Most accurate commentary on the lack of current day smartness

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In all fairness to GE, I’ve been doing these dumb procedures with other brands for years. It is amazing though that the complexity only seems to be compounding each year.

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While the C by GE reset procedure is unnecessarily cumbersome, “accurate commentary” is about the last phrase I’d ever use in conjunction with anything from Gizmodo. The piece in question is no exception.

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I suppose you don’t like comedians either. :-). It’s just a funny commentary on the true state of the “smart” device experience IMO. Yet I have such high expectations for a publication that calls itself Gizmodo.

How about something called Verge?

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I guess they learned that 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi, 4 Mississippi, 5 Mississippi, then turn on, and then 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi, 4 Mississippi, 5 Mississippi turn off wasn’t too effective with the GE Links… they needed to add a few more Mississippis…

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The real comedy gold is in the YouTube comments (which I normally would not read)

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The same Verge that published what was quite possibly the worst (and most widely mocked) “How to Build a PC” video ever?

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The Links actually only require 3 seconds per on/off cycle…though you have to do it 5 times, which is almost as ridiculous.

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Ha! I remember there was a 5 in there, I thought it was seconds not times… LOL Equally comical (for those who don’t use them).

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I can’t believe I missed that. And all these years I’ve been striving for dual channel RAM…