I don't think it's nostalgic. I was locked out of my rental a couple days ago because of a crappy Samsung "smart" lock which is the dumbest thing I have ever se

I don't think it's nostalgic. I was locked out of my rental a couple days ago because of a crappy Samsung "smart" lock which is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. It also happened that it was 2 AM and it took half an hour for a technician to come over. There is no fail recovery for these stupid locks unless you have a couple tools on your hands at which point it's better to just take a traditional "key"? While the technician was manipulating the thing I was surprised how badly its designed. How fragile its whole "state" and memory and how easily you can get it to reset itself or to lock yourself. This is, supposedly, an important thing and it can be critical (no technician that night? You'd be locked out of your apartment until morning. Good luck figuring it out.) What if it happened when you took the garbage out and your wallet/phone are not with you? Well, you are in a weird situation. I take my wallet and phone now to throw the garbage out. This is a regression of living standards. And I'm a techie and I'd love that everything become IoT or "smart" but it has to be done right. The developers have to consider the criticality of the tool they are building and designing. Unfortunately, today, this is not taken into consideration. There is a blatant disregard of any of that and instead you have a focus on aesthetic, advertising, marketing, short-term profit, scale, reach, data collection, etc... But real, reliable functionality is thrown out of the window. The system got to be breaking at some point. I think we are at that point and a big re-structuring of the tech sector will eventually happen.