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@timebandit said in Internet of shit:
@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
Microsoft Linux Hardware?
If there's a driver problem, is it the manufacturer's fault, or Linux's fault
As long as it is not Microsoft's fault that is really all that matters.
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"how many servers could it take to turn on a light bulb lol"
Philips Hue: hold my beerSource: @internetofshit
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@dcoder It takes both Clint Eastwood and Freddie Mercury to turn on a lightbulb in this day and age?
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@dcoder "how our architecture looks"? Forget their network design skills, let's talk about their grammar.
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@dcoder said in Internet of shit:
"how many servers could it take to turn on a light bulb lol"
Philips Hue: hold my beerThe only way in which I can excuse Philips for this is that you don't have to be Internet-connected; in fact, they recommend you not be if you can just use the LAN. I have my Hue Bridge blocked at the router.
I wish more "IoT" devices worked like that but no, we need an Internet connection to recognize speech now, when we had devices ten years ago that could do speech recognition without one.
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@heterodox said in Internet of shit:
we need an Internet connection to recognize speech now, when we had devices ten years ago that could do speech recognition without one.
Isnโt this another variation on the typical solution of using an all-encompassing but heavyweight solution when a custom lightweight one would work too? Speech recognition for things like Alexa, Siri, etc. needs an Internet connection because you never know what commands the user might give. For things that can use fixed commands (โlight onโ) itโs probably unnecessary โ but simpler to make, because somebody else already did the hard work of making something that can figure out what was said.
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@blakeyrat said in Internet of shit:
@dcoder "how our architecture looks"? Forget their network design skills, let's talk about their grammar.
What's wrong with it?
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@gurth said in Internet of shit:
Speech recognition for things like Alexa, Siri, etc. needs an Internet connection because you never know what commands the user might give.
Doesn't seem plausible to me, it could just as well initiate the internet connection once it has figured out what the command was. Personally I'm more inclined to think that's because of the nice side effect of getting all the associated data to their servers. Such data about how people interact with their devices can be useful in many ways, from training data for new speech recognition software, over tailoring the product to their customers' needs, to targeted advertising and population profiling.
Filed Under: Why isn't :tinfoil_hat: a thing?, I know it probably wouldn't work in an <abbr> anyway but still
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@ixvedeusi said in Internet of shit:
Personally I'm more inclined to think that's because of the nice side effect
This is exactly it. Nothing to do with processing power or flexibility.
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@ixvedeusi said in Internet of shit:
targeted advertising and population profiling.
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Smart devices for dumb human
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@coldandtired said in Internet of shit:
What's wrong with it?
Their architecture has eyes? And looks at things?
Maybe its correct grammar and also their product is some kind of monstrous horror.
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@blakeyrat said in Internet of shit:
@coldandtired said in Internet of shit:
What's wrong with it?
Their architecture has eyes? And looks at things?
Maybe
itsit's correct grammar and also their product is some kind of monstrous horror.Naw, I stumbled over that one as well. Should be: "What our architecture looks like."
Also:
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@timebandit said in Internet of shit:
Smart devices for dumb human
Do you have two working kidneys?
Yes?
Do you have high blood pressure?
No?
Then don't worry about how much salt you put in your food. Worry about the taste.
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@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
Worry about the taste.
New idea for a connected device: a spoon that can tell you if the food taste good.
Hold-on, I'm going to kick starter
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@timebandit said in Internet of shit:
@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
Worry about the taste.
New idea for a connected device: a spoon that can tell you if the food taste good.
Hold-on, I'm going to kick starter
Worry about details like prototypes and feasibility and business plans later. Crowdfund first. Sort out that sort of minutiae later.
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@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
Worry about details like prototypes and feasibility and business plans later.
Thanks for explaining how kickstarter work
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@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
Worry about details like prototypes and feasibility and business plans later. Crowdfund first. Sort out that sort of minutiae later.
<Sorting things out...>
: Hmm, which airline goes to <small undisclosed country with no extradition>
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@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
Then don't worry about how much salt you put in your food. Worry about the taste.
I worry that my food may be too salty.
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@timebandit said in Internet of shit:
@zecc said in Internet of shit:
I worry that my food may be too salty.
Add more sugar
Now it's too sweet.
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@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
@timebandit said in Internet of shit:
@zecc said in Internet of shit:
I worry that my food may be too salty.
Add more sugar
Now it's too sweet.
Chuck the whole thing and open a can of tuna
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@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
Now it's too sweet.
Drink more Jack Daniel.
Everything taste the same after a whole bottle
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@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
@bulb said in Internet of shit:
Because in the larger screen range they don't sell normal TVs any more.
They don't?
80", no smart bullshit except built-in Chromecast. Kind of smart, but in a way that is unobtrusive and useful.
But yeah, it looks like Vizio is the only one to sell Less-Smart TVs that I can find.
I get "access denied" on every page in costco.com domain. Gotta love regional locks.
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@zecc
Prevent your food from playing ${HOT_MULTIPLAYER_GAME_DU_JOUR} during the cooking process.
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@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
But yeah, it looks like Vizio is the only one to sell Less-Smart TVs that I can find.
The future doesn't look good
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-and-best-buy-team-up-to-sell-smart-tvs/
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@mrl said in Internet of shit:
@ixvedeusi said in Internet of shit:
targeted advertising and population profiling.
WTF is that person masturbating???
Filed under: GIFs with Sound
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It's perfectly acceptable and pretty common.
The important thing is that it's not 'how it looks like'.
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@timebandit said in Internet of shit:
Even if this was a useful product, why the hell can't it just have an LED to tell you rather than needing a phone?
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@coldandtired said in Internet of shit:
@timebandit said in Internet of shit:
Even if this was a useful product, why the hell can't it just have an LED to tell you rather than needing a phone?
Well, DUH! It wouldn't be IoT then! They couldn't possibly get funding then.
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@timebandit thankfully, I don't see myself needing a TV any time soon, but I worry how long it'll be until we get smart PC monitors :/
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@bb36e said in Internet of shit:
@timebandit thankfully, I don't see myself needing a TV any time soon, but I worry how long it'll be until we get smart PC monitors :/
Like this one?
They're called "all in one".
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@tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
Like this one?
Dell Canada Official Site | Dell CanadaThey're called
"all in one""Macintosh".FTF
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@ixvedeusi said in Internet of shit:
@tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
Like this one?
Dell Canada Official Site | Dell CanadaThey're called
"all in one""Macintosh".FTF
He said smart monitors.
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@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
Do you have two working kidneys?
Yes?
Do you have high blood pressure?
No?
Then don't worry about how much salt you put in your food. Worry about the taste.Also pay attention to your family history with those questions. (Fairly low sodium diet for me, alas.)
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@tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
He said "smart" monitors
... with "smart" as in "smart TV" :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
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@ixvedeusi not enough spyware/adware
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@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
@timebandit said in Internet of shit:
SmartTV
As a person who works in tech I constantly get fielded questions by people about all sorts of stuff. I mean...it's all the same right? Right.
Anytime someone asks me about what "Smart TV" to buy I always ask them why they would want to do that and why not buy a normal TV and hook up an Apple TV or Fire Stick or whatever else to it? No one ever knows. They just think they want a Smart TV, because raisins.
Buy a dumb TV and make it smart how you wish and don't worry about shit software, lack of updates, no dumb advertising injection, ability to switch platforms with relative ease (I am looking at you Amazon. You lost me when the Fire TV lost YouTube.).
But if you buy one of these loads of feces then you are stuck unless you want to make a huge expenditure on an entirely new TV. You can change from Apple TV to Fire TV for ~$100. Hell, do what we did and get both and you are at ~$200/TV and you have options if one of them pisses you off.
I use a ~$300 40" Samsung 4K "smart" TV as a computer monitor. I don't use any of the "smart" features on it, nor would I ever want to use its apps via the stupid little remote control because it's plugged into a full-blown PC with a keyboard and mouse. Anyway, I've had it auto-reboot for updates to the "smart" apps in the middle of a gaming session, which is obviously really annoying. And you can't turn WiFi off, and it will auto-connect to any unsecured WiFi network in range, and I live in an apartment complex.
Fortunately, whoever had the unsecured WiFi finally either secured it or shut it down, and the thing just works now that it has no Internet connection.
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@timebandit said in Internet of shit:
@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
Worry about the taste.
New idea for a connected device: a spoon that can tell you if the food taste good.
Hold-on, I'm going to kick starter
I'm pretty sure I recently read an article about some IoT device that notifies you when your bladder is full, but I CBA'd to go looking for that again.
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@mott555 said in Internet of shit:
And you can't turn WiFi off, and it will auto-connect to any unsecured WiFi network in range
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@mott555 said in Internet of shit:
And you can't turn WiFi off, and it will auto-connect to any unsecured WiFi network in range
Create a WiFi without internet access (using an old router), then connect your TV to it
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@mott555 said in Internet of shit:
And you can't turn WiFi off, and it will auto-connect to any unsecured WiFi network in range
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@mott555 said in Internet of shit:
I use a ~$300 40" Samsung 4K "smart" TV as a computer monitor. I don't use any of the "smart" features on it, nor would I ever want to use its apps via the stupid little remote control because it's plugged into a full-blown PC with a keyboard and mouse. Anyway, I've had it auto-reboot for updates to the "smart" apps in the middle of a gaming session, which is obviously really annoying. And you can't turn WiFi off, and it will auto-connect to any unsecured WiFi network in range, and I live in an apartment complex.
I'm going to assume that you've already tried Googling "how to disable wi-fi Samsung $model smart tv".
Still, it's nothing a screwdriver and a pocket knife couldn't probably fix. There has to be a wi-fi antenna in there somewhere.
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@anotherusername That's too much work. Much easier to forget about it and just complain the one time a month it happens.
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Physical keys can be cloned, so we moved to digital locks for security
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- Build cheap internet of shit power switches
1a. include backdoor - Sell millions of them
- Make $$$ in the energy futures market.
Idea courtesy of AvE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCkwXKRRHHs
- Build cheap internet of shit power switches