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Resetting a lightbulb. What a time to be alive.
by fluxem 7y ago
Resetting a lightbulb. What a time to be alive.
- klez 7y agoYeah, I was thinking along the same lines. I mean, I'm as geeky as it gets, but I'm still "amused" by the fact that we have lightbulbs with a firmware and a reset procedure, books that need to be charged and fridges that tweet.
- xvector 7y agoMy shitty smart plugs sometimes don’t turn on. Can you imagine how frustrating not have your lights respond to a flick of a switch or request to turn on!? It’s infuriating! Also this reminds me I need to put all my lights on a DMZ.
- rusk 7y agoI had one of those remote control light things back in 2007 - it was great until somebody out on the street would bleep their car alarm and all my lights would turn off. It was this experience that resolved me to not waste my time with smart technologies unless they we’re at least as convenient as their dumb counterparts.
- huseyinkeles 7y agoThe first time I had to upgrade the firmware on my smart lightbulbs, it was so weird. But you get used to it! And I think they were one of the best purchases I did to be honest. Some features I love; # When I come to my home during the evening, lights are automatically turned on. # When I leave my place, they automatically turn off. # You can set up alarms, like 30 minutes before my alarm goes off in the morning, lights are starting turn on slowly. By the time the alarm goes off, the room is completely lit.
- rusk 7y agoI know its not quite as “smart” but we have had timers for lighting circuits for at least 50 years ...
- qball 7y agoSure, but wall timers (for lamps) have a garbage user experience, and for the price of one wired-in fixture timer (where a wall switch would go) + new bulbs you might as well have bought a smart hub. The problem is badly designed interfaces, not the underlying technology itself.
- rusk 7y agoas far as I can make out, most "smart" devices have garbage UX and reliability, not to mention they'll sell you out to any intelligence agency you'd care to mention.
- rusk 7y agoand what's more, the stuff that worked 50 years ago will probably still work in another 50 months whereas I'd be surprised if the modern junk would last 15 months.
- nradov 7y agoPerhaps I'm missing something but why would I want any of that? It all seems annoying and useless.
- ewoodrich 7y agoIf you don't want it that's totally fine. That doesn't mean that some people (including myself) find it incredibly convenient to be able to control lights on a schedule, or by voice, even if you didn't set it in advance (as would be required for a traditional mechanical switch). No one is forced to buy this type of smart bulb.
- sumedh 7y agoYou never been in bed and then remembered to turn off the light in some other room?
- DJHenk 7y agoNo? Well, maybe I have done that somewhere in the past ten years. If that's the case then I probably got out of bed, turned it off and went back to bed again. And immediately forgot that it happened, because it is only a very minor inconvenience. Really a lot less hassle than dealing with this IoT tech.
- sumedh 7y ago> because it is only a very minor inconvenience. Well for the rest of us its very huge inconvenience :)
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoRight? When you add up all the hassle of configuring everything and troubleshooting it... christ, give me a damn switch any day.
- jpindar 7y agoIf pressing a widget on your phone is a hassle I don't know how you managed to post here.
- al_form2000 7y agoSomewhere there is retribution awaiting our species for this. Think of it, maybe this reset procedure is part of it.
- buro9 7y agoI bought a new bicycle and the first thing I had to do was update the firmware on all of the components.