schmorp

It’s nice you found a way to have your smart home working with open source solutions.

Sorry for having to bring this up, but I really wish you didn’t have to include the ‘wife stupid with tech’ trope in your post and that awful phrase ‘the wife’ that seems to be so popular with some guys these days. It seems so disrespectful to talk in this way about the person you share your life with.

And another pile of junk has been created in the endless "Buy-this-cool-shit -> Sorry-this-cool-shit-is-obsolete -> … " cycle. Poor environment.

My home is dumb as fuck. My light bulbs only obey the flick of old fashioned light switches. My fridge doesn’t try to engage in conversation. I have to close my curtains by hand. I monitor my health by figuring out how I feel. This old fashioned life of manual drudgery still leaves me sufficient time to laugh about the fools who buy this kind of stuff.

Every bit of tech you buy these days is just conspiring to make you buy more tech. The best option for your financial and mental health is to avoid everything marketed as “smart and innovative must-have” like the plague.

Don’t forget that you have to pay for an additional subscription to use SamsungShave with your new 5 fold and that your have to give the app access to all your private data - but who wouldn’t do that for a really close shave!

'“This allows you to continue exploring topics of interest and engage in more meaningful conversations with the AIs across our apps,” a Meta spokesperson said. ’

‘meaningful conversations with the AIs’ makes me want to laugh, or cry. Welcome in a world where meaning has lost all meaning.

The Gillette-ization of phones? How exciting /s