Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 hours agoI’m not sure why. There’s nothing magical about a signal from a key when it could just as easily come from a phone.
Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 hours agoI’m not sure why. There’s nothing magical about a signal from a key when it could just as easily come from a phone.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
Physical house keys don’t have signals. Cars are a bit different but you can keep your key in a Faraday cage.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Okay, but why would you want to do that?
Similarly, lots of apartment keys and office keys are just FOBs now.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Why would I want to depend on my phone instead of a key though? Phone batteries run out all the time
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I regularly get through the day without running out of power. And an extra thing in my pocket is annoying, especially when I need to dig it out in order to use it. Same reason I prefer to open my garage with a clicker than to unlock a big deadbolt by hand.
If running out of power is a real fear, you can always do the “hide a spare key under a fake rock near the door” trick.