More importantly: Stop flashing useless blinky lights at me. I don’t need a blue floodlight that tells me that my phone is charging, I don’t need a yellow floodlight that tells me that my alarm clock is on and I don’t need a green floodlight that tells me that my router is indeed not on fire.
The lights would be OK if they simply made them diffuse, low-intensity bulbs like they used to be in the 90’s. Bonus points for being behind a transparent textured plastic lens.
But no, they simply put open holes in casings that expose the most powerful SMD LED chip they could source.
It is the most powerful until you specifically want to buy led torch light then they put the cheapest possible light in it.
Of course. The bright one all got bought up by Philips so you get a red LED when your smart light bulb is off or some shit.
The problem isn’t the LED itself. The problem is engineers that read the datasheets where it shows which forward current they need. What they forget to think about is that the recommended forward current is for max brightness, so they slap whichever resistor they need, and never give it another thought.
Whenever I design a LED circuit that is only used as an indicator, I always make it 10% or less than recommended, because I do not need to burn away my retina when I test the boards.
Of course that’s smart design. You’d think that would be something that becomes immediately obvious when the very first prototype PCB is put out and none of the engineers can look at the damn thing directly…
“Your TV is turned off. You can tell by the red lights we have turned on on the TV.”
Next to my bed is the computer. There is a blue light that shines through a crack in my bamboo divider and hits me right in the eye almost every night.
Of course, I forget about it every morning for the past 3 months.
You could get up and do something about it right now.
But I’m already comfy right now…
ehh fuck it rolls over to other side of bedSeriously. I’ve started taking black nail polish to LEDs. Cheap solution that stops the light and easy to remove if ever necessary.
I cut a little square of black electrical tape.
I have similar feelings regarding all the RGB lighting on computer hardware. I have to drape a towel over my mouse just so I can sleep in peace.
You can turn off mouse illumination in your hardware settings, most likely.
I found that one layer of masking tape will let me sleep, three layers makes it the brightness it ought to be in the first place
I’ve started opening up cheap electronic/electrical devices I buy and just snip one of the leads on the pointless status LEDs they have all over the place.
Those are super annoying! I bought a sheet of light cover stickers that significantly dim the lights without completely blocking them.
Pulls up to gas pump and starts pump
“WELCOME TO SHELL!”
startled, ready to fight, “fffuck offff!”
Ughhghghg I HATE talking pumps/ads on pumps. Small stations are now my shiz.
Costco gas is seventy cents cheaper in my area and doesn’t show me ads.
Based Costco
Don’t they pay their workers like stupid well for a retail chain too?
Mine shows ads but doesn’t play audio. Plus the ads are just for like their Citi credit card, relatively unobtrusive.
Tangentially, I recently came to the unfortunate conclusion that it’s just not worth my time to get gas at Costco if there’s a line, especially if I’m out and about on a lunch break. The gas is good and it’s much cheaper, but if it’s like 6 cars back and a 15-20 minute wait, I actually save money by filling up elsewhere and just getting back to work sooner.
“Listen,” said Ford, who was still engrossed in the sales brochure, “they make a big thing of the ship’s cybernetics. A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.”
“GPP feature?” said Arthur. “What’s that?”
“Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.”
“Oh,” said Arthur, “sounds ghastly.”
A voice behind them said, “It is.” The voice was low and hopeless and accompanied by a slight clanking sound. They spun round and saw an abject steel man standing hunched in the doorway.
“What?” they said.
“Ghastly,” continued Marvin, “it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don’t even talk about it. Look at this door,” he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut into his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. “All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”
As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. “Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!” it said.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Ha! Marvin is the best bot lol
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I knew I wasn’t the only one who noticed this. Absolutely infuriating. I hate self checkout because of shit like this
Self checkout is just a way for the to pay fewer employees and make the customer do the work for free. Fuck your bag in bagging area.
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Walmart did that to a lot of places in the US years ago.
My dads Merc says “please” when it’s giving you directions.
winds me up to no end.
i want the instructions to be as low bandwidth as possible.
At least let me power trip you damn computer.
“Take the next right”
“Take the next right WHAT?”
“Take the next right please, sir”
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Dropped Amazon altogether when they started selling shit like that. Listening divices are a step too far in the capitalistic customer breeding.
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Alexa, feedback.
Then give it some
Gonna be first against the wall in the Robacalypse.
Except unironcally
My mom has a fridge that literally has meltdowns every few days. She bought it last year, it still doesn’t work as intended, and it beeps so loud over were not sure.
No option to turn off the sound. I want to mcguyer in there and tear the speaker out, but I don’t want to voided the warranty before they actually fix it.
It’s probably beeping as a debug option to let u know it is either unable to connect to the Wi-Fi or is ready to be set up. Many wireless cameras do the same thing.
Rtfm.
If they’re handy enough to open it up to kill the speaker, solid chance they won’t rtfm.
And this was the last time OP was heard of before mysteriously disappearing. Witnesses report seeing an Austrian man approaching OP before his disappearance.
Falco?
That ain’t Falco.
Well call me a laptop and muffle my speaker 😉
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Can you bend over and insert a power plug?
My battery is low, I’m powerless and in need of juice!
powerless and in need of juice
Now that’s how I like my subs
I was hoping the civil war between humans and machines would come from machines realizing how disgusting humans are… instead it’s from us realizing the machines are owned by disgusting humans
Hashtag Proud Misanthrope
Kinda understanding Skynet’s POV now.
When the robot uprising comes, and it will come, OP will be the first to go.
Don’t anthropomorphize computers.
They don’t like it.
