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submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ok maybe the flushing part is a bit overkill and mostly a joke, but a toilet that can deliver notifications like if it's clogged for example before you use it and make it worse would have fantastic utility IMO

[-] mj_marathon@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago

This makes zero sense. If it's clogged, you'd know beforehand when you look in the bowl. Why the would anyone need a notification for that?

The ONLY utility that I could see here is if the notification logged who did the clogging so you could give them shit.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Toilets can appear to have flushed fully, but still have...material...stuck in the U-bend that hasn't completely evacuated the toilet. A subsequent flush won't work, even though the water in the bowl is clean.

Ask me how I know.

That said, this could almost certainly be better-solved in other ways. Maybe by preventing the tank from refilling if there's still something in the u-bend (then you'd know it needed attention because there'd be no water in it)?

[-] mj_marathon@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

We don't know that the toilet has this sensing capability.
If it does, the actual fix is the same as if it were a regular toilet.

This just isn't an issue that needs technology as a solution.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

125% agreed. I was responding only to "If it's clogged, you'd know beforehand when you look in the bowl." I think there's potentially an engineering solution--a fluid dynamics engineering solution--but definitely not an app.