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At this point the best solution might almost be legislation banning touch screens from cars and home appliances...
by dt2m 5y ago
At this point the best solution might almost be legislation banning touch screens from cars and home appliances...
- version_five 5y agoOr mandating any that include wifi, touch screen, anything running code to be open source and able to be modified by the user.
- loonster 5y agoThis wouldn't be good enough. Imagine pan frying something on your range, the food splatters, and it changes the temperature on you. Now you need to adjust the burner back down (or off), but you can't adjust the temperature because the controls are now wet with grease. Better be quick to dry off controls and turn off heat before you start a grease fire. Or failing that, moving the pan off from the heat source... Just ban them.
- Nextgrid 5y agoOr merely restrict non-consensual data collection like the GDPR does - this kills the underlying reason why every appliance has to be "smart" and internet-connected.
- _-david-_ 5y agoAre there more options to buy non-smart TVs in the EU than the US?
- squarefoot 5y agohttps://www.swedx.com https://www.swedx.com I'm not aware of other manufacturers, although Samsung also makes signage displays but it's not clear if they employ any "smart" features. Some also use Tizen which is Linux based and should be open enough to allow rooting.
- gpm 5y agoThat will work for all of two years before we get the same shit but with "gesture" controls (waving your arms in the air). Legislate against what you actually want to prevent. Here that's locking features behind privacy violations and connections to third party hardware. In cars it is also controls that you have to look away from the road to use. The gdpr is on the right track on this issue, for an example.
- jart 5y agoThe Smart Home 2.0 revolution will address the accessibility gap of voice enabled devices by including cameras in home appliances too, so that speakers of sign language aren't left behind.
- smolder 5y agoIt's like peeking through a crack into the future. Were you in the think tank that planned the end of privacy?
- jart 5y agoThink past the end of privacy and imagine the democratization of access to privacy. A brave new world where everyone gets the opportunity to be a big brother. As for me, I'm pretty happy spending most of my time working with a teletypewriter, cooking my food on unsmart appliances, and not using a mobile phone.
- Mikeb85 5y agoTouch screens on home appliances are nice sometimes though... I think people like the 'smart' features, they just want more control over the device and not for it to be crippled if it's not connected...