The “internet of things” sucks.
Smart local devices rock though. Its not the technology but the implementation for many IoT devices that sucks 🙂
I have this pipe dream of a noob friendly router/hypervisor/NAS combo that would trivialize the installation and running of server-side apps like nextcloud or home assistant. The reason it’s also a router is to automagically forward ports so you could have remote access without
someone else’s computerthe cloud.Zigbee has been great, as I know it’s a local device. Finding WiFi devices that don’t phone home is impossible.
Not if you flash them with Tasmota or ESPHome
WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS
if if
Was actually looking at these probe thermometers to give as Christmas presents this year… some brands actually advertise that they connect to nothing and need no phone or account to operate.
Those are strong selling points that we’re all going to be looking out for constantly now.
But we do have flying cars. They’re called planes. You can get a license to fly them and everything.
Planes are not flying cars. They’re flying buses.
You can get tiny planes that seat 1-5, like a car.
Sure. But you need to think lived experience, less technical specifications. Think of how these machines actually interact with everyday life. Car and bus are socially defined categories. We could just classify them all as automobiles, but we have separate classifications for cars and buses because people interact with them in fundamentally different ways.
Right and I’m saying that there is a class of small plane that people, particularly in remote areas, use as personal transportation. Commercial jets are flying buses, the Cessna 172 is not. Your “um actually” is a false generalization.
And some people use full sized buses as their personal vehicles. Weird edge cases aren’t how we define words. Your exception proves the rule. This isn’t “umm actually,” this is you being deliberately obtuse.
We’re talking about how 99% of people actually interact with these machines, not a handful of oddballs living in rural Alaskan homesteads. Those few rare edge cases are not how words are defined.
Planes, for 99% of the population, are more like buses than cars. When people say, “flying car,” they specifically mean a flying vehicle that:
- Can provide point-to-point transport.
- Can be operated on your schedule.
- Doesn’t require expensive licensing and training (at least no more than a regular drivers license.)
- Can be owned or operated by the typical American family living in a typical American neighborhood.
This is what a flying car is, and it’s why planes are not flying cars.
Have you literally never seen any media depicting flying cars? Are you really that incapable of seeming the difference between this:
And this?:
For 99% of the population, the idea of using the latter for a personal vehicle is comical. You need to have a pilot’s license, and you need to own a god-damn runway in order to use it as a personal vehicle! The vision of a flying car has always been something that you could park in an ordinary suburban garage, pull it out into the driveway, and vertically takeoff without requiring you to own a giant piece of land. This is why you only see two types of people use planes for personal transport - the incredibly wealthy, or folks who live in extremely rural areas where large amounts of land are comically cheap. And it has to be something you can keep on your own land. If you have to drive to an airport to use it, you’re no longer fulfilling the point-to-point on-demand dream that the vision of flying cars represents.
Again, you need to focus on the social definition, not the technical one.
We also have actual flying cars but they consume so much energy that they can only fly for a few minutes. Turns out rolling wheels is a lot more energy efficient than lifting up a 2000 pound vehicle.
You thought they would research how to make life better, while they researched how to get more value from the customer.
“smart”
This has been the predicament for about 75 (or even 175) years… just getting worse, now not just not getting the innovations, but now getting abused and datamined by abusers.
But we got gaming on Linux!
- Flying cars - impractical
- Jetpacks - do exist, but limited to trained operators in special locations
- Robot butler - robot waiters already exist, so it wouldn’t be terribly difficult to repurpose one (although they’re only sold to businesses as far as I could tell)
Robot butler - robot waiters already exist, so it wouldn’t be terribly difficult to repurpose one (although they’re only sold to businesses as far as I could tell)
There’s an Asian AI lab that’s demoed an early version of an AI-driven humanoid robot domestic servant. There are suggestions in might hit market within a few years and cost about as much as a decent used car. Figure those estimates are always too optimistic and something like 2035 and $15k is a possibly realistic estimate assuming nothing goes catastrophically wrong.
The amount of times I’ve thought about liberating one of those sushi waiter bots you see sometimes is more than zero.
Didn’t this guy get banned? Or was that a slightly different username?
Unbanned 14 hours ago, per the modlog.
Pussy
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Okay, that is actually really cool. If it could function without WiFi I’d be all over that. However I’m not down with my fridge and stove accessing the internet.
Does it know which items are expiring, or do you select items that you’d like to use in general?
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Expecting robots to be butlers, screaming at a thermometer. Start treating electronics with respect and understanding and they will pay it back.
It’s a thing. A tool. It has no feelings and it absolutely shouldn’t be having opinions. It’s meant to be specifically designed to make my life easier, not add a different kind of complication.
Then why scream at it if it doesn’t listen?
Treating things badly hurts us more than it hurts them. Since the attitude accumulates, we will pay the price for treating the environment badly.
Then why scream at it if it doesn’t listen?
Because we’re human and we vent our irritation. What a weird question.
We don’t have to vent, especially if we don’t get irritated in the first place. Things show us our immaturities because it’s never caused by somebody else.
…especially if we don’t get irritated in the first place.
And there you have it. The reason why people vent; things do irritate us, largely because they are irritating.
it’s never caused by somebody else.
The kind of thing spoiled people say.
The kind of thing spoiled people say.
See, for you, the problem is somebody else. Things make that reasoning transparent.
Why are you so irritated by this?
Lol, no. Give money or data.
