@JeeBaiChow @cm0002 not updating toasters will bite them capitalist asses. Remember the Mirai virus 10 years ago? Turned not updating smart anything into bot network ddossing them websites of big tech.

Amro@piefed.social · 19 pts · 75d

Just roast your bread over a burning data centre

probable_possum@leminal.space · 17 pts · 75d (10 replies)

It's a consumer decision.

baltakatei@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 75d (9 replies)

Monopoly offers:

250 USD toaster with no ads
17 USD toaster with ads that only works with authorized bread distributors

Krelis_@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 75d (3 replies)

Subscription based, loaves becoming slightly smaller every year, fees bumped up every 2 years, toaster hardware obsolete in 5 years.

Edit: every other bakery bought or gone burst, CEO paying lobbyists to make ovens illegal 'to protect the children'.

Exec@pawb.social · 5 pts · 75d (2 replies)

You'll be required to scan the barcode of the packaging of the bread to continue
to validate if your bread is up to quality standards

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 75d (1 reply)

Each slice will come with a disposable cryptowrapper that will be used by the toaster to validates the authenticity of the bread within.

Given the high risk of deaths from house fires caused by toasting unregulated slices of black market bread--maybe inserted by unsuperivsed children--this is the most socially responsible path forward.

VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 75d

🍞🎁This holiday season give a eToast gift carb! Unsolicitedly surprise your breadies with a reloadable gift card and a loaf they can use to toast ad-free or purchase a loaf of their own! 🍞🎁

probable_possum@leminal.space · 7 pts · 75d

The toaster monopoly?

ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 75d (1 reply)

250 USD toaster with no ads

Minimal ads, come on, let's not get crazy here

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 74d

Starts with no ads (yet) and then the update in a year adds ads and a subscription service for AI toasting

makeshift0546@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 75d

I'll take whatever drugs this guy is on.

RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 1 pts · 75d

Fuck that, just get an old boxed sprimgs and wire it to a plug and warm it up by plugging it in.

eightpix@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 75d (2 replies)

Cory Doctorow wrote a series of short stories and this is the first one in the book. They just want toast.

Fittingly, the book is called Radicalized.

JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 74d

Unauthorized Bread immediately came to mind when I saw the meme. Time for a reread

pipes@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 75d

Unauthorized Bread is a tale of immigration, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification, and the young and downtrodden fighting against all odds to survive and prosper.

So good and probably my favourite of the four stories

sundray@lemmus.org · 8 pts · 75d

angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 75d

If you buy a smart toaster that's on you, not "2026." Same with fridges. It's not like TVs where it's the cheaper option. This shit is not standard.

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 74d

When you open the box for a waffle iron and there’s a big card saying “Hello” And an QR instead of a manual slip in twenty languages.

wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 74d

I predict analogue methods of cooking are going to come back, if they aren't already in the process.

Lodge cast iron stock about to shoot through the roof. lmao.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 75d

This future meme is years old now.