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Re: I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?

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Post by dangrossman »

DaniloDias wrote: post #11
beervirus wrote: post #7

What a crock of shit that grills are now IoT devices. The less of my life that’s accessible on the Internet, the better.

Way prefer a grill with an IP address to an oven or refrigerator.

"Alexa, set my oven to bake at 375" is something you hear several times a week in my house. ️

Now my dishwasher, that's got wifi as well and that one I don't really get. The only command it accepts is to tell me how many dishwasher detergent pods I have left. To have it track that, I have to tell it whenever I buy more pods, and it subtracts one every time I run a dishwashing cycle.

Re: I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?

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Post by lostlogin »

beervirus wrote: post #7

What a crock of shit that grills are now IoT devices. The less of my life that’s accessible on the Internet, the better.

Lan accessible devices can be amazing. Automatic on and off of various devices and removal of crap proprietary controllers and apps has made many things much better. Home Assistant running in Docker on a Synology 918 is easily the best tech I have every bought.

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Post by SlashmanX »

dangrossman wrote: post #21
DaniloDias wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Way prefer a grill with an IP address to an oven or refrigerator.

"Alexa, set my oven to bake at 375" is something you hear several times a week in my house. ️ Now my dishwasher, that's got wifi as well and that one I don't really get. The only command it accepts is to tell me how many dishwasher detergent pods I have left. To have it track that, I have to tell it whenever I buy more pods, and it subtracts one every time I run a dishwashing cycle.

You could probably hook that up to grocy[0]

[0] - https://grocy.info/

Re: I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?

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Post by TeMPOraL »

beervirus wrote: post #7

What a crock of shit that grills are now IoT devices. The less of my life that’s accessible on the Internet, the better.

Yeah, and some people over at [0] are insisting that there's no way cheap cellular connectivity will mean you'll have 5G in your toaster. No way anyone would do that. smh.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273340

Re: I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?

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Post by crazygringo »

beervirus wrote: post #7

What a crock of shit that grills are now IoT devices. The less of my life that’s accessible on the Internet, the better.

I saw from another thread that this is actually for the temperature of a meat thermometer, that you can constantly monitor and without having to open the grill (which is undesirable).

So actually not a crock of shit, and pretty useful if you're grilling/smoking over long periods of time before/during a big party or something. Not all grilling is quick searing.

Sometimes new features aren't just gimmicks, you know?

Re: I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?

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Post by TeMPOraL »

DaniloDias wrote: post #11
beervirus wrote: post #7

What a crock of shit that grills are now IoT devices. The less of my life that’s accessible on the Internet, the better.

Way prefer a grill with an IP address to an oven or refrigerator.

Hope it's not a gas grill, or you may be one zero-day short of a remotely-activated IED.

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Post by detaro »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #25
beervirus wrote: post #7

What a crock of shit that grills are now IoT devices. The less of my life that’s accessible on the Internet, the better.

Yeah, and some people over at [0] are insisting that there's no way cheap cellular connectivity will mean you'll have 5G in your toaster. No way anyone would do that. smh. -- [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273340

There's somewhat of a difference between "people will buy a premium product with 'smart' features" (a wireless meat thermometer in this case) and "they will put 5G chips into everything to spy on us even if we just want a dumb device"

Re: I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?

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Post by syntheticnature »

beervirus wrote: post #7

What a crock of shit that grills are now IoT devices. The less of my life that’s accessible on the Internet, the better.

And, as was in the reply tweets, it's not an IoT grill.

It's a thermometer app for a Bluetooth thermometer.

https://www.weber.com/US/en/igrill/weber-25969.html

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