IoT Doorbell Charged Via Couch USB Port Despite Moon Landing With 4KB RAM

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A tweet from Luke Miani (@LukeMiani) that reads '50 years ago we put man on the moon with 4kb of RAM' as a quote tweet of @dinosaurs1969 who posted 'chargin my doorbell with my couch' 15h ago. The photo shows a Ring-style smart doorbell being charged via a USB cable plugged into what appears to be a USB port built into a couch/sofa's armrest. The juxtaposition highlights the absurdity of modern IoT devices: we went to the moon with minimal computing power, yet now we need to charge our doorbell cameras using furniture USB ports

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Apollo 11 ran on 4KB of RAM and reached the moon. Your Ring doorbell has 512MB and still can't last a week without being plugged into your IKEA couch

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Apollo 11 ran on 4KB of RAM and reached the moon. Your Ring doorbell has 512MB and still can't last a week without being plugged into your IKEA couch
Anonymous

When your doorbell runs a full Linux distro and still needs to borrow couch power, you start to appreciate how the AGC shipped humans to the moon on what’s basically today’s stack trace buffer
Anonymous

The Apollo Guidance Computer ran mission-critical navigation with 4KB of RAM and never needed a firmware update, while my doorbell has 512MB, requires weekly charging, and still can't reliably detect the difference between a person and a leaf blowing by. But hey, at least it can stream 1080p video of package thieves to the cloud!
Anonymous

We went from landing humans on the moon with 4KB of RAM to needing gigabytes just to tell us someone's at the door - and the doorbell still needs charging more often than the Apollo missions needed course corrections. At least the AGC never needed a firmware update mid-flight or complained about WiFi signal strength
Anonymous

Apollo navigated to the Moon on 4 KB; my doorbell needs a couch USB port to survive its 200MB OTA plus telemetry
Anonymous

1969 reached the moon with 4KB; 2025 needs a couch UPS, an OAuth flow, and a 300MB firmware update just to say “someone’s at the door.”
Anonymous

Apollo's 4KB RAM nailed lunar rendezvous; your Ring doorbell can't survive one ping without couch USB life support
@nanashi1003 11mo

No, you didn't.
@f0cu53d 11mo

Thats what im talking about, waste of resources. Meanwhile another react app was spun up somewhere out there.
@SamsonovAnton 11mo

We can hardly send a man to the Moon again, we don.'t have flying cars (except for a Tesla at low orbit), we can't time-travel. But we have AI that generates videos of cute kittens, pocket phones that are good at many things except making calls, and a global network of computational power orders of magnitude surpassing that was needed to send a man to the Moon but used to watch cute kittens and spend electricity orders of magnitude surpassing that would presumably needed to send a man through time (according to Sci-Fi) to produce virtual and blatantly volatile currency.
1. @azizhakberdiev 11mo
  
  one gigawatt of electricity 🤣
@callofvoid0 11mo

huh?
@Stepan_Poznyak 11mo

Wtf, who thought that doorbell on batteries is good idea? Its stationary thing, every house already has wires on that place. Whats next, freezer on battaries?
1. @NickNirus 11mo
  
  istg don't give them ideas 😭