Don'tcha' wish they'd just STOP 'Improving' things?

[wheelbuilder]

Legos are the WORST. I'd take a nail to the foot with the ensuing tetanus shot over them any day.
To evade Legos, keep your feet grazing the floor to push them aside.

Legos

 

[Dftodd]

Legos are the WORST. I'd take a nail to the foot with the ensuing tetanus shot over them any day.
To evade Legos, keep your feet grazing the floor to push them aside.

I've always wondered why the cia and other agencies spend so much time trying to break someone. Just blindfold them and have them walk through a room full of Legos. They would be singing like a canary after the second step.

 

[bigtiller]

Legos are the WORST. I'd take a nail to the foot with the ensuing tetanus shot over them any day.
To evade Legos, keep your feet grazing the floor to push them aside.

Before that, there was Hot Wheels.

 

[Alien]

I have to laugh at all the wanna be super techno bods with their computerized homes. Smart switches, smart doorbells, everything controlled by voice commands and a silly little module that listens to everything you say waiting to turn on the next appliance or run the bath etc. There is a forum called Whirlpool and it has a home tech thread where everyone tries to outdo everyone else with knowledge and new tech just so they can turn their lights on as they arrive in the driveway or start the electric jug heating before they get in the door. Oh, and don't forget the smart light bulbs, and the fridge that tells you the beer is getting low. And then there is the ones with the bestest ubeaut remote TV controller that is so **** complicated they need a manual to operate it. What's wrong with the one that came with the TV?
Gotta admit I tried a 'smart' vacuum. My wife and I have bad backs so we thought it might help. Ha. Too much furniture for it to cope and it wore out in under a year. The wheel drive mechanism was stuffed. It was repaired under warranty but we bought another cleaner and never used it again.
So, we actually turn our lights on and off by ourselves. Also the air-con. We do have a 'smart' TV but it doesn't need to be smart at our house. We just watch the news like a TV was meant for. Oh, it is a big one because I don't have to wear glasses to see it any more. The remote has a red button that turns it on and off and some more buttons to change channels if needed.
Anyway if you want a laugh, check out Whirlpool Forums. Something for everyones sense of humour there.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^
When I was a kid there was a TV show called "The Partridge Family", and a spinoff called "The Bobby Sherman Show." (Do I lose my man-card for admitting that I may have watched them occasionally? )
Anyways, as the first show morphed into the second, the family introduced Bobby to a geek who had been sending them song lyrics.

As they were at his house he turned his kitchen range on and off using his voice... giving them some explanation of how it worked.

That episode somewhere around 1972-74...

 

[Oaktree]

. We do have a 'smart' TV but it doesn't need to be smart at our house. We just watch the news like a TV was meant for. Oh, it is a big one because I don't have to wear glasses to see it any more. The remote has a red button that turns it on and off and some more buttons to change channels if needed.

We have a "smart" tv too, I think the only difference between it and a dumb tv is that it's internet-capable...has built in ability to access some streaming sites. We didn't use that capability much, since almost all of the installed aps were for pay services. We'd use Iheart Radio occasionally, but the novelty of being able to listen to stations far away wore off.
Ended up getting a Roku...much more free content available, some of it's even worth watching.
Only ran 1 ethernet cable so it's one or the other and the Roku won out.

 

[Dftodd]

We have a "smart" tv too, I think the only difference between it and a dumb tv is that it's internet-capable...has built in ability to access some streaming sites. We didn't use that capability much, since almost all of the installed aps were for pay services. We'd use Iheart Radio occasionally, but the novelty of being able to listen to stations far away wore off.
Ended up getting a Roku...much more free content available, some of it's even worth watching.
Only ran 1 ethernet cable so it's one or the other and the Roku won out.

We discovered the Pluto app for our smart TV. 800 channels for free And if you hit the search button on the remote it will bring up a TV guide just like on cable or satellite TV. TV channel guide will show the Pluto channels as well as the local over the air channels.

We stream Netflix and prime quite often when the grandkids are over using a Roku stick. But now it's not needed.

 

[Alien]

What does it cost to set up a "Smart house"? If you include all the light switches, power points, doorbells and cams etc etc. Must cost many thousands of $. Isn't it much easier and far cheaper to walk to the switch and turn it on/off, rather than get out your phone and open it up to the app and scroll to what you want, or walk to a point where Alexia or Google can hear you. I don't know, Just curious as to why anyone would bother unless it is a status thing?
Be horrible to lose your phone and not be able to open the garage door and have to revert to the original remote control wouldn't it! Image if you replace your phone just how much time in setting it all up again.
Where I live the neighbours would think you were wacky having a smart home. No need for security here. Haven't locked the house or car for 18 years now. Haven't even got keys for the house. Only reason we close the doors is to keep out flies and snakes.

 

[tallyho8]

What does it cost to set up a "Smart house"? If you include all the light switches, power points, doorbells and cams etc etc. Must cost many thousands of $. Isn't it much easier and far cheaper to walk to the switch and turn it on/off, rather than get out your phone and open it up to the app and scroll to what you want, or walk to a point where Alexia or Google can hear you. I don't know, Just curious as to why anyone would bother unless it is a status thing?
Be horrible to lose your phone and not be able to open the garage door and have to revert to the original remote control wouldn't it! Image if you replace your phone just how much time in setting it all up again.
Where I live the neighbours would think you were wacky having a smart home. No need for security here. Haven't locked the house or car for 18 years now. Haven't even got keys for the house. Only reason we close the doors is to keep out flies and snakes.

That looks like a great area to live in.

 

[Alien]

That looks like a great area to live in.

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Couldn't get much better actually. I can see my house in there.