Increasingly these days I'm seeing fewer and fewer hard on/off switches on many electronic devices and appliances.
This is because so many of them are designed to go into a standby mode so the assumption is no need to really ever cut physical power except in rare situations like moving house etc.
However this approach fails in the case of many devices because many of them are - frankly - faulty, that is the software does not work. Often when the device gets into a problem state it becomes unusable, sometimes even a reboot won't work, this happens with modern TV sets, network routers and extenders, sometime cell phones and so on.
In my house when our Android TV "acts up" it can only be rectified by removing physical power, but the power cord is hidden behind the TV and goes into an outlet on the wall behind the TV, unreachable because the TV is mounted in the wall with limited space, Therefore I must go to circuit breaker and pull that, which shuts off power to the TV outlet plus several other outlets that have lamps, my router, etc plugged in.
The result is a Kfkaesque world, where something that was once trivial, standard, basic is no longer available, we are so "advanced" that we must run around fiddling with circuit breakers and stuff just to get a TV to work.
Of course the motive is likely money, switches that - mechanically - turn off power do sometimes fail and that means warranty and repairs and so on.
My attitude is becoming that if I can physically switch something off, I'm already disinclined to buy it !
This is because so many of them are designed to go into a standby mode so the assumption is no need to really ever cut physical power except in rare situations like moving house etc.
However this approach fails in the case of many devices because many of them are - frankly - faulty, that is the software does not work. Often when the device gets into a problem state it becomes unusable, sometimes even a reboot won't work, this happens with modern TV sets, network routers and extenders, sometime cell phones and so on.
In my house when our Android TV "acts up" it can only be rectified by removing physical power, but the power cord is hidden behind the TV and goes into an outlet on the wall behind the TV, unreachable because the TV is mounted in the wall with limited space, Therefore I must go to circuit breaker and pull that, which shuts off power to the TV outlet plus several other outlets that have lamps, my router, etc plugged in.
The result is a Kfkaesque world, where something that was once trivial, standard, basic is no longer available, we are so "advanced" that we must run around fiddling with circuit breakers and stuff just to get a TV to work.
Of course the motive is likely money, switches that - mechanically - turn off power do sometimes fail and that means warranty and repairs and so on.
My attitude is becoming that if I can physically switch something off, I'm already disinclined to buy it !