[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Agreed it could be useful, but counterpoint, I used to work in a local only grocery store back in the 90s. We had temp gauges hanging from the evaporator units blowing in the cooler, and temp gauges in the customer facing side as well. We'd look at them, and if they're out of range, we'd call the maintenance company. I mean, stores are staffed by people, even downsizing, someone has to go into the walk in fridges and freezers to put stock away from shipments and restock customer facing areas. I dunno, seems like a solution that doesn't have a problem.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Industrial equipment such as refrigeration units, long isolated from the internet, are now connected via sensors or remote monitoring systems, Antoine Hautin of cybersecurity consultancy Almond told AFP.

    So like, maybe not have the sensors and remote monitoring? Why does this even need to be a thing? Grocery stores got along fine with out remote monitoring for a long time. I dunno, I not a refrigeratorologist.

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    Optionally, what would you have wanted to know before you bought one?

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    Edit: Hey, thank you all very very much for your comments and suggestions, I really appreciate. I will most likely save up more and get the 1TB OLED model rather than the LCD model I was initially planning on. A couple of reasons for that, one, I am not good with electronics and I'd probably screw something up putting a new storage drive in. And two this thing will most likely be a permanent replacement for my old gaming laptop, which at this point is more than 10 years old, and seems to be on its last legs (I installed Linux on it, which was a struggle, but that is probably on me rather than Linux or the computer being at fault).

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