cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/71343068
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.
Why the fuck would a fridge need to be ‘smart’?
Like what’s the reasoning?
“Convenience”
Data collection to use to sell you more of what you buy, determine what you would buy, what makes you buy things
Low level stuff is it can alert the user if the fridge or freezer door is open. Advanced features would be like being able to see inside your fridge remotely so you dont have to go to check what you need to buy at the grocery store.
Then you get to superfluous functions like displaying family photos, online buying of stuff like filters, logging what you have in the fridge and recommend dishes to make.
And none of those functions should affect the basic function of keeping the interior cool in a good practice scenario following a DFMEA. That function should be in a separate layer that should not be affected by any faulty firmware
it could judge you when you throw away those vegetables you never processed