XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:39:39 +1300, 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:   
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   >>    
   >>    
   >>> 	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.   
   >   
   >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.   
      
   I could say the same about such "innovations" as 3D BD Players and   
   associated TVs, TVs with enormous screens, and other tech stuff which   
   is useful in itself but subject to "improvements" nobody really cares   
   about except "the more-money-than-sense brigade", as you so aptly   
   describe them.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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