'I'll have to throw away all the holiday food I bought': A Samsung update has broken lots of smart AI fridges in South Korea, including stopping them from cooling — and it's enough to make you question the idea of smart fridges
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A substantial number of Samsung fridge owners have been left without any way to chill their food.
  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    27·
    2 months ago

    A fridge has a simple job to do.

    Keep the inside cool.

    The challenge of building a fridge is building a fridge that can run continously for years, if not decades without fail.

    We have mostly solved that problem, it doesn’t need any smart logic or any fancy operating system to work.

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      Yes, but also improvements to its efficiency which we’ve also made great strides in but are backsliding a little on because of stupid shit like this. Large chunks of our always-on electric bill are these things, after all.

    • StabbingSky@lemmy.zip
      3·
      2 months ago

      I mean, adding smart features is one thing, but letting those smart features control critical functionality is different.