tech made my life worse: sensor-driven sinks in public restrooms: dont turn on when you want, shutoff too soon, forcing me into frustrating, time-consuming, fa

tech made my life worse: sensor-driven sinks in public restrooms: dont turn on when you want, shutoff too soon, forcing me into frustrating, time-consuming, farsical movements to try to get it to magically trigger again or stay on, so I can finish rinsing my hands or face sensor-driven autoflush toilets in public restrooms: similar issues, except they also tend to flush when you dont want -- at the worst time -- or not flush at all when you really really really need it to in both cases I "get" the fact theyre trying to save water and/or reduce their utility bills. get it. but it makes our lives worse than they were decades ago, when out in public. I know its a trade-off between evils... tech made my life better: modern mobile smartphones. if you could travel back in time to even the 70s and tell someone that within their lifetime they'll have a small personal device that can do the 1000's of things a 2020 era phone can do, you might blow their mind. yes it has introduced a new class of problems too (eg. social media doom scrolling all day long, more distracted driving, etc.) but the amount of new awesome things it allows is totally worth it, imo, and a big net improvement.