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Kids
Yep, keeping ur kids in the fridge is a great way to keep them fresh for weeks :)
Just open the door every 20 minutes or so to check on them.
Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
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Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
#32How long until some manufacturer sells a basic fridge and then a 'frequent use service pack' monthly fee that lets you open the door more than the standard number of times a day?
Can I roll over my unused opens from today to tomorrow?
No, but eventually the regulators will catch up and force the fridge companies to simply charge you by the second for the time the doors are opened above some generous free plan.
Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
#33I think this guys point is that he needs everyone to know he paid an extra $2,000 for a 'smart' fridge. All while mentioning that he doesnt want or like the 'smart' bit.
Well the risk is if the appliances world goes the way of TV panel displays, where the 'smart' component is used to finance a cheaper TV by later selling your data to advertisers/broadcasters. It could be that tomorrow the Smart fridge is the cheaper option because the manufacturer will use your data to price-cut the competitors initial price tag. It could be that in a not so far future you will pay a premium for havi…
Absolutely, but unlike the TV example today if you want 'smart' in your fridge you have to actively seek it out and hand over a pile of extra cash.
It is hard to have sympathy for a person complaining about a feature, they say they didnt want, that they specifically paid a lot of extra money for.
But it turns out he litterally did it so he could go on twitter and moan about it.
Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
#34I think this guys point is that he needs everyone to know he paid an extra $2,000 for a 'smart' fridge. All while mentioning that he doesnt want or like the 'smart' bit.
Especially since he configured some kind of app or service and let it know his email address.
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#35Be glad it doesn't (yet) shame your eco-ignorance on Facebook, doesn't tell your insurance company you occasionally buy bacon and doesn't call the police for you infringing their intellectual property by refusing to buy new genuine filters often enough. "Smart" home devices which are not open-source and not under your full control are a horror. I would break it open and remove the WiFi antenna if I had no choice of b…
> can't have lidars and map your home (while I can see no reason why this has to require Internet access and can't be implemented an autonomous way). This is a great comment. I would love smart appliances (e.g. Lidar-equipped robot vacuum cleaner) that are 100% offline. If anyone has a list of smart yet offline appliances, I’d love to shop there.
I can remember someone mentioned an old model (supposedly possible to find on eBay) which could be hacked to run a vendor-imitating server on itself and connect to it via localhost.
Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
#36Wow, 44 times a day, on average! That's about once every 20 minutes for the entire day. I can't imagine why anyone would need to access the fridge that often. It's almost like they don't understand what the fridge is for. Anyway, if you don't want this, don't buy it. They either wired their fridge into their network or gave it access to their wifi. What, exactly, did they expect? The guy even keeps saying "it's just…
He explains that his landlord bought the fridge and he has kids who are opening the fridge a lot.
He goes on to explain he connected it to the internet for 'us' so he could moan about it.
Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
#37I am mystified by people that will give appliances access to a network.
Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
#38I think this guys point is that he needs everyone to know he paid an extra $2,000 for a 'smart' fridge. All while mentioning that he doesnt want or like the 'smart' bit.
Especially since he configured some kind of app or service and let it know his email address.
Vendors tend to offer perks for that, like extended warranties, so it's hard to really blame them.
The e-mail history at https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1436030530781278210 makes it plausible that the account was set up to make use of whatever the "LG Proactive Customer Care" nonsense is.
Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
#39It should also have an arm on the door to slap your hand when you open it for the 41st time in a day. I mean, that's insane, you deserve a slap. Btw, this reminds me a bit of my parent's Renault that would tell me every damn time I started it to follow traffic regulations. I wish I could slap that car and it would feel it. And then there's my father-in-law's Mazda, which has a GPS system that sometimes finds him 200…
Some cars in arab countries have a feature where the "travel prayer" is recited via the speakers upon starting the car. It takes about one minute [1]. Fortunately our company car hat a button to turn the feature off. Of course we always turned it back on to annoy the next (non-muslim western) car user. Saudi airlines also plays the prayer (or used to?), however by someone with a really deep voice and with cave-like reverb, which made is sound quite unlike any other airplane announcement. [2]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGCPtF6XVIY [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_TVsxFChrk
Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can I roll over my unused opens from today to tomorrow?
No, but eventually the regulators will catch up and force the fridge companies to simply charge you by the second for the time the doors are opened above some generous free plan.
If I get behind on my opening allowence I will just have to stay up till midnight when my opens reset, grab everything I can and stack it on the counter for the day.