Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.

• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In theory it would be cool to track inventory automatically for restocking, and you could have an app where owner can pay things to the fridge for the rest of the family to see.

  In practice nobody would use that app, whiteboards are more fun, and it would never be able to tell what’s in containers of leftovers.

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember back when YouTube just started showing ads. I knew they had ads for a few months, but i have never seen one. One night i was watching something on YouTube with my roommate, and an ad showed up. It was about a barcode scanner. They showed why you need a barcode scanner. They kept showing the uses of the barcode scanner. Put a barcode on your garbage bin, so you can scan it and scan what you threw away, so you know. We never skipped it and the ad just kept going. It was super weird, and it reminds me of a Tim Heidecker sketch, where you wait until they run out of ideas for barcode scanner uses, but they never did. Not for a second have i thought about buying one while watching this 45 min commercial, and i think people are delusional when they think they track their groceries with their smart fridge like that.

    Unless they are like turbo autistic, then more power to them.

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    • Quadhammer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The fridge would have to passively scan stuff but it would feel weird spying on groceries like that to me

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I never understood why anyone would buy one in the first place.

  Because fucking idiots buy anything with a screen, over anything with a slightly smaller screen.

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• Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I might put some zigbee door sensors on my fridge so I can get an alert when it’s left open. My 3yo has learned to open the freezer and while it does make a noise, so do a lot of things in my house so I might not notice straight away. Maybe an internal temperature sensor as well? Ok, now you’ve got me thinking, imma turn my fridge into a T1000 but at least it won’t try and sell me anything.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I only like home automation in the sense “light goes on if something moves” because that works offline.

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  • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m definitely with you on that. I won’t buy any smart devices that require internet connections these days. And when looking to automate things, I’m much more likely to be buying a dumb device and a smart plug, rather than a smart device. That way I can still manually use the device if and when the automation side fails somewhere along the line.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      they also tend to be more prone to breaking than a non-smart appliance.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  if they return it, or trying to scrap it, the customer would have to admit to themselves they bought an overpriced FRIDGE that couldve cost less than a thousand.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  or a smart oven, someone that would buy a smart fridge would buy smart appliances. there was a post on reddit where someone complained about thier smart oven not working because it cant connect to thier internet.

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