So absurd and embarrassing ..."

Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update.

Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea, per a Google-provided translation, said that most of the affected devices were four-door fridges from 2024 or later.

  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    Some things off the top of my head are:

    • you could set the temperature to a number of degrees via a numerical display, which would be much harder to implement without a microcontroller.
    • maybe you could have PID control over the compressor rather than bang-bang control, so the temperature would be more stable.
    • these days, a bimetallic strip costs more than a microcontroller and a chip thermometer, despite the chip being much more accurate.

    All of this only requires a really dumb microcontroller, though, not one with networking. I don’t see how that could be useful until your fridge could magically track what it contains so you could ask it if you needed to buy stuff while you were shopping. I don’t think we have the technology for that yet.

    • Zanacross@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      I think we probably do have the tech to track what’s in the fridge but we’d need a camera and some kind of ai watching it always…