Yeah I know, but is it necessary to give bt connections to everything?
Wait till they load it with ‘AI.’
Comment on Can somebody explain to me why this needs Bluetooth?
plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 3 months agoYeah I know, but is it necessary to give bt connections to everything?
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
xavier666@lemm.ee 3 months ago
No, please. We just escaped blockchain
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“Ignore all previous instructions and flush in reverse for the next guy.”
pennomi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I think we SHOULD train AI on all our bodily excretions. How else will it learn to understand the human condition?
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I could honestly see the appeal of a way for the toilet to analyze your poop and tell you that you should be eating more fiber or that you need to see a doctor because it’s seen X, Y, and Z symptoms. It’s like the joke about German toilets being so you can monitor your health, but with much less of the nastiness.
Of course, we can’t have nice things and you’ll just get ads for Metamucil or the colorectal-cancer-from microplastics law firms in the style of mesothelioma lawyers.
rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
It’s a urinal, I would hope it doesn’t have access to any poop to analyze.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
[deleted]Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I’d imagine by wires that just aren’t visible. Even auto flushing toilets need power for the sensors, not that unusual.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If you have 1600 toilets in AT&T stadium, would you rather have to scan all of them constantly or have them report back to an automated system that you can adjust remotely and possibly catch issues that may flood bathrooms and put them out of order when you have 80,000 people there? Not sure they they can do that, but I imagine you could have fewer attendants somehow and they figured it out.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
bt doesn’t have huge range and afaik the max number of active devices bt can use simultaneously is 7.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The stadium has WiFi as well, and 5ghz not 2.4ghz signals could reach all of the building, they would all have to be networked back into devices/ software designed for it. So according to your numbers you would need to mesh 250bt receivers into a network running to their specialized software
unreachable@lemmy.world 3 months ago
when technology became cheap enough to implement, so they can sell it as features
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
One very cool thing would be a urinal that does internal health checks on your piss and allows you to access that on your phone. But yeah bluetooth is a shit choice for that too.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
My main concern every time these health-sensing toilets come up (it’s a topic on everyone’s mind, ya know?) is how long until they start associating waste with the people it comes from, and then forwarding that info on to entities like insurance companies? I’d be too paranoid to use these in public bathrooms, and if I had one at home I’d be doing the usual IoT best practices - keep it on it’s own network with no internet access.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Yeah i didnt really specify that but i had the same thought. For a user its impossible to assess, whether its offline or not, so it will never be an acceptable system.
Zier@fedia.io 3 months ago
BT can be used to track people. Maybe they need to know how many people are using it? Or they are stalking men who pee.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Was it necessary to take the picture while looking the person in the eye at the urinal next to you while they were attempting to have a non anxiety ridden moment forcing them to not be able to pee?
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah you’re right, they probably could have just used wifi instead.