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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 10/20/25 16:58, Your Name wrote:   
   > 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.  :-\   
   >   
   	Well before I was swindled in May 2025 I wanted a 32 inch TV/Monitor   
   but that   
   is unlikely to happen in the next 10 years.  Late next month I go to   
   have my cataracts   
   inspected and maybe I will have surgery which might improve my vision to   
   the point   
   I can productively and comfortably use my 14 inch laptop.   
   	Right now I tend to see double when playing GMahjongg, makes it hard to   
   tell   
   when I am looking at two or three horizontal strokes on a tile.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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