If you are regularly updating your refrigerator's firmware or your refrigerator's firmware relies on an Internet connection to function, then I am very sorry to say this but you have lost control of your life :)
Shows you how creating and enforcing standards is the driver for stuff like this. I wonder how we could make them even more efficient, some way to stop the transfer of warm air when the door is opened? Wonder if it's possible to create some sort of air curtain at the front when it's opened to prevent warm air coming in, ie use driven air velocity to overcome the cold air wants to come out, hot air wants to come in. Hmmm.
> I wonder how we could make them even more efficient, some way to stop the transfer of warm air when the door is opened? I wonder how we could make them even more efficient, some way to stop the transfer of warm air when the door is opened? Wonder if it's possible to create some sort of air curtain at the front when it's opened to prevent warm air coming in, ie use driven air velocity to overcome the cold air wants to come out, hot air wants to come in. Hmmm.
That is an interesting idea, but I don't think an Internet connection would help with it :)
> Shows you how creating and enforcing standards is the driver for stuff like this.
Also agreed that is an interesting graph, I agree that it shows how standards and better production has led to decreased energy usage -- but notably, a lot of those standards are around better insulation and more efficient components.
Putting an extra layer of foam in your fridge or having sensors in your fridge that help regulate temperature definitely doesn't mean you've lost control of your life. But needing to download a firmware update to your Internet-enabled fridge that uses a Samsung account where you now can't access your grocery list until you finish the mandated update which changes your fridge's UI on its mobile app -- I think that means you've lost control of your life :)
Oh yeah for sure, but I think there are definitely reasons for it. The enshittification/technoshit that comes out of the iot world (and all other devices) because of corporate greed just ruins it even more.
The whole signing up for a Samsung account thing etc for your fridge. Stuff like this really just needs to be legislated under some kind of "all technology should just work, locally and with one another with at least an agreed set of features" level.
Apple should have been legally forced to use USB C (or whatever alternative was best) ages ago, even before the EU got to them. Apple were happy to use Wifi/Bluetooth/etc/etc standards yet still wanted to use other proprietary BS.
Same goes for literally everything else: all technologies should work together using at least a common method (with say options for proprietary stuff) and iot/whatever should all work flawlessly locally without any account or internet connectivity (which should all be 100% optional). Devices should work flawlessly even if the company that produces them has shut down all servers and gone bankrupt.
We need to force our governments to do this stuff for us.
