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It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell · Bit Nebula (blog.vghaisas.com)
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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

My doorbell is a sign that says "Knock", because my 70's doorbell is broken. It requires 0 cloud services to fix the problem of people pressing an unhelpful button.

[EDIT] To people downvoting this, did you read the article? Specifically, this part:

"Before we had the doorbell, people just knocked on the front door. But now, people would notice the doorbell and ring it instead. This would send a notification to our phones, and then it would also helpfully play a sound on the doorbell itself… outside the door… which we could not hear."

He then goes on a tech bodgeathon to fix the button, instead of just placing a sing that says "Knock" to go back to the thing that worked before.