Some Poor Sod Spent 11 Hours Setting Up Wi-Fi Kettle B/c The Future Sucks

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October 12, 2016

The Internet of Things is absolutely a movement in a full swing, and before anyone truly works out what we should put computers and wi-fi chips into, companies are going right ahead and putting it in anything. An app-controlled thermostat? Sounds great. An app-controlled door lock? Sounds problematic, but guseful. An app-controlled kettle? Geddafuckouttahere,

Twitter user and tech industry worker Mark Rittman detailed his extensive struggles this morning trying to get his wi-fi enabled kettle to function properly. It took 11 hours. 11 hours he could have been using to drink approximately 100 cups of tea instead. His feed is hell.

Now my wifi kettle is basically taking the p*ss. Told me it had found network, now you need to recalibrate me, oh btw I didn’t rly connect pic.twitter.com/WbGsIrzBio

— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016

While waiting for it to calibrate, he boiled water in a saucepan, like he old days.

Still haven’t had a first cup of tea this morning, debugging the kettle and now iWifi base-station has reset. Boiling water in saucepan now. pic.twitter.com/lC3uNX5WTp

— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016

I am literally getting frustrated just looking at these screenshots. Every goddamn moment spent trying to get a printer to work, except for something you can just do with a $10 kettle from Kmart.

3 hrs later and still no tea. Mandatory recalibration caused wifi base-station reset, now port-scanning network to find where kettle is now. pic.twitter.com/TRQLuLzLpx

— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016

Fuuuuuuuuuck.

BUY A NORMAL KETTLE IMMEDIATELY.

Now my wifi kettle is basically taking the p*ss. Told me it had found network, now you need to recalibrate me, oh btw I didn’t rly connect pic.twitter.com/WbGsIrzBio

— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016

This notification – what is the point of this notification? What? Why can’t you just turn your head and look at the damn kettle?

Well the kettle is back online and responding to voice control, but now we’re eating dinner in dark while lights download a firmware update pic.twitter.com/yPTDoUkM9Z

— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016

He did eventually get it to work – but unfortunately had to sit in darkness while his wi-fi enabled lights downloaded and installed a firmware update.

Well the kettle is back online and responding to voice control, but now we’re eating dinner in dark while lights download a firmware update pic.twitter.com/yPTDoUkM9Z

— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016

The future rocks.

Source: Twitter.