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   Anthony B, (swearyanthony@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 01:45:10 JST Anthony B,

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   If I wanted to have a conversation with my home appliances, I would buy a fucking Furby. No one wants to have to deal with "the fridge can't get an Internet connection". It's a box that makes things cold.

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     Anthony B, (swearyanthony@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 01:45:10 JST Anthony B,

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     Kettle: make water hot
     Fridge: make things cold
     Toaster: make bread hot
     Oven: make many things hot
     Dishwasher: make things clean
     Lights: makes things visible
     Rice Cooker: make rice hot and damp

     None of these should require a fucking internet connection, generative (not actually) AI, or a fucking app.

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     Anthony B, (swearyanthony@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 01:45:11 JST Anthony B,

     Things I want from a kettle: make water hot.
     Things I do not want from a kettle: an engaging interactive experience.

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     Anthony B, (swearyanthony@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 01:45:11 JST Anthony B,

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     Speaking as someone who was the father of a new born having to do the every 4 hour trip to the kitchen to boil the kettle and prepare formula, drop the previous bottle into boiling water, repeat. I had a system worked out. If the kettle had tried to offer my sleep addled brain witty bromides, well that kettle would be an ex fucking kettle and I'd be staring at the microwave going "you wanna start something, or will you just heat water and shut up?"

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     Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 05:05:44 JST Clive Thompson

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     @thomasfuchs @swearyanthony

     Maybe those are the devices that should develop witty repartee