Whats Up With All The Smarts?

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You don't get a choice on the meter in most cases. The smart devices broadcast to your smart meter and it sends the report to the utility company which sells the information to anyone with the dollars. Smart TV's can watch and listen to you and send these video/audio files over the internet.
 
Caribou said:
You don't get a choice on the meter in most cases. The smart devices broadcast to your smart meter and it sends the report to the utility company which sells the information to anyone with the dollars. Smart TV's can watch and listen to you and send these video/audio files over the internet.
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Well the smart TV is making a clicking sound right now. Every so often it does this. I told hubby its taking pics of us,lol.
But then my draconian driver license has all that and more. I almost didn't get them renewed but then there goes my everything. No bank,no doctor, no auto, nothing!
Now they want to use us for compost too, seems everything those freaks in HollyHood dream up happens. Remember the old movie 'Soylent Green'. Put a whole new meaning to ' pushing up daiseys'.

https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/2019/05/13/granny-in-the-garden/
Granny in the garden: Composting your loved ones has just become a thing
 
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Interesting. I didn't know they did that. We had a smart meter up the mountain, but we didn't have TV, we had a dish for Internet and no cell phone service so not sure how much of my info they got. I have read that they don't accurately track power usage (on the high side of course.). The nice part was that it made tracking usage very easy.
I still have an old (accurate) meter here. I was told that we would be getting smart meters by year's end. Now you've got me hoping they are late.
 
@Amish Heart I think I could easier than hubby. We had power growing up but it was unreliable and would be out for a week or two at a time. I cooked on wood almost as much as electric, used the outhouse rather than the toilet, and boiled water for baths etc. It was just called living at the time.
Oh and we had a cold room out in the wood shed. The door was about a foot thick. I would love one of those now.
 
I'd miss y'all and youtube but imagine how the youth with cell phones and no clues about survival would handle a shtf situation.
Bless their hearts they would be lost. I had to ask my 5 year old GGrand how she could stop youtube. She got mad because I got tired of listening to Sponge Bob or whatever and turned me off. Still don't know how the kid did it.
 
Our smart electricity meter logs power usage in real time. The power company then can charges more per Kh during peak usage times. That's why my wife runs the dishwasher at night. I have heard they can also turn off your power remotely if you don't pay your bill, but I'm not sure about that.
Everything is getting smarter except the people, they are getting dumber.
 
backlash said:
Our smart electricity meter logs power usage in real time. The power company then can charges more per Kh during peak usage times. That's why my wife runs the dishwasher at night. I have heard they can also turn off your power remotely if you don't pay your bill, but I'm not sure about that.
Everything is getting smarter except the people, they are getting dumber.
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I agree, seems people don't have the common sense they use to have. I think the whole world is under stress now, don't know.
But I also don't think all these gadgets will be helpful in the long run.
Talking to the back of a cell phone when trying to talk to them is not good.
I had oen helping me do yard work with a cell phone in her hand, I told her to lose the phone.
 
I guess one of those smart meters is what they put on us a few years ago. They did that because if one of us wasn't here they couldn't get in the gate to read the meter and our male dog at the time was very protective of me when strange men where around. Now they just stop at the end of the driveway at the gate and then move on. I haven't seen any problems with the way our bill has been. Seems quite accurate to us. Our latest was only $88 since neither the pellet stove ( or any heater) nor the ac has been running. I'm sure that will change when the ac goes on lol

I make it a point to not have smart appliances. Heck its even hard to find a refrigerator without the stupid ice and water through the door.
I did splurge a bit on my latest stove, it has functions on it for specific cooking ( pizza,slow cook,dehydrating,etc) and such but I rarely use them lol
We don't have any smart tvs.
Are dvd players or blueray players smart ? we just got a new dvd player and it seems to have a lot of specific functions on it IMO
My washer /dryer set is a maytag from about 10 years ago so they're not smart. the only thing they have are sensors for moisture in the dryer. Working like a champ so far
Dishwasher is so old I can't remember when we put it in lol
 
I think the "smart" refers to a device being able to connect to the internet. I really do not understand why someone would need a smart refrigerator.
I saw one in the store that had a very large monitor built in. Do people really need to surf the web while standing in front of the refrigerator?
My Dad always carried a tablet in his pocket, he also carried a Parker inkpen so he could write down what he needed to remember. I put his pen and tablet in his pocket right before they closed the lid on his casket. I also hooked his Stanley tape measure on his belt. I can't remember seeing him without those items and thought he might need them in the afterlife.
 
I left cookies for a friend of ours. He died suddenly and it was a shock. He used to hang out with husband on Saturday afternoons and talk ham radio, and he'd bring his little yorkie, too. I'd have a plate of cookies made for him. When I found out he passed, I made cookies. Brought some to the funeral, and his wife smiled and said go ahead and leave them with him.
 
Call me paranoid, I have long thought that even our landlines monitored us. Now it is more; televisions, meters, phones, and Alexa! People pay money for the upgraded devices. The great cost increase on some things over a decade indicated that something was being added to the device and services that we pay for.

When the grid goes down, will any of that work? Will we be able to be monitored? What about those who have alternative power and can still use their smart refrigerators and others?
 
Weedygarden said:
Call me paranoid, I have long thought that even our landlines monitored us. Now it is more; televisions, meters, phones, and Alexa! People pay money for the upgraded devices. The great cost increase on some things over a decade indicated that something was being added to the device and services that we pay for.

When the grid goes down, will any of that work? Will we be able to be monitored? What about those who have alternative power and can still use their smart refrigerators and others?
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Well I'm suspicious of all of it too. They make the movie 1984 look like like a comedy.



 
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We read Shakespeare and the classics, too. Had to read Orwell as an adult, and Ayn Rand. Those had an effect on me.
Drones can fly over your house and see you inside.
Never can figure out why people pay good money to have spy devices in their home, like Alexa
Saying that they have nothing to hide so they don't care is just retarded.
 
My audiologist has an Alexa. I told her that it was spying on her. She said she didn't have anything to hide. I asked her that when her husband was chasing her around the house, was he happy with someone listening to her giggles. She was not.
 
Lol that Android in your pocket is always listening. I can't count how many times I've been talking to someone and said, "Let's look it up and find out". Then when I pull up the internet it automatically suggests whatever I was just talking about. Creepy stuff.
Now, I do love Bluetooth enabled electronics. My cars are linked to my phone so I can play the music I actually want to hear. I do the same with stereo speakers and TVs. But the internet is starting to piss me off a little bit by listening in. My life is my business and nobody else's...
 
The Lazy L said:
Smart electric meters are owned by the electric company. It's theirs to do as they please. And now since they have a smart meter, they have no reason to drive onto my property every month to read it!?!?!?
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I don't like the trade off of privacy.
Or possibly the next coming attraction of some nut in a office somewhere.
Which I probably already have that possibility with all the techtronics.
 
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