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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 10/19/25 19:39, Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2025-10-19 16:22:54 +0000, Paul S Person said:   
   >   
   >> On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:20:29 -0700, Bobbie Sellers   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >>>     Some people could use AI in the kitchen though because I have one   
   >>> friend   
   >>> who cannot boil water because he forgets to deal with it. Residual   
   >>> brain>damage from a childhood accident.   
   >>   
   >> Yes -- despite my rejection of the wired home in general, the wired   
   >> home as a medical appliance [1] could indeed make sense in some cases.   
   >>   
   >> [1] One of my colleagues at work had a Really Big Monitor to   
   >> accomodate her visual problems. Closed caption was developed to   
   >> accomodate hearing problems. Some of these have migrated to computers.   
   >>   
   >> A wired home to help some individuals with daily tasks could also be   
   >> seen as a form of  accomodation, rather than medical equipment as   
   >> such.   
   >   
   > There is a use for some app-controlled things when it comes to someone   
   > with a disablity. There's zero point in something like an app-controlled   
   > kettle since you still. have to fill it with water and once boiled pour   
   > it into the cup.   
      
   	Yes but if it reminds you that the water is now boiling and you have   
   forgotten   
   it as my friend is prone to do it would be a big help.  I use a   
   whistling tea kettle   
   and sometimes I fall asleep and the whistle gets intergrated into my   
   dream before   
   I wake up and figure out the noise I am hearing is the kettle.   
      
   >   
   > Most of these "smart" / "AI" / "connected home" gimmicks are purely for   
   > the more-money-than-sense brigade who are too lazy to move their fat   
   > backsides off the couch to turn on a light switch or whatever.   
      
   	Well there are also though people who need the assistance as my friend   
   does.   
   He cannot afford much as recently his allowance from a court settlement   
   for the   
   accident was reduced to less than $100/day and he always eats out if he can.   
      
   	bliss - just as people find it difficult to imagine the sheer horror of   
   an post-   
   virual exhaustion condition people find it hard to believe the amount of   
   damage   
   being in a coma for several days can be.   
      
   	bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)