@swearyanthony@Npars01 Imagine, for example, trying to turn on your washing machine, and have screen reply “404 — Page not found”, or you kettle indicate “Cannot connect to Wifi network. Try using cellular hotspot to turn on device.”
@Npars01@michaelgemar@swearyanthony Apparently there are toothbrushes that send data now! I don't care if I do look at some elements of the past through rose coloured specs - at least that doesn't result in complete strangers harvesting my data.
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?"
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.
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.