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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] lamprivate@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My family got a new KitchenAid stove and I wanted to set a stop time for the oven while we went for a walk. I am able to do this on my shitty oven at our apartment.

I had to connect the stove to wifi, download an app, make an account, and link the stove. All to set a timer. Even then of course there was an error linking them.

Usually I wouldn’t have done that but I was really looking forward to the walk. I was one of the first adopters of Hue lights and used to be excited for smart home stuff. But this is so stupid.

Wondering if it’s some sort of data collection thing and also there’s no way a kitchen appliance company focuses on security and making their wifi connected devices secure.

So dumb.

[–] lemming007@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never buy any appliances with WiFi or any IoT shit, I draw a hard line there. That shit is cancer.

[–] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm willing to buy smart appliances, but only if they are LAN only and connect to HomeAssistant. No data collection, no privacy policy, no outside access

[–] lamprivate@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

It’s getting harder not to buy ones tbh