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No, but the firmware runs locally, instead of in someone else's cloud, so an outage in their cloud cannot take down my fridge.

phyrex 3y ago
https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/family-hub-refrigerator/overview/ https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/family-hub-refrigerator/o...
- danShumway 3y ago
  Nice, looks like we finally got around to inventing refrigerator magnets! ---- That is a little bit dismissive of me though. There are some cool features here: I can now "entertain in my kitchen", which is definitely a normal thing that normal people do. I love getting everyone together to crowd around my refrigerator so that we can all watch Game of Thrones. And I can use Amazon Alexa from my fridge just in case I'm not able to talk out loud to the cheap unobtrusive device that has a microphone in it specifically so that it can be placed in any room of the house. So having that option is good. And perhaps the biggest deal of all, I can finally "shop from home." That was a huge problem for me before, I kept thinking, "if only I had a better refrigerator I could finally buy things on websites." And this is a great bargain for only 3-5 thousand dollars! I can't believe I was planning to buy some crappy normal refrigerator for less than a thousand bucks and then use the extra money I saved to mount a giant flat-screen TV hooked up to a Chromecast in my kitchen. That would have been a huge mistake for me to make. Honestly it's just the icing on the cake that I can "set as many timers as [I] want." That's a great feature for someone like me because I can't set any timers at all using my phone or a voice assistant. /s ---- <serious>Holy crud, smart-device manufacturers have become unhinged. The one feature that actually looks useful here is being able to take a picture of the inside of the fridge while you're away. That is basically the one feature that I would want from a fridge that isn't much-better handled using a phone or a tablet or a TV or a normal refrigerator button. Which, great, but the problem is that I know what the inside of my fridge looks like right now, and let me just say: if I was organized enough that a photograph of the inside of my fridge would be clear enough to tell me what food was in it, and if I was organized enough that the photo wouldn't just show 'a pile of old containers, some of them transparent and some of them not' -- I have a feeling that in that case I would no longer be the type of person that needed to take a photo of the inside of my refrigerator to know what was in it.

phyrex 3y ago

https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/family-hub-refrigerator/overview/ https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/family-hub-refrigerator/o...

danShumway 3y ago
Nice, looks like we finally got around to inventing refrigerator magnets! ---- That is a little bit dismissive of me though. There are some cool features here: I can now "entertain in my kitchen", which is definitely a normal thing that normal people do. I love getting everyone together to crowd around my refrigerator so that we can all watch Game of Thrones. And I can use Amazon Alexa from my fridge just in case I'm not able to talk out loud to the cheap unobtrusive device that has a microphone in it specifically so that it can be placed in any room of the house. So having that option is good. And perhaps the biggest deal of all, I can finally "shop from home." That was a huge problem for me before, I kept thinking, "if only I had a better refrigerator I could finally buy things on websites." And this is a great bargain for only 3-5 thousand dollars! I can't believe I was planning to buy some crappy normal refrigerator for less than a thousand bucks and then use the extra money I saved to mount a giant flat-screen TV hooked up to a Chromecast in my kitchen. That would have been a huge mistake for me to make. Honestly it's just the icing on the cake that I can "set as many timers as [I] want." That's a great feature for someone like me because I can't set any timers at all using my phone or a voice assistant. /s ---- <serious>Holy crud, smart-device manufacturers have become unhinged. The one feature that actually looks useful here is being able to take a picture of the inside of the fridge while you're away. That is basically the one feature that I would want from a fridge that isn't much-better handled using a phone or a tablet or a TV or a normal refrigerator button. Which, great, but the problem is that I know what the inside of my fridge looks like right now, and let me just say: if I was organized enough that a photograph of the inside of my fridge would be clear enough to tell me what food was in it, and if I was organized enough that the photo wouldn't just show 'a pile of old containers, some of them transparent and some of them not' -- I have a feeling that in that case I would no longer be the type of person that needed to take a photo of the inside of my refrigerator to know what was in it.