Posted on 12/16/2020 3:28:04 PM PST by blam
By now, Monday’s massive Google outage is history for most people. While it was a minor inconvenience for some, with most Google services being down for hours on end, it was a much larger pain in the electronic ass for the tragically hip who have surrendered their “smart” homes to Google.
In fact, of the services that went down, it was Google Home users who were literally left in the dark during the outage on Monday, RT notes. As a result, “smart home” users were complaining about not being able to perform once-simple tasks at their homes – like turning on the lights.
“I’m sitting here in the dark in my toddler’s room because the light is controlled by @Google Drive Home. Rethinking… a lot right now,” one Twitter user tweeted in the midst of the “blackout”. Another user from the U.K. said that connecting his lights to Google Home now “feels like a fatal error.”
ABC News producer Erwin Renaldi quipped: “Thanks Google, now I can’t turn my bedroom light on.”
The outage on Monday morning lasted “less than an hour”. But quickly, social media was flooded with Tweets that looked like these:
is there somethinh wrong with google home? my house suddenly become stupid
— heiakim. (@harrycitradi) December 14, 2020
OH DAMNNIT. I was watching others struggling with the work disruption unaffected because I’m on Microsoft 365.
Only to realize I couldn’t turn on the light because my smart home runs on Google Assistant. pic.twitter.com/K0sSl99G5V
— Abhishek Baxi (@baxiabhishek) December 14, 2020
Recall, back in August, we wrote about why “smart homes” may not be all they’re cracked up to be. We highlighted over the summer that police would routinely request access to people’s “smart speakers” during the course of investigations.
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I'm not happy that my 2017 truck won't allow me to bypass the fob and use a key to start my truck.
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I have a smart frig and a smart dishwasher that we “forgot” to hook up to the Internet.
“Alexa, Play Bruno Mars”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3mmF-JGk_o
Unless one of these “smart assistants” can go to the bathroom for me every half-hour so I don’t have to get up to do it, then there’s no service they can provide me.
I had to go over last night and go to the bathroom in my neighbor Steve’s yard.
Not because I have a smart house.
It’s because Steve has a smart mouth.
Simple problems often have simple solutions. In the old days, in a case like this, it was because someone hadn’t paid their electric bill. Have they paid their electric bill?
Well Duhhh
An EMP from the Sun is going to be a blast with these idiots one day.
ABC News producer Erwin Renaldi quipped: “Thanks Google, now I can’t turn my bedroom light on.”
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Yeah, it’s google’s fault. google came into your house and tied you to a chair while they rewired the place. Sure they did.
anyone who turns their home over to google is a complete idiot.
Anyone who has one of these devices in their home isn’t “smart”.
Wasn’t an “outage”. It was a hack by a hostile CCP.
Maybe flushing?
Just wait until smart semis hauling 80,000 pounds driving next to your children and grandchildren have a glitchy update or a frozen system that is smart enough to restart itself.
Today I went out and got a new one.
The disruption was limited to my not being able to get on FR.
My husband got me a calming cup of tea and helped me to remember my breathing until the shakes subsided.
But aside from that nothing else went down. Lights, hot water, locks, phone, everything worked fine.
If a website going down can throw your home into chaos perhaps you are letting them have too much power over you.
Stories like this always remind me of the introduction to the series “Connections” about the Technology Trap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPcZ_5uCldg
Considering it’s been 40 years since that series came out, it’s clear that the trap is getting closer to closing in on us.
Who knows. They steal a whole bunch of data. Maybe they steal electricity too.
Live by the computer - and become stupid by living by the computer - and die by the computer.
I would rather have K-12 students learning and passing tests on map reading and map making than having them depend on the “knowledge” that some computer GPS app/program/system will always show them the way.
What does a lot of technology do? A lot of technology makes people NOT learn, many things, and become mentally dependent on technology giving them too many answers and performing too many tasks, leaving the old gray matter to become dumb and stupid - just like a muscle that is weak because you never demand anything form it.
Just wait until smart semis hauling 80,000 pounds driving next to your children and grandchildren have a glitchy update or a frozen system that is smart enough to restart itself.
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There are 346 dead people because of Boeing 737- 8 MAX smart technology. Keep all smart (smart = stupid) devices out of my life. I would prefer flying on a Boeing 707 (circa 1970’s) than the bullshit we have today.
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