If you bought a coffee pot requiring network access and give it unrestricted internet then you deserved to become a government pawn
Gonna tell my mom I got a government job.
why would I care? the US is spying on me and they’re a much bigger threat to me
I doubt it.
My moka pot ain’t talkin’ to no one.
It only sings a sweet burbling song of coffee to me each morning. And afternoon.
If it’s burbling, you fucked up.
Dude when I tell people I only do pour over coffee people are always like “you know you can get a coffee maker for 20 bucks”
I just prefer how little space these things take up. Plus I rarely drink more than 2-3 cups a day.
Oooo, a family member give me their old drip coffeemaker because I took too long with my French press one time while they were visiting. They honestly thought they were being helpful. It’s been sitting in the closet since the day they left it here.
I’d recommend one that’s not plastic. (Though I have that same one and use it occasionally.)
Seriously. I’m not really sure why a coffee maker needs to have any technology. My electric kettle is about the highest tech thing in the whole process.
There’s tech, and then there’s electronic tech. I’m sure the filter paper is waaaaay more high tech than the kettle. Seriously, check out the engineering that goes into filter mediums, it’s insane.
I feel like this is a topic someone on YouTube will have a 40 minute video about lol
The steam from the water powers a micro rotor and the coffee acts as an antenna, duh
Water boils. Evaporates to steam. Turbine goes brrrrr.
Hey, that’s a haiku
I have a stainless steel one but yeah pour-over gang reporting
Eyes his french press suspiciously
Bon jour!
Mine said “On ne passe pas!”, so I knew it was one of the good ones.
All jokes aside, IoT devices suck.
Why does a dishwasher need to connect to a remote server to use its full functionality? Why does my coffee maker need me to start it using an app? At that point it isn’t a feature, it’s a dependency that the company behind will eventually shut down one way or another.
Nothing IoT is allowed in my house if it can’t be fully managed locally with Home Assistant.
Frankly you shouldn’t stop with just IoT devices. My sister wouldn’t listen to the HA so she’s not allowed over. It was a bit of a fight in the family but the dog listens so it got to stay and I think that’s totally reasonable.
Damn, which integration did you use for the dog?
Ii use esphome to flash the firmware on his shockcollar. Now when he barks the shock collar on my sister goes off and she gets him a treat.
a lot of them have BLE trackers, I can track my dogs throughout the house
The collar does have BLE but I thought that would be a violation of my sisters privacy and I don’t want her to feel unwelcome.
genuinely got a laugh out of me lol, unexpected response
HA?
Home Assistant
My new line is “it needs to be flashable”. I just got rid of my Google nest for a Honeywell zwave one while I design an esp32 based one.
I need to get my 3D printer working so I can actually print a housing for my smart thermostat.
All you really need is a temperature sensor and a 4x relay board.
Ya the basic thing isn’t that difficult. I am adding other air quality sensors and I want to be able to control air exchange, humidifier, and exterior vents (bathroom fan). And I want it to be a bit more advanced/energy efficient vs a dumb pid loop. Also, it should operate if home assistant goes down.
I have an automation for controlling bathroom vent fans using a humidity sensor in the bathroom and a reference one outside it if you’re interested.
It also has logic to not turn off the fan if it has a Bluetooth speaker that’s playing music (currently using the “Music Active” companion app sensor, Bluetooth MAC was flakey).
And logic to turn it off if the AC is running and music isn’t playing.
I appreciate it! I have one setup already, mine decides whether to circulate the air in the house or vent the bathroom fan depending on the humidity in the rest of the house too.
I like the idea/practice of “edge devices” where each device has its own responsibilities and autonomy to some extent, with home assistant acting as an overseer. if HA goes down, most of my house still works fine/has fallbacks. Need that wife approval factor lol. one time she couldn’t turn off the lights while I was out of town, lol she was a little pissed
Yeah, getting my wife on board has been the hardest part of things.
Guess I’ll have to keep making coffee the old way
Kinda relevant here
I’ve got a french press. Is it spying on me for china or France. At this point I don’t care which one.
Shoots coffee maker Americanly. Shoots toaster too, just to be sure.
Do toasters die? I’ve been using the oven whenever I needed toast do to counter space but like the design of a toaster makes me feel like if you shot a hole through a toaster you might just get a toaster that heats most of the bread, and you just have a circle where it doesnt toast. I guess it depends where you shoot it maybe.
I had one fail because my brother didn’t know about the release button to it became a fire hazard
I think if you broke the element it wouldn’t work anymore. I honestly just added the toaster because I thought it was funny. I don’t even have one anymore. I have a Ninja Flip multi function toaster oven. Lol.
I refuse to have any “smart” appliances at all
I’m fairly certain I don’t have any smart appliances. Like I’m not sure what I’d even want them to do. Which probably makes me the dumbest appliance in the house. I can’t keep a schedule to save my life, so it’s not like I could schedule a coffee pot, and I dont really care for coffee. Maybe a tea pot but like why… Id probably rather just have it cold at that point. Hot beverages are a pain to drink because I’m afraid of burning myself over and over which I’ve done hundreds of times, so I wait for it to be like luke warm and then it really just defeated the purpose.
What’s the worst that can happen? China takes over and I’m forced to slave my life away and not be able to get anything I want?.. oh wait…
I don’t give a rats ass if chinas tracking me. Why? because I don’t live in china nor do I ever plan to. In fact, I’d prefer they track me instead of a US company
If the have “reams” of data on me, good luck reading through it all.
[This is a sarcastically humourous take on the fact that the word “reams” is used, which is a measure of blocks of 500 pieces of paper.]
I think they meant what they said. They could view it all on a computer screen but if they were to print it out it would probably be thousands of pages worth of data on each person.
yeah i was also surprised they printed it.
How do they have reams of data on every American? I’m not following.
Wait until you find out what they’re doing to you through your toilet seat!
I don’t actually mind that. I kinda like that. (secretly)
Maybe it’s finally time we start kink-shaming some people.
I also like being kink shamed. (Not a secret)
I like to imagine the guy who pitched spying on Americans through their coffee makers like “we need to figure out how much coffee Americans are drinking” and everyone in the room was just fully on board with this genius idea.
