elilla, quarantined on Nostr: low tech stuff is great but I also look for "mid tech" when acquiring appliances: - ...

low tech stuff is great but I also look for "mid tech" when acquiring appliances:

- physical buttons (not touch or digital)
- absence of microchips and complex PCBs (e.g. magnet-based rice cooker)
- metal parts
- tech that is easy to understand, access and modify (e.g. simple dishwasher)
- parameters > preset menus (e.g. food drier has a "timer" knob and a "temperature" knob rather than buttons for "fruit", "mushrooms", "jerky" etc.)
- expendable components are standard and replaceable (e.g. batteries, light bulbs)
- absence of apps
- absence of Internet
- absence of "AI"
- no electricity > electricity (e.g. analog multimeter, thermometer, scale)
- plugged on > battery power
- wired > wireless