Daily Tech News 26 March 2025

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I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud and I hope your company burns down, falls over, and sinks into the swamp. (Jeff Geerling)

Jeff bought a new dishwasher.

To use even something as simple as a rinse cycle, you have to connect it to wifi, download the app, and set up an online account.

For a dishwasher.

My washing machine requires wifi and an app to set up custom wash cycles, so... I never use custom wash cycles. I set it to the wash/dry setting (it's a combination washer/dryer) and it does its thing.

My dishwasher has buttons.

Apparently that's now a $400 option.

Tech News

AMD's new Gorgon Point laptop chips are AMD's old Strix Point laptop chips. (Hot Hardware)

The clock speed has been bumped by about 2%. That's it.
The CEO of Alibaba warned of a bubble in AI datacenter construction. (Yahoo)

A bubble he is helping inflate.
How to delete you 23andMe data. (The Verge) (archive site)

You probably can't. The company already said they keep some parts of your data even before they went bankrupt, and now that they are bankrupt, your data is what they are planning to sell to become less bankrupt.

They would previously destroy any physical samples kept on your behalf, but now that they are bankrupt no-one is around to do that anymore.
What killed all that innovation in web presentation? (Shirley Wu)

People hated it.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Nothing is true.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2025 04:00 AM (fwDg9)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 26, 2025 04:00 AM (O7YUW)

3 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 26, 2025 04:01 AM (sAmhv)

4 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2025 04:01 AM (omVj0)

5 Howdy, evening, and morning to all the cowboys, late toilers, and early risers!

'Tis Woden's Day: 67 F. in my neighborhood, with little wind. Stirling, the big black component of the Killer Kittenz From Outer Space is galloping around as though he were three *months* old instead of three years. Little gray Dagny is sitting in her window being aloof.

Time for me to finish the second cup, change, stretch, and do my roadwork.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2025 04:05 AM (omVj0)

6 Mornin' Wolfus. Carrying on from your comment late in the ONT - I agree, get your personal electronic as well as physical files and possessions out of the office, and do it as soon as you can. They might restrict your access on the last couple of days.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 26, 2025 04:07 AM (O7YUW)

7 Disclaimer: Nothing is true.

$nothing && echo “This is true.”

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 26, 2025 04:09 AM (JRP2U)

8 Notsothoreau, if you're here, I have a phone meeting with your financial advisor guy this morning at eight -- getting a second opinion about this annuity business. Nice of him to bother with somebody from a far distant state!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2025 04:09 AM (omVj0)

9 Mornin' Wolfus. Carrying on from your comment late in the ONT - I agree, get your personal electronic as well as physical files and possessions out of the office, and do it as soon as you can. They might restrict your access on the last couple of days.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 26, 2025

***
I've got to see about my continuing use of my work email too. Normally I think they give you an additional six months after you leave. What concerns me is that if I have any documents that need to be scanned and emailed back. I have a printer, B & W, here, but no scanner. I'd hate to have to hunt for a parking place and go back into the office just for that.

Once upon a time you could go to a Kinko's and they'd scan documents, but FedEx took them over. Are they still around?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2025 04:12 AM (omVj0)

10 @Wolfus:

FedEx Office still offers scanning as a service:
https://tinyurl.com/3ved4sbt

There's a "Find a location" button at the top of that page.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 26, 2025 04:27 AM (O7YUW)

11 Congratulations on your retirement, Wolfus. Kinko's became Fed Ex Office stores. They, or the UPS stores should be able to help you scan and email docs. You may check your local library, also.

Posted by: ScaryMary at March 26, 2025 04:27 AM (wX56x)

12 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 26, 2025 04:30 AM (dg+HA)

13 Dishwasher + Cloud in order to get all the basic functionality:

There is only one sane answer: Nope. Refuse to buy it. Let the store know you want something that is stand alone, and be sure to tell them exactly why. Maybe they don't realize they're selling a lemon that will hurt their reputation when things eventually go pear-shaped because the manufacturer pulls something bone-headed.

If the store claims stand-alone appliances without cloud aren't made anymore, don't believe them. Someone makes those.

Go with a commercial unit if you have to, or find a place that fixes, refurbishes, and sells old appliances. Give them your business instead.

Go to auctions, go to yard sales, find a tossed appliance on the road-side and take it on as a project. You can tear it down for scrap metal if you can't fix it and make some money at a scrap metal place that way.

Get creative.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 26, 2025 04:32 AM (O7YUW)

14 BOING!

I just told Mrs. BD yesterday that I refuse to buy that robot floor cleaner she wants because it's a spying device. I already have other devices (security cams) which I cannot do without which can spy on us, too.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 26, 2025 04:37 AM (pgEoW)

15 Pixy: Excellent musical interlude this morning.

There's a cover by Five Finger Death Punch I love as well:
https://youtu.be/sXYIxJScSik?t=132
(queued to 2 minutes, 12 seconds in, when the actual song begins.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 26, 2025 04:37 AM (O7YUW)

16 Wolfus,

He's a good guy and gives good advice. And he will admit when he doesn't know something.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 26, 2025 04:42 AM (cvWHI)

17 12 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Retired.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 26, 2025 04:48 AM (sAmhv)

18 Bought some weak melatonin vitamins Sunday but haven't tried them yet. Sleeping a bit better lately, getting off night shift should help.

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2025 04:52 AM (fwDg9)

19

My new toilet doesn't have a handle. Instead you have to download the FlushMe phone app.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 26, 2025 04:53 AM (dg+HA)

20 I use 1 mg liquid melatonin and have also used a low dose pill. I'm sensitive to it and don't use it every night. It is helpful because your body doesn't make as much as you age

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 26, 2025 04:55 AM (cvWHI)

21 Here's the Doc Watson version
https://youtu.be/hOVEImf6HVw

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 26, 2025 04:57 AM (dg+HA)

22 I use Unisom sometimes, Skip. It seems to help along with cutting back on caffeine and none after about 12:00 pm but maybe you don't use caffeine.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 04:57 AM (42Vb+)

23 I will NOT buy any thing which is 'microprocessor controlled'! I've been known to jumper around it and use a simple on/off switch. This shit must stop. (And start, for that matter, at my touch.)

Posted by: jc at March 26, 2025 04:58 AM (GBGvy)

24 The heater went out and there's no hot water. A repair man came yesterday but it only worked for the day. I am thankful it is not midwinter and that I generally live in a place where there in indoor plumbing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 05:01 AM (42Vb+)

25 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks where if you dislike the weather just wait a few minutes.

Meanwhile may any effort undertaken by you result in maximum benefit at ALL times, with commensurate heartburn for the leftwit fungi that befoul us.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 26, 2025 05:02 AM (hKoQL)

26 Good morning morons

No sleep tonight

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 26, 2025 05:07 AM (RIvkX)

27 Morning all!

In Florida at a rental and they have the same dishwasher as Jeff mentions in his article. Of course, no manual on how to run it. I had to go online to find a copy and fiddle with it for 15 minutes to get it to work. Of course a QR code so I could use my phone to talk to a piece of equipment to tell it to wash the dishes.
The rental also has a microwave with the mandatory, I guess, 30 settings to cook, saute, flambe, defrost, popcorn(it's still gonna burn) settings.
C'mon. A dial to turn to minutes more or less, and a go button. That's all that's needed.

Posted by: Bruce at March 26, 2025 05:08 AM (kcNOc)

28 I don't have caffeine after morning very often.

We have a few small electric heaters around use them daily

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2025 05:09 AM (fwDg9)

29 My dishwasher has a $300 electronics board that needs to be replaced every 3 years

When we moved in the dishwasher we had worked great for 20 years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 26, 2025 05:09 AM (RIvkX)

30 here is only one sane answer: Nope. Refuse to buy it. Let the store know you want something that is stand alone, and be sure to tell them exactly why.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 26, 2025 04:32 AM (O7YUW)

There is a superb Sous Vide machine (Joule) that I will not buy because it is operated only by app that requires an account. The ones I use (Anova) are also excellent, but have a simple touch screen operating system if one doesn't want to use their app.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2025 05:11 AM (L5An7)

31 Also, at the rental we have a tankless water heater. 2 days in and no hot water. Half a day later and 2 different guys work on it and it needs a mother board or something. That they have to order. So...I get to cold water shave this morning.

Posted by: Bruce at March 26, 2025 05:12 AM (kcNOc)

32 Posted by: Bruce at March 26, 2025 05:12 AM (kcNOc

I can relate.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 05:15 AM (42Vb+)

33 I get to cold water shave this morning.

Posted by: Bruce at March 26, 2025 05:12 AM (kcNOc)

I'll take a cold water shower before I cold water shave.

Heat up some water on the stove!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2025 05:15 AM (L5An7)

34 I'll take a cold water shower before I cold water shave.

Heat up some water on the stove!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Will do. Thanks.

I took a cold shower last night.

Posted by: Bruce at March 26, 2025 05:16 AM (kcNOc)

35 Beside Snow Woke, has everyone heard what other famous Hollywood loser has a major box office disaster?

https://tinyurl.com/y3hxuwk6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 26, 2025 05:17 AM (pgEoW)

36 I took a cold shower last night.

Posted by: Bruce at March 26, 2025 05:16 AM (kcNOc)

Is this a First World Problem?

It's teetering on Second World!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2025 05:17 AM (L5An7)

37 Beside Snow Woke, has everyone heard what other famous Hollywood loser has a major box office disaster?

https://tinyurl.com/y3hxuwk6
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Bobby play acting as a gangster? Really stretching those acting chops Bobby.

Posted by: Bruce at March 26, 2025 05:18 AM (kcNOc)

38 Is this a First World Problem?

It's teetering on Second World!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

It's all Tesla's fault!

Posted by: Bruce at March 26, 2025 05:19 AM (kcNOc)

39 Another reasonable early spring day today, supposedly 70s Saturday but would almost bet that it won't happen Saturday

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2025 05:21 AM (fwDg9)

40 Good morning! It's a very pleasant 69F out on the patio here in Cowtown, headed for the low 80s with some storms north and east of us. Gonna be another great day to ride the scooter.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 26, 2025 05:22 AM (3Ope8)

41 Bought some weak melatonin vitamins Sunday but haven't tried them yet. Sleeping a bit better lately, getting off night shift should help.
Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2025 04:52 AM (fwDg9)

Be aware of the crazy dreams.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 05:23 AM (gKDq2)

42 In many years of living in an older house, there have been times when I've had to heat up hot water in a big pot and use that to wash because the furnace wasn't working. That is why I am glad I don't generally have that problem.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 05:23 AM (VnB+J)

43 Running late, Forward Dog 9 out
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2025 05:26 AM (fwDg9)

44 The woke papers are ridiculous. BBC reports in in effect ,"Greenland mad at visiting Trump officials because of his talk of annexing the country." So, again Trump is talking big and using a negotiating tactic and they take him literally.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 05:27 AM (VnB+J)

45 Fen,

That's the problem with the left/media. They take Trump literally but not seriously. We take Trump seriously but not literally.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 05:30 AM (gKDq2)

46 Bosch 400 is a dumb machine. The upscale versions have Home Connect. We have a dumb Bosch and love it.
Right to repair also should include right to buy parts from the supplier at the same price as the appliance assembling company.

Posted by: Accomack at March 26, 2025 05:32 AM (6cOjz)

47
That's the problem with the left/media. They take Trump literally but not seriously. We take Trump seriously but not literally.
Posted by: RickZ

Because we all know, the media only like to report the truth!!!

Posted by: Bruce at March 26, 2025 05:32 AM (kcNOc)

48 Shaped by God. Jeremiah 18: 1-10:

https://tinyurl.com/juwtk8zj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 05:32 AM (VnB+J)

49
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 26, 2025 05:33 AM (tljrc)

50 Okay, so my friend sent me an order from Omaha Steaks. One of those 50% off or so deals. Sirloin burgers, sirloin steaks, chicken breasts, large hot dogs (4 each), a 12 pack of Italian meatballs and 4 caramel apple puffs.

I've had Omaha Steaks before and I have to say, their chicken breast is the best I've ever had. So tender. I find that kind of ironic.

Those caramel apple puffs, though, are not going to last very long.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 05:35 AM (gKDq2)

51 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 33 chilly degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor.

A few observations:

- I hate "House of the Rising Sun." In fact, I can't stand most of the Animals' songs.

- I would wash my clothes by hand rather than buy a washing machine that needed to be connected to the cloud for anything.

- I need to switch to either home-made bread or cut it out entirely. What I eat now gives me heartburn.

- I wish I could go back to sleep.

And now to work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 05:37 AM (Q0kLU)

52 To use even something as simple as a rinse cycle, you have to connect it to wifi, download the app, and set up an online account.

I would get an old dishwasher from the dump and recondition it myself before I accept an appliance that's connected to the internet in any capacity.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 26, 2025 05:39 AM (B9Dv5)

53 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 26, 2025 05:42 AM (hoCmQ)

54 Those caramel apple puffs, though, are not going to last very long.
Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 05:35 AM (gKDq2)
====
Nice. I got a lemon strawberry puff yesterday courtesy of MiL's lemon tree.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 26, 2025 05:42 AM (RIvkX)

55 This is actually a good site, IMO, if you're a conservative leaning Christian and deals with those hard types of challenging questions such as "Did God create evil?", "Why do bad things happen to good people?". I find their responses much more satisfying than Harold Kushner's book about bad things happening to good people, because he basically says, "Well, there are certain things God can't do." And yes, I think Rabbi Kushner is/was a good man and I appreciate his thoughtfulness Ana attempt to help people. The. Ok just didn't resonate with me.

Another good book written by a Christian is "Disappointment with God" by Philip Yancy or various works by C.S Lewis including "The Problem of Pain"

https://www.gotquestions.org/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 05:43 AM (UmW9s)

56 This is gonna be the "do or die" of Epstein data - 14 terabytes of it:

https://tinyurl.com/4jdyt53r

Here's hoping.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 26, 2025 05:43 AM (pgEoW)

57 My old dishwasher gave up the ghost a while back. I've gone back to just washing dishes by hand. It's relaxing.

Posted by: ScaryMary at March 26, 2025 05:44 AM (wX56x)

58 I've had the same dishwasher for over 20 years. I can't believe it still runs. Sounds like an Edsal minus a muffler but it works. You can get appliances that don't connect to the internet. Lowes for instance. I just checked.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 26, 2025 05:44 AM (sAmhv)

59 I don't think I want to read about crazy leftist politicians today including belligerent Jasmine Crockett, although I am always thankful for J.Js hard work and insightful commentary. And many links.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 05:45 AM (UmW9s)

60 Those caramel apple puffs, though, are not going to last very long.
Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 05:35 AM (gKDq2)
====
Nice. I got a lemon strawberry puff yesterday courtesy of MiL's lemon tree.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 26, 2025 05:42 AM (RIvkX)

I'm still a kid. I want dessert first, when my stomach is most empty. I mean, why save the best for last, when youi really can't enjoy it because you're full?

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 05:45 AM (gKDq2)

61 This is good:

Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
10h
✅ CONFIRMED: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as Director of the NIH.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 26, 2025 05:49 AM (pgEoW)

62 Woman who's kept a journal for 50 years reflects on God in her life. Psalm 121: 1-8

https://tinyurl.com/yusmf4p6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 05:49 AM (UmW9s)

63
CONFIRMED: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as Director of the NIH.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Now, go confirm Fauci as a vindictive fraud, liar, and murderer, sir!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 05:51 AM (YKAdI)

64 Now, go confirm Fauci as a vindictive fraud, liar, and murderer, sir!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 05:51 AM (YKAdI)
-

Must remove autopen pardon.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 26, 2025 05:53 AM (5cNfZ)

65
He's a good guy and gives good advice. And he will admit when he doesn't know something.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 26, 2025

***
Mainly I want to ask about TIAA, who has my annuity funds now -- they are over 100 years old and have a good rep, I think -- and about the annuities suggested to me by Ramsey's local guy on Monday. From what I've gathered from various forum posts, since 1948 TIAA has always delivered on their "additional amounts" on their traditional annuity payments. And they say there are no fees for a traditional annuity with them.

I'm waiting to hear back from two live TIAA sources about this "additional payments are not guaranteed" thing. Maybe I'm worried for nothing and just need to turn on the payments, then go ahead with looking for additional income. If the annuity does drop next year or in the future, I can be ready.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2025 05:55 AM (omVj0)

66 Must remove autopen pardon.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 26, 2025 05:53 AM (5cNfZ)

That has to be the biggest scam from that Administration, in an Administration full of scams. He signed so many damn pardons, over 8,000, he (and/or somebody else) had to use an autopen.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 05:55 AM (gKDq2)

67 That has to be the biggest scam from that Administration, in an Administration full of scams. He signed so many damn pardons, over 8,000, he (and/or somebody else) had to use an autopen.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 05:55 AM (gKDq2)
-

It was a rogue regime, illegally elected, and corrupt from the top down.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 26, 2025 05:57 AM (5cNfZ)

68
Good morning, all. My HP printer made me sign up for an account to print documents. I'll look out for that feature the next time i buy a printer -- or anything. I don't even think I'll ever have an electric coffee maker again.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at March 26, 2025 05:58 AM (ny95y)

69
I am thankful it is not midwinter and that I generally live in a place where there in indoor plumbing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

"Generally", Fen? What's the place where you live without indoor plumbing?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:00 AM (YKAdI)

70 I don't even think I'll ever have an electric coffee maker again.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at March 26, 2025 05:58 AM (ny95y)
-

You won't be sorry:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bialetti

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 26, 2025 06:03 AM (5cNfZ)

71 When i have "lottery money", I'm gonna build an outhouse that looks old and rickety, but inside looks like it belongs in a Trump tower penthouse suite, with power and running water and gold plated everything.

Perfect for outdoor entertaining.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 26, 2025 06:07 AM (KtIIi)

72
What killed all that innovation in web presentation? (Shirley Wu)

Mockery. The two piece pie chart colored red and green with the colors labelled as "fraction of this pie chart that is colored red" and "fraction of this pie chart that is not colored red".

Profundity on thd level of Red Kammie holding forth on Venn DIagrams.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:07 AM (YKAdI)

73 I don't even think I'll ever have an electric coffee maker again.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at March 26, 2025 05:58 AM (ny95y)
-

You won't be sorry:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bialetti
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 26, 2025 06:03 AM (5cNfZ)

A simple, old-fashioned percolator works just as well, I think.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 06:08 AM (Q0kLU)

74 Profundity on thd level of Red Kammie holding forth on Venn DIagrams.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:07 AM (YKAdI)

My favorite is the meme with a random scalene triangle plopped over a circle and a legend that says "I clearly don't understand pie charts"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 26, 2025 06:09 AM (KtIIi)

75
I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud and I hope your company burns down, falls over, and sinks into the swamp. (Jeff Geerling

And yet another "big" has been prodded into malevolence.

Big Dishwasher has ways of making you regret your insolence!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:11 AM (YKAdI)

76
Or a picture of an actual pie with a slice removed with labels "fraction of this pie that I have eaten" and "fraction of this pie that I have yet to eat".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:14 AM (YKAdI)

77 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:00 AM (YKAdI)

Good catch. 😉That was some weird typos from my very tired brain and fingers I always have indoor plumbing, thank God. I don't always have heat and hot water.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 06:14 AM (defCJ)

78 IoT is probably going to wind up being the one culturally defining absurdity of this particular era in time.

It will live on as a memory next to powdered wigs, cocaine soda, and those exercise belt machines that jiggled the bejeebers out of fat people back when the world was still in black and white.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 26, 2025 06:15 AM (KtIIi)

79 I don't want any appliances or a computer that talks to me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 06:15 AM (defCJ)

80 Wolfus, I'm excited for you.

Fen and Bruce, I'm chilly for you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 26, 2025 06:18 AM (RIvkX)

81 The lefties are yammering on and on about the Signal flap, in hopes of collecting Mike Walz' scalp. Put them on "ignore", Mr. President.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 26, 2025 06:19 AM (vkMfW)

82 Big Dishwasher will sell you a dime bag if you meet him out behind the kitchen on a smoke break with Big Line Cook. Just don't let Big Manager catch you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 26, 2025 06:20 AM (KtIIi)

83
You won't be sorry:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bialetti
Posted by: Biden's Dog

============

That's exactly what I use! I love it. Saves my life in the frequent power outages in my town.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at March 26, 2025 06:20 AM (ny95y)

84
I don't want any appliances or a computer that talks to me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I want an in vehicle GPS that gets more and more peeved in its spoken advice to me when I deviate from its selected route by refusing to execute a U turn and go back to where I set out on my own way. Peeved to the point where it bitchily states, "Well, if you are going to continue to ignore me, I wonder why you even bothered to consult me in the first place!" just before I switch it off.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:23 AM (YKAdI)

85 just before I switch it off.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:23 AM (YKAdI)

Do you have to pay it alimony then?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 26, 2025 06:25 AM (KtIIi)

86 I want an in vehicle GPS that gets more and more peeved in its spoken advice to me when I deviate from its selected route by refusing to execute a U turn and go back to where I set out on my own way. Peeved to the point where it bitchily states, "Well, if you are going to continue to ignore me, I wonder why you even bothered to consult me in the first place!" just before I switch it off.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:23 AM (YKAdI)

I remember an obscure short horror story in which a couple of yutes carjack and kill and old man and try to escape using the car's GPS. As it turns out, the GPS is sentient and ends up delivering the pair to a desolate farmhouse occupied by cannibal killers.

"You have arrived."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 06:26 AM (Q0kLU)

87 Skynet 2025 - All Your Dishwashers Are Belong To US.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2025 06:28 AM (WyV1V)

88 My GE washer and dryer use an app for cutom functions and will text me when done. I don't have to use the wifi but I see that coming in the next generation. And then it will be a subscription to flush the toilet. This is nuts so RTM before you buy something.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at March 26, 2025 06:29 AM (YcfMX)

89 "Well, if you are going to continue to ignore me, I wonder why you even bothered to consult me in the first place!"

Wasn't that installed aboard the Millenium Falcon in the movie Solo?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2025 06:30 AM (WyV1V)

90 G'mornin all y'all.
Living vicariously through these comments.
What a blessed life.
May post more about son's aortic issues from computer.
Sort of a long story. Not a crisis. Remedy in sight.
Blessings to all.

Posted by: OkJohn at March 26, 2025 06:32 AM (NC/it)

91
Here's a thing I learned from having watched "The Girl That Got Rattled" story from the Coen Brothers' "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs". The recently deceased brother of said girl had a yappy Terrier named "President Pierce" that he had brought along for their journey west on the Oregon Trail. One of the trail bosses inquired of her whether her brother was a "doughface".

Having never heard that term, I looked into it and found that In the years leading up to the American Civil War, "doughface" was used to describe Northerners who favored the Southern position in political disputes. Typically it was applied to a Northern Democrat who was more often allied with the Southern Democrats than with the majority of Northern Democrats.

Today's RINOs and NeverTrumpers were yesterday's doughfaces.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:33 AM (YKAdI)

92 All of the appliances we installed a little over a year ago are connected to wifi. It's awesome. Get notifications when things are done... can start the dishwasher after I've left the house and forgot to start it before I left. We often preheat the oven when we're on the way back from hockey games so we can throw dinner in as soon as we get home.
The Miele app can be junky sometimes but it works 95% of the time.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 26, 2025 06:34 AM (WYStd)

93 31 Also, at the rental we have a tankless water heater. 2 days in and no hot water.
Posted by: Bruce at March 26, 2025 05:12 AM (kcNOc)

Aww, man.

Posted by: m at March 26, 2025 06:35 AM (CQE5S)

94 I do not want wifi enabled appliances, i just want reliable appliances

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 26, 2025 06:37 AM (vkMfW)

95
Do you have to pay it alimony then?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Nope. The first Mrs. KvC and I split things 50-50 and went our separate ways.

As the initiator of the parting of our ways and having no offspring from our union, I worked to keep matters simple.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:38 AM (YKAdI)

96 Morning peeps.

The story I relate about the co-worker who had his whole house; the doors, lights, appliances... everything connected to the IoT and then losing power during an ice storm is hilarious.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 26, 2025 06:38 AM (Q4IgG)

97
Posted by: Defenestratus at March 26, 2025 06:34 AM (WYStd)

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I get it, but I never leave the house with an appliance running. That rule saved me big bucks one when I reluctantly left a full dishwasher with dirty dishes before a long day out. It would have been so nice to come home to sparkling dishes, but it's against my rule.

When I got home, I ran the dishwasher. That was the cycle where it broke, spewing water all over the floor a few minutes after i turned it on. It would have gone through the whole cycle like that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at March 26, 2025 06:47 AM (ny95y)

98
The story I relate about the co-worker who had his whole house; the doors, lights, appliances... everything connected to the IoT and then losing power during an ice storm is hilarious.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I always told my scouts that once their handheld smart phones failed for having a dead battery, could always use it if they arrived at the top a high and very steep cliff. "Simply step to the edge of the cliff, release the phone, and then time its fall. You may then compute the cliff's height from the phone's time of falling."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:47 AM (YKAdI)

99 Do. You. Want. To. Play. A. Game?

Posted by: The new WOPR Dishwasher at March 26, 2025 06:47 AM (PiwSw)

100
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 26, 2025 06:38 AM (Q4IgG)

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YIKES, it didn't automatically fail over to manual when the power went out!?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at March 26, 2025 06:48 AM (ny95y)

101
"Yes, Thermonuclear Dishwashing, please."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:49 AM (YKAdI)

102 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 26, 2025 06:50 AM (u82oZ)

103
"You have arrived."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

=====≈=====

Aaaaaaagghhh!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at March 26, 2025 06:50 AM (ny95y)

104 50 Those caramel apple puffs, though, are not going to last very long.
Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 05:35 AM (gKDq2)

I hope you brought enough for ...

>>>and 4 caramel apple puffs

... oh.

Posted by: m at March 26, 2025 06:50 AM (CQE5S)

105 The IoT was the big, big investment push by Motley Fool back in the day.

I thought it was stupid then, and left Motley Fool after that.

My appliances have no wi-fi capability and dials or buttons.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 26, 2025 06:52 AM (u82oZ)

106
"You have arrived."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

"Thank you for using North Sentinel Island water taxi service"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 06:53 AM (YKAdI)

107 The only way to wash dishes is to not wash dishes.

Builds immune systems stronger.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 26, 2025 06:53 AM (u82oZ)

108 New stuff

https://tensor.art/u/727481333235843246

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2025 06:55 AM (WyV1V)

109 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

Marine Corp DI: "Get out of my taxi, line up, and wait until I tell you to move, maggots. "

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 26, 2025 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

110 86 I remember an obscure short horror story in which a couple of yutes carjack and kill and old man and try to escape using the car's GPS. As it turns out, the GPS is sentient and ends up delivering the pair to a desolate farmhouse occupied by cannibal killers.

"You have arrived."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 06:26 AM (Q0kLU)

Ha!

Posted by: m at March 26, 2025 06:57 AM (CQE5S)

111 Post 84. That is funny. Thanks, Krebs vs Carnot.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 06:59 AM (42Vb+)

112 The only way to wash dishes is to not wash dishes.

That should have had an Oscar Wilde sock.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 07:00 AM (Q0kLU)

113 So, the guy's house that was totally WiFi on the IoT lost it's Internet and power during an ice storm. His wife calls from their car at home and tells him she and the kids can't get into the garage, the door won't open. The front door's locked and the app won't let them in.

So he goes home and is dismayed that the house is locked up. There's no key, just an app for the wireless locks, the wireless garage door opener, etc.

They end up busting a window (the alarm's down too) to get inside. Then find out they can't turn on the lights, the IoT appliances are dead and the WiFi thermostat won't operate, even after power was restored but their Internet was still down. They had to get a hotel room for two days until their Internet came back up.

He said some things were Bluetooth and worked, but the whole IoT stuff was DOA until the Internet came back up. This was about 7 years ago, so stuff's probably changed since then.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 26, 2025 07:02 AM (Q4IgG)

114 Have a great day, everyone,

May your dishes be clean, your microwave work, and sunshine light your path.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 26, 2025 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

115 A pie chart should just show you all the different kinds of pies

pecan, apple, and so forth

I really like my Maytag dishwasher
it has maybe 6 buttons
my favs are 'normal' and 'start'

Posted by: Don Black at March 26, 2025 07:04 AM (AOsQT)

116

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 26, 2025 07:04 AM (EFZgU)

117 the guy's house that was totally WiFi on the IoT lost it's Internet and power during an ice storm. His wife calls from their car at home and tells him she and the kids can't get into the garage, the door won't open. The front door's locked and the app won't let them in.

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Ah, the bleeding edge example of the people who immediately give their email address and phone number to the business that has no real need for their email and phone number when asked.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms, stop telling your daughters to be whores at March 26, 2025 07:07 AM (nFKd6)

118
He said some things were Bluetooth and worked, but the whole IoT stuff was DOA until the Internet came back up. This was about 7 years ago, so stuff's probably changed since then.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

"All things considered, this landfill has a lot going for it!"

-- chatter among the discarded IoT appliances

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 07:07 AM (YKAdI)

119 Nobody uses cake charts or pizza charts.

That would be silly.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 26, 2025 07:08 AM (KtIIi)

120 Everyone wants the house from Eureka.

They get Home By Clippy.

"Are you trying to exit your house because it's on fire right now?

Yes / No"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 26, 2025 07:09 AM (KtIIi)

121
Clippy

It wasn't its intrusiveness that enraged me.

It was its smug look that made me want to punch it in its face.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2025 07:13 AM (YKAdI)

122 Just wait until you have to connect your shitter to the internet.

Posted by: Big Shit Paper at March 26, 2025 07:14 AM (ce5If)

123 He said some things were Bluetooth and worked, but the whole IoT stuff was DOA until the Internet came back up. This was about 7 years ago, so stuff's probably changed since then.

I'm pretty sure that seven years ago, they had hotspot features on the phone, and anyone who would make their home that dependent on WiFi would spend the few extra bucks for a data plan that accommodated internet disruptions.

I have had to do that a lot for the regular internet disruptions here: The Air Quality meter, the weather stations, etc. besides the normal business use for internet connections.

Just set the phone's WiFi name to the name of the partitioned off name used by the home's WiFi router.

Regardless, even with every IoT device I have (except for the aforementioned) I can use the lights and appliances like a normal human being rather than expecting a Home Assistant to manage them.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 26, 2025 07:16 AM (a4flb)

124 Just wait until you have to connect your shitter to the internet.

Internet's full!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 07:18 AM (Q0kLU)

125 Ah, the bleeding edge example of the people who immediately give their email address and phone number to the business that has no real need for their email and phone number when asked.

I have appliances that are WiFi enabled. I'm guessing it is for the occasional firmware updates. For example the refrigerator. I'm supposed to get an alert on my phone or Alexa if the door is left open or the temperature rises. If the power goes out I'm just going to assume that I won't get an alert and the temperature is rising. (that is what whole house generators are for)

Given that a computer I just bought 3 months ago got bricked last week over a Windows update, I'm sort of hesitant to have my appliance that are working Right Now to have them phone home for a firmware update. Especially after the warranty expires

Read your EULA, it probably doesn't cover them bricking your appliance.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 26, 2025 07:21 AM (a4flb)

126 The Global Warming disc is rising. Have a great day horde!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 26, 2025 07:23 AM (vkMfW)

127 Imagine, if you will, growing up in an era where off/on for example, was clearly delineated by a positive action then arbitrarily being forced to adapt to a soft system that you HAD to embrace if you wished to continue with your career as the friendly guy who fixed your car right the FIRST time. This changed the diagnostic procedure completely, Detroit wanted to have the procedures remain proprietary in order to freeze out independent repair shops, we were making great inroads into what was an enormously profitable market.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 26, 2025 07:25 AM (hKoQL)

128 Regardless, even with every IoT device I have (except for the aforementioned) I can use the lights and appliances like a normal human being rather than expecting a Home Assistant to manage them.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 26, 2025 07:16 AM (a4flb)

I like the idea of connected devices, but the reality is much different. I use a grand total of one connected device, which is a door lock which opens via an app. So I can give people access to my home with a simple texted link.

But this lock is also a key lock, so if the system fails, I can still get in.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2025 07:25 AM (L5An7)

129 I have an electric toothbrush that has bluetooth (ha) enabled and you can get an app for it on your phone. I haven't done anything to set it up on the web, though, and it works just fine as a toothbrush.

That's the sort of thing I would prefer--have the IoT as an option if you want it, not an essential thing in order to operate it at all.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 26, 2025 07:26 AM (WPL6O)

130 Last!

Posted by: Almost at March 26, 2025 07:28 AM (kBvyO)

131 mornin yall. Today's the big day. I'm gonna be a tree farmer.

Posted by: fd at March 26, 2025 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

132 None of my trees will have an internet connection.

Posted by: fd at March 26, 2025 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

133 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2025 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

134 When a mommy tree and a daddy tree really love each other...

Posted by: Mom, in a very gentle voice at March 26, 2025 07:32 AM (kBvyO)

135 I like the idea of connected devices, but the reality is much different.

Its nice to have a Ring doorbell detect a human approaching and turning the porch light on between dusk and dawn.

Its nice to know when the garage door has been opened/closed. Its nice to hear a bump in the night and yell out "Prison Yard" and 50,000 lumens all around the property come on at once.

Its stupid for the dryer to notify your phone when the clothes are dry when it already has the ability to tumble them to keep them from getting wrinkled.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 26, 2025 07:32 AM (a4flb)

136 I have not a single appliance in my home that I want connected to the internet or my phone. I don't want an oven that watches the roast for me. I don't want my refrigerator ordering food (or telling me my milk is expiring). I don't want to be able to unlock my front door from the office (not even my home office).

I have this massive urge to bring down the internet right as all the boomers/gen x'ers exit this world, just to hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth. The cries of "Please teach us a life hack for this!" will be tremendous.

Posted by: GWB at March 26, 2025 07:48 AM (T3e+N)

137
35 Beside Snow Woke, has everyone heard what other famous Hollywood loser has a major box office disaster?

https://tinyurl.com/y3hxuwk6
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 26, 2025 05:17 AM (pgEoW)

------

He's a dog, he's a bum, he's a traitor...

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 26, 2025 08:09 AM (uz6ub)

138 125 a computer I just bought 3 months ago got bricked last week over a Windows update
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 26, 2025 07:21 AM (a4flb)

yikes

Posted by: m at March 26, 2025 08:49 AM (CQE5S)

139 Buy a new speed Queen washer and dryer made in Wisconsin has buttons and tough as basically same as commercial versions

Posted by: TG Sam at March 26, 2025 10:53 AM (QnOsa)

140 "Apparently that's now a $400 option."

HARKEN TO ME ROHAN! FOR TONIGHT WE RIDE!

Posted by: Fen at March 26, 2025 12:56 PM (c5hJL)

141
Great movie scene: "Al Norte";
where housekeeper couldn't figure
a modern washer. I recommend!

Posted by: zigzag at March 26, 2025 03:46 PM (JYmEz)

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