The Letters to the Editor of today's Australian Newpaper has a comment from a reader that he heard a Radio Caller to a Talkback station complaining that (because of the Optus outage) "their automatic cat feeder wouldn't work and pussy cat wasn't happy."
The Letter writer went on to say that "Resorting to manually feeding your cat is easy but it does make you wonder how much technology has taken over our lives and this didn't even involve AI."
Further comment escapes me.