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Emelia/Emi

@hamatti The only "smart" device that I own aside from my TV (which I lobotomized as best I could via "not connecting it to the internet") is my fancy rice cooker, and those smarts are entirely analog: it can tell when the rice is done, even when the timer's not quite up yet, and it has a wall-clock timer rather than a dumb 'delay' function (aka "the wall-clock time that it should be done by", not 'start N hours later'). Oh, and did I mention that the clock has a battery so you don't need to reset it every time you unplug it?

11 August at 18:54 | Wall-to-wall | Open on tech.lgbt
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Emelia/Emi

@hamatti We really should redefine "smart device" to mean "device that actually does something to make life easier" like this one Japanese combo washer/dryer I saw in a video a few months ago: not only is it a combo unit that eliminates the "transfer soggy clothes" step, it has an automatic detergent dispenser so you don't need to think to use it: just toss clothes in, select the mode, hit go, clean clothes come out later.

11 August at 19:07 | Open on tech.lgbt
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@becomethewaifu @hamatti Arguably that's "well-designed", and internet-connected/network-connected devices should just be called as such.

However, I'm somewhat reluctant to merge the two devices, as it is possible that internal redundancies and fault isolation may be subpar, which would mean that a failure of the drying system may affect the ability to wash clothes in general. An unacceptable performance degradation, I can still air dry things perfectly fine and shouldn't have to suspend my ability to do laundry (other than by hand) due to such a fault.

That being said, *maybe* they didn't skimp on fault isolation, but I'd need more information for certain.
@becomethewaifu @hamatti Arguably that's "well-designed", and internet-connected/network-connected devices should just be called as such.

However, I'm somewhat reluctant to merge the two devices, as it is possible that internal redundancies and fault isolation may be subpar, which would mean that a failure of the drying system may affect the ability to wash clothes in general. An unacceptable performance...
11 August at 19:31 | Open on udongein.xyz
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