Luke Kanies6d ago

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
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@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.
Mar 17 at 7:49amPhanpy
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.