines, I want to be able to set the time, spin speed and temperature myself not be told what I've got to have. I'm really doubtful about whether washing something at 20 or 30 .C for 3 hours is more efficient and cheaper than washing something at 40.C for an hour and I want it spun at 1400, not 800, or I wouldn't of bought a machine that says it does a 1400 spin.

GGGrrrrrrrr

  • Nobody thinks about anyone who just wants to do what they want to do and then stop and live a faff free life. I'm dreading our old telly and humax box dying, all the new stuff seems so complicated.

    I've got to get a new phone too as the old one is dying and 3G is about to be switched off, I think I'll be getting one of those aimed at "pensioners" as I can't cope with smart phones and I want a dumb phone, my Mum certainly couldn't cope with a smart phone, she can only just manage the one we've got.

  • This is a bugbear of mine.

    Having looked after two parents with dementia, I’m keenly aware of how ridiculously over complicated everything has become in the race to add “clever features”.

    The one that annoyed me most was my mum’s TV. Back in the day you had a few buttons for each channel and the volume control. Later you had two buttons to go up and down the channels.

    But latterly she had Sky TV and it opened up on a menu screen when you switched it on. Even I found it a pain to navigate to an actual TV channel.

    Nobody thinks about elderly people who just can’t use all this complication.