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faster_harder ◴[12 Oct 23 18:02 UTC] No.37860644[source]▶
> (BTW, manufacturers, if you want to use touch sensors and you don’t want to lose the massive midwit market, make things that automatically turn on when first connected to power, without waiting for a touch.)

...and if you ever lose power to the house, suddenly all devices turn on.

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1. brewdad ◴[13 Oct 23 04:32 UTC] No.37866702[source]▶
What a great way to be sure the power has been restored. I suppose the power being restored at 3am would suck but in most cases I would want the lights to all come back on after an outage.