Well-deserved, IMO.

Hey everybody! Get a look at Money Bags over here being able to afford to go to the dentist!

(kidding, low key jealous... please marry me so I can have benefits/health coverage)

I am enjoying saying "Log back in to continue your Oral B brushing experience" in my best "customer-service/salesperson ad lady" voice. Like the kind of tone that's so soullessly saccharine that it gives AI vibes

Yeah. Everything in tour homr with radio needs to be microwaved. Butlerian jihad now.

So, class war or butlerian jihad? Pick at least one.

I used to be a gadgetwhore, now im recruiting for the butlerian jihad, and my values around this have not changed at all.

More like “Enshitify app”, amirite?

old comic

12-13-24

It doesn't need it, it works totally fine without it.

(Also, FWIW, the toothbrush itself connects via Bluetooth, not Wi-Fi)

I have one that is smart, and you are spot on. It was nice to use in the beginning to get an idea of what pressure is recommended and time spent on each section. But I have uninstalled and been running app free for several years now - with zero issues.

This seemed a little clickbait-y

Right? I buy only open-source wifi toothbrushes. Still waiting on the year of the Linux toothbrush, tbh

We should not be shaming the consumers, but educating them. The blame is on the companies for making such a terrible product in the first place, the consumer only found out how bad it was after. Sometimes, you can no longer return a product because its X days out of policy.

Not that I don't completely agree with your sentiment, but to make people start advocating for themselves, you have to make them see you are a friend, and the company is the enemy.

(not that the oop would ever see this post, comment or reply because who on twitter is also using lemmy, but you get it right?)

If it’s anything like mine, it works just fine without the app. The app just does brush tracking and shit. I don’t need any of that, so I never set it up. But I suspect even if I had, it would still let me use it without being logged into the app.

I suspect the same is true here. That the function of the toothbrush is available regardless of whether it’s logging data to your phone.

But.. how else am I going to connect my toothbrush to my smarthome..?

Just kidding, I use home assistant and my oral-b toothbrush broadcasts using BLE, which Is capture using the oral-b integration. You don't need to be logged in.

I agree. It's super dumb to buy IOT toothbrushes that require you to be logged in. Luckily I'm not one of those people, so that doesn't apply to me. Phew..

Mourn for this man, not for his choices but for his lack of them; a store selling expired milk should be put out of business by the authorities, not by a mob of post-poisoned shoppers.

It's the experience of a toothbrush collecting data about your daily routines to sell for profit.

My sister, a dentistry student, got one in a promo event. It glows when you walk by to remind you to brush. Drove me nuts.

i use only the oralb 1000, its good enough, no need to spend over 100-200 for a toothbrush.