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I think there's some potential here, with regards to keeping track of when things were added/might go bad. At least for me, who easily forgets things until it's
by squigz 1y ago
I think there's some potential here, with regards to keeping track of when things were added/might go bad. At least for me, who easily forgets things until it's too late.
- dboreham 1y agoA thing that can read the expiry dates on food packages that take me 20 minutes to find because they're printed in light gray on gray background would be useful.
- jdiff 1y agoIt would be. That was the original promise of the Family Hub+ fridges with AI Vision Inside™ technology. But you won't find that here, and it's not going to be coming in an update. This fridge can't properly identify fruits and veggies, let alone anything in any sort of packaging. As I demo the thing, it keeps taking snapshots of the back of my head and insists that the fridge is just packed full of kiwis.
- squigz 1y agoAye, the original version of my comment had "If it's reliable enough" as a qualifier. > full of kiwis Also this is utterly hilarious to me.
- j45 1y agoFolks seem to use tools like grocy. If a Fridge had a barcode scanner built into it, that might be a start.
- scuff3d 1y agoPut a magnetic whiteboard on the fridge. Write what you got when shopping and when you got it. 2 dollar solution, no invasive AI bullshit.
- aunty_helen 1y agoYou don’t even need a whiteboard, just write directly on the fridge.
- squigz 1y agoThat would require I remember to do that, too ;) I was only commenting on the usefulness of such features, not on whether companies would also abuse that access for more data; that is an issue, but a separate one.
- scuff3d 1y agoI'm saying they aren't useful or needed. They're solutions inventing problems to solve to justify higher prices, subscription models, and data collection. I'm a software engineer. I like technology. But there is absolutely no reason for a fridge or a washing machine to be "smart". I just makes them worse, not better.
- squigz 1y agoUsefulness is relative to each user. I'm a software engineer who likes technology too. I think such things would be useful. I guess I'm just objectively wrong? And like... food going bad is a problem that actually exists, so I'm not sure what you mean by "inventing problems"
- the_snooze 1y agoIt's a lot of complexity and engineering just to avoid giving food the ol' sniff test. Tech bros need to stop inventing problems for which we already have time-tested solutions.
- squigz 1y agoBy then it's already too late. Not a very useful test to reduce food waste!