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   Evan Heisman (eheisman@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 12:54:49 JST Evan Heisman

   Oven in our range broke a few weeks ago. Ordered a new one that finally showed up. It has a couple of more premium features, like two separate ovens (great for meal prep!) But also WiFi. :) Which. I. Do. Not. Understand.

   Even worse, "air fry" only works when the WiFi is connected. I might need to figure out if my old 802.11g openwrt router can sit disconnected to anything else and do enough to make air fry work.

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     frigginGlorious ✅ (frigginglorious@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 12:54:42 JST frigginGlorious ✅

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     @eheisman man I cannot imagine a world where I'd need my oven on wifi.

     If you're on your way home and want to preheat your oven for a pizza... Maybe?

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 12:54:42 JST feld

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     • frigginGlorious ✅
     You'd think so, but you're wrong! They don't allow it! To control the cook you need to walk to it and touch a button, then use your phone. Insane
     
     It's moderately useful when the oven timer is off and you get a push notification. Sometimes I'm outside on my patio and wouldn't be able to hear it.
     
     Mostly useless tech though. I guess it helps that it can sync time over WiFi so you don't have the dreaded 12:00 when the power goes out. A WiFi chip and paying engineers to design this crap must have been cheaper than a battery??? ?
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     frigginGlorious ✅ (frigginglorious@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 13:07:48 JST frigginGlorious ✅

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     • feld

     @feld @eheisman yeah this might be a serious Doctorow-esque hellscape.

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 13:07:48 JST feld

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     • frigginGlorious ✅
     I have ONE good idea:
     
     A smart garbage disposal. No need for WiFi. But it should have a flow meter on the dishwasher hookup so it turns itself on when the dishwasher dumps its dirty water and food chunks so it doesn't briefly back up into the sink
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 13:28:17 JST feld

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     • frigginGlorious ✅
     Guess we have to embed AI to read an array of sensors and detect hands. Needs internet now to get model updates
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     Shiroyasha (shiroyasha@weeaboo.space)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 13:28:18 JST Shiroyasha

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     • frigginGlorious ✅
     @feld @frigginglorious @eheisman Want it to turn on when it detects my hand digging out that bottlecap that fell down into it.