It’s only smart if it tells me something that I don’t already know. “Those salad greens that you bought to eat healthier have started to wilt” yes it’s me who bought them, I’ve been me my entire life
"wait till it fails!!" yes I will have to wait since I do not have a time machine and if I did I would go back in time and make it so you you came up with original replies
It's not already "server shut down 6 months ago" straight from the box?
It's not a "Smart" device if the firm didn't go through 2 restructures and 3 bailouts of 4 firms and is now registered mail only to a Martian address. ;)
There’s only one appropriate reply to a smart fridge and that’s bringing up Dorothy, our long-forgotten queen who posted from her LG fridge out of desperation
I love smart appliances. People are tripping. Do I want a reminder to my phone that I haven’t taken the wet clothes out of the washing machine, when the cycle ended 6 hours ago? Yes. I do it want to smell like spoilt milk.
"do you want your appliances to tell you what to do" yes. Yes I do. I would much rather think about my book and what to do in this next scene than whether the bread is now ash
My dad is staying with me. And, I have realized two things: 1) he often does not close the fridge door completely; 2) he can not HEAR the beep that sounds when the door is ajar.
Would an app save me from premature food spoilage (and, an aneurysm brought on from annoyance)? Yes.
I was without heat in my bedroom and study because we installed smart thermostats. They didn’t work. But then I learned all the electricities and fixed it!
We just bought a smart oven, was delivered yesterday. Black Friday deals are GREAT on appliances.
Thankfully I AM a professional tech guy so i got this. :)
That time we rented an apartment in Spain and found out I could operate the washer dryer with my phone.
Cool.
Then I found out I could operate it from at home in Canada.
Cooler!
🤭🤣🤣🤣 I was told to stay away from Samsung & LG smart refrigerators! Good luck! 😂 Following you b/c I HAVE TO KNOW how this will turn out! Give updates please!!! 💯👍🏽
I have a smart fridge.
When its contents are low (eggs, milk cheese etc) it has an automatic refill system.
I often hear it saying "Sh#t, out of milk".
Then miraculously 24 hours later, milk appears.
(the fridge voice does sound remarkably like my wife though.)🤔
😂😂😂you need to be a rocket scientist to drive the new cars. All I know is how to start and stop my car😂😂. I still look over my shoulder although I have the back up camera. Too many gadgets to learn. Be honest does anyone read the owners manual? 😂😂
I, too, have a new "smart" fridge. And a new stove and dishwasher that are also "smart." That they are wifi enabled does not mean I will connect them to my home network. Unless they can prepare a meal and clean up the dirty dishes unassisted. I would connect them for that. Otherwise, pass.
True story: a friends daughter was naughty so she took her smart phone away for a week. Daughter was found texting through the fridge.
Don’t u dare ask me how.
The only functions I'd like to see in a Smart Fridge would be: self-cleaning, ability to detect health hazards, hmm-m that's pretty much it. PS: Neither of those can be done (yet), so I don't want a Smart Fridge.
She happened to be my best friend, so we thought it was funny when I would put random pics on it. But they moved 3 hrs away and took the fridge with them. That's the only way they found to make it stop. They did have the repair guy lol at it & he said all the settings were right. It loved me though
I struggled to pay for and successfully extract a chocolate bar from a high tech vending machine last week. Meanwhile, the 9yo was ALL OVER IT. I am officially redundant.
When adding “smart” appliances to your home network, change default passwords and connect them to a different SSID on a separate vlan on your network. If possible, have a zone based firewall to further segment your IoT traffic.
🤣 Yup. I'm hoping my old "dumb fridge" continues to work until I die (i'm old; it may work out.) Years ago, I bought a cheap 26 year old fridge out of someone's garage--it was still working 10 years later. Not fancy, tiny freezer, but it worked.
No, no, no. Dude, why?
Internet of things is your weakest link in a secure home system.
Off topic, investigating a new shower the other day - effing well needs an app, for a shower, to turn on a shower WTH. Lunacy.
How we forget the struggles with technology in the early days. Ice boxes, were just that. Then came along new fangled refrigerators. They had this power cord thing and a dial inside with numbers on it! The food just rotted inside! There were no instructions how to plug it in and set the temp. 😉
We have smart ovens and hob. It snitches on me to my husband (he has the app) when I’m using it and haven’t cleaned it. ‘There is a spillage and I need cleaning’. And sends him pics of the food in the oven.
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I learned that I *had* to connect my new stove so it would "update" so that certain features (convection, for example) would even work. I got someone on the phone. He talked me through connecting, updating, and UNconnecting. Now the stove is dumb but wonderful.
Just add a new VLAN for your IoT (or add fridge to existing VLAN), then add VLAN to your network cores. Then tag the port to which it's connected with the IoT VLAN and add some routing. If your core switch is L3 capable you can do it there, or do it on your security appliance or firewall. Simples!
Currently replacing any appliance that may fail in the next 5 years to get ahead of the Trumplfation and, fortunately, while many have smart features, they don’t require them. Yet.
And the fridge is old school no frills top freezer should last for years.
I like to keep my appliances dumb.why do I need an app just to do my laundry?every time I go looking to get a new one though,all the sales people wanna push is the smart ones.sure,I want to need an app for chores and when they break down I wanna pay double to fix it.its like lipstick on a pig,imo.
You’re in luck! We’ve hacked into it just after midnight. We’ve installed a pre-paid maintenance app so we’ll take care of everything for $9/mo. BTW that non-fat milk has expired and OMG who drank all the IPA that was there yesterday!
If you don't think your smart fridge doesn't have surveillance well you're just kidding yourself. Not only will you know who drank that last beer but once it leaves the fridge a new order was placed to restock it 😂
Yeah. Seriously though, don’t leave the default addresses and passwords. Too easily hacked. Same for your network. If you do want to learn the right way to setup stuff like this use the word “tutorial” in your google (or whatever) search phrase.
Or just don't bother because you don't want the manufacturer harvesting your data until software updates run out whereupon it gets hacked and joins some bot army waging havoc across the internet.
I still have the same refrigerator I bought 18 years ago. It works perfectly and I don't have to talk to tech support to figure out how to open the door 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bought an oven that does lots of things without internet, but requires login to use the air fryer option. 😡 2 years now and still haven't used this feature. Why oh why oh why? I should get a discount since I can't fully use the thing without allowing GE to track me and my cooking.
Empathizing with others to build an empathy following:
That's frustrating when new tech doesn't match expectations. I think purchasing a product is like an agreement between you and the seller. Current marketing doesn't allow the seller to explicitly say "hey, we made this kind of complicated..."
Right?! First thing that hooked me: My kid gets up in the night to pee. Leaves the light on. "Hey Google, turn off the bathroom light." I don't even have to get out of bed. Lifesaver.
I got started with smart home tech when my wife would always say, "Let's play rock, papers, scissors to see who's going to go downstairs and cut off all the lights." I would always just be like, "Don't worry, I'll do it." 🤣 Such a lifesaver!
Just wait 'til you get a Water Flow Meter.
If you take a shower at an hour it doesn't expect it sends you a text, and an email (you're in the shower, remember?) then shuts off the water to the house after 5 minutes because there's a 'leak'.
I just listen into the signal our water meter is sending out for the water company. It send it out unencrypted every 5 minutes whether the water company meter reader is out or not, so good news I get regular updates to water usage. Bad news, so does everyone else with the right equipment.
No shade, but I will never get a smart appliance. Though I predict in the future that will be the only option and the thing won't work properly unless you connect it to the internet and subscribe to updates, like my last printer.
Well, they say that one of the advantages of the IoT is that the fridge will be the one who does the shopping
Of course, you don't have to feed it.
It's a full-fledged #WinWin, isn't it?
My smart fridge was my favorite purchase. While at work I get told how many times my teenager has left the door open, and how long it was left open. I finally set it up to message him. So he gets the text, "Please, help me, it's getting hot in here..."
I spend so much time on my phones/tablet/pc that I refuse to use anything else thay has a touch screen on it. They're an option, but sometimes you have to look for a while to get a good one
Home shopping and I’m at the verge of asking sales associates for their stupid appliances. Just as analog as you can get. I want the motor operated by a hamster on a treadmill.
I had one, and it broke. It was not really helpful as all it did was tell me that it was unrepairable. Like it just suddenly stopped doing cool shit one day.
A fridge that tattles if you leave the door open while you try to decide between Red Bull or a bottle of water? I suppose your daughter has to text you now to shut the damn door?
Your washer sends you a text that it's finished? If you're nearby, it thinks you can't hear it when it stops? If you're away, it thinks you'll come back to it and put the wet things in the dryer?
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It's not already "server shut down 6 months ago" straight from the box?
It's not a "Smart" device if the firm didn't go through 2 restructures and 3 bailouts of 4 firms and is now registered mail only to a Martian address. ;)
Would an app save me from premature food spoilage (and, an aneurysm brought on from annoyance)? Yes.
Thankfully I AM a professional tech guy so i got this. :)
Cool.
Then I found out I could operate it from at home in Canada.
Cooler!
When its contents are low (eggs, milk cheese etc) it has an automatic refill system.
I often hear it saying "Sh#t, out of milk".
Then miraculously 24 hours later, milk appears.
(the fridge voice does sound remarkably like my wife though.)🤔
Don’t u dare ask me how.
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When adding “smart” appliances to your home network, change default passwords and connect them to a different SSID on a separate vlan on your network. If possible, have a zone based firewall to further segment your IoT traffic.
HAL Fridge: I'm afraid I can't do that.
I can’t wait until manufacturers come out with “featureless” appliances that just do the job efficiently without calling the mother ship.
Internet of things is your weakest link in a secure home system.
Off topic, investigating a new shower the other day - effing well needs an app, for a shower, to turn on a shower WTH. Lunacy.
It'll check out size of said arse and recommend correct exercise regime, maybe?
Shower is a digital mixer gone mad and price elevated to £1,100+
Dobbing bastards.
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Oh, and more fun when the manufacturer stops supporting it in 5 years and a hacker uses it in a botnet. Or the smart part just stops working.
And the fridge is old school no frills top freezer should last for years.
😁
#memes #startrek #satire
My brother has one of those. Pretty sweet, really.
Just a thought ;-)
also couldn't BlueSky have trumped Xitter by having an edit post function?!
Don’t do that.
A fridge connected to a WiFi is not a fridge.
4....... 3.....
Studied net in college. My router is smarter than I am :D
That's frustrating when new tech doesn't match expectations. I think purchasing a product is like an agreement between you and the seller. Current marketing doesn't allow the seller to explicitly say "hey, we made this kind of complicated..."
And yes, I know it's spying on me.
If you take a shower at an hour it doesn't expect it sends you a text, and an email (you're in the shower, remember?) then shuts off the water to the house after 5 minutes because there's a 'leak'.
A fridge in Netherlands was connected to the internet on 12-Jul-1998 and since then it has been opened 134,612 times
https://www.icepick.com/measurements/fridge.php
I have to out my family to an app in order to rinse my dishes.
Of course, you don't have to feed it.
It's a full-fledged #WinWin, isn't it?
My best troll yet.
(I’m sorry, it’s early)
And, check out your fridge on YouTube. You’ll get faster how to results for the basics.
🙂
About anything. Ever.
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There is some value there
It's like a Wattpad drama.
Gosh, it's like a bad boyfriend.