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  • fodor@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.worldHow AI broke the smart home in 2025
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    5 hours ago

    I’m not anti technology, but it sounds like the author’s desire to use these fancy new toys made their life worse. Congratulations?

    Like, if you wanna play music, click the tablet. If you wanna turn on the light, touch the button. It’s so amazingly efficient. Really, three seconds, works every time.

    So yeah, you could use voice commands, but those are slower and (obviously, the article explains) highly error prone. In other words, it’s a worse solution than the traditional method.

    Of course that’s not always true. Some people can’t walk easily, for example. And some use cases are complicated enough where a single button push doesn’t work. But most of us aren’t in these special situations.

    So, you can buy the new toy, but don’t pretend you’re making life better. Be honest: you are either tinkering or bragging. And that’s OK, no worries either way.


  • The article is overstating the importance. By now everyone knows Trump is a pedo and loves SA. Or if they don’t, they never will.

    FFS the victims have been around for twenty years, and we already have clear physical evidence. One more piece of paper might help with a conviction (good luck getting that after he’s out of the White House before he dies), but it’s not like the truth is even slightly hidden.

    And he admitted to so much bad stuff already, on camera, on TV, in writing, too. Forget the victims if you want (which you shouldn’t, but whatever), just take the man at his word and it’s all there.








  • I think you don’t have a good definition of capitalism. Let us define it as a system where a small group of individuals (capitalists) control the means of production, and everyone else (workers) creates value, most of which they don’t receive… That in itself has nothing to do with corruption. It has nothing to do with stagnation.

    And the examples you gave were about innovation, and innovation happens in many non-capitalist systems, too. No reason socialists can’t innovate, is there?

    But what we also see is that capitalists hate capitalism. They have to compete, they could lose. So invariably they try to seize power in other ways. Therefore, one could argue (and many have argued) that capitalism leads to (or is likely to lead to) fascism.

    At the same time, understand that any system can be corrupted. Some are less stable than others, but we always need to keep an eye out for the shady selfish jerks.




  • Waste of a story. Kei cars would be terrible for most American commuters. Small cars would be good, but not kei. Too small, too dangerous, too bad in the snow, too likely to break down, too slow for expressways.

    I love my kei, and I would never suggest it for the average American. This is common sense, too. Anyone who researched the matter a little would say the same.