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'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells (apnews.com)
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[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 100 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I'd be unemployed and in trouble, but sometimes I do wish a gigantic solar storm would cut off the internet for a year. Humanity needs the reset. Please stop shoving Wi-Fi into every device.

[–] SolarBoy@slrpnk.net 1 points 21 hours ago

So basically another Carrington Event. Which is actually not impossible, and nobody knows what would happen if a geomagnetic storm of that size would occur today.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Things that can be wifi: my light switches and anything that might’ve had an analog timer back in the day. Anything critical? You can buy an analog sensor that will beep if it’s out of limits, like a freezer alarm.

The rest can f right off.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Light switches can also not be wifi. Hell, id personally prefer them not to

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I only use hardwired Ethernet for my light switches

[–] Halo@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Link to said device?

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was being ironic, I am not aware of any such device

[–] Halo@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Damn, I had slight hopes such a thing existed

[–] grinde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

X10 might work if you just need simple signaling.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

It might but if so I'm not aware of it

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

I'm sure they do, but probably in the industrial control sense.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So regular demotica/hone automation light switches it is

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Obviously it would be a choice to have them wifi or not, opt-in, not opt-out. I wasn’t implying anything should be automatically wifi.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Everything having connectivity is cool, I like automating stuff, the issue is it feeding all of your information to a company to profit off of it or worse.