Brave Little Toaster was such a fucking banger.
And fuck the IOT bullshit!
Stove Setting: Maximum
Oven Temperature: 500°F
Smoke Alarm, Carbon Monoxide Alarm: Set to “Maintenance” mode
Door, Windows: Set to “Active Burglar” mode
Network: Set to “Malware Isolation” mode
Manual Override Button: Set to “Inactive”
I really do not like the idea of this future. Everything in your home connecting to the internet makes me uncomfortable. This is the way shits going and every house in the future will have it but like nah I’m good. I don’t need companies to know every damn thing I do in my life. They already know enough
Me, neither:
- [Message on the ACME freezer] The subscription for your ACME freezer ended. Please renew if you want a fully operational freezer.
- [You] Fine, fine, I’m going to pay that bloody subscription again. It’s just a few cents per second.
- [You try to renew subscription in the ACME site.]
- [ACME site] Support for your freezer model has ended. Here’s a totally-not-advertisement-disguised-as-suppport link for a newer and expensive freezer model.
- [You] Screw it, I can’t buy a new freezer right now.
- [You, a few days later] WHY DID ALL THE FOOD IN MY FREEZER THAW???
Even without targetted business harassment (oopsie, my bad, I’m supposed to call it “advertisement”, right?), you’re giving up power over your home appliances to a company. And of course a company will use it to try to squeeze your dry, while pressing/bribing/“encouraging” lawmakers to allow it.
Someone else implied that this mindset is a “boomer thing”; well, no, it isn’t. And if I had to take a guess, boomers are the ones who fall for it the most, as the technobabble goes past their heads and they think “wow this is super modern I assume that it’s better”.
Yeah im 25 and dont even have a google home or alexa in my apartment. Fuck all that
The connectedness is awesome. I love being able to control things from a phone or a tablet etc, but the price of your data and personal info is not worth it. Stay disconnected.
I think the lamp is saying “bitch”
Is this terriblefacebookmemes?
hack complete
I wouldn’t connect Samsung appliances to the internet in case Samsung sends a poison pill like Western Digital did with their NAS hard drives.
This is so bad that I love it.
All your base are totally belong to us.
Whoa! Never thought I would see one of my favorite childhood movies in a meme. The Brave Little Toaster is an awesome movie …that you should never let your kids watch unless they’re old enough to understand what an existential crisis is.
When a device allows a company coughamazoncough to remotely control your house, it’s not a smart device, it’s a dumb device
Apple responding to your infringement of one of their 5000 Vision Loss Pro patents by sending a special software update just for you, which causes your iBad to tell your HomeKit thermostat to make the air hot enough to burn a very flammable object that you have
Okay boomer
