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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-20 15:22:58 +0000, Paul S Person said:   
   > 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:   
   >>>    
   >>>   
   >>>> 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.   
      
   Yep. All these fools buying 4K and now 8K TV sets just to be "first",   
   because  there was/is very little actual content to play on them at   
   those resolutions anyway and brodacast TV networks won't have any such   
   content for years yet (if ever).   
      
   Realistically, few people would notice the difference unless they stick   
   thier nose against the screen.  :-\   
      
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