All your base are totally belong to us.
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This is so bad that I love it.
Brave Little Toaster was such a fucking banger.
And fuck the IOT bullshit!
Yeah, there are definitely things were it being connected is a nice thing. But a lot of things don’t need that. Lights are a nice thing to have connected, but what good is a connected toaster if i still have to put in the toast and take it out.
Almost all these smart devices are useless. Just give me a fucking toaster or microwave that doesn’t die in six months, there is no world on which being able to connect my microwave or dishwasher to the internet is relevant or helpful to anyone but the data miners.
I really do not like the idea of this future. Everything in your home connecting to the internet makes me uncomfortable. This is the way shits going and every house in the future will have it but like nah I’m good. I don’t need companies to know every damn thing I do in my life. They already know enough
Me, neither:
- [Message on the ACME freezer] The subscription for your ACME freezer ended. Please renew if you want a fully operational freezer.
- [You] Fine, fine, I’m going to pay that bloody subscription again. It’s just a few cents per second.
- [You try to renew subscription in the ACME site.]
- [ACME site] Support for your freezer model has ended. Here’s a totally-not-advertisement-disguised-as-suppport link for a newer and expensive freezer model.
- [You] Screw it, I can’t buy a new freezer right now.
- [You, a few days later] WHY DID ALL THE FOOD IN MY FREEZER THAW???
Even without targetted business harassment (oopsie, my bad, I’m supposed to call it “advertisement”, right?), you’re giving up power over your home appliances to a company. And of course a company will use it to try to squeeze your dry, while pressing/bribing/“encouraging” lawmakers to allow it.
Someone else implied that this mindset is a “boomer thing”; well, no, it isn’t. And if I had to take a guess, boomers are the ones who fall for it the most, as the technobabble goes past their heads and they think “wow this is super modern I assume that it’s better”.
“Unauthorized Bread” by Cory Doctorow is a short story about this. Great read.
Yeah im 25 and dont even have a google home or alexa in my apartment. Fuck all that
The connectedness is awesome. I love being able to control things from a phone or a tablet etc, but the price of your data and personal info is not worth it. Stay disconnected.
At least in theory there is a way to reap the benefits of the connectedness without that price, if the system relies on a local computer instead of someone else’s, running open source in both ends. I actually remember reading about a system like this somewhere; if I can recall its name* (as the underlying tech doesn’t interest me directly, for me it’s just a “meh why bother?”), I’ll post about it here.
*EDIT - as another user pointed out, it was Home Assistant.
I believe you’re referring to Home Assistant.
Would recommend. Having a free (as in freedom) smart home is incredibly convenient, without most of the downsides folks are worrying about here.
Yup, it was this one - thanks for finding it! I’ll edit the comment to mention it.
I think the lamp is saying “bitch”
No, it’s saying “bruh”
Whoa! Never thought I would see one of my favorite childhood movies in a meme. The Brave Little Toaster is an awesome movie …that you should never let your kids watch unless they’re old enough to understand what an existential crisis is.
Apple responding to your infringement of one of their 5000 Vision Loss Pro patents by sending a special software update just for you, which causes your iBad to tell your HomeKit thermostat to make the air hot enough to burn a very flammable object that you have
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I wouldn’t connect Samsung appliances to the internet in case Samsung sends a poison pill like Western Digital did with their NAS hard drives.
Okay boomer
Is this terriblefacebookmemes?
I was definitely thinking forwardsfromgrandma
hack complete
When a device allows a company coughamazoncough to remotely control your house, it’s not a smart device, it’s a dumb device
I watch Louis Rossmann too!
Especially when it locks you out for supposedly being racist.
Is funny because it’s soooooo true 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Smarz devices are cool. As long as they are only locally connected.
Homeassistant is the best!
If this is the bar i’m going back to reddit
Is r/memes any better? Same boomer memes. I’d argue here you find good stuff a bit more often at least.
Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.
I like it just for The Brave Little Toaster.
