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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
This is definitely on the horizon and future generations won’t even be aware of a time when you didn’t pay a subscription for every aspect of life. (TikTok screencap)
Draper's law: Any screen a company can control will eventually display ads.
Smart fridges don't even improve storing food.
I won't buy a smart fridge until they can play Tetris with the food inside.
We've seen how this goes: Eventually if you need a new fridge, you won't have a choice.
Do you really want a row of your food disappeared when you arrange it neatly?
Just don't get the screen wet, if the screen is broken, the fridge won't work for "safety" reasons.
This reminds me. I need to call my uncle and ask him about that Fridge at his country place that's been running since 1994. He's selling his place and I want that fridge!
It's been running since 1994? He should probably think about catching it!
Sadly, fridges are the one appliance that uses the most energy, it runs 24/7, so running an older model will cost you a lot in the long term. I have a 20 year old fridge that hasn't had a problem ever, save a broken glass shelf and a door basket, and I'm replacing it with a dumb one with the best energy rating. It's the same with cars, although it's getting harder to find "dumb" cars.
Actually (put on fedora) a "smart" fridge is not necessarily bad.
No what absolutely sucks is lock-in and enshittification.
If you were to imagine a FLOSS OSHW fridge that used e.g. OpenFoodFacts and data from your purchases, e.g. OCRing your grocery list receipt or online purchases and genuinely helped with stock, recipes, diet, etc why not.
The WHOLE point is control, it's not the technology.
Exactly, we don't need to ditch computers and smartphones and go "back to nature" like some people say. We need control.
Is there a kind of open source dumb appliance movement out there? It sure seems like we need one.
They wouldn't be free as in beer, but it would be awesome to have widely available instructions to take existing mass produced parts and assemble a functional and serviceable appliance.
Or maybe just a control module and some sensors that you can use to retrofit smart appliances.
I'm sure the big companies would keep them from gaining mass adoption though, thanks to cheap appliances with ads and junk parts. They probably already have.
I had an idea to create FOSH (Free open source hardware) license and wiki that contains schematics and plans for making your own hardware, be it a fridge or printer, or handheld label machine but i dont know if it will be worth anyones time. I dont have electrical engineering degree so i couldnt do more than test the products and maintain the website.
On a related note, I was looking at RTINGS recently at their recommended TVs. One really important item for me is that I'm not subjected to ads.
It turns out that every single smart TV they tested has ads, and there's no way to opt out of those ads.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/ads-in-smart-tv
It's not possible to "vote with your dollars" to choose a TV that doesn't have ads, because 100% of the TVs have ads now.
I know you can get a commercial flat panel intended for restaurants and stuff that doesn't have any of those features, but those are hard to find, expensive, and don't have basic features like multiple inputs.
If you think you can get around this by refusing to connect your TV to the Internet, some of them start to interfere with your use of them until you do connect them. Which ones? I wish RTINGS told me.
And, making it all worse, you know that every one of these things is going to have an EULA that allows them to enshittify it even more at some future date. And, you can't get around that either, because either they're designed to stop working if they don't a recent update, or there's a bomb planted in an update that only activates months later, so rolling back (if that's even possible) won't help you.
I know US law is never going to help consumers with this, but I do hope eventually Europe addresses this. People in Europe do still sometimes seem to have some rights when it comes to big companies.
Drink verification can to access refrigerator.
Then you are stuck, cause the verification can is inside.
That's why it's important to have a redundant backup fridge with a recovery verification can.
Damn it, can't get to my verification cans!
For those who have no idea what stoy is talking about, I present this glimpse into the future:
PiHole saves the day yet again.
Until it's deemed illegal to block ads and you lose points on your social credit rating, more bodies for the corporate prison system.
We have determined that we’ll be able to fill 80% of the user’s display with advertising before inducing seizures.
You'll have to own the Oasis first.
meanwhile the fridge from 1986 is still running in my garage and doesn't need me to ask how it's feeling or update firmware
...That's a Bosch refrigerator with a tablet stuck to it, presumably with a magnet. (Yes, we ruin everything for you on the Internet.)
Still. Samsung would absolutely try to pull this if they thought they could get away with it.
I try to leave and my bracelet mandated by the Terms of Service immediately administers an electric shock.
I was in my local Lowes hardware and one of the Samsung fridges on display kept actively trying to connect to my Samsung phone. I must have gotten 5 or 6 notifications from the fridge letting me know I could connect.
They stopped looking at a screen for a second to open the fridge, quick install a screen on the front! Prediction: Screens will appear inside the fridge as well.
Also the ads are taking 3x as long as normal to load because your fridge, washer, dryer, smart picture frame, and smart light bulbs are part of a botnet-for-hire, unbeknownst to you
Meanwhile some Europeans inherited a 1962 Liebherr Fridge that still works in 2050