Tim Bray
timbray@cosocial.ca
Minor Irritants: All of these high-tech 'tools' trap me in their system https://www.readtheline.ca/p/minor-irritants-all-of-these-high?publication_id=70032&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=10irp6&utm_medium=email
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Andy Newton
andy"As I sit and ponder my irritation, I think the thing that really irks me is the feeling that I’m not in control."
100%! This becomes painful when all the cloud services for those cloud connected devices go away (or simply brown-out all the time), which is becoming more frequent as big tech lets go of the people maintaining those things.
We now have technical debt in our light switches.
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