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csevet replied to your post “sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “MYSTERY BEEP FUCKING…”
i mean smart shit was #cancelled for me when they started making “smart” door locks. that can let uh… anyone into your goddamn locked home. CANCELLED.
I just don’t like having an always-on listening device! I know I have nothing to hide and no reason for anyone to ever be interested in surveilling me but it doesn’t matter how Pure and Wholesome I am, if something has recorded literally everything that’s ever been said in my house, if anyone ever had any reason to hate me, and that existed, and they could get their hands on it, it’s trivially easy to find something and cobble it together to be incriminating in some way! My god. I know there are a lot of “ifs” in that but the fact that you can construct the sentence at all is horrifying.
Add in home security things and no! No thanks!
I have a remote-unlockable door latch on my front door that I got for cheap when I worked for a company that was a dealer for a weird fancy homegoods store, but it was not internet anything it was a key fob like for a car. And it never worked because the door latch sticks so you can’t tell if it’s locked or not. That’s as close as I’d get to that, and now I wouldn’t put something like that on. No thanks.
ms-daphne replied to your post “oh man the mystery beep cable box thing? it’s a $40 battery, and it…”
WTF, the whole point of having a land line is that it works when the power goes out. If you need a $40 battery, what the hell is the point?
Well, the idea is the battery’s just there all the time, and it’s always-on. But what gets me is that it only lasts 8 hours. So there’s a hurricane or something and your power’s out for a week, you have 8 hours in which you can call someone or check in– and your cellphone probably still has a charge, then. So then your battery backup dies, and your cellphone dies, and you’re screwed, so why bother having the battery at all???
If my power just blips off, I’ll use my damn cellphone, that’s how that works.
I guess if the cell networks are down; I’m old enough to remember the desperate scramble for payphones around NYC on 9/11 because nobody’s cellphones could get a signal, both because of congestion and because there were antennae on the towers. So for a long time after that I wanted a landline. But. My god I don’t know now, what would bring the cell networks down but leave the landlines intact.
Whatever it is, I sort of feel like having 8 hours’ worth of battery backup isn’t going to do a whole lot of good. Possibly better than nothing, but. I’m not going to be the one on my block with the phone, I’m surrounded by old people. Not that I talk to any of my neighbors.
lachesismeg replied to your post “sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “MYSTERY BEEP FUCKING…”
My dude also a software guy and we have a google home now because he wanted to automate the lights and I am shocked that he sees no downside to having a surveillance device in our living room. (But I am not picking this particular battle to fight)
LOL what’s funny is that, like, 15 years ago or so, maybe more now, Dude had a fleeting interest in automating things, and so he took apart this hideous bronze eagle lamp I owned– I actually owned three, inherited from various grandmothers– with the idea of putting one of the very early microcomputers you could get then into the base. It had an LCD panel readout screen, and a few basic controls, and the idea was that you could use the microcomputer to control the lamp and output various messages. This would… yeah this would have been like 2003 or 4.
He took the thing all apart, bought some pieces, soldered some things, my bemused father helped him build a new base piece for the lamp…
and then nothing ever became of it. And now you can just get wifi-enabled light bulbs because why the hell not.
I just don’t get why everything has to be voice-activated, and controlled by surveillance. I don’t get it. I thought it would be sort of neat to be able to turn a light bulb on and off remotely, sort of, but not enough to actually get one. Now they make light bulbs with remote controls, and i have one, and it’s great for the yurt, and I don’t need it anywhere else. (The yurt sometimes is very cold or very damp and sometimes I’m barricaded in a blanket fort so I can’t reach the lamp, which also may have a spider living on it at the time so I don’t want to touch it. Hence the remote. But my house is indoors, so I can move around more freely in it without exposing myself to the elements or wildlife…)
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csevet replied to your post “sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “MYSTERY BEEP FUCKING…”
i mean smart shit was #cancelled for me when they started making “smart” door locks. that can let uh… anyone into your goddamn locked home. CANCELLED.
I just don’t like having an always-on listening device! I know I have nothing to hide and no reason for anyone to ever be interested in surveilling me but it doesn’t matter how Pure and Wholesome I am, if something has recorded literally everything that’s ever been said in my house, if anyone ever had any reason to hate me, and that existed, and they could get their hands on it, it’s trivially easy to find something and cobble it together to be incriminating in some way! My god. I know there are a lot of “ifs” in that but the fact that you can construct the sentence at all is horrifying.
Add in home security things and no! No thanks!
I have a remote-unlockable door latch on my front door that I got for cheap when I worked for a company that was a dealer for a weird fancy homegoods store, but it was not internet anything it was a key fob like for a car. And it never worked because the door latch sticks so you can’t tell if it’s locked or not. That’s as close as I’d get to that, and now I wouldn’t put something like that on. No thanks.
ms-daphne replied to your post “oh man the mystery beep cable box thing? it’s a $40 battery, and it…”
WTF, the whole point of having a land line is that it works when the power goes out. If you need a $40 battery, what the hell is the point?
Well, the idea is the battery’s just there all the time, and it’s always-on. But what gets me is that it only lasts 8 hours. So there’s a hurricane or something and your power’s out for a week, you have 8 hours in which you can call someone or check in– and your cellphone probably still has a charge, then. So then your battery backup dies, and your cellphone dies, and you’re screwed, so why bother having the battery at all???
If my power just blips off, I’ll use my damn cellphone, that’s how that works.
I guess if the cell networks are down; I’m old enough to remember the desperate scramble for payphones around NYC on 9/11 because nobody’s cellphones could get a signal, both because of congestion and because there were antennae on the towers. So for a long time after that I wanted a landline. But. My god I don’t know now, what would bring the cell networks down but leave the landlines intact.
Whatever it is, I sort of feel like having 8 hours’ worth of battery backup isn’t going to do a whole lot of good. Possibly better than nothing, but. I’m not going to be the one on my block with the phone, I’m surrounded by old people. Not that I talk to any of my neighbors.
lachesismeg replied to your post “sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “MYSTERY BEEP FUCKING…”
My dude also a software guy and we have a google home now because he wanted to automate the lights and I am shocked that he sees no downside to having a surveillance device in our living room. (But I am not picking this particular battle to fight)
LOL what’s funny is that, like, 15 years ago or so, maybe more now, Dude had a fleeting interest in automating things, and so he took apart this hideous bronze eagle lamp I owned– I actually owned three, inherited from various grandmothers– with the idea of putting one of the very early microcomputers you could get then into the base. It had an LCD panel readout screen, and a few basic controls, and the idea was that you could use the microcomputer to control the lamp and output various messages. This would… yeah this would have been like 2003 or 4.
He took the thing all apart, bought some pieces, soldered some things, my bemused father helped him build a new base piece for the lamp…
and then nothing ever became of it. And now you can just get wifi-enabled light bulbs because why the hell not.
I just don’t get why everything has to be voice-activated, and controlled by surveillance. I don’t get it. I thought it would be sort of neat to be able to turn a light bulb on and off remotely, sort of, but not enough to actually get one. Now they make light bulbs with remote controls, and i have one, and it’s great for the yurt, and I don’t need it anywhere else. (The yurt sometimes is very cold or very damp and sometimes I’m barricaded in a blanket fort so I can’t reach the lamp, which also may have a spider living on it at the time so I don’t want to touch it. Hence the remote. But my house is indoors, so I can move around more freely in it without exposing myself to the elements or wildlife…)
(Your picture was not posted)
