@stupidmentalhealthwalks I just got back from one of those, here's a stupid high five ✋

@maddiefuzz niiiiice!

Old man yells at clouds: We got a new oven, earlier this year. It has a touch screen and receives ✨software updates ✨ via wifi.

It displays wallpapers, inspirational quotes, and the weather. I can’t upload any of my own, so I turned all that off.

They keep turning those features back on with ✨software updates ✨, supplying new wallpapers and content I didn’t ask for and don’t like. I dread the day when they decide this is a viable advertising channel.

It frustrates me that there’s so much going on with this thing whose only purpose in my life is to occasionally, safely, reliably, and predictably apply heat to a small chamber with food.

Really what i want is to jailbreak my stove with custom firmware that does almost nothing.

But, then, I’m afraid that’ll be to the detriment of that whole safe, predictable, reliable application of heat thing and I don’t really want to violate warranties of kitchen appliances.

Sometimes violating warranties is cool and fun, sometimes it’s just inviting another pain in the ass for which life is too short

I think one of my biggest frustrations with Devices Containing Computer these days is that this:

I can imagine teams at companies working furiously to justify their Value Add by ginning up as many exciting ✨​ software updates ✨​ as possible for things which really should just be in maintenance mode.

Since I like gadgets, this means lots of things around me are constantly changing for no good reason and deciding to do things I don't want them to do. This makes me feel crotchety and ornery.

@HeNeArXn It doesn't! Like that, at least, might be fun to play with. It's all just canned "live laugh love" quotes and weird landscape vistas

tl;dr: You ever just look at Something that Runs Software and think "That's going to be an Ongoing Problem"?

@mwl Yeah, that's definitely going to be us in the next 6-18 months :sadcowblob:​

@JenMsft Thank you for paying your Cat Taxes

@mwl Yeah, I guess I fear that being non-compliant with software updates threatens the warranty

@jalefkowit Heh, I guess not everyone has had the experience of logging into a dial-up BBS and feeling the snub of getting disconnected & deleted after an argument with the sysop's best bud. Like, the BBS PC is literally in the sysop's bedroom.