I'm not sure if this is necessarily contrarian to HNers, but most appliances and gadgets with 'smart' features are garbage and should be avoided. 'The market' s

I'm not sure if this is necessarily contrarian to HNers, but most appliances and gadgets with 'smart' features are garbage and should be avoided. 'The market' seems to think these features are desirable or even essential. The UIs are terrible and limiting, the smarts become obsolete or will fail faster than the rest of the hardware, and will be costly if not impossible to repair/replace. And then there's the ads, surveillance, locked features, and so on.