Hypervisible: Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...

Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...

"Because of generative AI, these interactions will become more human and more personal" I actually hate this person

they should be thrown into a volcano, AI more human? More personal? Gtfo

As a design professor these all fall into the category of "just because we CAN doesn't mean we SHOULD" and needs to be a part of every Design, Business, Engineering and Marketing class.

I never would have imagined the greatest wisdom of the modern era would be espoused by a fictional scientist in a dinosaur movie.

Thank fuck it was Jeff Goldblum though

The best of us Jeffs.

People who would rather interact with property than people 😞

I just don't want to have to have a conversation with my dishwasher. There's a button, just let me push the button

Someone else just mentioned toasters and m.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_...

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can’t believe we’re seeing an internet of things reboot which were commandeered as bot nets in the past to now be weaponized with AI

brb buying stock in sledge hammers

😁

Wake me when AI collects dishes from all the rooms, loads the washer, empties it and sorts the dishes into cupboards.

That's my social-anxietous ass but even I get that this is dumb as fuck.

That whole article reads like it was written by AI.

I want to slap this person in the mouth until they understand the mechanical advantages of a tried and true design.

probably written by a generative AI

This all seems like a really, really, roundabout way to simulate having household slaves.

The only interaction I need with my dishwasher is pressing a button

And ideally a physical one because touch sensors can be pretty fragile and expensive to fix.

Half the appliances I've had to replace worked fine, but the replacement control panels were impossible to find,

I had to replace a perfectly good washing machine because of this.

You would be surprised at how easy it is to fix most appliances. If you know how to use a multi meter, which you can learn on YouTube, you can fix a lot of them yourself.

Replacing a touchpad is SUPER simple, but you can't do that if they don't exist. And if you can't get the part you can't fix the machine.

Supply chain working as intended.

Always relevant:

Commander Adama was right. I use Alexa for the weather and to play music and that is it

That's already too much.

Well, the Cylons can figure out I like listening to baseball on the radio and Foo Fighters

Yeah. I've worked in tech for a decade and don't own a single smart appliance. My phone is text only as much as possible (no assistant/listening etc).

We have a CRT TV and an ancient catering standard microwave.

i used to believe the final bit but way too many software people buy teslas and “smart home” bs can’t trust anyone we added “smart” cameras and light switches but they’re not cloud-based but local network. & use homekit (standard). & the switches have physical radio remotes to fall back on.

Nothing "smart" I have has a camera or mic. Never. Security cameras are local network, cloud nothing, and very secure. Other "smart" devices are completely isolated from my internal network and each other. Don't trust any of it.

Speaking of, I've been looking for security cameras that run on POE or power & wifi, & *DON'T* require cloud crap or phone apps. Any suggestions?

the fact that people seem to want their phones to do EVERYTHING is nuts to me. That phone gets stolen or dropped down a sewer grate you’re fucked

this is why when I have concert/plane tickets I’ll have it on my phone but I WILL print it out also.

Not even a techie but German and like very uncomfortable with the amount of data shared and like the risks I take just to stay in contact with family n shit. I'm the weirdo who set Google assistant to a language I don't speak and deleted all other language packs & i hate that I can't remove it fully

Am an engineer & sysadmin. This is 100% true, & I often preemptively disable device functions that have the potential to be annoying.

I don't need alexa, i have working fingers and duckduckgo lol

i would simply consult the big chart on the underside of the lid, or the little tag on the garment itself, both of which are more likely to have the correct information

I would say "google it" but in large part thanks to AI google has become a fucking dumpster fire. Generative AI in my washing machine would tell me to pour bleach and ammonia into my wash at some point.

I miss the 90's when all this was new and useful and cool.

I miss the 90's when *I* was new and useful and cool lol But yeah 90s and early 2000s google was amazing. SEO is the malignant cancer of the Internet.

Not SEO, but those who run the search engines. They made SEO impossible for anyone other than themselves and what they want to monetize.

It's also faster! Looking at the label is way faster than vocalising the question and listening to the answer!

that's what I do but then I just put it in with everything else anyway. if it dies it dies

"my choices are to wash this with my other shit or not to wash it at all. yolo i guess"

This is my method of laundering. Then again, I don't own anything fancy.

I mean, those garment tag symbols still confuse me but I can look up their meaning -- only problem is I now have to look for multiple results and hope the ones that match up are correct thanks to LLMs.

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