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Smart fridges are cool, but after a few short years you could be stuck with a big frosty brick in the kitchen

hoola Silver badge

Re: 60-ish posts and...

To sell more stuff. We live in an age where people are conditioned to things having some sort of connection and it "doing" something. It also ties in with the appalling waste of resources as more and more appliances, tech, furniture is becoming a fashion commodity to be binned when the next new colour comes out. Recycling only goes so far as that only reduces some of the resources used to make the next load of disposable tat. It does nothing to take into account all the resources that are actually consumed during the production of said tat.

Wherever you look, software is involved in making hardware useful and is the root cause of most things breaking. Just what is wrong with a bloody on/off switch with a mechanical contact?

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