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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Anything in my house smarter than the IKEA remote control light switch gets crushed with a hammer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reminder: never go have pancakes at wise_pancake's house.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

You’ll miss out on some primo maple syrup

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I mean, you could just use smarter stuff that's open source and has local API, or do what I do and build your own devices where you can ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (18 children)

Even there though, what is the actual point of a phone app controlled smart toilet, even if you open sourced the whole thing? Unlocking one's phone and tapping the app icon, and then presumably a button on the app, is going to take more time than one press of a lever that one is right next to anyway, and the latter doesn't present as many points of failure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The privacy issues are nasty, but a smart toilet could actually be an incredibly useful device.

Can you imagine if every time you went to the bathroom, your toilet could do some of the basic stool / urine tests you get at the doctor's office? Certain diseases could be caught extremely early, and you wouldn't have to do anything different.

And then there are bidet functions. Forget smearing poop all over your ass with paper, wash the poop off with nice warm water every time.

I wouldn't want to have to use a smartphone app for that, but there's no reason you couldn't have a simple set of buttons on the toilet itself. You could keep the manual flush lever and only use that if you preferred, but if you wanted an even better experience and a better clean, that option would be available.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Well if you read the product description it was to allow AI Bidet control. However they had not received funding for AI so it was outsourced to a team of laborers in India using cameras and joysticks.

It also logged the consistency, frequency and matter samples from all BMs so you could make informed dedication opinions.

Spoiler/s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

informed dedication opinions.

Hmmmmm

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Damn was supposed to be defecation autocorrect got me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Oooohhhhh, that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I heard they sold a license for the camera feed and controls access to EA for their next pay-to-play iOS game. The shareholders are really excited for this synergy.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I have no interest in one, but playing devil's advocate, some might consider it more sanitary since you don't have to touch the toilet to flush and have the choice of not being near it, hopefully avoiding any spray.

Also, if your guests use the restroom, you can startle them at any time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How do the guests flush the toilet without the app? They have to ask you?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

That occurred to me while writing my comment, as well, and I don't like the implications.

I would imagine they have to ask you, yes. If the toilet can be flushed without authentication, they'd probably still have to ask you how.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Of course. My roof, my water, my rules! /s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (10 children)

more sanitary

Foot pedal flush really needs to become a thing.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, wouldn't want to get bacteria on your hands a few seconds before washing your hands.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stuff like openWRT routers get a pass.

If it has a local host API I would use it because it never has to connect to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

People also just need to be more selective about where and how they automate.

For example, I wanted my coffee to automatically start in the morning. So instead of buying a "smart" coffee maker, I bought the dumbest possible one and a smart switch. Now, no matter what happens with that switch, the worst that can happen is I have to manually hit a button to get coffee.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, I don't hate the idea of smart-ish devices, if they're not cloud-dependent in any way and have some kind of manual override.

It's kind of painful to have a kitchen full of devices each implementing their own half-assed OSs separately, or even more than once in one device.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have a wifi-enabled garage door opener whose manufacturer discontinued the Google Home connection for so that you have to use their app and see their Amazon or Walmart ads. I also have a wifi-enabled alarm system whose manufacturer apparently doesn't care about Matter integration or whatever. So leaving the house in my car requires the use of two different apps (three if I also need to turn off lights).

In actuality I just use the physical buttons. But there was a time that I had a beautiful dream of getting a smart lock and setting my house up to lock the doors, close the garage door, and arm the alarm when I pushed a button in the car--and, more importantly, undo all of those things in reverse when I got home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

with Home Assistant it doesn't matter if your device adds a Google Home connection, Alexa, Apple Home, etc. Exactly what 'smart homes' should be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I need to get on that, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I wish I was this smart. We really want to do a smart light show using Xlights but every time I try to learn it I feel so frankly dumb.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You sent this message by manually sending radio messages, I presume?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

No, it’s one of the few use cases of emacs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They were bonked with a hammer until they were below the proper "smart" threshold.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This has the same energy as buying But Light to shoot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Friends hate this one simple trick!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Can you play DOOM on the light switch?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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