2026 in a nutshell: I don't mind having to manually re-set the time on my stove and microwave, because that's a small price to pay for them NOT being connected to the internet.
#InternetOfThings #InternetOfShittyThings #enshittification #IoT
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@gregeganSF @kagan Commonly in UK kitchen clocks update themselves to correct time from a radio signal. Mine is one. Cheap clock, longstanding reliable design.
Oh, cool! I wish we had that in Australia.
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I wonder how cheap and small we could make a “dumb” chip that does nothing but grab the local time from either a mobile phone tower or digital TV broadcast on power-up, and then once an hour to cover things like daylight saving. No choice of method would be future-proof, but so long as manual adjustment was still possible that need not matter,