Monday, September 14th, 2026, 9:19 am
A Light You Turn on Once and Turn Off Once (Per Day) Should be Dumb
Filed under: K.I.S.S.
am a proud user of ‘dumb’ things, who does things the ‘dumb way.
When I mentioned the light for the fish I did not specify whether it’s turned off/on by the socket (the sockets all have switches here). It’s not. There is a switch on the wire itself.
But “is it on a timer?” someone has asked, linking to “PWR-SWITCH”.
Turning on a light with the flick of a switch does not take much effort/time (maybe one second); buying some gizmos with timers means: 1) setup time; 2) troubleshooting; 3) more moving parts which can break/malfunction; 4) tinkering time.
We could make lights with remote controls and timers decades ago. But we did not. There was no market (or use case) for that.
The Total Time of Ownership (TTO) is vastly better for “dumb” things that don’t need maintenance and studying (memorising how to operate them). They don’t have hardware issues and risky “upgrades”.
I don’t want “smart” lightings in the home, thank-you-very-much.
