• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
      2·
      57 minutes ago

      Throughout history mankind has suffered the burden of stupid fridges. We need to celebrate this momentous breakthrough.

  • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Dave , Daaaave . You’ve had too much ice cream tonight Dave. Eat some vegetables Dave, they are good for you

  • Tigeroovy@lemmy.caEnglish
    29·
    7 hours ago

    I’m never buying a “smart” appliance for my home if I can help it.

    None of these need this shit. Give me basic ass buttons. I just need my fridge to be cold, make ice, and spit out water. That’s as smart as I want.

    None of these things need a wifi connection.

    This is the old man hill I will die on.

    • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      I’m all in favor of smart appliances… as long as they don’t connect to the Internet. Give me a local HomeAssistant integration. That way, I can check what’s in my refrigerator from my bed without worrying about it showing me ads.

      • toddestan@lemmy.world
        1·
        16 minutes ago

        If I really wanted something like that, I’d just buy a dumb fridge and rig up a camera inside of it.

    • FelixCress@lemmy.world
      15·
      3 hours ago

      I just need my fridge to be cold, make ice, and spit out water. That’s as smart as I want.

      Yeah, the same applies to wives. She just needs to be hot, make dinners and swallow rather than spitting out. That’s as smart as I want.

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
    29·
    8 hours ago

    I once asked why anybody would want a smart fridge. Most people didn’t seem to know. The most common answer was that it could act as a focal point for a busy family for keeping track of things like appointments.

    So, like a blackboard/whiteboard, cork board, or even a normal fridge, some paper, and magnets.

    I’m no Luddite. I’ve got smart lamps so i can change the lighting in my living room & bedroom without getting up. And I’m looking into heating so i can have my heating come on when i leave work, rather than at a specific time. That saves effort and money.

    But i just see no reason whatsoever for anybody to have a smart fridge.

    • Mwalimu
      7·
      4 hours ago

      “Luddite” has been turned into a slur over time but it is actually a view point that humans should have a say on what technology does to them and for who. They were not technophobes. They were technodeterminists.

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      8 hours ago

      I would very much like a tablet on the wall, like a digital cork board/calendar/photo frame etc

      Building it into the fridge with what I assume are zero options about the actual software involved ain’t it though.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      13·
      7 hours ago

      Do you leave work at different times each day and week that you don’t know about until you are at work?

      Unless you do, a regular programmable thermostat would be fine.

      • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        5 hours ago

        This might surprise you, but some people work jobs with alternating schedules.

        I’d imagine it’s pretty annoying to reprogram the thermostat every other week or w/e.

        • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          12·
          5 hours ago

          And it isn’t annoying to have to log into your thermostat every day?

          • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            2·
            3 hours ago

            Log in every day? Many, if not most, smart thermostat apps have location based features to automatically handle the use case OP had mentioned. You can set it up one time and pretty much never need to interact with it again.

            • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              12·
              49 minutes ago

              So your thermostat is tracking your location by GPS to know when to turn on?

              I mean, I guess at least I can see how someone might benefit from it I suppose. I certainly don’t want that though.

              • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                2·
                38 minutes ago

                Nobody was asking what you want.

                Nobody here is trying to sell you on one of these, you just jumped in to tell us how you cant fathom why someone would want one and were offered a reasonably common use case as an answer.

  • ohlaph@lemmy.world
    57·
    12 hours ago

    Lol. As a software engineer, give me the non-smart version of every appliance, home feature, and television. It’s why I went with a projector over a TV.

  • YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 hours ago

    I only know about this thing because louis rossman made a video on it and it’s just… Do you really go to your fridge to watch movies or listen to music? Do you really need cameras on the inside of your fridge? It’s so weird