The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced the martyrdom of 79 Palestinians in the last 24h in the continuous aggression of the Zionist regime on the Gaza Strip and the injury of 379 others. The total number of martyrs in #Gaza since the beginning of the Zionist regime's war on October 7, 2023 has reached 66,05 people and the number of injured has reached 168,162 people.
Interesting documentary about how we can make our society a bit better. Things to learn from these Nordic countries, but also a bit of an expose of how even these tribes rely on the fossil fuel industry and so forth...
Simon Reeve journeys across a land of Arctic tundra, vast forests and stunning fjords, investigating the surprising secrets of some of the happiest and most equal societies on earth.
Ice core records of atmospheric hydrogen reveal a huge rise in concentration since the Industrial Revolution which has contributed to global warming – and could sway the debate over hydrogen as a fuel
Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.
...and people *believed* that? Or maybe I'm just too cynical; I believe in what Robert Heinlein wrote: "Never appeal to a person's better nature. They may not have one."
Normalization—the mainstreaming of people and ideas previously banished from public life for good reason—has become the operative description of a massive societal shift toward something awful.
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I'm glad I moved to a Sony phone after owning many Samsung's now. I got fed up with them plugging AI to death and following Apples lead to remove SD card slots and earphones sockets.
lmaaaaao this makes me laugh in this weird way when Im uncomfortable with shit. I cant believe people would buy such a thing, or even leave the "smart" bullshit connected once they see ads on their.... fridge. There are generations of people who will buy this??? A screened fridge? Microwave? Toaster? lmaaaao
Technically, right now, since this is more expensive than a basic fridge -- we're paying more for a fridge with ads than one without. 🤦 It's very ... cyberpunk corporation future.
I've been boycotting this brand for years, ever since it released an official update that completely bugged the touch screen controller on the Samsung Galaxy A03.
"Hello, the screen seems to be covered! Refrigeration has been disabled due to operational concerns in the meantime. Please uncover the screen again to re-enable refrigeration."
we are not very far from unauthorized bread . (The story features technologically advanced apartments with appliances like toasters and refrigerators that are designed to extract revenue and prevent unauthorized use)
A tweet from Cory Doctorow reminded me that we hadn’t written up our firmware extraction and destruction of Samsung’s Smart Family Hub refrigerator. So here’s how to pull the firmware and destroy a $2500 fridge in the process.
Imagine actually buying this shit. "But what if its a go-" If it has this it could be free and use no electricity and it would still be shit. Things like this make a product shit by default.
I foolishly connected my fridge to Wi-Fi to see what it could possibly offer, as it had no screen. Lots of metrics, control of ice production, temperature control, nothing necessary. Then I forgot about it. A month later I tapped "turn off all kitchen lights" on home assistant and my fridge interior lights went off as well, and stayed off. Fun times. Factory reset and disconnected.
Well, “no plans” doesn't mean anything, really. It certainly doesn't mean “won't, ever”. And even that comes with an implied “until we change our minds”. In this day and age, you simply cannot take anything a publicly traded or venture-funded company says at face value. You have to look where the market is heading and assume that the company will jump on the bandwagon sooner or later, no matter what they are saying now.
buy more products with screens that display ads telling you to buy more products with screens that display ads telling you to buy more products with screens that display ads telling you to buy more products with screens...
Any ad that is not for a product with a screen that can display ads is hindering our much needed, sweet unlimited growth.
- and then they will still have ads, because why would they not, when somebody is willing to pay Samsung et al to have them? Also, you will be paying for your appliances through subscription - miss a payment? Your fridge turns off & all your food spoils.
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@elaterite Is there such a hybrid inverter beast on the market? But, then, that’s the other issues isn’t it. Manufacturers design their products to have 1) a short lifespan, 2) ensure ongoing costs, 3) can’t be repaired by anyone but them, if at all, and 4) make sure they keep you chained to their brands, and any other ‘gatekeeping’ tricks they can think of.
@RaymondPierreL3 Why can't your inverter simply have a flashing light to indicate a problem and a display with a trouble code telling you where and what to look for to solve the problem? Zero need for your system to be connected to a remote server.
@elaterite And that’s the point, isn’t it. As long as an appliance workd without connecting, why would you? On the other hand, my PV set up is connected to the internet because it’s the only means I have to monitor/manage the system… until I find another tool which does the job without connecting to ‘god knows where’…
The installers argued that it helps them ensure my system is in good health and also that if I report a problem, the can go online to have a look at it… it bothers me though I can’t put my finger on why it does just yet.
Did you know that having 200 Go of data on your phone could corrupt your Windows installation? Yeah, me neither.
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“The new kitchen is great! Everything is computer-controlled! With voice recognition! It does everything by itself! Fully automatic! Directly via the Internet!”
“We're out of milk! Shit!”
“Hello, you ordered milk?” “My refrigerator! Well, that was quick.” “Should I put the cow shit in the garden?”
Nobody has yet anaswered to my satisfaction the question "Why the hell would you connect your fridge to the internet? Or want it to have a screen?" Adverts or not, who buys this sh*t?
Why aren't people more angry? If you'd told me in the 1980s that this would happen I would have predicted people dumping the fridges outside Samsung's offices and setting fire to them or something. Where the hell is people's outrage?
@skippy @0 in a dumb fridge, which I prefer, if anything in the top directly below the freezer gets ice in it, I just move that manual dial back by one. That is all the controls and feed back I, or anyone else, really needs.
It really is just an electric ice box and cool storage cabinet underneath, or side by side now. A solved problem for 100+ years.
That is why growth capitalists have to trap customers and milk them for sellable products, like cows.
Or better yet, the screen will have a mode that manages that for you, then tells you where to put the milk and leafy green veggies for optimal temperature.
"Isn't this interactivity with our product exciting? Sure makes you want to pay $200 more for our TempMaster 2000 with Tempcontrol Zones! But wait! The TempMaster 3000 has a camera! No more messing up your target temps by opening the door to look!
Same HMI can be put in multiple models with different controls and sensors.
And the marketing team and programmers can keep up the feature creep by progressively playing with the display and how it shows and manages the few things it really does. Hoping for a model year car effect in an otherwise mature market.
Imagine having to place your milk in specific spot so your refrigerator can weight it and email you when it is time to buy more. The screen is where you give it access to your WiFi password and email address.
@0 @skippy Imagine the model TM5000 sends its internal video to corporate where the pictures are analyzed by AI to get a list of all the brands you buy vs your region, then they send target ads to your HMI screen and, at the touch of a screen, Safeway can send a virtual coupon to your email that can be scanned from your phone at point of purchase.
Typical corporate hellscape, late stage capitalism stuff where the manufacturer tries to capture its customers and sell data on them to advertisers.
Good enough is good enough for me. I’ve never once thought “gee, my milk is too warm. If only we could use science to make the milk-storage location just a little cooler, without making the cottage cheese into a block of ice.”
@0 @skippy real answer, if a manufacturer puts a programmable screen on a thing instead of dials they don't figure out how the customer interacts with it now, they have saved that for later.
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They are called HMIs, Human-Machine Interface. For instance, you used to have a dial with 0-9 on it to adjust how cold the fridge is, you would experiment until you were happy with it. With the HMI, you could have a digital dial, but the screen programming turns that into a temperature request.
Older refrigerators controlled the temperature of the freezer, then the refrigerator space had areas of progressive coldness the closer to the freezer stuff is put. But you have trained the customer to expect precise control. So now you have zones in the fridge and the screen let's you set zone targets and see the actual temperature approach target.
Oh wait, the customer doesn't know a temperature they want their milk at. Update the programming and the screen will tell you.
I sense an opportunity here. Can we crowdfund an advert for those fridges? It can be as weird as you like.
Maybe something a bit meta like just a normal voice saying "Alexa, play Rick Astley as loud as you can".
Or the ads could just be embarrassing... "Peter, your Doctor noticed you haven't ordered your Syphilis medication, would you like me to do that for you?"
I laugh when I hear about all of these connected "smart appliances" that are supposedly everywhere now. I've never actually seen one in real life - nor can I imagine who would buy them.
Calendar makers should sell their products with magnets so they can fit directly over the ad window. 💡 Low tech can occasionally solve high tech annoyances. I'll be sticking with dumb fridges.
There's lots of ways THIS particularly ill-advised use of generative Ai can go seriously wrong. What kinds of safeguards are in place? New pandemics anyone?
I hope these posts are useful. Have a great weekend! Here's your Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 15th lowest on record (JAXA data)...
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🚨 New record low (due to its low winter ice) - As we are moving into the freeze season now, it's the end of another year on my accumulation graph of total sea ice extent anomalies (i.e. newly open water relative to the 1981-2010 average)...
I’ve been having video conversations over Signal with people from Gaza who have Mastodon accounts on the fediverse in an effort to vouch for their authenticity.
This week, I whipped up a site to formalise this and to enable them to add a verified link to their Mastodon bios. Hopefully this will cut down on the amount of time they need to spend proving that their accounts genuinely belong to a person suffering through genocide and famine in Gaza and help them with their fundraisers.
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan
are you familiar with the @tech4palestine set up by @paulbiggar ? What youre doing is something they would certainly appreciate and maybe even help support.
Also look up UpScrolled. An instagram alternative they’ve build to help Palestine. It’s really quite impressive 🍉🇵🇸
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan
Thank you for this excellent work. I want to help but struggle with verifying which are genuine accounts and which are scammers. This gives me reassurance.
I'm so proud of you. Thank you for saving our struggling from being exploited by scammers. And thank you for making it easier for our generous donors. 💗💗 #FreePalestine
Apparently accounts have already started being created to pretend to be verified. Users unfamiliar with the link verification system might end up not realizing that the link needs to be green with a checkmark. Here's an example: techhub.social/@m7moodfamily10…
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We live in constant fear as bombs explode nearby 💣. Children cannot sleep and cry from hunger 😢. Our future feels lost, but your help can save us. Please donate if you can 🤲.
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@Kiloku I'm getting "You don't have permission to view this page" when I click on that link, so I'm not quite clear whether it was an example of a fake verified account or a genuine verified account.
Folks, just a quick heads up: I’m in touch over Signal with Mahmoud from the “Help Mahmoud Family” accounts you might have seen contacting you.
Like you, I was hugely suspicious of them due to the many accounts and automated spam-like messages (I also reported and had one of them taken down as a scam).
It’s looking to me now like this was more of a misguided (and understandably, given the circumstances) desperate attempt to get help.
I ask that we keep an open mind and offer Mahmoud and his family the benefit of the doubt.
Here are the steps we’ll be taking with Mahmoud going forward to try and fix this and give him a proper introduction to Mastodon and the fediverse and hopefully rebuild trust:
1. Joy and I will meet Mahmoud for a video chat next week.
2. Once we’re happy, I will contact a friend who runs a Mastodon server to ask that Mahmoud is allowed to set up his one (and only Mastodon account there). This way, we will also know that the account will be safe in the future.
3. Mahmoud has already agreed not to use automated messages in the future.
I will update you about the state of things next week, after our video conversation.
A much welcome initiative. Tying it to the Mastodon verification feature is an excellent move.
A little suggestion: the website just states "I verify that their accounts are genuine".
Could you make a more specific assertion of what that statement means, to you? At the moment, I could think of all, or some of the following:
Verified there is a person that looks like the avatar
Verified that the person lives in Gaza
Verified that the persons mentioned in their fundraiser stories exist
Verified that the facts in the fundraiser stories are correct. (This is just an example. I believe that verification may easily transgress into the territory of humiliation, when taken to far.)
So what does "Gaza Verified" specifically mean, from your perspective?
I've received follow requests from accounts asking for donations and had put them on standby until i could verify them, some have been deleted in the meanwhile (scams i guess), but two remain, one you already mentioned and have approved and will donate as soon as possible (Nouran), but another one is not on the list, \@lolorenad, who last posted on August 29 and seems real
@jherazob @lolorenad Thanks so much for the heads up, Jaime. I’ve contacted Lolo to try and set up a time to have a quick video chat so we can hopefully add them to Gaza Verified :)
You could design a certification program around this using verifiable credentials (w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.0/) that would allow you to give them something you've signed and contains stuff like maybe a link to an interview video or something that they can display as an emote or something--probably best if the video is embedded in the cert in case you get shut down and there's no place to put it. Or put it in a torrent in p2p land.
@crazyeddie Thanks, appreciate the suggestion, but I’m not convinced it would add much real-world value at the moment given how niche it is. Trying to keep things simple :)
We cannot find the words to thank you enough for everything you do to support and help Palestinians 🙏🇵🇸. As a mother of three children, one of them with a disability, we suffer from hunger, displacement, and destruction every single day 💔.
Hi @shathamohammed123 I see you seem to have a new account, without verification I don't know if your account is legit. Aral abi created this service, feel free to let your account be verified and welcome to the fediverse :) 👍
A quick announcement that I’m very excited about: @joynewacc and I are going to run Gaza Verified together now and we’ll both be present during the video chats.
I’ll update the site as soon as I can to reflect this.
Thank you so much for volunteering to help in the middle of everything else, Joy. You’re amazing :)
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@elchorten Please consider the target audience: non-technical people in Gaza being shot at by tanks and soldiers, weak from famine. Do you think they have the time or nerves to fiddle around with Matrix?
@davidculley @elchorten Also if you know that Signal is somehow compromised, it is your duty to publicly disclose this with proof. Otherwise, please don’t spread FUD.
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@globcoco Sorry, that looks like one of the scam accounts. I believe it has already been removed.
Good way to check: has the person just joined (eg. Today) and do they already have lots of posts (eg. Over a hundred).
Variations of this account have been popping up on various servers yesterday/today and one even added a to link to gaza-verified.org to their account (of course it didn’t look verified).
I know Nouran uses ChatGPT for translations. I don’t know what they used for the videos they posted. But I do know I’ve chatted to her and her brother *live* over video on Signal.
@helmet91 And her older brother, Yousef, has an English Literature degree and was just recently asking me if I could help him find work. Does that sound like a scammer to you?
@helmet91 And her older brother, Yousef, has an English Literature degree and was just recently asking me if I could help him find work. Does that sound like a scammer to you?
Hey everyone, Yousef, @NouranKhaledGh’s brother in Gaza, is looking for remote work:
“Before the war, I was working as a copywriter in English and Arabic. I managed to get dozens of projects done successfully and I got a top-rated badge on Upwork.”
He wasn’t able to work during the war. In January, during the ceasefire, he was able to get short-term projects. He goes to a dedicated workplace every day even now, in the middle of an ongoing genocide, to have electricity and a working Internet connection to look for work but has been getting rejections on Upwork, likely because he’s based in Gaza.
“I just want to get back to work because I don’t want to lose everything in my life.”
@helmet91 These people are literally faced with genocide and famine and you’re out here acting like a dollar-store Sherlock Holmes.
I’ve told you several times now that I’ve had live video conversations over Signal with Nouran and her brother Yousef.
I don’t know what your problem is but what you’re doing by spreading this FUD is deplorable. I just saw that you wrote this blog post also: helmet91.com/post/how-not-to-g…
Congratulations, you are slandering people who are trying to survive genocide and famine.
Please think long and hard about what you’re doing here.
makes it so easy to donate to help people in Gaza. Aral verifies each account. I just donated a small amount to each of the accounts listed and it's easy. They are mostly gofundme or chuffed.org
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan
@chris Thank you so much for your support. And I couldn’t do it without @joynewacc; we hold the video chats together, her from Gaza, me from Ireland :)
congrats! Their definition isn’t quite the same as you coined it, since it’s not just users that things get worse for, but it’s concise and close enough to how people have been using it.
Enshittification is an informal word used to criticize the degradation in the quality and experience of online platforms over time, due to an increase in advertisements, costs, or features.
Enshittification is an informal word used to criticize the degradation in the quality and experience of online platforms over time, due to an increase in advertisements, costs, or features.
I'm currently listening to episode 500 of your podcast containing an excerpt from #Enshittification the audio book.
At the beginning you not only quoted Ed Zitron, you actually had him say: "I'll never forgive them for what they've done to the computer." I thought that was super cool.
It made me think the audio book would be even better with more people voicing their own quotes, like having @tveastman actually say "I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four."
I don't know if he'd be interested, and I don't know if it's possible at this stage, but IMO it would really enhance the audio book experience to do that.
@Fledglingnerd I made this slide in my talk at Everything Open in January mostly ‘coz it amused me but also ‘coz we sometimes have young folk in the audience… 💁♀️
(yes, I read it out as “en-poop-ocene”, “en-poop-ening”, etc. 🙃)
Nice, but is Enshittification restricted to digital platforms? For example: Isn't the way products like smartphones, kitchen appliances, even cars, or train locomotives, become less and less repairable an enshittification, too?
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this is really cool! ive been looking to get a linux-based computer for awhile and this might be one option ill consider! i was wondering if the price would be on the cheaper end of the computer pricing, but if not thats totally reasonable aswell!
L14 Gen 2 is not possible unless another method of bypassing bootguard is found. All ThinkPads newer than Haswell (and all Haswell ThinkPads without socketed CPUs, so including T440/X240 but not T440p/W541) have bootguard, which makes porting coreboot impossible, with one exception: on MEv11 systems (which are vulnerable to CVE-2017-5705), bootguard can be bypassed with deguard. This includes Skylake (6th gen), Kaby Lake (7th gen), and Kaby Lake Refresh (some mobile 8th gen) systems, so T460/T470/T480 generation.
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That reminds me of what we've seen not too long ago:
> Hackers in 2005: I connected my fridge to the internet!
> Hackers in 2025: I disconnected my fridge from the internet!
Open source basic home appliances without all this smart stuff when?
Nicole Parsons
in reply to evacide • • •I see a future burgeoning business that de-nazifies household appliances.
These features balloon the manufacturing & operating costs of appliances.
Spyware computer chips & display screens aren't free.
They use a ton of electricity, even when you're not at home. Look forward to the double digit rate increases on electricity bills.
The fossil fuel industry is desperately trying new ways to thwart energy efficiency.
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George Orwell Predicted Cameras Would Watch Us in Our Homes; He Never Imagined We’d Gladly Buy and Install Them Ourselves
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in reply to evacide • • •putting ads aside temporarily. does refrigerator need to be connected to internet. that possible data collection sounds scary.
putting internet connection to a fridge is too far.
Vee
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in reply to evacide • • •take your advertisement fridge for half price” *Gets home and paints the screen black!
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in reply to evacide • • •I've been boycotting this brand for years, ever since it released an official update that completely bugged the touch screen controller on the Samsung Galaxy A03.
Samsung no more.
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in reply to evacide • • •Just want to mention AliExpress sell refrigeration control modules. Very basic, very dumb. Dirt cheap.
I think there's a non-zero chance we could start seeing plug compatible replacement logic boards for popular models.
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in reply to evacide • • •"But what if its a go-"
If it has this it could be free and use no electricity and it would still be shit. Things like this make a product shit by default.
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in reply to evacide • • •There are probably some cool and semi useful things you could do with smart devices connected to the internet.
Trouble is, those cool things don't make extra money for the manufacturer.
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in reply to evacide • • •buy more products with screens that display ads telling you to buy more products with screens that display ads telling you to buy more products with screens that display ads telling you to buy more products with screens...
Any ad that is not for a product with a screen that can display ads is hindering our much needed, sweet unlimited growth.
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in reply to Sekei • • •That will merely stop you from seeing what it's showing. It probably won't affect how it collects data. That's the part you'll need to sever.
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in reply to evacide • • •there will be tiers.
"Free" - with ads
"Basic" - with fewer ads
"Standard" - barely any ads
"Premium" - no ads*
*Will have ads that are called something else
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Unknown parent • • •@RaymondPierreL3 @elaterite for home automation that puts local control and privacy first: home-assistant.io/
Also supporting Home Energy Management:
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Is there such a hybrid inverter beast on the market? But, then, that’s the other issues isn’t it. Manufacturers design their products to have 1) a short lifespan, 2) ensure ongoing costs, 3) can’t be repaired by anyone but them, if at all, and 4) make sure they keep you chained to their brands, and any other ‘gatekeeping’ tricks they can think of.
Interesting times we live in…
#RightToRepair #ShrinkFlation #Grifting #Corporatism #NeoLiberalism #Manufacturing #monopolies #GateKeeping
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And that’s the point, isn’t it. As long as an appliance workd without connecting, why would you? On the other hand, my PV set up is connected to the internet because it’s the only means I have to monitor/manage the system… until I find another tool which does the job without connecting to ‘god knows where’…
The installers argued that it helps them ensure my system is in good health and also that if I report a problem, the can go online to have a look at it… it bothers me though I can’t put my finger on why it does just yet.
#IoT #Enshitification #LossOfControl
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in reply to evacide • • •Whoever connected its damn fridge to the net deserves ads.
Whoever sold them deserve ads in their coffin.
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in reply to evacide • • •Morsus Apri R.I.P. Natenom🕯️🖤
in reply to evacide • • •“The new kitchen is great! Everything is computer-controlled! With voice recognition!
It does everything by itself! Fully automatic! Directly via the Internet!”
“We're out of milk! Shit!”
“Hello, you ordered milk?”
“My refrigerator! Well, that was quick.”
“Should I put the cow shit in the garden?”
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—The Samsung c-suite, probably
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in reply to evacide • • •Urban Hermit
Unknown parent • • •@skippy @0 in a dumb fridge, which I prefer, if anything in the top directly below the freezer gets ice in it, I just move that manual dial back by one. That is all the controls and feed back I, or anyone else, really needs.
It really is just an electric ice box and cool storage cabinet underneath, or side by side now. A solved problem for 100+ years.
That is why growth capitalists have to trap customers and milk them for sellable products, like cows.
Urban Hermit
Unknown parent • • •@0 @skippy
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Or better yet, the screen will have a mode that manages that for you, then tells you where to put the milk and leafy green veggies for optimal temperature.
"Isn't this interactivity with our product exciting? Sure makes you want to pay $200 more for our TempMaster 2000 with Tempcontrol Zones! But wait! The TempMaster 3000 has a camera! No more messing up your target temps by opening the door to look!
Same HMI can be put in multiple models with different controls and sensors.
Urban Hermit
in reply to Urban Hermit • • •@0 @skippy
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And the marketing team and programmers can keep up the feature creep by progressively playing with the display and how it shows and manages the few things it really does. Hoping for a model year car effect in an otherwise mature market.
Imagine having to place your milk in specific spot so your refrigerator can weight it and email you when it is time to buy more. The screen is where you give it access to your WiFi password and email address.
Urban Hermit
in reply to Urban Hermit • • •@0 @skippy
Imagine the model TM5000 sends its internal video to corporate where the pictures are analyzed by AI to get a list of all the brands you buy vs your region, then they send target ads to your HMI screen and, at the touch of a screen, Safeway can send a virtual coupon to your email that can be scanned from your phone at point of purchase.
Typical corporate hellscape, late stage capitalism stuff where the manufacturer tries to capture its customers and sell data on them to advertisers.
skippy
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Unknown parent • • •cyborg mouse
in reply to skippy • • •Urban Hermit
in reply to cyborg mouse • • •@0 @skippy real answer, if a manufacturer puts a programmable screen on a thing instead of dials they don't figure out how the customer interacts with it now, they have saved that for later.
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They are called HMIs, Human-Machine Interface. For instance, you used to have a dial with 0-9 on it to adjust how cold the fridge is, you would experiment until you were happy with it. With the HMI, you could have a digital dial, but the screen programming turns that into a temperature request.
Urban Hermit
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Older refrigerators controlled the temperature of the freezer, then the refrigerator space had areas of progressive coldness the closer to the freezer stuff is put. But you have trained the customer to expect precise control. So now you have zones in the fridge and the screen let's you set zone targets and see the actual temperature approach target.
Oh wait, the customer doesn't know a temperature they want their milk at. Update the programming and the screen will tell you.
BlueTeamSherpa
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in reply to evacide • • •I sense an opportunity here. Can we crowdfund an advert for those fridges? It can be as weird as you like.
Maybe something a bit meta like just a normal voice saying "Alexa, play Rick Astley as loud as you can".
Or the ads could just be embarrassing... "Peter, your Doctor noticed you haven't ordered your Syphilis medication, would you like me to do that for you?"
Nicky🦨✌️
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in reply to evacide • • •Low tech can occasionally solve high tech annoyances.
I'll be sticking with dumb fridges.