Home automation

rostasi · 05-23-2021, 05:44 PM

A couple years ago, we bought two nice ceiling fans (it’s Texas).
It offers this software that turns them on automagically.
I figure that, yes, I’m older, but please consider putting me in a home
when I’m so lazy that I can’t flick a switch to turn something off or on.
The only things automated here are lights when we go on vacation
(a couple of plug-in jobbies that come on randomly so the cat sitter
doesn’t get nervous) and we had to spring for automated cat feeders
back when Lux had allergies to certain foods.

Trollheart · 05-23-2021, 07:30 PM

Yeah this Alexa **** bugs me. "Alexa, what's the weather like?" Look outside you lazy ****. "Alexa, put on some music". Ok, how about the ****ing death march, or that old song "Lazybones"? Honestly, in ten years or less certain people won't remember how to do the simplest things, or want to, without ordering Alexa to do it for them.

(Alexa, put a rolleyes icon in my post...)

05-23-2021, 07:30 PM	#2 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Yeah this Alexa ** bugs me. "Alexa, what's the weather like?" Look outside you lazy . "Alexa, put on some music". Ok, how about the *ing death march, or that old song "Lazybones"? Honestly, in ten years or less certain people won't remember how to do the simplest things, or want to, without ordering Alexa to do it for them. (Alexa, put a rolleyes icon in my post...) __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018*

05-23-2021, 05:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,014	A couple years ago, we bought two nice ceiling fans (it’s Texas). It offers this software that turns them on automagically. I figure that, yes, I’m older, but please consider putting me in a home when I’m so lazy that I can’t flick a switch to turn something off or on. The only things automated here are lights when we go on vacation (a couple of plug-in jobbies that come on randomly so the cat sitter doesn’t get nervous) and we had to spring for automated cat feeders back when Lux had allergies to certain foods.