bro it's IoT bro. what do you mean you don't need a smart fridge bro. it can talk to your alexa and coordinate with your smart tv bro. it can enrich your life bro. bro it can communicate with your phone bro. it'll can tell your smart coffee maker to make coffee bro. it can tell your smart buttplug to vibrate bro. you're a caveman bro.
it's all fun and games until mark zukerberg uses data from your facebook buttplug to blackmail you into sucking him off.
on a serious note, even an innocuous device can harvest tons of data. a facebook buttplug would be able to generate your work schedule, your eating habits, whether you're single or not, whether you're stably employed, how exploitable you are, how exploitable your data is. data is the next gold for a reason.
there was a thing a while back with a smart buttplug recording audio and sending it back to the company
yall joking but i straight up got a smart buttplug linked to my spotify
Imagine dying in a buttplug accident because u accidently put on a grindcore playlist.
Laugh at me all you want, I have smart plug for my space heater. Now I don't have to worry about whether I left it on when I invariably worry about it. Before, I always had to run back and check because "I would burn the complex down, it's too big a risk!" I can just open an app and check if there's power going to it.
I'm sure this post is talking about needless luxury. This sort of thing vastly improves your quality of life, but would a smart fridge do that?
This is true. There's been some effort to make the tax process less strenuous over the years, and Intuit and others always lead the effort against it
They're also great for older, disabled and chronically ill people. Brushing needs a lot of fine motor control and energy. Tracking helps with mental illness that involves executive dysfunction and memory loss. Please be sure your anti capitalism screeds don't forget about accomodations that improve quality of life for disabled people
I couldn't figure out what I hated about iot and and then it hit me:
It's really easy to enable a device with sensors, but much harder to create an iot device that actually does something. Most iot falls into the former category and is fucking pointless
Reminds me of this wild article: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/the-unabomber-ted-kaczynski-new-generation-of-acolytes.html
Imagine being a violent anarcho-primitivst and a TERF at the same time.
Makes sense actually. It seems really weird to me that radical environmentalists would also be TERFs/libfems, I didn't see the crossover.
Also want to add that John Jacobi looks hot AF. Would let him return me to nature.
I've got a Bluetooth toothbrush that costs $200 that I stole from work
