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Re: Gmail Experiencing Issues

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Post by juancampa »

stephenr wrote: post #14
juancampa wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not from my phone. I have to get up and change it, but it's too hot and I don't wanna move

It’s funny. I have this little thing on my desk that lets me adjust the air conditioning, and it doesn’t rely on wifi or internet access or any “clouds”... it’s called a “remote control”. If you’re silly enough to rely on internet access to change the temperature in your house you deserve to be hot.

It seems like some people are in denial about the benefits of using an internet connected device to control things. Here are a couple use cases that I find useful:

1. Automatically set the temperature cooler when you're home

2. Turn off your AC remotely if you forget (or automatically because of 1)

3. Change the temperature from your bed

Of course there are drawbacks: multiple points of failure. This is early tech, but it makes sense. For a really funny satire of how early these things are, follow [1].

I personally like to be in control so I disable the "learning" features.

[1]: https://twitter.com/internetofshit

Re: Gmail Experiencing Issues

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Post by martin_a »

tssva wrote: post #22
martin_a wrote: post #15

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I wonder why everyone seems to be using Gmail. Nobody I know (mostly in Germany) really uses a Gmail-address except for registering their Android device. Why is it so popular elsewhere?

Why do people in Germany unnecessarily use a Gmail address to register their Android devices?

Lazyness or not knowing better and probably because Google will make it very easy to set this address up when activating your phone.

But most people will then install the mailbox app from their provider and just use that.

Re: Gmail Experiencing Issues

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Post by sergiomattei »

stephenr wrote: post #14
juancampa wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not from my phone. I have to get up and change it, but it's too hot and I don't wanna move

It’s funny. I have this little thing on my desk that lets me adjust the air conditioning, and it doesn’t rely on wifi or internet access or any “clouds”... it’s called a “remote control”. If you’re silly enough to rely on internet access to change the temperature in your house you deserve to be hot.

Tone it down.

I'm pretty sure the parent comment was, while grounded in reality, expressed in a humorous tone.

As he said, he can just get up and change the air conditioning.

Re: Gmail Experiencing Issues

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Post by probably_wrong »

tssva wrote: post #22
martin_a wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder why everyone seems to be using Gmail. Nobody I know (mostly in Germany) really uses a Gmail-address except for registering their Android device. Why is it so popular elsewhere?

Why do people in Germany unnecessarily use a Gmail address to register their Android devices?

Dark pattern. You can register an Android device with a non-Gmail address if you know what you're doing, but that's not where the UI takes you by default.

Re: Gmail Experiencing Issues

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Post by dang »

stephenr wrote: post #14
juancampa wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not from my phone. I have to get up and change it, but it's too hot and I don't wanna move

It’s funny. I have this little thing on my desk that lets me adjust the air conditioning, and it doesn’t rely on wifi or internet access or any “clouds”... it’s called a “remote control”. If you’re silly enough to rely on internet access to change the temperature in your house you deserve to be hot.

Please don't be a jerk on HN.

Please do "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." The parent was absurd enough that it was probably a joke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Gmail Experiencing Issues

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Post by dang »

Top5a wrote: post #23
skunkworker wrote: post #13

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Interesting, this should be a good post-mortem about what happened and why the errors weren't showing up on the status dashboard.

hahahahahahaha, just like with AWS's dash, right? hahahahahahaha

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

Re: Gmail Experiencing Issues

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Post by usr1106 »

martin_a wrote: post #15
daenz wrote: post #12

The timing of this is interesting, one day after the DoJ announcement. A reminder of how important Google is to us, and how we shouldn't be jeopardizing it with anti-trust probes /s.

I wonder why everyone seems to be using Gmail. Nobody I know (mostly in Germany) really uses a Gmail-address except for registering their Android device. Why is it so popular elsewhere?

For historical reasons Germans understand better than many others that big brother is a bad thing.

Firefox has a bigger market share in Germany than many other countries. Germans were so much against Google streetview that Google gave up and has never rolled it out to anywhere else than a couple of pilot regions. Many people seem to use startpage for web search. In Berlin local activists hindered Google from opening a new office. So not using gmail is just in line.

Disclaimer: I am German but haven't lived there for decades and wonder why in other countries many people still seem to like Google.

Re: Gmail Experiencing Issues

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Post by panarky »

TimothyBJacobs wrote: post #28
panarky wrote: post #27

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Why do you have to control the temperature in places you aren't in?

To prevent your pipes from exploding or other equipment breaking. To have your home at a suitable temperature when you get back from an extended stay away.

> To prevent your pipes from exploding

Seems like a thermostat could do that.

How did people keep their pipes from exploding before Nest?

Re: Gmail Experiencing Issues

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Post by Top5a »

dang wrote: post #37
Top5a wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hahahahahahaha, just like with AWS's dash, right? hahahahahahaha

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

Imagine taking the time to write this as a response to a light-hearted comment on the high-profile failings of other mega-corporations in a similar vein over the past several months/years. Rather, you take some perceived offense on behalf of your associates at Alphabet who refused to learn from the missteps of others :/
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