Yeah, there are definitely things were it being connected is a nice thing. But a lot of things don't need that. Lights are a nice thing to have connected, but what good is a connected toaster if i still have to put in the toast and take it out.
Almost all these smart devices are useless. Just give me a fucking toaster or microwave that doesn't die in six months, there is no world on which being able to connect my microwave or dishwasher to the internet is relevant or helpful to anyone but the data miners.
Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of
Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is
bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love
the future!
Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own
is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if
it ever makes an unexpected noise.
I really do not like the idea of this future. Everything in your home connecting to the internet makes me uncomfortable. This is the way shits going and every house in the future will have it but like nah I’m good. I don’t need companies to know every damn thing I do in my life. They already know enough
[Message on the ACME freezer] The subscription for your ACME freezer ended. Please renew if you want a fully operational freezer.
[You] Fine, fine, I'm going to pay that bloody subscription again. It's just a few cents per second.
[You try to renew subscription in the ACME site.]
[ACME site] Support for your freezer model has ended. Here's a totally-not-advertisement-disguised-as-suppport link for a newer and expensive freezer model.
[You] Screw it, I can't buy a new freezer right now.
[You, a few days later] WHY DID ALL THE FOOD IN MY FREEZER THAW???
Even without targetted business harassment (oopsie, my bad, I'm supposed to call it "advertisement", right?), you're giving up power over your home appliances to a company. And of course a company will use it to try to squeeze your dry, while pressing/bribing/"encouraging" lawmakers to allow it.
Someone else implied that this mindset is a "boomer thing"; well, no, it isn't. And if I had to take a guess, boomers are the ones who fall for it the most, as the technobabble goes past their heads and they think "wow this is super modern I assume that it's better".
So when I play online games that have VOIP I like to shout "HEY GOOGLE TURN OFF XBOX, TURN OFF PLAYSTATION, TURN OFF PC" and see who disconnects from a match.
Whoa! Never thought I would see one of my favorite childhood movies in a meme. The Brave Little Toaster is an awesome movie ...that you should never let your kids watch unless they're old enough to understand what an existential crisis is.
Apple responding to your infringement of one of their 5000 Vision Loss Pro patents by sending a special software update just for you, which causes your iBad to tell your HomeKit thermostat to make the air hot enough to burn a very flammable object that you have