What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol
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HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 14 minutes ago
Reygle@lemmy.world 28 minutes ago
I have a friend who’s really big in to smoking meats for hours and hours and days at a time. He loves this kind of thing because he can monitor the smoker without physically being in front of it.
I think he’s crazy af for involving the damned internet in it but I guess it is what it is when you’re “cooking” something for 9 hours.
AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’m an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Pay me? Fuck yes, I’ll rip that crap out and replace it with a couple of relays or maybe get fancy and arduino -> home assistant.
I’m betting that someone pay a LOT extra to get that garbage though.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I will never need a wifi connected kitchen appliance. A grill fits that category. My daily driver is a 2009 Toyota. Its great. No screens and easy to fix.
mndckr@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
Just out of curiosity… What are you doing to your grill that you need a new one every few years? Mine is prob. 10 years old and still no reason in sight to replace it.
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
Sending a temp updates to your phone so you don’t have to be standing near it the whole time is a nice feature.
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
My dad’s smoker is also able to set key frames so you can have it ramp up or down in temp at various points while cooking. And it can either be set to change temp at a time or when one of the probes reaches a certain temp.
tankfox@midwest.social 3 hours ago
I have a Masterbuilt that has optional firmware updates sometimes, nothing mandatory and certainly nothing automatic. It’s a gravity fed charcoal grill that works like a computer controlled forced air rocket stove. Gets up to 700 degs from cold in 10 mins if I want or hold 225 for the rest of time as long as I keep feeding charcoal into the hopper and emptying the ash bin. The computer is adding actual value.
No soggy pellets, no weird feeding issues, the biggest problem I’ve had with it was the hatch sensors all going out over time, but once I jumped the circuit past them it worked fine again to this very day, going on six years now.
seejur@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Actually the smoker is probably the only one thing I want software on and wifi (but yeah we could do without the updates unless there is some sort of bugs that turn it into a killing machine)
setnof@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Yesterday my WIFI air purifier crashed after changing the speed with the app and turned itself off and even caused the Ethernet switch to crash and hang.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
But supposed they invented a whole new kind of meat and your grill wasn’t ready to deal with it? How would you feel then? Pretty darn silly, that’s how!
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I love my charcoal grill
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
With cooking normal beats all.
Gas, coal > electric shit
allan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 seconds ago
Ovens?
Shapillon@lemmy.world 2 minutes ago
eh, induction stoves are nice.
Wolf@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
There was a silly little movie in the 80’s called “Maximum Overdrive”, written and directed by Stephen King.
In it Aliens somehow cause machines to ‘turn’ on human beings and attack us.
They could remake that movie now but instead of Aliens causing the machines to attack people, it could be malicious ‘hackers’ that do it, and it would be more believable that the original film.
ICastFist@programming.dev 15 minutes ago
The plot that kicks off Battlestar Galactica (2004) happens because pretty much everything uses wireless communications, including most systems within the space ships
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You could hack a futuristic firmware upgradable power knife, but how do you hack it to hack off fingers?
Aliens had the supernatural power to be the machines
A self driving tesla trapping people in a gas station is 100% more believable than the semi.
Something is there…
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
I feel like hackers would always have been more believable than aliens.
Wolf@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
You can’t really (remotely) hack a machine that doesn’t have wireless capabilities or computer chips in them.
In the movie it was just regular, non electronic machines like (pre-computerized) diesel trucks and lawnmowers etc.
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The original story was written before the Internet and so before hackers even existed. One of Stephen King’s cocaine fever dreams iirc.
funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
*Brought to you by Samsung.
ChiefPulaski@startrek.website 9 hours ago
when you buy a wifi-grill you kind of missed the point of grilling.
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s great for smoking though. I’ve done it the old fashioned way of staying up all night to feed wood into the smoker and I’ll gladly take the wifi-enabled pellet smoker with a temperature probe over it.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Why do you need wifi? You turn a knob and fill it with pellets every couple hours.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I have a Traeger and saved $200 because it was the model without WiFi.
I made a delicious turkey breast on Independence Day
derg@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Jokes on you when they invent a new kind of meat your grill can’t cook
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
It can do bread and the best tasting broccoli and Brussels sprouts you’ve ever had
match@pawb.social 18 hours ago
raw shrimp on a grill staying completely uncooked next to grilled chicken and steak because you don’t have the DRM for SeaPak©️ shrimp (photorealistic, art station, comedy, vivid)
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Are you live from your backyard where you’re smoking meats?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Nah, I’ve got a Bluetooth thermometer so I can track it while I play video games
Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
🎵. meat like a brisket. 🎶
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Realistically they probably didn’t use the traeger until the 4th, so they were about a year behind on “updates”
Unless you’re my dad, then he finds any excuses he can to use his traeger. The thing can smoke a damn good brisket, software updates be damned!
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I will never own a grill that has to connect to wifi. In fact, I actively avoid any appliance that adds unnecessary IOT functionality.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 18 hours ago
That was me until HomeAssistant and ESPHome
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Oh shit, I didn’t know about ESPhome. There goes my free time!
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
At least with ESPHome and other local-only devices they only update when you actually tell them to update.
riskable@programming.dev 17 hours ago
I know, right? Why send my BBQ data to the cloud when I can just cook with a handful of GPUs, locally? To start the grill you just ask the animated waifu to dance and sing a random, AI-generated song that matches your taste in music. Then the fans spin up and send scrumptious GPU heat into the grill, cooking up a delicious hallucination where you’re animated waifu sings, “That looks yummy! Yummy yummy yummy hai hai hai!”
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Perform Bad Apple using the most complex geometric shapes possible.
Taleya@aussie.zone 16 hours ago
We’re starting to add some IoT stuff (mostly sockets and leak sensors) but it had to wait until i’d built a beefier firewall and the HA server. 'Cos that shit is not leaving the house
atthecoast@feddit.nl 2 hours ago
Forwarded this to someone at Traeger. Will let you know if I hear back 🙂
unmagical@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
What are the chances they shipped it on Thanksgiving vs Thanksgiving being the first time in a while the user turned it on?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
This, but why does it need a firmware update and why couldn’t it be setup to update on shutdown rather then power on?
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
Why does it have firmware?
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Can we go back to dumb tech?
AniZaeger@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m a casino slot tech. Don’t even get me started on the electronic table games that still use a dealer. Like Scotty said, “The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.”.
vxx@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
To not connect it to the Internet would probably help.
cobysev@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I guarantee this update didn’t drop on Thanksgiving. Photo OP probably hasn’t turned it on since their last BBQ months ago and is just noticing - on Thanksgiving - that an update pushed a while ago that they now need to install to get started.
Pro tip: Start up your electronics a day or two in advance of events, so you can pre-patch anything that needs it.
Source: Former IT guy here, who had to ensure that updates ran at the most convenient times possible for thousands of users. “Patching Tuesday” is an unofficial but well recognized “holiday” for IT folks. It’s not first thing Monday morning, which could throw off the workflow for the week, but it also gives the max amount of time to resolve any issues that patching might cause, so we (hopefully) don’t have to work through the weekend.
Pay attention to when your stuff requires patches. A lot of the time, it’ll pop up on Tuesdays.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Source: Former IT guy here, who had to ensure that updates ran at the most convenient times possible for thousands of users.
I used to work at a theater owned by a city. So we used the city’s IT department, and their network. During COVID, live-streaming took off. The city wanted us to install a streaming video package. After a month or two of installing a full video system, we finally get around to testing the stream. Boot up AWS, and it runs fine. We’re streaming in full 4K. Great!
So the show rolls around. It’s Saturday, 7:30pm start time. We start the show… And the stream instantly shits the bed. Like we go from full gigabit upload speed, to less than a single megabit. We’re lucky to get 56kbps speeds. We’re getting one or two frames per second if we’re lucky.
Sunday, we test the stream ahead of time, and it works flawlessly. Show starts, and the upload speed drops to fucking dial up.
Monday morning rolls around, and IT strolls in to check their tickets. Sees a hundred from us, and gives us a call. They run a test on their end. No issues. They run a test on AWS. No issues. They run a test on the fiber backbone between the theater and city hall. No issues. They call the ISP. ISP said they didn’t have any issues over the weekend. IT shrugs, and marks the tickets as solved.
Next weekend, same thing. We’re wondering if IT is automatically throttling us, or if we have a malicious user on the network. We’re asking about QoS, or maybe automatic port control kicking in when the stream starts. Monday rolls around, and IT marks it as solved again.
Third weekend, same thing. This time, the city manager’s office is getting calls from angry patrons who paid for streaming and can’t watch their streams. Monday morning, IT rolls up. They run some more tests, and still can’t find anything wrong. They swear up and down that it’s nothing on their end, and it must be something on ours.
After four months of this back and forth, IT finally admits that they have all of their maintenance tasks to run at 7:30 over the weekend. Every single computer, server, and fucking toaster connected to the city network begins their updates at exactly 7:30. Thousands of city devices, all singularly focused on devouring our upload speeds. Servers run off-site backups. Those backups consume all of the upload speeds for the entire city network. IT refuses to change the time, because “this is what works for us. It’s after city hall closes, so we don’t have any users who are affected. It hasn’t been a problem in the past.”
rekabis@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
And in those four months, did no-one think of firing up WireShark to see what was floating across that network during that time period?
Seems like someone dropped the debug/analysis ball…
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 13 hours ago
Pro tip: don’t buy a fucking BBQ that connects to the Internet.
No appliances in general while we’re at it
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Seriously. “Start it a day early” My brother in Christ why does your grill need wifi? Do you get updates when the steak is ready?!
ZMonster@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Have tons of devices that can connect to the Internet. Apparently I’m the only one here resourceful enough to not connect them
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
pro tip
I get it. I hate it, but I get it.
another pro tip from someone else in IT: see that appliance with the digital screen? fuck it. don’t get it. get the old shitty one that’s $800 less that doesn’t have WiFi or non-tactile buttons. you know what doesn’t need firmware updates? a charcoal Weber grill.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Thanks, but i prefer most utilities without wifi and need of patching.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Pro tip; use electronics that are stable and user focused.
Good shout on patvh tues tho.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Tuesday is the perfect day for it. Finish up the update on Friday, review it and fix where you probably fucked up something and didn’t notice on Monday, push it the next day.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
What happens if the grill resets anyway? You get back to the default wallpaper?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
A grill should run on charcoal. It needs to get very hot and that’s literally it.
There’s a universe where I attach some electronic controller with a PID loop or something to a smoker, to maintain consistent temperatures via damper control. I’m not buying that off the shelf built into the machine though.
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Traeger makes pellet smokers. They have a hopper full of wood pellets and a micro controller that feeds in pellets to maintain a set temperature. You can get ones with a temperature probe to stick in the meat and let you know when it’s done, which is what the Wi-Fi is for.
There’s a legit use case for them because they save a ton of time and effort over smoking the traditional way.
xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 8 hours ago
wifi grill - okay cloud grill - not okay
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Uses a PID controller too.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
A grill should run on charcoal.
Someone insert the KOTH reference, I’m too tired, I tell you hwat
grue@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Hank is wrong. If all you care about is the “heat,” you might as well go inside and cook on your stove!
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 11 hours ago
I just recently watched the episode where Bobby and Peggy get hooked on charcoal
Bluewing@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
While I agree that real charcoal is superior in every way, a good grill and the person running it needs to be able to control the temperature while cooking. It might be just fine to burn those hot dogs or hamburger patties, but if I want to roast a potato or an onion, I need to be able to control the heat to something less than the surface of the sun.
tankfox@midwest.social 3 hours ago
You’re describing the gravity fed charcoal grills from masterbuilt and I love mine. Especially when I toss in a cast iron pan full of bacon and run it at 450 for half an hour.
grue@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
There’s a universe where I attach some electronic controller with a PID loop or something to a smoker, to maintain consistent temperatures via damper control. I’m not buying that off the shelf built into the machine though.
I really ought to finish putting together my HeaterMeter.
tnarg42@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
…The sort of grill I will never buy.
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
It’s a smoker with wireless controls
Instead of having to keep checking on it for several hours, an app on your phone will show the temperature and allow temperature adjustments online
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I like my home automation tech but it needs to serve a purpose. Just being connected to wifi is not a selling point for me. Lights that turn on in the morning when I need to wake up are great. A thermostat that can reduce energy usage when nobody is home is also great. But a grill….what the fuck does Internet access do to improve the grilling experience?
And if it requires the cloud to work, I don’t consider it a functional product.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
Yet more reasons that charcoal/firewood is superior.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Imagine a grill without the latest firewall
Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 hours ago
Ah hell yes. Fire 2.0 finally dropped.
davidagain@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The same kind of grill that can be bricked remotely if you stop paying for software updates.
sundray@lemmus.org 20 hours ago
“Le Firmware? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?”
buttnugget@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I wouldn’t use it, but if you want one with software then there’s nothing wrong with it updating.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
A GPU?
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Idk I just simply wouldn’t buy the wifi grill
quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 16 hours ago
semi related
Hacking My Smart Grill - Intercepting SSL to AWS Services via Firmware Modification ~> www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tH6VU6chEc
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Not to defend this practice but my guess is that the firmware was released before Thanksgiving, but the owner didn’t turn on the grill until Thanksgiving, which is when the grill picked up the firmware.
Guy is still an idiot for buying a device that REQUIRES Internet access.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 minutes ago
The nosy kind