It's in everything now. It became like a museum exhibit to me seeing the most wild things. Wifi toaster WHYY? Like I knew about smart fridges but I was seeing like overly technical smart phone connectable kettles and like some griddle made for just bacon?? Whyyy
I'm just gonna start buying every single "dumb" appliance I see at goodwill thrifting from now on. I'll make a little collection and gift some to friends who want out of the techno hellscape too. I keep thinking about the absurd amount of lights and screens on things that have no reason to have one and how fast they'll likely break. All that shit will be in landfill in like 10 years max
Fucking water pitchers have data tracking technology now and Internet of Things themselves to other surveillance devices expected in your house such as the refrigerator. :no-mouth-must-scream:
omg i saw some tweet the other day i can't sadly find but someone plugged their vape into their computer to charge and it literally had a bootloader on it lol. thankfully apple's security warned them but i feel like things like that are way more common than we realize. anyways, they do make USB condoms which prevent anything but charging to happen, really useful when traveling somewhere and they only have USB charging
i would love to see it if you did ever end up finding it because i was doing something maybe two, three weeks ago on my lenovo (and the something required a secure environment, so i was using a specific os for this too) and i was going to charge this vape via one ofthe usb ports but then decided against it because of something in that same realm as what you said and i thought i was being paranoid..
thats really just like so fucked up to hear that something like that happened to someone.. so if you do find the tweet please link it
Someone else here mentioned the Internet of Shit account, who happened to retweet it. https://twitter.com/Malarkey/status/1585707761588912128
Logistics get longer and more complex, whole system teeters a little further over the precipice.
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