• Deleted@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    10·
    1 year ago

    Stove Setting: Maximum

    Oven Temperature: 500°F

    Smoke Alarm, Carbon Monoxide Alarm: Set to “Maintenance” mode

    Door, Windows: Set to “Active Burglar” mode

    Network: Set to “Malware Isolation” mode

    Manual Override Button: Set to “Inactive”

  • SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      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”.

        • instamat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

  • MisterD@lemmy.ca
    4·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Xero@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    When a device allows a company coughamazoncough to remotely control your house, it’s not a smart device, it’s a dumb device

  • dullbananas@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    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

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future!

    Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

    (from Biggaybunny).