Not just commonwealth though, mainland Europe uses kettles too.

What’s wrong with making it optional?

I can’t use half my kitchen when having a migraine.

My 20 year old microwave has multiple beeps? Like soft ones when you press stuff, a couple of loud ones when it’s done. Some acoustic feedback is nice.

My recent kitchen appliances just beep the same volume regardless of what’s happening. To loud when using the device, to soft to properly notify you when completing a task. That air fryer experience hits close to home. Fuck modern appliances. Although my new washing machine is a shitload more efficient.

I don’t want smart tech, I want old fashioned pre 2008 dumb tech. Just make it home assistant compatible, kthx.

The ‘safeguards’ of AI are funny, as they are manually put in by humans on certain phrases and token triggers. By rephrasing it you trigger a whole new token chain that bypasses the known ones.

Or, you know, get any of the hundreds of models you can self host that don’t have any of the safeguards in place or can be broken.

In the end it matters very little. It actually kinda sounds like the the same kind of fear mongering when Google became useful in the 2000s.

Now everyone can find the Anarchist Cookbook! Why won’t anybody think of the children! Terrorism! Rabble, rabble rabble.

Are we going backwards? History is repeating, isn’t it or did I take the wrong pill.

Because I could do that with the Anarchist Cookbook over 2 decades ago as well.

Also for when you, for whatever reason, run out of physical memory.

Who here worries torturing their SSDs? Those things will last lifetimes compared to HDD’s of the past (or present).

Still dislike Microsoft for cheaping out on the later generations Lumia. Cheaper displays so the 950 didnt support Glance. Wth?

I still miss my 920 tho. The Lumia 920 is only recently dethroned as my favorite (smart)phone of all time.

Microsoft messed up badly in Europe by completely and utterly ignoring the continent. Nokia managed to gain a larger marketshare than Apple in both Italy and France at the time. With meaningful marketshares in the rest of Europe.

Nokia was doing alright in several Asian countries Microsoft ignored as well.

After the take over, Microsoft kept all their resources forced on the US market, failed and in turn lost the European and Asian markets.

GG.

How are they casually finding these home assistant servers? I sure hope people dont have port 8123 exposed publicly like that? Are you all broadcasting it in to the ether?

It’s been that case since forever now. Nothing has really changed and the same rules still apply.

I still remember ‘hacking’ my ISP ADSL router 2+ decades ago and listening to the WAN interface. Hundreds of thousands of attempts per day in the early 2000s. Mostly US, Russia and China.

My personal #1 threat on the internet for the past 20 years has been DDOS and thanks to billions of IOT devices and privacy invading ‘smart’ appliances everywhere… The botnets have never been this plenty. DDOS as a Service for mere cents a day.

LLM’s joined the fray in recent years but it still can’t do anything it hasn’t learned from us humans.

The whole internet is slowly getting ruined by AI optimization.

In the Netherlands cities are going to 30kmh anywhere cars come in contact with other traffic participants.

In the Netherlands those rural looking roads are up to 80kmh, up to 100 in Germany, 90 in Belgium.

The Dutch managed to tax it just fine. It has the same tax reliability issues any cash payment has.