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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't really understand why a fridge which needs to update for features like seeing the interior on your phone or cataloguing the cintents would fail to even refrigerate after an update.

The refrigeration should be manual so that when the digital controls fail it falls back on manual settings.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

The update probably triggered something buried in the code that’s there solely to hold your fridge hostage if you don’t want to pay for subscriptions.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 points 1 month ago

It could also be used for emergency power shutoff in case of electrical fault (or for planned obsolescence) but again that could and should be Analogue and not dependent on digital settings or stored values. Hopefully legislators in South Korea, EU, and Americas tackle these issues in the future.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

It's a smart fridge and that's a dumb idea!

AI makes everything better.

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