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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by satellite2 on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:47AM (#28481499)
I would like to buy a smart scale because I think the data it provides would be really useful to me.

So in my case the smart gimmick really is the feature I want.

Unfortunately I price my weight data very differently than they do, so unless they pay me multiple tens of thousands of dollars I would not agree for it to send the data it collect.

Unfortunately there is no such smart scale.

So I would add to your list a 5) paying with actual money for smart appliances that don't snitch

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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by snthd on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:53AM (#28481578)
https://github.com/oliexdev/openScale/wiki/Supported-scales-...

(Not that it detracts from your point about the market).

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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by satellite2 on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:59AM (#28481666)
That's great! Thank God there is open source.

It's funny how open source started as "the manufacturer is too lazy to support my use case" and now is becoming "the manufacturer is too greedy / cannot be trusted"

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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by only_as_i_fall on Friday September 10, 2021 @10:05AM (#28481754)
The mi scales can be set up to have smart features locally.

Only caveat is that you need to use the app for initial setup and of course this assumes there isn't any kind of undisclosed antenna nonsense.

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