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>It seems like every manufacturer of anything electrical that goes in the house wants to be part of the IoT story these days. Further, they all want their own app, which means you have to go to gazillions of bespoke software products to control your things. And they're all - with very few exceptions - terrible:

Archive: https://archive.today/l9mZr From the post: >>It seems like every manufacturer of anything electrical that goes in the house wants to be part of the IoT story these days. Further, they all want their own app, which means you have to go to gazillions of bespoke software products to control your things. And they're all - with very few exceptions - terrible:

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I love how they show the one turning on the mini-stereo system, and it starts playing. That's not how those worked.

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That's not how those worked.

This comment clearly shows you were 42 in 1998.

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Not quite. I was an electronics tech with an interest in modern electronics, and had something similar to that. A soft-switched ministack would probably go into a reset mode when power was applied, just so it didn't start automatically playing something.

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Interesting.

What year do you think technology peaked in?