{"id":68920,"date":"2025-05-02T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/68920\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:09:14","slug":"hot-day-missing-remote-rs-50000-cr-man-sridhar-vembu-shares-smart-fan-problems-netizens-hilarious-3-step-fix-wins-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/68920\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot day, missing remote: Rs 50,000 cr man, Sridhar Vembu, shares &#8216;smart fan&#8217; problems. Netizen\u2019s hilarious 3-step fix wins the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Magazines#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/zoho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zoho<\/a> founder <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Magazines#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/panache\/panache-people-101\/sridhar-vembu\/profileshow\/83065753.cms\" rel=\"noopener\">Sridhar Vembu<\/a> recently took to X to vent about a surprisingly relatable struggle \u2014 turning on a fan. In a humorous post, he described how \u201csmart\u201d technology made something as simple as staying cool on a hot day unnecessarily complicated. His post quickly went viral, prompting a flood of reactions. But one netizen\u2019s tongue-in-cheek 3-step solution, complete with a God\u2019s photo, stole the show \u2014 and the internet\u2019s laughter.Sridhar Vembu, a man of Rs 50,000 crore recently shared a lighthearted complaint about the &#8220;smart&#8221; fans installed in his office\u2019s new block. These fans, which are operated via remote control, also require a wall switch to be turned on first. However, once the switch is on, users still need to locate the remote, which often vanishes under what he amusingly referred to as &#8220;engineer <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Magazines#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/desk-debris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">desk debris<\/a>&#8221; (EDD). On hot days, this multi-step process to simply turn on a fan has become unexpectedly frustrating for Vembu, leading him to sarcastically reflect on whether this is truly technological progress.<br \/>Internet reactsSeveral users chimed in with humorous and practical suggestions in response to Sridhar Vembu\u2019s post. One laid out a three-step hack involving mounting the remote on the wall, chaining it so it can\u2019t be moved, and placing a photo of a deity nearby as a cheeky reminder that \u201cGod is watching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Back to recommendation stories<\/p>\n<p>Another user called remote-controlled fans pointless, joking that things could get worse if users are asked to operate them via an app. Some proposed smarter alternatives, like motion-sensor fans that switch on when someone enters a room and off when they leave. Others imagined a future where even fans would need to be AI-enabled to solve basic usability issues. Many agreed that in a public setting, the best solution might be to simply fix the remote to the wall permanently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu recently took to X to vent about a surprisingly relatable struggle \u2014 turning on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[34658,3082,34654,34656,34652,34655,34650,34657,34659,53,34653,16,15,34651],"class_list":{"0":"post-68920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-desk-debris","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-internet-humor","11":"tag-remote-control-fan","12":"tag-smart-fan-problems","13":"tag-social-media-reactions","14":"tag-sridhar-vembu","15":"tag-sridhar-vembus-post","16":"tag-tech-complaints","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-technology-issues","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-zoho"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114439347631509533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}