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