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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 3 points 44 minutes ago

Home assistant everything is a yaml away

[–] forkradiofact@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Has nobody else pointed out this is clearly not real?

[–] cass80@programming.dev 1 points 41 seconds ago

Yeah first thing I did was search the web for more information. Zero results...

I bet most of these other commenters also complain about boomers eating up fake news.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Okay, I get the idea of smart AC for example - be elsewhere, turn it on remotely so that it's comfortable when you get home. Fine. But a toilet? You are physically present there, you can push a button to flush. Or are you telling me that you're shitting remotely now too?

[–] TheHotze@lemmy.world 2 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

Hans free means you don't have to touch the handle with dirty hands, but you can do that with a motion sensor too.

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 points 29 minutes ago

We've been ready for pedal activated toilets for decades now

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Wait, so you're not subscribed to shitme™? For a low monthly subscription they send you a sealed, self-addressed and postage-paid container to deposit your feces in, it gets sent to a sorting facility and distributed via drones or delivery drivers directly to your home toilet, where the feces are flushed in the privacy and safety of your own home! The peace-of-mind alone is worth the $39.98 a month. Up until now, the only challenge has been flushing the toilet while you're still at the office, this way you NEVER have to go home!

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 1 points 29 minutes ago

Shit like a world leader

[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

you're shitting remotely now too?

Do we tell them about the remote shit technology that just landed from Uranus?

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

And yet I hear dumbshits bragging all time about how alexa controls my (insert thing that definitely does not need automation here).

These sort of people never think beyond tomorrow and it shows.

[–] contrapunctus@lemmy.cafe 37 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Adams's law.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (4 children)

Why would you ever get a toilet that requires anything but the laws of physics to operate?

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago)

I can see some purpose in having a 'smart' toilet for monitoring health. Your pee and poo can have some value in seeing if there anything that needs to be dealt with medically. But even that is difficult to do. For one thing, it must still function ad a toilet first before anything. Meaning it uses the simple mechanical flushing and refilling and stopping when it is sufficiently full.

However for this the analysis and storage of data must be 100% at the user's control. If they want it gone. It is gone. Irrecoverable. Any update must be done via USB or other connection. No wifi or internet.

And even then the analysis can be off for obvious reasons. People need to scrub their toilets and some keep it clean by having one of those pucks in the tank that sanitize the water. All of these can interfere with any results out of a medical setting.

[–] ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago

You're already @ the mf toilet too, or the sink. what is even the purported purpose of remotely activating something you have to stand there to use?

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I mean... Electronics and the Internet are also following the laws of physics. But I get what you mean, levers should be the only activation, and gravity should be the only requirement.

That being said, electronics in our devices do tend to reduce the amount of water and power that appliances use. Dumb devices are extremely inefficient, even though there are fewer points of failure.

It sucks that a 1950's fridge can still function just fine today, but it also is a bigger strain on the power grid, and a leak in the refrigerant would destroy the ozone.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

> That being said, electronics in our devices do tend to reduce the amount of water and power that appliances use. Dumb devices are extremely inefficient, even though there are fewer points of failure.

I fail to see how electronics in these (unpowered) devices in any way reduce the amount of power that they use.

[–] 1D10@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

In theory you could have a system that monitors input and then uses a precise amount of water to vacate the bowl.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Oh sick, a toilet with bowl cameras

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I figure a scale would probably work better.

[–] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I think that was just a general statement regarding old devices, since they brought up a 1950s refrigerator as an example of a powered "dumb" device

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 1 points 2 hours ago

Sprinklers and all kinds of stuff are more efficient with sensors and electronic regulators

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[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

"Dumb" is the new "smart".

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