I bet that internally the mechanism must be like this
Reminds me of when I saw a Mountain Spring Water filling station ornamented with a picture of a snow-capped mountain at a Wal-Mart about 500 miles from the nearest mountain and nearly 2k miles from the nearest snow-capped mountain. The thing had pipes out the back going into the wall. That was straight city water that maybe that dispenser filtered a little more if it was properly maintained.
A good filter can do wonders.
Living in an area with very hard water, yes.
Nah, you’d notice if the water wasn’t chilled.
The real trick is to build these in places where the tap water is naturally cold, and to heat the free stuff.
Wait isn’t tap water always naturally cold?
Water comes out of my tap at 103f ok the summer , Arizona.
Nope. Especially not in Texas in the summertime. The pipes are close enough to the surface that they warm up (unless you have well water, which is always cold).
Weird. Where I live they bury it eight feet deep so it doesn’t freeze in the winter so it’s constantly chilly.
Yeah but you live in hell
You can always put more clothes on. You can only get so naked
Thats definetely a health hazard. If the water stands long enough to get warm, it will get infected sooner or later.
Doesnt matter so much for the sistance between the main water pipe and your tap, byt after a holiday you should definetly let some water run until it comes out cold again.
Thats definetely a health hazard
You mean the haphazard handling of drinking water or Texas in general? You’re right either way 🤷
City water is chlorinated though
And degazify if it’s naturally sparkly.
There is a Czech company Filtermac (“Lokni”) that doesn’t even offer tap water, only filtered (so you don’t get a comparison to the already safe tap?) Your options are:
- Install app, verify phone number, get
- free 0.5 liters (2 glasses) per day at select stations (train stations, plus unis if you are a student)
- access to subscriptions, the “unlimited” (still limited) tier is $8/mo I think
- Pay with credit card, about half of what bottled water costs
The startup says it’s very successful. WTF? Tap water is already safe in my country so you can just pay $0.50 to access toilets (or jump the gate), many railway stations also have free taps.
Also, you need to keep the phone in a receptacle while the changing QR code on screen is being scanned during the bottle fillling (bring your own bottle or get a glass one shipped with a year of Premium). Tablets and laptops with Android emulators don’t fit. You only need internet to sign up but the giant thing with an ad screen does not provide Wi-Fi.
Yeah look i wouldn’t sign up for this on principle because subscriptions are shit, but I do enjoy poncy overpriced water.
I don’t drink booze, smoke, or do drugs. I have a very restrictive diet and can’t even have a slice of cake once in a while.
You’ll have to pry my lightly sparkling imported Italian mineral water from my cold dead hands.
StPellegrino is so good, only La Salvetat beats it (and perrier but only in those 33cl glass bottles, I don’t know why).
What’s your favourite?
Yeah S.Pellegrino in those sleek cans.
Tap water is already safe in my country so you can just pay $0.50 to access toilets
I now realize what you mean, but I just woke up and for a good 3 seconds or so imagined you slurping toilet water.
Where is /c/frugaljerk when you need it?
I expect nothing less from the country with contactless payments for using the bathroom
The? There are dozens of us!
Still, it’s probably the most widespread here because Czechs are crazy cheap.
- Install app, verify phone number, get
+filtered is what gets me
What’s the bet those filters never get changed either?
It’s the same as those water fountains at work that filter tap water. There are one or more few carbon or other filters (redundant unless your tap water is below EU standards) plus a chilling (and maybe heating) chamber with UV light. You notice the lack of chlorine that dissipated as the water stood still, otherwise there is no real difference.
It’s 100% the same water
They add lead to the free side.
Flint Michigan loves this simple trick.
Want $0.25 in your account monthly?
Introducing sink water! It has been treated with hand sanitizer, soaps, human waste including semen parts, shed skin particles, mucus, dandruff, sweat, spit, ear wax, blood, pee, and feces!
Missing mood stabilizers, ibuprofen, Tylenol, basically medications.
God I wish there was a source of water that has trace amounts of random medications, just imagine it as an energy drink alternative.
A message to anyone who pays for this(I know they won’t see it): You’re the reason everything is collapsing. Go fuck yourself, idiot.
“Reefill” sounds like something out of a wojak meme.
“I’m reefilling my water bottle with mineral water from 1000m deep!” - the reefiller wojak
It more sounds like you’re making fun of their intelligence: oh, you’re going for a REEEEEfill?
Sweet Jesus I didn’t even notice that it’s a subscription. I abhor vandalism but this shit needs to be spraypainted yesterday.
Spray paint? Fill cup with shitty water, poke hole in bottom of cup, place cup over expensive water button, let the water and circuitry settle their differences.
Dystopian tech needs to be destroyed, not defaced.
this machine is likely waterproofed, for obvious reasons
Fortunately, water isn’t the only thing capable of destroying it.
Just put gum on the subscription button so no one is able to use this scam
WaaS
HAHAHAAHHAHHHAHHAH
Nestle approved
The pinnacle of innovation if you ask me.
Tap water all the time
“REE” is right. I have a 10 pound sledge that can fix this RIGHT up. Just doin’ my part for humanity.
No filtered room temp option is the real crime.
This is the kind of thing I find enraging to the point of vandalism.
vandalism against large corporations is beautiful and moral
Amen
You would think all the data they steal from you when you install the app would be payment enough
My theory is that the new method for data vacuuming is charging a benignly small fee to make it appear that you’re paying for a service and not getting raided, as opposed to using a free service where you assume they’re harvesting you like an apple tree.
Yeah when the fuck are sandboxing being implemented correctly in telephones smh
Its available for some phones with extra work.
- Maybe earlier. Apple and Android phones have been heavily sandboxed from the start.
Spoken like someone who knows nothing about how apps work.
How do they steal the data then?
Most of the time they don’t.
Exactly!
Interestingly, I was looking for this right now and realized that they don’t have an app for Android and I couldn’t get the information that the App Store offers about the app’s permissions (probably invasive), not to mention that it probably has to connect to several dubious servers to upload data it collects from the user. I say it because I know how this business model works.
I was going to look it up and share but I think they went under. No app on iOS either and the URL takes you to a wix placeholder page
they went under
Serves the fuckers right. If only the same would happen to Nestlé Water…
