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just musing
8 years ago
Take care of your friends.
I know the trope of devices throughout the house flashing 12:00 ... 12:00
and the idea that anyone over 40 is just not able to deal with electronix.
BUT
I wonder if instead it is a decision to spend my time on something else?
The clock on the VCR was not hard to set but frankly it was not worth my time to futz with, It did not add enough value to justify the 3 minutes needed to set it twice a year.
Radio synchronized clocks ... GOOD idea if you live in the midwest and can receive the time signal from Boulder Co. Otherwise not really worth the trouble to move it to a Boulder facing window twice a year and wait for a few days for it to synchronize. If it will at all where you live.
Winks, Huge, Nest, Echo, All really good ideas when they work. I want all of them! and more, some day when I have the time and energy to work on the problem until I can get it to work. In the meantime I chose to use the light switch not because I CAN'T make the cool electronics work but because I don't have the time to futz with it until I make it work.
I spend all day working with a broken application at work that I use to document my efforts at helping patients navigate the horribly broken thing we call health care in the USA. And most of the time I can't even get people to understand that something IS broken, let alone that it should be fixed.
After that a simple conveniently places light switch is about all I want to deal with.
and the idea that anyone over 40 is just not able to deal with electronix.
BUT
I wonder if instead it is a decision to spend my time on something else?
The clock on the VCR was not hard to set but frankly it was not worth my time to futz with, It did not add enough value to justify the 3 minutes needed to set it twice a year.
Radio synchronized clocks ... GOOD idea if you live in the midwest and can receive the time signal from Boulder Co. Otherwise not really worth the trouble to move it to a Boulder facing window twice a year and wait for a few days for it to synchronize. If it will at all where you live.
Winks, Huge, Nest, Echo, All really good ideas when they work. I want all of them! and more, some day when I have the time and energy to work on the problem until I can get it to work. In the meantime I chose to use the light switch not because I CAN'T make the cool electronics work but because I don't have the time to futz with it until I make it work.
I spend all day working with a broken application at work that I use to document my efforts at helping patients navigate the horribly broken thing we call health care in the USA. And most of the time I can't even get people to understand that something IS broken, let alone that it should be fixed.
After that a simple conveniently places light switch is about all I want to deal with.
V.