Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw...
by prox on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:58AM
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Yeah but it’s so cool ? /s
Seriously I don’t understand the need at all to have your kitchen be connected to wifi at all. Not everything needs to be quantified, unless you use measuring cups for cooking.
Second I can’t trust manufacturers to rush something out the door to “fix it in post”
Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw...
by mojzu on Monday January 31, 2022 @11:55AM
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Consumers obviously see enough value in remote control for it to be added as a feature, I'm not sure putting the cat in the bag is a great solution at this point
That said while I do disagree with the above consumers, I don't care about remote control but I would quite like remote status updates from various appliances (is the door locked, is the washing cycle finished, has the fridge been left open, etc.)
Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw...
by hedora on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:13PM
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Do they? All our Internet-connectible kitchen junk has some fine print in the manual about how the appliance will spy on you to improve ad targeting.
I suspect the only value most consumers see in these features is lower retail pricing.
Do never connect things to any network - and especially the internet - if it is not required for operation.
What worries are people which blindly request "more digitalization". We need resilience, not digitalization! Once a unnamed person complained about the fact the the Boeing 747-400 still gets flight data updates with a floppy. They argued it should use WiFi and central updates from a server and so on. NOT! The floppy allows control, save operation and flexible updates. Don't even add an USB-Port, this just allows someone to roast the electronics with a cheap USB-Gadget.
Just let programmers program more code doesn't make good programs. Actually it is vice versa.