this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
552 points (99.1% liked)
Technology
75258 readers
3612 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Family calendar is the big one. I also watch YouTube and sports while cooking.
Yeah at a reasonable price I think a fridge is a decent place to put a display surface. It's an early point of failure but with some consumer and longevity focused thinking that's resolvable. I don't need it enough for the costs but if done well with a focus on the consumer's needs and wants it could be quite nice. Mind you that condition means fat chance but still, a display telling me what I'm doing today and if I need a jacket would be really convenient in the kitchen. Give it a bus tracker and I think people would really love that.
Honestly I hate how much of tech these days ignores asking if it's solving a problem
I agree. Speding an additional $1000 for that feature is so much better than a piece of paper and a Spongebob Squarepants magnet.
It is better than a paper calendar, it does AV as well which is fantastic if I'm trying to watch sports and cook, and the feature isn't 1k. Sucks to suck and have to make up little stories.
Forced ads is stupid. The feature is fantastic you grumpy lonely old man 🤣.
Good god you're dumb. Enjoy your ads I guess.
Don't have them 👍
If only there was some less ridiculous or wasteful way of keeping a calendar on a fridge, like a white board or something. Its too bad in the history of fridges that there was no way to keep a calendar on it, its just impossible to
Fuck man, why even have digital calendars at ALL?!!! Let's just destroy computers, absolutely no need for this shit.
Ignoring the other useful users, my partner and I forward events from our work schedules when something pops up, the school sends an entire month of events which gets directly imported. The soccer team sends out the same shit.
God forbid I spend .23% of my yearly salary not having to sync calendar dates and be able to watch sports when cooking.