My office has automatic faucets in the bathroom and I've started sticking my hands under the faucet at home and wondering for a second where the water is. - eviltoast

What the hell is wrong with me?

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    1 year ago

    I have a fair bit of home automation setup at home. So if I walk into a room the lights turn on, walk out and they turn off.

    Every time I am visiting someone or in a hotel I am deeply confused why the lights don’t turn on themselves.

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      1 year ago

      Someone I know recently switched from automatic bathroom lights to manual ones. Remembering to turn them on isn’t an issue, but months later everyone still forgets to turn them off.

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    1 year ago

    I feel this - I’m renting a house that has a motion sensor built into the kitchen sink. Now when I’m over someone else’s house, i can’t turn on the sink without giving a magical wave first like I’m some kind of wizard displaced in time.

    • PutangInaMo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      We put one in our kitchen and it took a few weeks for everybody to get used to not using the handle. Now everybody keeps trying to turn on every other faucet by waving lol

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      1 year ago

      I also did this until we moved out of our house that had one lol. Took a while to break the habit but man I miss that faucet. It was so finicky for others but I loved it

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    If those automatic faucets actually worked well I would probably have reached this state too. But even in 2023 they seem pretty slow to respond and don’t sense your hands half the time. I hate sitting there like an idiot waving my hand into and out of the sink trying to coax the dipshit faucet into recognizing my existence.

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      1 year ago

      This happened to me the other day. Soap all over my hands and the sink did nothing. I had to move around to try other sinks, moving around other people. Then some other dude goes to my last sink and it works just fine for him. I guess my hands don’t reflect IR light as much as his?

    • ciapatri@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I’m glad I’m not the only one with this issue. Automatic hand dryers are even worse. Those Dyson V-shaped ones NEVER turn on for me no matter what kind of hand dance I try to perform for it.

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    1 year ago

    After I got my first car with key fob lock buttons I wanted to walk up to my house front door and unlock it with a remote. After a while I actually bought a deadbolt lock with a key fob unlock.

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    1 year ago

    For me it’s the automatic toilet flashers. Not at home as I don’t expect it there, but it’s almost gotten me in those nice office or mall bathrooms that don’t have them. I wipe, get up, and walk away. Then walk back if I’m not distracted enough to NOT hear a flush.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Oh, I wish my bathroom had an automatic flusher. I flush toilets with my foot. I realize I wash my hands afterwards, but there’s something so gross about a flusher everyone uses after doing their business.

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        1 year ago

        I have done foot flushing as well but only for the nastiest of public bathrooms. I get the ickiness feeling too at times but I generally try to be respectful to the general condition of the bathroom so it doesnt trigger a bad domino effect. Nothing more jarring than going into a nice bathroom and seeing a set of shoeprints on the seat. Then other people start doing the same if they know the seats been contaminated.

    • nieceandtows@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Not a problem for me, because automatic flushers have never worked at the right time for me. They only ever work when I put down the toilet seat cover and just before sitting down.

  • Steve Anonymous@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Both of my bathrooms have motion sensor switches at home and you have no idea how many times I walk into other bathrooms and stand in the dark before I realize not all bathrooms have motion switches

  • jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    Nothing is wrong with you. You’re on autopilot. Ever spaced out and driven to the wrong place you normally drive to? I moved and then a few times I spaced out driving home from work and I drove to my old house that I don’t live at anymore. Didn’t realize it till I got there. Just autopilot. My mind was daydreaming the whole time

    What I find especially infuriating are the bathrooms with like 20 sinks with the hand motion activated faucets but only one soap dispenser which is a pump dispenser that you have to touch. Such inconsistency is annoying

  • Hemlig@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I got one of those faucets at home. It takes a while before I remember how to use a normal one when I’m at friends etc…