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We had our last full house for a while this Christmas. One never knows from year-to-year where everyone will be but I do know the lad will not be home in 2024. He’ll be in the middle of his second sailing at the Academy next December.
As everyone one made their way home I was alerted to their arrival by my phone. The app that controls my wifi router would announce “A new device has joined your network.” And then every time they opened a new device: Laptop alert. iPad alert. X-box alert. Desktop alert. Smart television alert. Alert! Alert! Alert!
By Christmas night there were 28 separate devices sucking at the internet teat. The kids bought my father-in-law a smart tv. Alert! His other grandchildren sent him a fire stick with a Disney+ subscription on it. Alert!
My Marine bought me a new Keurig. (Something about the brick I was using to keep the lid closed or something bothered him.) I was not allowed to register the purchase unless - you guessed it - I hooked it up to the internet.
Here I draw my line in the sand. I don’t want to have to open carry lest my coffee maker go sentient on me.
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Wait'll your pistol requires a connection so you can use the loading app. See, that's how they get you.
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And each individual cartridge...
Someone in the PIT was just talking about this sort of thing -- having to download and activate an app on her device in order to use a non-internet-connected device.
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Supposedly if I preload a pod at night I could start the brew from my phone. But, it ain’t like it’s going to serve me in bed. No, all they really want is my email to sell some subscription-based delivery of product.
I don’t want to communicate with any of my kitchen appliances. I have people in my life I’m not thrilled with having to talk to, let alone the microwave or the refrigerator.
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I've used Keurig a few times when coffee was not available. It's a reasonable substitute.
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