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[-] x00z@lemmy.world 104 points 6 days ago
[-] victorz@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago
[-] bastion@feddit.nl 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Automatically ~~increases~~ decreases/escalates defcon once every 24h in which no texts are exchanged, unless you hit "snooze".

Defcon 1 is white? I'd expect it to be red.

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 6 days ago
[-] flappy@lemm.ee 15 points 6 days ago
[-] Hominine@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Himouto! Umaru-chan
It's cute and funny if you're looking for something lighthearted.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think this is called friendship lamps or touch lamps. They're connected online and when one person touches their lamp the other person's lamp lights up or changes in some way. There are a few Arduino/ESP projects for making these, or you can buy them. They're promoted as a way to keep a long distance relationship going.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 6 points 6 days ago

They're promoted as a way to keep a long distance relationship going

I'm curious, what's the supposed effect?

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

It just lets one person know the other person is thinking about them, but without the arduous burden of sending a text. "I love you but typing. is. haaard. So I'll just touch this lamp lol."

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 3 points 6 days ago

Hmm, I think I get it now, it does seem a bit easier looking at it that way

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I read and agree with the other comment here, but it's mainly a kind of nonverbal communication. I linked our computers and gave my gf the ability to change my background whenever she wanted, wherever she was, and vice versa. it's just a way of being close and all up in each other's business when we can't get all up in each other's business.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 days ago
[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 6 days ago

Call bells are technology.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 3 points 6 days ago

This got me wondering what is technology and the more I think about it, the more I don't know

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That's a good question.

Applied science and engineering, I suppose, or the results thereof..?

Or, anything that we intentionally make that isn't naturally found in nature...

It does get a bit fuzzy, though... some kinds are easy: machines, tools, architecture... but are writing and maths technology, or are they something else? What about dogs, or farm animals like pigs? We certainly made them (not cats, though, they took care of that whole domestication business all by themselves)... GMOs are quite evidently technology, but what about most of the vegetables and fruits we eat? We made those too... maize, or most citruses, for instance, wouldn't exist without centuries or millennia of selection and grafting...

And it gets even fuzzier when you get to animals... crows can intentionally modify a stick to make it better to get a seed out of a tube, making it a tool, and therefore technology if it was us doing it... dams are certainly technology when we make them, but what about beaver made dams? Knots are probably technology when we tie them, but what about a cuttlefish tying her eggs to algae stems? And let's not get into termites or especially ants, with their air conditioning, and fungal agriculture, and aphid farming...

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 5 days ago

Love this response, I guess technology is that thing that comes out of what we describe as thought, to say what a thought is gets even harder though

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Ok sure, but you know what I meant!

[-] OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today 16 points 6 days ago

My spouse came home from a week at the hospital to a stupid button I hooked up that messaged me "Emergency! {name} needs you!"

It was perfect.

[-] andioop@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago

This is both sweet and funny. I'd love to have a spouse like that. Thanks for taking care of them :)

[-] NeilBru@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

So, a network enabled call light?

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago
[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago
[-] bastion@feddit.nl 2 points 5 days ago

don't tempt me.

..those days after over.DAMNIT!

this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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