Comment on Smart Homes Are Terrible
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
You shouldn’t need a tech tour and an app (or five) to turn the heat down or clean the dishes. You shouldn’t have to worry that pressing the wrong button will set off a chain of events you don’t know how to undo. All these powerful processors and thousands of lines of code have succeeded in making everyday things slower, harder to use, and less reliable than they used to be.
Kinda really sound like a skill issue? Seems like the author went in over-zealously without research and then regret it. There’s tons of useless smart device that have no busness being smart device, but there’s also tons of IOT device(specifically those simple one) that made my life easier.
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Invalid opinion, 100% of IoT devices are trash. If smart devices aren’t as easy to use as analog devices then they were designed poorly by people who are more concerned with Gee Whiz gimmickry than sitting down to grind through the hard work of real UX design, and who should be working in tollbooths instead. That’s the only skill issue present.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 days ago
There are plenty of IoT devices that can function exactly like analog devices. Like smart switches that still have an analog switch on them, but can also be driven by motion sensors or a button on your phone.
Since those exist, your statement of “100% of them being trash” is just plainly wrong.
Or in your logic: “Your opinion is invalid”
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
“Umm ackshyually you’re technically inaccurate”
How pathetic that is aside, I’m really not.