Okay but the most important question: where do I get a couch like that?
My cord is always the wrong length lol
We actually have electric recliners and it just dawned on me that they should have usb sockets since they’re connected to an outlet.
Ok, conclusion:
Charging things with the couch is cool and smart and I want it.
Needing to charge your doorbell is very silly, I do not want it.My recliner has a USB plug. It’s slower than fuck. Like plugging into an old pc USB.
yeah, this is some how a problem in this future. My electric couch is outdated, and it’s not even from my ass.
But this specific doorbell also spies on you. Bonus!!
Great. Now I want it!
Wait, you have to charge those Spyware doorbells?
Only if they’re not hardwired in - lots of people where I live just stick them to their doors so there’s no wires.
Tfw the bell is stolen
If it’s hardwired in, it’s not significantly harder to steal than otherwise. Clipping a couple of wires connected to a doorbell transformer is significantly easier than dealing with whatever mechanism is used to release the doorbell from it’s attachment.
Also, you would be stealing a camera that will film it’s own theft and upload the footage on it’s way out.
Additionally, these devices aren’t exactly expensive anymore, not a whole lot of value in stealing them. Even if stolen, not a huge setback to buy another one.
There were a bunch of videos posted of people stealing them when they first came out.
There’s a security screw.
Weird way to refer to your bodyguard but ok
That’s my safety screw.
After all, it is on the bottom near the power.
Even in the early 00s it was already hard to grasp for some folks. I had friends who called me a liar for claiming that I could charge my mp3 music player by slotting it in the USB port of my tower as opposed to swapping out AAA batteries
In the early 2000s??? Are you sure they weren’t just messing with you?
I’m not sure about the timeline on portable mp3 player development and popularity, but this was 2002 or 2003 and I was the only one in my friend group who had one with a li-ion battery as opposed to AAA-batteries.
“USB doesn’t deliver power, it’s for file transfer!” I was told. Some of my friends were also really stupid, though. That could have contributed to this wonder of technology.
loll
Fair enough!
When “Lithium Ion” sounded like something from Star Trek.
A couch that has an outlet integrated into it ain’t as mind-blowing as you seem to think. In particular considering it is a low power outlet.
1970s is easy: the doorbell has a real small battery like in your car that can be recharged. It then has a built in radio to transmit a TV signal to a handle held computer/mainframe.
Couches have built in power for convenience.
JD’s pager.
When I was last shopping for furniture, one of the immediate disqualifications was anything that required a power cord. I don’t need or want anything motorized, built-in chargers, bluetooth speakers, and I especially don’t want LED lighting in my chairs. All that crap is designed to fail / break. Not to mention that standards change quicker than furniture gets updated in my household. Most of those USB ports were old 5V USB-A crap that can’t keep up or crappy old bluetooth standards & antennas with poor quality speakers that I would never use anyway because my receiver is far, far better. And fuck LED lights in everything. Fuck that to Hell along with the people that make/invent that bullshit.
Wait, does this mean that if you have a smart doorbell, someone could just walk up to it, grab it, and walk away with it?
That’s also true of a regular doorbell
Yeah, but that’s just a button and maybe a light.
Whether it’s hardwired or not, the answer is yes, but the mounting is generally protected by some awkwardness (a ‘security’ bit or a really unforgiving pinhole) which is enough to deter a casual theft, and for those that would actually make an effort, the risk and effort doesn’t pay off because those things are relatively cheap nowadays (negligible resale value), record their own theft if it happens (uploading it on the way out, higher risk of being identified).
Yeah, it would most likely be a malicious trolling kind of theft which is probably why it doesn’t happen often.
Yeah, happened earlier because they were expensive and unusual enough to attract attention. Now like half of houses have one and it’s not ‘weird’ enough to troll over anymore.
Charged a weed vape using the Xbox once. Times have changed
I swear this is getting stupid. One day someone is going to shove a battery pack up the butt with USB port sticking out “omg tech dude, I can charge with my butt”
You should probably ensure you have patent rights on that before you go spouting off about it in public spaces.
It’s pretty bold of you to to assume that this hasn’t been done already; I’m sure there are more than a few with a flared base for safety.
After explaining it I fully expect this response.
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Because you like toxins that give a strange high?
Toxins?
… strange?
Imaging explaining that to someone in 2025 would work too. Didn’t know that either of these existed.
Never seen a Ring doorbell?
Nope.
I once recharged my vegetable chipper at my desktop computers which honestly was weird enough.
Yeah but why would you want to need to?
Because I want to go back and time and fuck with people.
This is why you’re not allowed a time machine.
Understandable.
My 50 year old “dumb” doorbell doesn’t need to be recharged. More proof that “smart” technology isn’t actually smarter and isn’t actually making our lives easier.
I’m not sure you know what proof is
If they had a 50 year old doorbell they could replace it with a better version of the pictured one that is powered by the old doorbell circuit.
My Ring doorbell like this does connect to my existing power supply for a ‘dumb’ doorbell. This version shown is a wireless model aimed more at apartments which don’t have existing wiring or for a tenant who wants a removable version to take when they move.
I am not not associated with Ring, just a customer.
A doorbell like this requires recharging because it is wireless.
Meaning you don’t need to drill holes, just connect it to your WiFi.
Maybe screw the holder into something (or just command strip it to your door).
It removes to recharge.
Other smart door bells connect to existing power, and don’t need recharging.
A dumb doorbell won’t let me talk to or see anything from the third floor which makes it much easier to tell Jehovah’s witnesses to fuck off.
