"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

Your parents' generation probably think a number of things that you use every day are "impossibly silly".

Not wanting to take away from any excuse to quote Douglas Adams, I think what they meant by "born 40 yrs too late" is that they are young(ish) and feel that being around 40yrs earlier would've suited them better.

Either that or it's Thursday, I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

ok but I’m not older than 35

I unfortunately can't find it right now, but I remember seeing a semi-famous quote from the 1950s/60s? calling out variable-speed windshield wipers as an absurd consumerist luxury emblematic of what's wrong with America.

The refrigerator camera sounds like the same kind of thing. Modestly useful feature that may well become standard-issue someday because the underlying components can be made very cheaply at scale.

Now if it had cameras in the back on each shelf so you can see what someone left back there obscured by other things, that might make that display worth it...

Can I also put in a request for a dedicated weight sensor/camera unit that sends a notification to my phone whenever somebody puts an empty milk carton back in the fridge?

This exists. Look up "Bottomless Coffee" - they have a beta for non-coffee products.

The insidious thing about it is that they won't just "let you see what's in the fridge", you'll have to sign up to "see-your-fridge-as-a-service" with their shitty app (that sells your location, buying habits, etc) and a $7/mo paywall. Also, since we're talking about Samsung, never buy samsung appliances. they are meant to break down.