alt Hacker NewsGilfoyle's take on Smart Fridges: > This thing is addressing problems that don't exist. It's solutionism at its worst.
Replies
mystifyingpoi • today at 2:05 PM
Well, they saved Pied Piper in the end. So maybe it was worth it :P
jimt1234 • today at 4:52 PM
Suck it, Jin-Yang.
There is SO much of this in IoT / smart / 2010s-2020s tech.
Recent household BS: music playing out of my thermostat.
Wife tried playing music out of Sonos, but the clunky app was laggy and had also signed her out of Spotify. No problem, you can also just play direct from Spotify app into Sonos speakers. She opens Spotify, selects "Living Room" and next thing you know our THERMOSTAT was playing music.
Neither of us know this was possible, neither of us enabled it, apparently it's existed for years but for some reason Saturday was the day that "Living Room" thermostat beat out "Living Room" Sonos in the Spotify sort order.
There were product managers on both sides of that decision to prioritize enabling such a stupid feature.
I'd pay for it to not be possible. I'd disable it on either/both ends if they had a toggle, which of course they don't. MVP baby.