I remember when fridges with screens were first becoming a thing, and one way they tried to sell them was the convenience of being able to leave notes, shopping lists, photos, etc… for other members of the family. And even back then, before the advertising apocalypse, I remember thinking, what in the actual fuck makes this 1000 dollar feature any more useful than a 20 dollar magnetic white board and a dry erase marker?
Enshitifiction. It makes the line go up.
Because you must consooooooooom. Don’t think, just spend. See shiny “useful” feature, open wallet.
It’s depressing to notice just how much pop culture from teh 80s onward was trying to warn us about this coming shittorm. It’s like, as soon as Reaganomics came on the scene, there were those who immediately saw it for what it was and started fighting. (Punk Rock, Literature, Movies, etc…) and it wasn’t enough. No one paid any attention and we are now where we are because as a culture we got sucked into chasing more shiny shit at the expense of our own good.
I actually think a multipurpose digital screen could be quite useful and fun on a refrigerator, not needed or necessary at all but I think in a less enshittified timeline an open source version of this, possibly even an e-ink screen, could actually be nice. It would make far more sense as a whiteboard type object that you attach to your refrigerator though and obviously this entire concept is predatory on so many levels it is mindboggling… but the idea of having a sort of communal digital screen on a refrigerator isn’t a bad idea itself I don’t think as hard as it is to imagine a reality where an appliance like this was designed in good faith.
100%. It’s a matter of where does the technology stop being about “useful for us” and starts being “useful for them”.
A digital whiteboard would be a good feature (not ‘necessary’, but cool). It’s when they decide it needs to be connected to the internet that it becomes “is this technology serving us…or serving them” that’s the problem.
I’m not anti-tech at all. Quite the opposite. But I remember the mid-2000s when all of this tech was getting off the ground and it was being innovated and invented for OUR benefit, not for the corporations. That’s when this kind of stuff was fun.
just…why…? I…I have no words. also what’s with the reposts chill bro people will see it
Remember this when they try to sell the idea of putting screens in the sky
after seeing pluribus that ad has a whole new meaning
why does a fridge need a computer and a screen?
The burning question on the hearts and minds of everyone who isn’t a complete dolt since these things came out
I did a little “is shit rotting in your fridge?, also inventory” thing for senior design. It was a cursed project for a variety of reasons, but even what we did was a stretch in terms of utility.
If only we had known that the girl that came up with the idea was actively detrimental to everything she was even adjacent to
So they can show you ads. Obviously 😌
I keep racking my brain on this one. Unless it’s doing advanced things like automatically tracking fridge inventory and helping build shopping lists, there’s literally no point. Analog controls work fine, even for fancier fridges with integrated ice makers.
thats what a nailgun and particle board is for.
LOL we got the version with no ice dispenser and the window that you knock to turn a light on…and ignorance is bliss… The fridge’s ignorance in this case. Just be a fridge and cool shit down. That’s all we’re asking for.
This is a repost. We did see that in this community or another one a week + ago.
Found it
lemmy.world/post/38772979
Soooo many reposts
To that I say, why in the hell would you buy a smart fridge in the first place? That’s on you for buying something that stupid.
it will become like many appliances… You want a dumb tv? Possible, but it will cost you more than a smart one. You want a dumb fridge? Fine, but soon it will cost you more than a ‘smart’ one you can’t even turn on without making an account somewhere and registering your email and phone
Same thing with screen ads in new Jeeps. You bought a Jeep, you deserve pain.
Then connect to the internet? But I think saw on YouTube that they can brick your fridge if you do anything to stop getting ads.
Imo this is not so much infuriating as it is just straight up ridiculous.
Don’t bloody buy smart appliances. If you happen to have one, switch off its connectivity. If you insist on local connectivity, isolate it from the web. If you insist on using the internet connectivity of your home appliance then you deserve every bit of the nonsense that is thrown at youThe absolute irony. Yeah, this advert is trying to be a reference to what’s happening in the series, as this is exactly what the main character is experiencing.
But it creeped out and distressed the character into a mental breakdown. Yes, let’s emulate that as a tongue-in-cheek fridge advertisement.
For someone who rolled up every psychiatrist, psychologist, and social worker on earth into their head they don’t seem to know how to handle someone experiencing grief/ptsd very well.
Someone on the Pluribus subreddit suggested that certain quirks of the collective consciousness comes from how it needs to stay functional despite a vast array of minds that are individually quite different, and how those different personalities and experiences need to be merged together somehow.
There are empathetic people and completely obtuse people inside the the consciousness, highly intelligent people and those with regressive mental disorders, or more importantly; abusers and abuse victims.
In order to keep cohesion, they literally cannot deal with negative emotions. Imagine an abuser and their abuse victim merging into a single consciousness. How would they even function?
They wouldn’t.
So whenever the collective consciousness is forced to deal with negative emotions, it goes into a seizure.
I’m not sure I’m convinced. They don’t seem to be struggling with consensus on any other matters, so that kind of implies they’re just one single consciousness rather than a gestalt of conflicting ones. I don’t think the individuals are still in there, or they’re so completely subsumed they might as well be gone.
As for their vulnerability to emotional outbursts I’m betting that whatever happened with the immune survivors has made them into transmitters but not receivers for whatever psychic frequency the collective operates on. Which is why they cannot disobey or lie to her about anything except their “biological imperatives” (and even then only passively) and cannot handle her negative emotions since it disrupts the positive emotions they’re using to keep everyone’s consciousnesses subdued.
Exactly
No, thanks. I’ll stick with my long-since-paid-for, 25-year-old Maytag. That is, as long as it works.
I recall reading in Consumer Reports many years ago that most refrigerators were discarded not because they stopped working, but because of cosmetic damage. Broken plastic door shelves, dents, rust, out of style, etc. The compressors were still fine.
Unsolicited advice warning: Depending on how handy you are, you may want to consider grabbing a few wear parts or the most commonly replaced bits before inventory completely dries up. I used to have a newer (but still old) dryer and thought the heating element was failing - a replacement part was actually kind of hard to source. Anyway, that would give the ol’ beast a good shot at another decade or two.
I recall reading in Consumer Reports many years ago that most refrigerators were discarded not because they stopped working, but because of cosmetic damage. Broken plastic door shelves, dents, rust, out of style, etc. The compressors were still fine.
Yup. The enshitification kicks in super hard after a technology is mostly “solved”. Refrigerator compressors and insulated boxes are both very much optimized as much as they’re going to get. The only way to eke more cash out of making a product like that is to cut corners on other bits, or get people to buy a subscription somehow.
Does the plastic hinges on the freezer door breaking count as “cosmetic damage” too?
I would be so pissed if I bought one of these. I’d probably smash the screen in rage.
I knew this would happen though.
I’d look for a way to unplug the screen or something first. But then I’d probably find out they used some “clever” design to make me not be able to do that, and THEN I’d smash the screen.
Just wait until buggy malware worms its way into these things and the screen just shows kernel panics in an infinite loop.
Edit: or worse, somebody hacks it to play random hardcore porn videos.
l buggy malware worms its way into these things
