It's in everything now. It became like a museum exhibit to me seeing the most wild things. Wifi toaster WHYY? Like I knew about smart fridges but I was seeing like overly technical smart phone connectable kettles and like some griddle made for just bacon?? Whyyy
I'm just gonna start buying every single "dumb" appliance I see at goodwill thrifting from now on. I'll make a little collection and gift some to friends who want out of the techno hellscape too. I keep thinking about the absurd amount of lights and screens on things that have no reason to have one and how fast they'll likely break. All that shit will be in landfill in like 10 years max
Sorry you can't have breakfast until you update your fridge
if my fridge actually was one of those amazon cashless stores that could inventory every single thing in my fridge at any given moment i'd consider it cause i hate buying two of the same thing sometimes or not knowing if i even have it when i'm planning to use it
I agree there's utility to it. A toaster with a small display showing weather/time shouldn't be a bad thing. But its never that simple, there's always going to be data collection and updates at the worst times as well as dodgy apps (which probably have ads on them already). So it won't be the fridge telling you what you have and need, it'll be the fridge uploading all your data and then telling you there's a deal at local Walmart for your missing groceries.
Not only that, but terrible security that'll mean your toaster will be hacked and probably used to either mine crypto or be used in a DDOS attack
A few weeks ago I bought a pound of butter when I already had 3 pounds in the fridge. It was okay, I just made ghee.
Ask me why my icemaker doesn't work.