"I don't want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network."

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35. What happened to KISS

Before a design goal was KISS, keep it simple stupid.. along with the principal of things should be as simple as possible but not any simpler. We, the USA, designed a maned mission that took us to the moon and back with on board computers that had less computing power than calculators that came out a few years later. That by the way were made possible and affordable by the government research money that was used by universities to train students and give them cool problems to solve while advancing the state of the art. A few years ago I had a compressor in an expensive refrigerator crap out after a few years.. the tech that came out for the warranty repair asked if it was connected to the internet. I said no why would it need to be? He said if I had it would have downloaded a software update that was created when they found compressors failing to early, they don’t want them to last too long just long enough to get the majority of the units past the warranty period, my 2 cents. I told him that if the company tested the product vigorously enough before you shipped it you would not be here.. In my last apartment I had a Refigorator that was probably 50 years old when I moved on. It was still working great. When look at consumer reports life expectancy for a Refigorator these days they seem to say lucky if they make it 10 years. I have spent my life working on the development of hard disk drives. Much of it as an failure analysis engineer. Many design flaws are shaken out by the thermal, shock, vibration and 4 corners testing.. yes some bugs, in the design are missed. A hard disk drive is so much more complicated mechanically, electrically and code wise. A modern hard drive has the equivalent of 5 computer chips working together these days. These days with the tolerances so tight and the work loads I often wonder how we can make so many of them work so hard for so long with such a low failure rate.
I used my 40 year old popcorn air popper on Sunday. People kidded me about it and asked why I don’t have a new one.. answer was because it still works and will probably last the rest of my life. This thing does not even have an on off switch, which would have added cost and more important to me a major point to fail.