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  • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldsmart bed
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    6 hours ago

    I actually had a use-case for a smart switch (I wanted it to automatically turn off after a certain amount of time). In the end, I went back to a dumb-switch after a frustrating diagnosis, maybe I’m biased/lucky to never have had a light-switch fail, but I didn’t even consider it as the potential fault until I electrically proved it…







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    I know, right? Thermostats have worked since (and were invented some time in) the 1600’s, but now… no, no no… we’ve got to loop in “the whole internet” as a dependency (not to mention one’s smartphone, and probably a payment system for an ongoing monthly subscription). Even with the incentive of being continuously paid, they can’t keep it working, because it has gotten too complex and greed has gummed up the gears.








  • Thanks, I see that now. While reading it, I think the story lost credibility for me around “time mechanic” (which likely was Dad’s white lie), and I presumed it was another one of those posts that takes a hard-left into fantasy land… also didn’t help that my son watches and believes the plethora of minecraft hoax videos, and that I knew about the water portal hoax, but not the mod… also curse of knowledge painted the ambiguous “learning mods” as a development effort, not learning how to install/use.