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Honestly, it doesn't cost much more than fridge without a screen. I was trying to buy an LG with the window that you can knock on to see inside (not screen) but it was out of stock... and ended up with one of these fridges. The software is stupid though, I use it to play music sometimes when I'm cooking. It has some menu options for controlling the fridge too. I would love to load up custom ROM though... What annoys me the most is lack of RTC battery, because the time resets whenever there's a power outage.
They made an Internet-connected fridge and didn't put an NTP client on it?
Oh it has internet time sync. But the problem is... connecting to wifi with invalid time is problematic. There are internet check endpoints with certificates that can't be verified. On the off chance that it does connect, I get a zillion certificate errors from different background processes.
The Internet is for their convenience, not yours.