Luke Kanies

This is a great essay on how all our stuff needs our attention.

I definitely feel like the maintenance man for my often-too-smart house. The robot vacuums are the worst, but lots of other stuff keeps changing, too.

I briefly, stupidly connected the oven to wifi and it started showing news headlines on the lcd I don’t want. I took it off WiFi, now it rotates an image on that lcd I still don’t want.

I’ll never connect my tv to the internet.

You live in a house full of dependents. https://terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

The Last Quiet Thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

Terry Godier
Mar 17 at 1:52amWeb
Show threadParsingphase6d ago
@lkanies in the last couple of days I’ve fixed a seismometer and a weather station that had gone offline. Both are mine; I question my life choices.
Show threadLuke Kanies6d ago

@parsingphase right?

As a former sysadmin, I can’t let go of the overhead of owning all these things, no matter how cool

Show threadParsingphase5d ago

RE: https://m.phase.org/@parsingphase/116244874351811679

@lkanies ok now my electric birdwatcher has crashed.

Show threadLuke Kanies5d ago
@parsingphase hah!
Show threadParsingphase5d ago
@lkanies Amazing how many things a sulky router can screw up.
Show threadManni6d ago
@lkanies Kind of ironic that the author couldn't help his urge to put this on a very fancy-full webpage that makes it hard to read and looks and feels like another marketing site. I would have read it, but all those effects made it unbearable for me.
Show threadLuke Kanies6d ago

@confuseacat there is an option in the beginning to turn all that off. He clearly recognized that not everyone would want it.

I usually don’t like that kind of stuff, but in this case it was actually part of the content so I was ok with it.