Ok, but my dishwasher _does_ demand I give it more salt and rinse aid ;)

It was one of Phil K. Dick jokes that one day your toaster will make a lost of demands to you.

Once you actually use the toaster the hierarchy inverts. The toaster runs your entire household while it is powered on.

Unattended ChatGPT will rarely burn your breakfast or start fires.

In the house pecking order the printer takes definitely the top. Demanding the printer to print something??? You rather submit an polite request and pray for a positive answer in a manageable interval of time. And don't start me on remote scanning.

That makes me think of talkie toaster from Red Dwarf though.

at least it's not as big a whiner as that robot I made to butter the damn toast.