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[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Along similar lines, Alexa won't respond to crude questions but my daughter got it to say "butt" by putting "your butt" on our shopping list. So if I ask what's on the shopping list it will say like, "You have three items on your shopping list: chicken, Bisquick, and your butt."

I always say, there's nothing wrong with still getting a laugh out of things you thought were funny in third grade.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think your wife is telling you something.

I can't quite peg it, but maybe she can.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe you can put your finger ~~in~~ on it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

it feels like a deeply personal subject.

might be better to let the two bang it out together.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

I call my phone either, Spyware, or Mikrosoft Techneeshion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

People really need to stop using Ring

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Can't even type lol, belly shaking too much

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

A woman who still has such a sense of humour at the age of 40 is definitelly a keeper.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At least the wife is funny.

Ring is basically spyware. Anyone with the backdoor knows when you aren't home.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Wish I had never got one. In my ignorance I thought I could stream it like any other camera, just needed to know the protocol. They make one like that?

[–] alphapuggle 13 points 1 day ago

You're looking for reolink stuff, just about the only ones that are still real ipcams and not IoT cloud spyware

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Samsung is the only one I know of that is not proprietary networked and has Foss Firmware. Avigilon and Axis both phone home (Though they're contact is at least contract specific) and generic Chinese have tons of records of phoning home without informing users.

It's a pretty big problem in the security industry. Camera's are notoriously insecure unless you make them so. Air gaping with local storage is best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

So you're saying OP's wife should be air gaping?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are a few options on self-hosting doorbell cameras.

Full self-hosting a Ring doorbell is a bit of a bother and you might as well go another route and have a POE security system with storage. You can't easily divorce your Ring from the company's control.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I like my Reolink for this purpose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

There are many of you dive in a little and are comfortable with technology.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Reader, I married her.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

I would have married her too

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

It's been years and I still giggle them theres motion at my bunghole

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I named the thermostat "reactor". "Hey Google, turn up the reactor."

My cleverest accident was putting all the ceiling-mounted minis in the "attic" room. "Turn off the attic" kills 'em all, reboots the whole mess.

Another accident: I have two vivariums, "tank" and "main tank". The morning I goofed and said, "turn on the tanks", and it worked!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I resent the Boomer notion that 40 year old women can't be funny.

Edit:

"She's 40 years old" vs. "She's a 40 year old woman"

See also: https://xkcd.com/385/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I took it to mean she's a mature adult, not a teenager.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There is a phase in pretty much everybody's life - which in men tends to manifest in the form of drawing penises pretty much anywhere - usually in one's teen years when that kind of humour is widespread.

Then most people get too full of themselves and concerned with appearances and lose that kind of humour (some will even act shocked when they see it).

So I read the reference to the age as just indicating one of those rare people whose humour hasn't, as they aged, been crushed by a need to be seen as a serious person, which I personally find are the best kind of people around at many levels, not just the humour itself but because that stuff tends to be correlated with self-confidence and being an easy and fun person to be around.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I don’t think that’s what the post was implying

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

This is childish humour. It's a dig at her age, not ability. I resent the immediate jump to women not being funny. Maybe take the plank from your own eye.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

maybe just making sure we know it wasn’t someone else who amazingly reached 40-year-old-woman level of humor, but a 40-year-old woman achieving the typical amazing level of humor they’re known for

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Ring is the backdoor. That's the joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Capital A Anus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago