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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges (arstechnica.com)
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Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update.

Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea, per a Google-provided translation, said that most of the affected devices were four-door fridges from 2024 or later.

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[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I went to buy a steamer, because my last one finally fell apart. And I happen to mention I'll be after a toaster next, did they have the brand/model I like (it's just been tested to toast well) the salesguy says oh have you heard about the ai one, I'm getting one, they're such a saving atm, down from $600 to $400! I straight up said wtf, why. He said oh it looks at your toast while you toast it. It was so hard not to let him know he is a fucking idiot. He wasn't trying to sell me on it, he genuinely wanted to buy it for himself.

[–] needanke@feddit.org -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eh, for a toaster it at least makes some sense to have 'smarts' for ensuring various types of bread reach the desired crispynes (Lathough none of that needs internet or anything close to 400$ in value). So it would still be more usefull then smart fridge.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Toasters could do that in the fifties. Crispiness is directly related to surface temperature and you can detect that with nothing fancier than a bimetal strip and some clever engineering. If you want to use modern technology you could use an IR sensor and a two cent microcontroller.

Using AI for the task suggests that they stuck a camera in there and use image processing to badly simulate an IR sensor. Less reliable than two metal strips welded together but also way more expensive.