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Re:Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today ... by trillic on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @11:31AM (#49170397)
Did IoT cause the fire?
Re:Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today ... by ghaff on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @11:58AM (#49170745)
No. A 15-year old (so not ancient) dumb microwave.

Not a luddite but, aside from a couple of Alexas, just no need for any IoT.

Re:Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today ... by inigyou on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @04:28PM (#49174606)
How did you start a fire with a microwave? Plain old electrical fire, rats eating wire insulation?
Re:Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today ... by ghaff on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @04:34PM (#49174688)
Apparently a short circuit in the control panel in the middle of the night. At least that's what the investigator said. I wasn't using it and was asleep. So I didn't start it. Was spontaneous. Didn't seem to be related to any external wiring.
Re:Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today ... by a96 on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @08:58PM (#49177334)
We had a dishwasher let out the smoke recently. No fire, luckily, just literal smoke and melted plastic. The melted part was the mechanical power switch. Yes, dead simple non-IOT holy century old technology. The parts that fail are almost always the moving parts and almost never the smarts.
Re:Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today ... by ghaff on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:40AM (#49178640)
My washing machine was intermittently staining stuff for a while. The it started smoking one day. Should have replaced it at least a couple years prior. Bet it was a good 50 years old.