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[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

2 handles makes it easier to accidentally scald old and young people.

[–]ukromeo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't know if there's a connection, but recently I had to fix a shower faucet that works with a single handle.

The handle wouldn't shut off the water -- a problem I never had before in my life. I ended up having to remove the cartridge inside the faucet area, and putting in a new one. A real PITA. I wonder if this is a problem unique to single handle faucets, or if I would have had the same problem with a double handle system anyway.

On a related note, last year I had to repair a fridge that was only 4 years old. The fan that cools the interior had broken down, and I had to replace it. Again, never had a problem like that before in my life. Apparently, as I found out, this is a common problem in fridges today.

[–]trident765 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The modern definition of "simplicity" is the user cannot customize anything. In the future, showers will be turned on by a single button that uses a machine learning algorithm to decide the temperature and pressure with no option for the user to override this. The developers will say they do this because they value simplicity.

[–]fschmidt[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am not sure about that. I am driving my wife's new car which has millions of useless customizable features. I really think it is a much simpler motive, namely the hatred of anything good. So remove useful simple customizability, and add useless complex customizability.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do you mean there'd be one for hot water and one for cold?

[–]fschmidt[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, like in the first picture.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

you could still get them, I think they make em with one just due to being cheap when making a new home, or remodeling a bathroom.