I have to admit, I have to agree with Jason Fried on this one — and admit that my house has a lot of these problems.

Neither my wife nor I could tell you what each of the buttons on our Philips Hue tap dial switches do. So much so that I’ve had to set a reminder to turn on all our lights and disable the auto-lock from the front door when the cleaners are coming.

Which reminds me…

Jason Fried writes on his blog:

The TV is the latest Samsung which has a baffling UI just to watch CNN. My parents aren’t idiots, but definitely feel like they’re missing something obvious. They aren’t — TVs have simply gotten worse. You don’t turn them on anymore, you boot them up.

Thermostats… Nest would have been an upgrade, but these other propriety ones from some other company trying to be nest-like are baffling.

And the lag. Lag everywhere. Everything feels a beat or two behind. Everything. Lag is the giveaway that the system is working too hard for too little. Real-time must be the hardest problem.

The big regression

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The big regression

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