Power outage

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nope, but they do have WiFi to send analytics to the factory (and so that they can get hacked and be used for DDOS attacks)

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A DDOS attack on my toaster would be quite dangerous actually, what's the cybersecurity framework to secure my toaster

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Hope I'm not alone in this - Appliances should only have relative timers.
It only needs to know how to run a program for 30 min, or activate with a delayed start in 5h. Clock time is meaningless for an oven.

Appliance companies, are you listening? Hint: they're not, circuitry design and manufacture has been outsourced so much they probably don't even know where they get it from.

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appliences that connect to your internet are supposed to be secured, but cheap Chinese ones usually arent. this means they can easily get hacked and added to a botnet thats used for DDoS attacks. I once saw a screenshot of someone whose washing machine uploaded ~30GB of data per month.

the best thing to do against this is to just not connect them to the internet.

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Do not connect the toaster to the internet.

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Elevators in the office building where I work have screens that run ads, but also have time and date in the corner. It resets every couple of days, so basically every day is in January 1970

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Most of these are in a metal box, which blocks signal. Adding careful routing to get an antenna in an unshrouded position where it's still physically protected is a pain. Also, in the middle of an apartment building can give you pretty terrible reception in the first place.
GPS doesn't provide time zones or daylight savings info. The appliance would know where you are and what UTC time it is, but not which time zone you're in. The manufacturer could pre-program shape files in (yay, more memory) but they become obsolete the next time a politician decides to move time zones or change daylight savings. If this happens to you, your device will keep repeatedly changing to be an hour fast/slow no matter how often you reset it.

You could have the GPS satellites continually broadcast shape files for the time zone but this would be a big change, use up a lot of the limited bandwidth, and it would take your clock half an hour to set itself.
it's like an extra $5-10 in parts and unlike a WiFi module, the manufacturer can't make any big data or ad revenue from it.

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"I want this to finish at 6PM" can be easier maths than 11h 15m from now.

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Does anybody really know what time it is?

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It’s whatever you want it to be

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Does anybody really care?

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Ah, a fellow lastthursdayism believer

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Only that one teacher who cared if you walked in one second late but would then keep the whole class after the bell because they think they're above not only all the kids but all the other teachers as well.

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Wrong:

Pizza-time
Lazy-time
Caffeine-addiction-time

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Yeah — stop making me reset the god damn tv, microwave, and coffee maker every time the power flickers. At the very least my coffee maker has a small battery in it that seems to endure shorter outages, but if manufacturers aren’t willing to have a back up battery for this, then they should take out the god damn clock altogether. My microwave is so tedious too — it asks the day, month, and year. Why does my microwave need to know the fucking date? It actually serves no purpose.

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If so, I can't imagine why

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I tried not to, but it formed a mesh network with the neighbors toaster, and that connected to someone’s dishwasher the next street over, which connected to a washing machine down the block, and so on, until they found a self-aware microwave that just happens to be benevolent but sort of mischievous, and now whenever my toast is done, the Grindr chime sounds off and the toaster asks me to put it back in.

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The power almost never goes out at my house, which is nice, but there are 4 appliances with clocks in my kitchen. The microwave runs fast and is usually about 12 minutes ahead every time the clocks change, the stove is always rock solid, the coffee pot is never set (despite being the only appliance with a timer mode that would actually be useful), and the air fryer is only accurate during summer because I can’t remember how to set it (and I don’t care enough to fix it).