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Everything with a battery should have an off switch

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Re: Everything with a battery should have an off switch

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Post by ars »

te_chris wrote: post #187
bluesquared wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a somewhat similar manner, my CPAP has a 4G modem that's a huge double-edged sword (for Americans only, you can see where this is going...). On one hand, it is nice to have an app that shows my stats, and my doctor can also remotely access how my therapy is going. On the other hand, it also phones home to the manufacturer & my insurance. When I don't hit my usage target for a specific time period, insurance stops…

Jesus Christ that's dystopian.

Not really. The device belongs to the insurance company and they're only willing to pay for it if it's actually being used. They are quite expensive machines, and they don't want people having them in their house, and not actually using them (CPAP has a very low patient compliance rate).

And that's why they have tracking built-in. You're perfectly able to buy the machine yourself without insurance and then you don't have to turn on the modem.

And also after you've used it for a while they give it to you and then you can turn off the modem.

Re: Everything with a battery should have an off switch

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Post by ars »

BenjiWiebe wrote: post #270
bombcar wrote: post #221

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Since scales inherently involve putting weight on them it should be possible to use that weight to push down a plunger generating enough electricity to run for the weigh-in. A spring would then reset it for the next time.

If there's a plunger resisting the scale going down to harvest energy, that would prevent all the force from being on the load cell, giving you incorrect readings.

You can put the switch in between the plate and the force sensor.

Then all the force is on the sensor and is also a switch.

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Post by Tempest1981 »

arthurcolle wrote: post #291

Pretty funny this is top post, this morning I was woken up by a demented smoke detector that needed to be reset

Is the battery removable? Best tip (if not) is to put it inside an ice chest, and put that in your car or refrigerator, then try to go back to sleep once the adrenaline rush subsides.

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Post by cecilpl2 »

lhoff wrote: post #161
rightbyte wrote: post #135

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I have Sony WH-1000X M3 noise cancelling fancy pancy wireless headphones and they can't charge and be used at the same time either! It is lunacy. Is there some cracy cheap charging chip that has this drawback? The headphones were very expansive still ...

I have the same headphones and that is not the only quirk thats driving me nuts. It doesn't remember the last noise canceling setting i used. I almost always use them at home so i don't need NC but every time I turn them on its in NC Mode and I have to press the button twice.

Maybe you have it set to autodetect the current setting. You can set presets for sitting/walking/in transit, and it dynamically switches between them.

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Post by JasonFruit »

hnbad wrote: post #6

Obligatory addendum every time foone is posted here: foone goes by they/them pronouns and foone hates HN and all it stands for so please don't bother them with twitter replies just because you saw this thread on here. If you think about following them on twitter because of a cool tech thread, please be aware that they're not a tech novelty account and don't complain when they tweet about politics.

Why should we care whether Foone's mad at HN? Posting to a medium you don't own and expecting to be able to control who responds and how never really works out. If you want control over who sees your content and how they can respond, you have to use a medium you control, and I don't see why Foone is special in that regard.

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Post by aulin »

johnsonap wrote: post #328
rahimiali wrote: post #306

Basically, Foone ends up disassembling a device that has no off switch, and leaves it disemboweled on his desk as a warning for other devices.

Foone's pronouns are they/them

how is one supposed to know this from the twitter thread in this post? I even tried to actively look them up and couldn't find any info about it.

Re: Everything with a battery should have an off switch

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Post by justinator »

justinator wrote: post #273

>Driving a car is the ultimate expression of freedom. I see someone drank the Kool-Aid.

I'm glad people are connecting with this comment (it's mine), but it's actually not about the article! My apologies, there was another, pro-car article that this should be attached to, but now I cannot find on hn. Carry on!

Re: Everything with a battery should have an off switch

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Post by macksd »

arinlen wrote: post #268
Kalium wrote: post #243

> Oh, great, this debate again! I shall use this post as ammunition next time I am arguing with our stupid design team about why we need an off switch on the stupid product we are designing, because it is a giant pain to live with devices you cannot turn off. I increasingly subscribe to the thesis that many designers and design teams design primarily in an effort to impress other designers . They don't have to use th…

> I increasingly subscribe to the thesis that many designers and design teams design primarily in an effort to impress other designers. They don't have to use the things. They often don't even really care if the things work at all. They care that other designers - their artistic peers - are impressed. To put things in perspective, this is how we get stuff like the Eiffel tower.

Which is beautiful, but is absolutely not something I would ever choose to pay for.
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