This "Big Data specialist" spent his entire day grappling with technology all in the hopes of making the most simple chore WiFi-enabled so he could have the ultimate in convenience.
We actually have nothing but sympathy for Matt Rittman to be honest. We can't even go two round with a deviant printer so we don't know how he lasted 11 hours.
A data specialist from Hove, England, Rittman first attempted to make a cup of tea with his WiFi-enabled kettle after early yesterday morning but soon found himself in a technological nightmare.
Still haven't had a first cup of tea this morning, debugging the kettle and now iWifi base-station has reset. Boiling water in saucepan now. pic.twitter.com/lC3uNX5WTp
— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016
Three hours later, still no tea.
3 hrs later and still no tea. Mandatory recalibration caused wifi base-station reset, now port-scanning network to find where kettle is now. pic.twitter.com/TRQLuLzLpx
— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016
And then when he thought he was finally in business, he ran into this old chestnut.
Now my wifi kettle is basically taking the p*ss. Told me it had found network, now you need to recalibrate me, oh btw I didn't rly connect pic.twitter.com/WbGsIrzBio
— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016
WiFi is simultaneously the greatest gift and biggest frustration in the modern world.
Rittman wasn't finished there though, and it turns out his biggest problem was that he had to hack together his own software to get the kettle talking to the rest of his voice-controlled tech in his house.
It is, and OK apart from flaky WiFi connectivity; main issue is that there's no IFTTT or HomeKit integration, so hacked that together myself https://t.co/0IjD7q4wzM
— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016
At around 7pm, he finally had a breakthrough before eventually getting the kettle to boil.
Well the kettle is back online and responding to voice control, but now we're eating dinner in dark while lights download a firmware update pic.twitter.com/yPTDoUkM9Z
— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016
My work is done. And now onto everything else I meant to do today, after that first cup of tea. pic.twitter.com/bJPuJ85TCT
— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016
No one has ever deserved a cup of tea more than this guy. Although...
Best comment today. https://t.co/Bj1rsdmbFC
— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016
Valid point. There's a reason we like to boil the kettle ourselves after all.
Via The Guardian