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Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times

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Post by tibbydudeza »

globular-toast wrote: post #10

Wow, 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…

When you have kids you will understand - open the door - looks at the contents - frowns and then closes it again repeated several times during the day.

"I was looking for something nice".

Explaining that we shop once a week and that the fridge won't magically fill with popsicles before that does not seem to make a difference.

Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times

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Post by teekert »

aspaviento wrote: post #58
teekert wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm thinking, all a glass bottle of Ketchup needs is a smart fridge able to detect that last bit and warn you about how hard it will be to get it out and offer advice on how to do so. Maybe some gamification could be thrown in, get more kudos the less you leave in? Yeah I'm filing patents and will contact Heinz... Think about the opportunity for notifications!

What about... turning it upside down and let graivity do its job?

That could be something the fridge can suggest, in email+notification+display on the outside [in flashing red]! You're on to something here!

Maybe the slapping hand (that warns you you've opened the fridge enough for the day) can be used to slap the back of the Ketchup bottle as well.

Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times

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Post by [deleted] »

madaxe_again wrote: post #7

41 times in a day is a lot of door opens, and suggests they need a separate beverage fridge. That should’ve been the message - give the customer a solution, make a sale - but instead, they just went for shame. Folks really underestimate how much opening them door (and then usually leaving it open while you deliberate) wastes energy, and food. If I’m cooking three meals in the day, the fridge gets opened maybe five ti…

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Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times

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Post by cascom »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #55
cirrrrrrus wrote: post #27

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> 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’d love to shop there. If I had enough time and money I would start a company specializing in just this: home and office hardware (from kitchen appliances to smartphones and players) designed with care and focus on offline-friendliness, autonomousness, durability, ease of repair, configurability, hackability, upgradability and privacy without compromise in features and the UX. I believe the potential market, altho…

This would be great - it’s such a sad state of affairs that there is a need for products that “just fo what they’re supposed to do - without acting against my best interests”

Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times

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Post by aaronmdjones »

hamburgerwah wrote: post #37

I am mystified by people that will give appliances access to a network.

Appliances are starting to come with their own integrated 3G/4G modems these days. You don't need to give them access to anything; they already have it.

Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times

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Post by andrepd »

qw wrote: post #57
teekert wrote: post #2

It 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…

It seems most "UX" tends to be less about the user and more about exposing the product. One example is the pause screens in Netflix and other streaming services. I sometimes want to pause the screen to read a letter or examine easter eggs left by the movie producers. I can't do that, as Netflix has a semi-transparent overlay with lots of unnecessary graphics and voting buttons. Half the screen is also covered with th…

Absolutely! The top issue with model universally terrible UX is precisely trying to bring attention to itself rather than simply being the most efficient means to an end: interacting with the software.

Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times

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Post by Doctor_Fegg »

blitzar wrote: post #26

I 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.

> a) our fridge broke last year early pandemic & our landlord replaced it, we didn't really have a choice

Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times

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Post by lotsofpulp »

adriand wrote: post #60
shellfishgene wrote: post #39

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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 r…

That is very funny but speaking in practical terms, and not about UX, how does a feature like this work in practice? Does Allah respond to prayers emitted by electronics? Or is the idea that the human is supposed to recite the prayer along with the recording?

The idea is to keep people in line within the tribe by forcing rituals.

Re: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

adriand wrote: post #60
shellfishgene wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 r…

That is very funny but speaking in practical terms, and not about UX, how does a feature like this work in practice? Does Allah respond to prayers emitted by electronics? Or is the idea that the human is supposed to recite the prayer along with the recording?

I have the same odd question about listening to contemporary Christian radio stations - does one become holier when the music is playing instead of the top 40 pop station?
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