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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-20 03:20:36 +0000, Bobbie Sellers said:   
   > 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.   
      
   The simplest solution for someone who forgets to turn the kettle off,   
   is to use a normal electric kettle with auto-shut-off instead of a   
   stove-top kettle.   
      
   For someone who forgets that it has been on and is now very hot, you   
   would need a simple warning light, like most glass stovetops have for   
   their elements / rings.   
      
   A "smart" / "AI" kettle isn't really going to help in any way.   
      
      
      
   >> 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.   
      
   I meant for everyone else not included in the first paragraph about   
   people with disablities.   :-)   
      
      
      
   > 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   
      
   I do know someone has had at least two major falls resulting in   
   concussions and some brain damage. She gets very tired after doing   
   fairly simple things. She usually does some job in the morning, and   
   then rest in the afternoon. If she has had  a "busy" (in her sense),   
   then it can take a whole day or more in bed.   
      
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