Who buys a toilet you can only flush with an app??
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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sometime who buys a toilet and then finds out afterwards that they were sold a toilet that only flushes with an app
What do house guests do?
“Let me know when you’re done and I can flush the toilet though the app.”
Or
“Download this app to flush the toilet once at my house.”
the host just watches them through the built in camera and the house guest thinks it flushes automatically :)
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"Dumb" is the new "smart".
Anything in my house smarter than the IKEA remote control light switch gets crushed with a hammer.
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Sounds like the beginning of the Cory Doctorow novella “Unauthorized Bread.” Cloud service goes down and the main character’s toaster won’t work without them.
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At least the tech director believes enough on their product to actually use it.
Or that's a sign he's stupid and overconfident
This is 2025, 40 years after apple mainstreamed the silicon valley "scam investors until you make it" approach.
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How the fuck can a faucet be smart? It's a valve! It turns one way, or it turns the other way! It is only slightly less dumb than the counter top!
But what if the valve was actuated electronically with no manual access?
Yeah but what if you could make it worse? What if you could add the garbage motion sensor that takes ten hand waves to get working? Or add a touch screen that showed you visually how hot or cold the water was and could also show you ads?
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It's like the forcefields in the brig on Star Trek. Extremely stupid to not also have bars as a backup in case they fail.
I don't understand the idiots who insist on unredundant designs. Especially when it comes to handles. They've literally killed people with that decision.
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"oNe dAy wE wiLL aLL livE iN a sMaRt hOmE. tEcHnOLoGy aLwAyS iMpRoVeS"
This is why I go the extra mile to keep iot out of my life. Especially in cars , which is getting hard, but I figure my future cars I'll likely retrofit something old. Newest I'll tolerate is 2014, with no touchscreen.
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