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How Online Number Games Became a Digital Pastime
Online gaming covers far more than shooters and sprawling role playing worlds.
You swap the switch at the bottom of the stairs for a shiny new smart model, flip the breaker back on, and now the light only works when the upstairs switch is in one position. Half the time you press the smart switch and nothing happens.
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Online gaming covers far more than shooters and sprawling role playing worlds.
Voice Assistants
I moved a smart speaker 40 centimetres last spring and it stopped ignoring my partner.
Plugs and Switches
Last December I counted four dead outdoor smart plugs in my neighbour's recycling bin.
Voice Assistants
Ask a shared smart speaker for "my calendar" in a house of four people and there is roughly a one in four chance it reads out...
Smart Lighting
A flickering smart bulb is one of the more annoying faults in a connected home, partly because it feels random and partly...
Games
Spend an evening in a modern open-world game and watch the light. Clouds roll in and the whole scene cools and flattens.
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Three people who actually live with the gear they write about: a reviewer who buys new devices the day they launch and keeps a running list of what has failed him, a former security systems installer who now writes about what cameras and sensors actually protect against, and someone who builds absurdly complex home automations for fun and then writes the simpler version everyone else actually needs. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not set up themselves.