I just don’t see the point of having a screen on a fridge or microwave or coffee maker.
If I want a screen for recipes, and that’s a big, big if, I’d have on of those Alexa Show’s or even better just use the dang smart screen in my pocket.
The promise was to integrate your contents of the fridge with some kind of smarts that let you know when your milk was going to expire and to suggest you buy more. The reality is that is dumb because it takes more effort to maintain that digital list than just noting "I need to buy milk". And now it's used for advertising space because it has no other real purpose.
I have a tablet sized easel I use for recipes. Well, I use the tablet, then put it on the easel. Why the hell do I want to walk over to the fridge to look at the recipe when all my stuff is already on the counter??
With these devices we are mostly safe for now, unless this is successful and Samsung sees worthwhile profit that justifies the added design and parts costs. This may well be the case and at some point in the future it may be that they find a reason to put a screen on literally everything you own as an excuse to have a vehicle for ad delivery
Hopefully this will be a “name brand products” issue though and cheap no name barebones toasters or whatever will always exist (though with the risk of potential hazardous build quality). What a wonderful future we’ve created.
I will hand-mine books of mica and wrap nichrome wire around them and plug it directly into the wall like my forefathers did before I install a toaster with a screen in my home.
Actually, though probably physically dangerous, a thriving DIY appliance community to bypass the "screen in everything" future might be kinda fun.
You mean you don’t want a $300 toaster with a screen that connects to WiFi so it can show you your own pictures and tell you the weather and I don’t fucking know, schedule toasting? And probably inevitably not work because core functionality is server sided and when they inevitably fail or at least sunset the product bc no one but rich people who flex their cash are buying this dumb shit you’re left with a brick because they turned the servers off
It’s also $100 more expensive at Williams Sonoma if you really want to flex your cash
Are you even a real connected-appliance enthusiatst when you didn't even link the R180 connect PLUShttps://revcook.com/products/r180-connect-plus-smart-toaster
Which is $100 more and seems to be exactly the same, with the addition of 22 more useless "bread profiles"
I remember seeing this thing a while ago and scoffing, but actually reading it now, it's even more absurd. "Our most customizable toasting experience"... Ugh.
Lmao that’s probably why the Williams Sonoma listing was $100 more (hopefully)
But it has InstaGLO® 2.0 technology, reaching full heat in seconds, searing the bread without drying it, so it's crispy on the outside, yet soft and delicious on the inside!
What toaster doesn’t reach full temp in seconds?? Is that not an inherent feature of nichrome? Looking further it appears to be nichrome bonded to a substrate (likely mica/ceramic) to create a heating “plate” which likely does speed things up a bit but not dramatically so. Further variations on this style of heating can be found in bougie toasters (breville, commercial models) that are otherwise normal toasters (though breville loves to add motors and shit because god forbid your toast not look like Han Solo slowly being lowered into the carbonite chamber every morning)
22 Comments
filt@infosec.pub · 35 pts · 352d
Pretty easy to just not buy this complete garbage.
wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io · 14 pts · 352d
I just don’t see the point of having a screen on a fridge or microwave or coffee maker. If I want a screen for recipes, and that’s a big, big if, I’d have on of those Alexa Show’s or even better just use the dang smart screen in my pocket.
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 352d
The promise was to integrate your contents of the fridge with some kind of smarts that let you know when your milk was going to expire and to suggest you buy more. The reality is that is dumb because it takes more effort to maintain that digital list than just noting "I need to buy milk". And now it's used for advertising space because it has no other real purpose.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 352d
I have a tablet sized easel I use for recipes. Well, I use the tablet, then put it on the easel. Why the hell do I want to walk over to the fridge to look at the recipe when all my stuff is already on the counter??
TheBat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 352d
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 352d
Can I flash Linux to my counter and turn it in to a torrent box?
“I dunno it came like that!” 😆
raman_klogius@ani.social · 2 pts · 351d
❌torrents the counter
✔️torrents in the counter
And you can say the counter seeds too 😉
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 351d
They’ll never counter this plan
waldo_was_here@piefed.social · 1 pts · 351d
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 352d
With these devices we are mostly safe for now, unless this is successful and Samsung sees worthwhile profit that justifies the added design and parts costs. This may well be the case and at some point in the future it may be that they find a reason to put a screen on literally everything you own as an excuse to have a vehicle for ad delivery
Hopefully this will be a “name brand products” issue though and cheap no name barebones toasters or whatever will always exist (though with the risk of potential hazardous build quality). What a wonderful future we’ve created.
Bags@piefed.social · 2 pts · 352d
I will hand-mine books of mica and wrap nichrome wire around them and plug it directly into the wall like my forefathers did before I install a toaster with a screen in my home.
Actually, though probably physically dangerous, a thriving DIY appliance community to bypass the "screen in everything" future might be kinda fun.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 352d
You mean you don’t want a $300 toaster with a screen that connects to WiFi so it can show you your own pictures and tell you the weather and I don’t fucking know, schedule toasting? And probably inevitably not work because core functionality is server sided and when they inevitably fail or at least sunset the product bc no one but rich people who flex their cash are buying this dumb shit you’re left with a brick because they turned the servers off
It’s also $100 more expensive at Williams Sonoma if you really want to flex your cash
Bags@piefed.social · 1 pts · 351d
But haven't you heard!?! It's a REVOLUTION!
I will simply turn 360 degrees and walk away.
Are you even a real connected-appliance enthusiatst when you didn't even link the R180 connect PLUS https://revcook.com/products/r180-connect-plus-smart-toaster Which is $100 more and seems to be exactly the same, with the addition of 22 more useless "bread profiles"
I remember seeing this thing a while ago and scoffing, but actually reading it now, it's even more absurd. "Our most customizable toasting experience"... Ugh.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 351d
Lmao that’s probably why the Williams Sonoma listing was $100 more (hopefully)
But it has InstaGLO® 2.0 technology, reaching full heat in seconds, searing the bread without drying it, so it's crispy on the outside, yet soft and delicious on the inside!
What toaster doesn’t reach full temp in seconds?? Is that not an inherent feature of nichrome? Looking further it appears to be nichrome bonded to a substrate (likely mica/ceramic) to create a heating “plate” which likely does speed things up a bit but not dramatically so. Further variations on this style of heating can be found in bougie toasters (breville, commercial models) that are otherwise normal toasters (though breville loves to add motors and shit because god forbid your toast not look like Han Solo slowly being lowered into the carbonite chamber every morning)
Babalugats@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 352d
Alexa is just as bad if not worse.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 352d
Until other large manufacturers follow suite, like what happened with TVs.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 352d
Just as planned.
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 352d
Yet another reason why I do not buy Samsung appliances.
Aside from that, who the fuck needs a screen on their fucking fridge?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · -8 pts · 352d
GenZ will get horribly depressed without a screen on everything.
metaStatic@kbin.earth · 10 pts · 352d
morphing? like it wasn't the entire point from the start.
DreamAccountant@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 352d
Who'da thunk that big evil corp would do big evil things?
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 352d
Yeah... not ever buying one of those
glitching@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 351d
suck it, jian-yang
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 351d
My Samsung “smart” washing machine is not connected to shit.