Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What genuine problem is being solved?

  In theory, your phone becomes a perfect multi-tool for every task. Unlock your door, start your car, swipe a credit card, shop for groceries, talk to your mom, apply for a job, show tickets for a concert or boarding passes for a plane, yadda yadda yadda.

  In practice, it’s a bunch of patch-jobs cobbled together on a grid that’s over-extended and under-maintained. So, rather than a single universal digital gatekey, you get a digital janitor’s keyring with 100 different apps competing for battery life and bandwidth.

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  • devedeset@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Either that or you rely on Google for literally everything. It can be convenient but I’m growing tired of it, I don’t want my data being potentially leaked in 10000 different ways just so I can open my door easier 4% of time time.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Technically you would store that shit in your Wallet app and be good to go. I wouldn’t want it for my house or car keys though.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not sure why. There’s nothing magical about a signal from a key when it could just as easily come from a phone.

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Physical house keys don’t have signals. Cars are a bit different but you can keep your key in a Faraday cage.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lol you cannot apply for a job with a simple tap of your phone. You can send them your CV but they’re not interested, they always want you to fill out some bespoke form which asks you all the same questions that you just answered on the CV. Then the whole thing gets fed into an AI black box and then who knows what happens.

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• philosloppy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  the only thing I could think of with a smart fridge is being able to check the contents from your phone while you are at the store to see if you need milk or whatever…but that’s not really a problem that justifies ads and the absolute invasion of privacy and the fact that the thing is likely about as secure as a wooden fence on a bank vault

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  • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve often fantasized about a fridge that knows its contents and adds items to a shopping list as they get low. maybe it could check prices at local stores or help combat waste by suggesting recipes based on what we already have at home.

    Would I trust any company currently making smart-fridges to deliver on all that, and then willingly invite that product into my home? Absolutely not.

    If we ever have a fridge like that, I will have built it myself.

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  • tommy_chillfiger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah I’ve heard of the checking contents thing. Maybe it comes down to your habits and constraints - I just don’t really ever have that problem and the solution seems worse to me than just kinda… making a grocery list and walking to the store a couple times a week as I do now.

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Imo, remotely programmable locks are Amazing.

  If my kid shows up locked out, he can ring the doorbell, it’ll message me whever I am, we can have a conversation, I can unlock door remotely.

  When we’re in vacation and we have a problem, I can disable/enable new users without giving anyone a key.

  If the battery dies, There a backdoor with the same keying and there’s a key hidden somewhere. If the WiFi is out, I just can’t remote unlock or enable/disable codes. It still works as a code/key lock.

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  • Barracuda@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Or just the ages old solution of leaving a spare to a trusted neighbor.

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    • thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Get to know my neighbors? C’mon dude no way.

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  • tommy_chillfiger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah these are definitely valid - I live alone in a condo, so the benefits just don’t appeal to me as much. My friend has a rental so he is already more inclined to find more utility in those features as well.

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