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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Honeywell's consumer products are trash

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, their comercial ones are getting that way too. Like who the hell needs a touchscreen on an industrial thermal printer; thats just one more thing to easily break in an industrial environment. And god forbid you want a replacement touch screen because a new one is half the cost of a new printer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

it's because implementing an existing touch screen module and then telling a bunch of code monkeys in a 3rd world country to write a barely functional UI for it is actively cheaper than engineering, sourcing, assembling and testing keypads with physical buttons or even a membrane keyboard these days

using a touch screen also means they can put the same mass produced PCB into 40 different products instead of needing a custom button pattern for each. just tell the code monkeys to update the UI. there's a lot of economic arguments for the use of touch screens, but it sure doesn't make the field worker's lives any easier.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

a lot of it is just using the name via licensing.. not made by them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

That still says something about their vetting and quality control.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And there is a lot of fake stuff when looking for their products as well.

Took me multiple tries to get some genuine? ptm7950, or at least one that actually works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Man that takes me back. The best PTM-7950 I ever had was back in ‘88

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That's why they need the donut bribe.