Everything must be a subscription service

Both probably give the same exact water at the same temp.

Even if it was free, opening an app to get water is bullshit.

Edit: Let the record show, I was referring to the chilled water.

Jokes on you; I torrent my water!

If this was downtown or at parks I can kinda see them providing something. Knowing this is likely at a university library or building its just removing access that was already there.

I feel that the majority of innovation occuring in modern capitalism is confined to two key areas:

Regulatory capture and market control.
New ways to mindfuck people into overpaying for goods and services.

Reefill.com isn't even a registered domain. I call horseshit.

That's how corporations nickel and dime you. I resist subscription services almost completely (I pay for cloud backup storage for my phone in case of breakage/theft and that's it) because as well as being a constant financial drain they inevitably degrade and enshittify, often even removing things you paid for

I would rather take the tap water than trust the maintenance of whatever filter they put in there.

Is it still a thing? The website doesn't go anywhere and I can't find the app. All I can actually find are a few articles talking about how ridiculous it is to have a $2 subscription service on water fountains.

I'm not going to hate the company for trying, but if you're a building admin using these instead of Oasis or Elkay fill stations you're a huge fucking asshole.

Product designers are supposed to understand pareidolia and will often intentionally put faces into their designs. Some designs look happy, others like sports cars can be made to look aggressive.

The top of this design looks like some combination of angry, sad and disappointed, which I like to think is intentional.

Drill a fucking hole in that motherfucker and siphon it off. Or just drink tap water. It's fine. At least where I live. But still drill a hole in there to fuck with them.

I am not often in favour of shooting people.

For legal reasons this concludes my statement.

Property damage of this is valid. especially if you can give people water for free next to it.

It's a failed crowdfunding campaign, their last tweet is from 2017

when you see shit like this you are morally obligated to make them lose money

Pay for the PRIVILEGE of not drinking contaminated water!

Why are people trying to justify this, the city can put in chilled water taps like those Elkay ones for super cheap. Then when shitty businesses like these go under, you aren't left with a useless machine with no other water source nearby. Relying on private entities for basic things like this is just objectively a bad idea if it can be at all avoided.

I am astounded by the amount of irrational hatred in here towards what is essentially a T-junction pipe...

Here’s something that could be provided for free. Instead of innovating, I’m going to invent a shit version of this thing, give you free access to that, and then charge for the original version.

At that rate, I'll just go outside and drink from the hose.

Is this real

This is why we hack.

Certified Capitalism™ moment

I can't say I really hate this. If a company is willing to maintain this so there is always free water alongside a purchase option, it doesnt seem so bad.

Because frankly a portion of my world looks like this right now: The corporations squeeze to get everything out of me, and a good portion of the populous want to make sure I can't have nice things by fucking everything up. A public fountain? Oh yeah that shit will get destroyed or stolen within a week.

Get absolutely fucked reefill

Kinda reminds me of paying to use the bathroom in Germany. Is that still a thing?

This product is going to fail.

REE!

No Google Play or App Store?

Oh, I'm so sorry, no fresh water for you.

The best part about this is that the thumbnail makes the device like a face that's very fed up with this shit.

Anything that requires an app for payment is something I never use. No exceptions so far.

but tbf that costs money.
cooling down takes a lot of electricity and filters need replacement pretty frequently and they're not cheap.
doesn't justify a fucking subscription tho, this shoud just accept like a coin per cup or something

Smear something gross on the torment nexus button.

Would genuinely break this on sight

I honestly don't have a problem with this so long as the tap water is clean and drinkable. Everyone should have free access to clean drinking water. If it has to be filtered and chilled to a crisp cool temperature for you to drink it? Yeah, you can pay for that. That's a luxury.

Refrigeration takes energy and filters produce waste so I see it as fair charging a price for convenience.

REEEEEE

I'm sorry, what?

I don't quite understand the issue here. The tap water is still free and doesn't require anything, just press the button. They added an extra feature that is paid, which requires maintenance and power to run. I can see how it could be paid by the venue hosting this device, but you can't really blame the provider.

Those who buy into this shit lose their right to complain that they can't afford to live.

Yes the capitalist dystopia is when some company provides free water to people, so they can make money on a refrigeration upsell.

The horror.

You know what's beautiful about capitalism?

You, the consumer... you can control the producer. How? By NOT investing into their products and services.

Until next time!