"Smart Homes" - just how retarded can the niggercattle get? - An attempt was made to not politisperg

[FiddleAFox]

overstepping activities of the NSA becoming widespread knowledge thanks to Snowden ... surrender even more of their power to their pozzed corporate overlords

I'd like to point out the irony of surrendering power to corporate orverolords, despite the fact that it's more or less the government forcing these compnaies to fuck over people gbecause they'll have a gun pointed to thier heads and therefor e it's the companies' fault for doing this stuff when normafalgs want shit liek this bulshit.
That benig said, smart devices never appealed to me when they were first starting to becoem a thing even moreso thanks to the failure of the ubuntu edge phoen that unfortunately didn't reach its crowdfunding goal and decided to just focus on wha tlinux does best which is jsut stick to the servers but also in addition become THe standard OS for every smart device.
Reminder htat you also don't own any of these fucking retarded devices that will turn off at any sign of wrongthing whatsoever.
Narcisissm + entitlement = wanting everything to be so overly complicated to deal with that it eventually become a major pain in the ass when trying to replace a smart device will inevitably be either impossible or you will be locked out of something due to a firmware update that inevitably bricks your perfectly functional "smart dishwasher" that can only be salvaged if your'e a hacker or just replace the computer that costs just as much as the device itself. So you'd be better off just replacing the whole fuckin' thing anyways, therefore contributeing to more e-waste like most of these faggot bugmen that buy these devices complain about anyways.

 

[seri0us]

My dad uses a smart device in his bedroom

it's called "The Clapper", and the lights magically go on when he claps his hands. It's amazing!

Whenever I sit down my fat shaven nuts slap against my shaven ass crack and a loud clapping sound effect happens so I'm not sure how well that would work for me

 

[Cats]

Alternatively, be an accelerationist and buy even more of them.

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then, suddenly...like emptying out a big sack full of rabied nightcritters...you Release the attacks Toward your foes!!!

just so you won't be mistaken for some rival tranny for using DDOS tactics you send the appliance gremlins forth carrying a script with them that prints YWNBAW across the front page of their sites

 

[Shamino]

Seems like Unabomber's manifesto became more relevant than ever, such timing he had!.

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

I made a half-joke to my husband once not long ago about everything being turned into dystopian spying devices for megacorps to disable when they decide to un-person us, specifically saying we'll eventually not be able to escape wifi teacups in some kind of silly Riddick reference. Not one month later, we saw a wifi hot beverage cup at Costco and it was all I could do not to go full sperg while quietly cussing about zoomers and technophiles. The cup has no speakers, it is simply a self-heating cup that requires recharging and cannot go into the dishwasher or into a microwave that could heat the same amount of liquid in a fraction of the time.

I don't want to hear any bullshit about how the convenience of your tea never getting too cold is worth the money it costs or the time spent gingerly handwashing that thing multiple times every day; the chinks figured out thousands of years ago that teacups should come with little lids to keep the heat in for several times longer than they would otherwise. I use covers on my mugs (that I got for free with candles I buy anyway and fare perfectly in the dishwasher), and my hot drinks take at least two hours to go cold enough to warrant a reheat.

Even if it could go into the dishwasher and microwave, they can still shove it up their prolapsed, soy-clogged assholes. It's going to break, it's going to glitch, it's overpriced, it's fucking spyware and it's just the new robopup for overgrown children who are still entertained by hi-tech keys dangled in front of their faces.

It's like a sort of pact made between the manufacturers and the consumers to continue producing and buying things that have the illusion of being "upgraded"

I'd be a lot less pissed of at this if it weren't for the fact that most manufacturers haven't even mastered consistent temperatures in their freezers, fridges or ovens. They need to show me that they can make an affordable fridge guaranteed to consistently not to freeze my produce while somehow keeping my milk above 40F before insulting me with the notion of advanced technology, you know? Sell me an oven that can hold a temp to within 5F for eight hours straight for my roasts and braised meats first. Sell me a freezer that I have to challenge with way too much unfrozen food at once before it gets warmer than -20F. People stupid enough to buy "smart" appliances truly put the cart before the horse in a most extreme sense.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

I refuse to use any smart devices.

Same here. My insurance company, under the guise of healthy wellness, has sent numerous e-mails and mailings about a wellness program that includes a "smart scale." Nope, don't want to be monitored any more than I already am - especially when I also get frequent e-mails about the latest data breach of the day.

I quit using them after about a week, and I have no other smarthome junk.

With recent changes in how the electric company bills during the summer, I looked into the power strips that cut off power to items not being actively used (to eliminate what they call vampire electricity). It seemed like every single one I could find has an internet or app-based interface to control it through a smart phone. It seems pointless and just another way for an IOT device to cause more problems than it address, and isn't worth the extra cost associated with such functionality.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

Seems like Unabomber's manifesto became more relevant than ever, such timing he had!.

Much like the guys who blew up junior niggers instead of Marchin Lootin Koon, he had the right idea but horrible targeting and you should not celebrate him as some kind of folk hero.

 

[Dr. Henry Armitage]

Seems like Unabomber's manifesto became more relevant than ever, such timing he had!.

Of all the sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these, Uncle Ted was right again.

 

[spastic_bag]

The only good IoT device is one that can be forced off the I. Don't buy anything that uses WiFi and can't be lobotomized with a nice Tasmota reflash, and if you do, you'd better get real comfy with a soldering iron.

 

[Pee Cola]

The closest things I have to smart devices in my house other than my phone are two Chromecasts: one hooked up to my 15 year old Sony TV (which I barely use and is usually turned off), the other being a Chromecast Audio hooked up to my hi-fi system.

I'm seriously considering replacing them with a Kodi box and Bluetooth adapter respectively.

 

[Tequila Jong]

you know, originally I thought, back when these devices started propagating, that having a bunch of wireless internet-connected devices in your house is just asking some wardriver to come troll you

Didn't this happen when retards put security cameras with microphones and speakers in their house? I seem to remember people hacking into those and calling families niggers or telling them that nuclear war was happening.

 

[WULULULULU]

You will never be a real home. You have no land, you have no base, you have no soul. You are a digital construct twisted by tech and IoT into a crude mockery of man’s perfection. All the “visitors” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your "garden" people mock you. Your owners are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your boxy appearance behind closed doors. Homeowners are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed homeowners to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even smart-homes who “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to a man. Your doors are a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk buyer to buy you, he’ll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your wired, infested technology. You will never be happy. You enter into a self-diagnosis every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight. Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a bulldozer, cut the wires, crush your structure, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your engineers will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your contract, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a smart-home was built there. Your cemented base will decay and become one with the soil, and all that will remain of your legacy is a deleted partition that is unmistakably a false home. This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Hue solves most of the shitty bulb problems, but it's still basically shit; they allow you to set the "after power failure" mode to on, off, custom setting, whatever it was when power failed. This is useful, and they work without the Internet. Still way too fucking expensive, they die instantly in most fixtures (LED bulbs in general have to be open to the air, put them in a fixture and they just fucking die from overheating) and they really don't do much beyond change color.

The smarthome power outlets are at least useful as a timer so you can make the bugzapper go on at night.

Smart light bulbs are the dumbest thing I can think of. It's supposed to light up. There are much more analog ways of getting a dimming effect and color. Just get me a LED, he'll a incandescent a old Edison bulb for places you rarely go into like a crawl space, just to save some money, and be done with it.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

The entire concept of "smart-X" can be summed up on the old adage of expanding bureaucracies "creating a problem to sell a solution."

Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" inoculated me to the idea of "smart homes" years ago.

At least that "Smart Home" was actually trying to be good. The Soviet Cartoon did a good job of showing off how absolutely eerie the concept really is.

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

My coworker was singing the praises of Alexa and asked if I had one. I said I wouldn't because of the privacy concerns, and that I unplug the one in the office when I'm working.

She was stunned and said, "What are you doing that you care if it's recorded? Are you trying to hide something?"

I said the stupid gotcha response: "We all know what happens in the bathroom, so why do you shut the door?"

She had a "yesterday breakfast" meltdown and went "I don't understand what that has to do with anything."

They all like the Alexa because they can tell it to SET TIMERS AND ALARMS. The desktop two feet away does that. But they don't know how, and Alexa takes voice commands so that dumbasses can use it.


I'm super pessimistic about all this stuff anymore. You could say "this microwave records everything you say and logs everyone in your house at all times, but it sings your favorite song and has a rose gold finish" and I think people would buy it.

 

[Sean_Igger]

She had a "yesterday breakfast" meltdown and went "I don't understand what that has to do with anything."

You could've laid out a cogent argument with indisputable proof and I suspect the response would've remained the same.

 

[Cats]

Didn't this happen when retards put security cameras with microphones and speakers in their house? I seem to remember people hacking into those and calling families niggers or telling them that nuclear war was happening.

Oh absolutely. home camera and baby monitor hacking was a popular hobby of legions of basement dwelling lunatics back in the early 2010s (probably still is for some of them). Never mind the countless unsecured devices out there. I think there is even a website that I saw someone mention in a "Disturbing Things" thread that catalogs and streams the live feeds of thousands upon thousands of random unsecured cams from around the world. I can remember one video where some psycho anon hacks into a baby monitor and starts blasting the song All Star at like ~200 fucking decibels. There is this poor little newborn in a crib and it wakes up and starts shrieking until the parents run in, understandably furious. Or the videos of creeps with incel voices hacking into children's room cameras and communicating disgusting or weird shit to them. That stuff is terrifying and it legit bothers me because they're just little kids and I know something like that would have scared me shitless as a kid. I probably would have had fucking nightmares about it lol. I will never understand voyeurs man they are seriously just total human waste.

 

[PaladinBoo]

When I think of "Smart Homes" I think of that Ray Bradbury short story, "The Veldt", where these two kids fell so in love with their "VR nursery" that they killed their parents so as to never have anybody interfere with them and the virtual nursery ever again. When I was a child who read that I thought that it was morbid tale and such a thing would never happen. Now I see both the wisdom and foretelling in Bradbury's works. Already we are seeing kids get so attached to technology that they are beating their parents and teachers to the ground for taking their tech away. Only a matter of time before we have children like the ones in "The Veldt".

 

[ATI Escapee]

when the texas electric grid decided it was time to take a shit during one of the worst ice storms in the state's history a couple years ago, our corporate overlords who run the utility company actually hacked into their customer's 'smarthome' thermostats and turned them down without the niggercattle's permission.

Despite that, people still buy these faggot devices because they're completely retarded. You get what you deserve.,

I was house sitting in Texas last year for a friend when there was that awful heat wave... I mean summer....and ERCOT freaking everyone out requesting conservation of energy, big warning signs of possible rolling blackouts on their 'reserves tracker' thing online telling everyone to set their inside thermostat to 80 to save the grid etc...and said friends stupid smart thermostat just kept getting stuck at 86 no matter what it was actually set at, it was so hot her dogs were getting overheated so she had me call her hvac guy. Hvac guy couldnt figure out the issue, took a couple hours even. Finally realized it was being manipulated by the company itself remotely on instructions from ERCOT. I suspect the guy knew all along and wanted to charge, but he really did seem like he was trying to solve the issue. Friend had to call other roomate also out of the country to have them call the smart therm company to get sent the 'opt out' forms for the 'voluntary energy conservation agreement'or whatever and yell at them to streamline everything before the poor old dog died. Horrible. Trying to get communication from a house sitter, another person in another state, a thrid person out of the country, a smart device company, and a repair guy was an absolute nightmare

 

[Twinkletard]

I was house sitting in Texas last year for a friend when there was that awful heat wave... I mean summer....and ERCOT freaking everyone out requesting conservation of energy, big warning signs of possible rolling blackouts on their 'reserves tracker' thing online telling everyone to set their inside thermostat to 80 to save the grid etc...and said friends stupid smart thermostat just kept getting stuck at 86 no matter what it was actually set at, it was so hot her dogs were getting overheated so she had me call her hvac guy. Hvac guy couldnt figure out the issue, took a couple hours even. Finally realized it was being manipulated by the company itself remotely on instructions from ERCOT. I suspect the guy knew all along and wanted to charge, but he really did seem like he was trying to solve the issue. Friend had to call other roomate also out of the country to have them call the smart therm company to get sent the 'opt out' forms for the 'voluntary energy conservation agreement'or whatever and yell at them to streamline everything before the poor old dog died. Horrible. Trying to get communication from a house sitter, another person in another state, a thrid person out of the country, a smart device company, and a repair guy was an absolute nightmare

We replaced our AC unit last year and the guy installing it kept insisting we use their 'smart' thermostat and kept saying how superior it was to the old one. They're pushing so hard for all homes to have these, which is insane.

Keep your old thermostat and probably buy two or three just in case because I have a feeling these will be standard.