Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025

RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t even need a timer for the microwave oven. I just rig that shit up where when you close the door, it cooks, and when you open it, well it stops cooking.

  Don’t ask why, had to fix things for my mom. At least we didn’t have kids around the place…

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  • SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So you just leave it open when you’re not cooking?

    Does it not have a light in it?

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Remove the light, obviously. Bypass the control circuit…

      Geez, didn’t Electroboom teach you anything?

      Don’t do these things at home, obviously…

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      • SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I can’t stand cupboard drawers or microwaves hanging open it would drive me nuts.

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use my coffee machine as an alarm. Like a really pleasant morning alarm for the whole house. It’s nice.

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• nikt@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Coffee machine??? I hand-grind my coffee every morning in a mortar and pestle and then use my Rok to manually press the perfect espresso.

  But I also let a self-hosted AI model control the lights and HVAC in my house, cause it does it way better than I ever could manually.

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  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hand-grind my coffee every morning in a mortar and pestle and then use my Rok to manually press the perfect espresso.

    What? You don’t have people to do that for you??

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m also old fashioned and it was always faster for me to reach to light switch than to unlock my phone, find the app and toggle it from there.

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mumbling “Hey google, turn the lights off” from bed and the entire house going dark is pretty nice though.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  or even better yet get a non-electronic coffe maker, just the carafe or a french press.

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• gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, me too. But home automation has its usercase: just think about an holiday home where you want to turn on the heating and the boiler the day before you arrive.
  Sure, you can ask a local friend to do it for you but being able to do it remotely is nice.

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