Person: Oh btw, Human is going by Person now
Me: OK 👍
Corporation: Life's Good, we'd like it if you'd think Life's Good now, please
Me: Anyway this is a toot to say that I'm getting a new dishwasher tonight and it's a Lucky-Goldstar

First dishwasher I bought for this house was a clockwork one from Construction Junction, it was $15 and worked great for seven years until the mice chewed a hole in it.

So I went back to CJ and spent $30 on a very fancy computer dishwasher and it only lasted two years! And needs taken apart every month or so!

This $50 Lucky-Goldstar is INCREDIBLY COMPUTER, so I'm expecting maybe a year?

The Lucky-Goldstar Computer Dishwasher is in my house but I haven't plumbed it in yet because I hurt my back lugging it up the stairs.

It's surprisingly heavy. That means it's either very good or very overly complicated and thus unreliable, I guess We'll See

It doesn't even have buttons, it has capacitive sensing sections on the control panel because I guess it's cheaper and easier these days than putting in switches

This is a design decision that if elected I would ban immediately

It's not just about reliability and repairability, having mechanical switches in place of capacitive doodads Feels Good. "Put your money into the bits that get touched" is Never bad advice in any kind of engineering. When I made my RGB Knitting Lamp Connected To A Five-Inch-Wide Coffee Table (long story), it used four buttons and a toggle switch and I spent no joke Five Dollars Per Button and an all-metal chonker of a switch, because that's where I'll feel the money.

Yeah it's a lotta cash but those are buttons designed to be pressed a thousand times a day and get swapped out maybe once per decade in an abusive as hell arcade environment. In my basement those will straight-up last Indefinitely