• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Batteries inside of stove/microwave/coffee machine/etc. with the sole purpose of keeping the time from resetting when it loses power.

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      You don’t even need that. My microwave is wifi connected but still can’t keep time. Instead of using NTP like any appliances or industrial control system in the last decade+, it syncs to your phone time though an app.

      Wtf.

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          A rather neat feature is scanning the barcode of an item with the phone app and the heating program is set automatically.

          But setting the time automatically using ntp would have been enough for me.

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            I’m guessing that the way it works is it’s sending the barcode number to the microwave supplier, the supplier sends it to 5738 vendors who have legitimate interest in updating the profile they already have on you, then the heating programme is sent back to you. The same heating programme is described on the package you already hold in your hands. Fingers crossed that your microwave is getting security updates, if not, someone could be downloading all data from your laptop because they got into your network using a microwave. That is the reality of IoT.

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            How many screen taps does it take to scan your food and send it to the microwave vs typing in the time like normal?

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          Nothing in my house is WiFi connected, other than computers and phones. It’s staying that way forever.

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            How about a custom OpenBSD router which allows only whitelisted traffic through, with a custom DNS server and comprehensive network monitoring, for aren’t we paranoid?

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              Orrrrrr

              Only computers and phones

              Life is easy

              Four desktop

              Two rPi

              Two ifone

              One iPad

              All we need

              Life is good

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      1 year ago

      Even just a capacitor to keep the time for 10 minutes or so. That would cover 99% of the power outages in my home

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      I’ve conditioned myself fully by this point to only use the clock on the stove as an indicator of whether my power has or has not gone out

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        How often does your power go out? Why can’t you be bothered to set the time every ~10 years that probably happens?

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          Personally, where I live now, my power has gone out in the last five years more often than the rest of my life combined. I’m in my mid 30s.

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              I live in a rented house, it’s a double bungalow style with a lovely family attached. During COVID our power was out for three days straight. It was wild. Luckily I have a car that I can waste tons of gas to charge my things with (also luckily it has like seven USB ports), and also some battery packs that can charge things.

              Went out and got tons of ice to put in the refrigerator and freezer and cooler.

              Set up our iPad connected to our phone as a hot spot and watched YMS play Jump King for all three days. It was wonderful. I miss being NEETs.

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          I’ll have momentary power losses probably once or twice per quarter, depending on bad thunderstorms or nearby construction, things that happen worldwide and affect power grids indiscriminately.

          I do set my stove clock, I just ironically find it more useful to not improve it in this ridiculously simple way because it’s a good indicator of whether my home has had a power outage. Lol