Notices by Anthony B, (swearyanthony@mastodon.social)

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?"

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

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.

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.

When the AI dudes decide to come for Calvin and Hobbes? I hope either Watterson or Andrews McMeel sue this fuck into the ground. There's also the question of whether OpenAI should have been required to license the C&H they've trained on. I think yes.